2:33:01
Defendant Emil Hahn
may address the tribunal.
2:33:10
Your Honors...
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I do not evade the responsibility
for my actions.
2:33:16
On the contrary...
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I stand by them before the entire world.
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But I will not follow the policy of others.
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I will not say of our policy today
that it was wrong...
2:33:28
when yesterday I say it was right.
2:33:31
Germany was fighting for its life.
2:33:34
Certain measures were needed
to protect it from its enemies.
2:33:37
I cannot say that I am sorry
we applied those measures.
2:33:41
We were a bulwark against Bolshevism.
2:33:44
We were a pillar of Western culture.
2:33:47
A bulwark and a pillar
the West may yet wish to retain.
2:33:56
The defendant Friedrich Hoffstetter
may address the tribunal.
2:34:07
I have served my country
throughout my life...
2:34:11
and in whatever position
I was assigned to...
2:34:14
in faithfulness,
with a pure heart, and without malice.
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I followed the concept that I believed
to be the highest in my profession.
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The concept that says:
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"To sacrifice one's own sense of justice...
2:34:29
"to the authoritative legal order.
2:34:33
"To ask only what the law is...
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"and not to ask
whether or not it is also justice. "
2:34:40
As a judge, I could do no other.
2:34:44
I believe Your Honors will find me...
2:34:46
and millions of Germans like me...
2:34:48
who believed they were doing their duty
to their country...
2:34:52
to be not guilty.
2:34:59
The defendant Werner Lammpe
may address the tribunal.