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The defendants
may now make their final statements.
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Defendant Emil Hahn
may address the tribunal.
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Your Honors...
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I do not evade the responsibility
for my actions.
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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...
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when yesterday I say it was right.
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Germany was fighting for its life.
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Certain measures were needed
to protect it from its enemies.
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I cannot say that I am sorry
we applied those measures.
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We were a bulwark against Bolshevism.
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We were a pillar of Western culture.
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A bulwark and a pillar
the West may yet wish to retain.
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The defendant Friedrich Hoffstetter
may address the tribunal.
1:12:35
I have served my country
throughout my life...
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and in whatever position
I was assigned to...
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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...
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"to the authoritative legal order.