which again and again contributed to influencing the armed forces, and I can well say that we officers were always fighting a continuous battle agains [ ... ]
the event of an attack by Poland, the occupation of Upper Silesia would create a Fait Accomplit. We wanted to make sure we could go on fighting unti [ ... ]
first tasks for army groups. BY DR. LATERNSER: Q Were those all the forming up plans, those you have just described? [ ... ]
warning is the first source, in my opinion, for the distrust which the Fuehrer increasingly had for the various generals. On one occasion, a conferen [ ... ]
but then he realized that if he wanted to march in at all, troops would have to be mobilized, and he granted the point, and he said that the following [ ... ]
THE PRESIDENT: Well, are you telling the Tribunal that you do not know whether the Plan Otto was a plan for the German [ ... ]
between the Fuehrer and General von Beckelstein with reference to that question. After that, whenever such meetings took place, there was not a sing [ ... ]
in which he assured the Poles of assistance, and since Hitler, on every occasion during the time I was in the OKH, always and repeatedly stated that h [ ... ]
BY DR. LATERNSER (Counsel for the General Staff and the OKW): west? was obviously no longer possible, there was no other way out than an offensive in [ ... ]
been right. Hence, he no longer listened to the political opinions expressed by the OKH. opinion that the offensive in the West, from the point of vi [ ... ]