VON MANSTEIN’S EVIDENCE
(Rec. 7 p.m.) BERLIN. November 3. Field-Marshal von Manstein to-day told the British Tribunal which is trying him on war crimes charges that had he and others known of Hitler's orders to exterminate the Jews, they would have overthrown the Fuhrer. “I hardly need remind the Court what that would have meant in time of war,” von Manstein added. He said that there was practically no possibility of resisting Hitler’s criminal orders. Had he refused, his successor would have carried them out.
"If I had known then of Hitler’s criminal commands, as they have now been disclosed, I should naturally have resigned.”
' He said that for German soldiers to have broken their oath of allegiance > to Hitler would have meant the collapse of the Eastern Front and the collapse of the German Reich. “I kept my oath of allegiance to the Kaiser, the Weimar Republic, and to Hitler," | he said.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25953, 5 November 1949, Page 7
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