NO GUILT FELT
JODL'S COUNSEL PLEADS GERMAN GENERALS OBEYED HITLER'S , ORDERS, (Rec. 8 a.m.) NUREMBERG, July 19. Franz Exner, defending Colonel-gene-ral Jodl, said that the German generals regarded themselves as gamblers when they carried out Hitler's unexpected orders in 1935 to re-occupy the Rhineland. None of the generals before the war contemplated i offensive action. Their attitude throughout was defensive. Jodl wanted to be sure that Germany could defend the Rhine. The situation in 1938 was that Germany could not have put into the field onesixth of the number of divisions that could have been fielded by France, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia if they had combined. The German generals, as late as 1939, had no other war plan than the protection of the eastern frontier. Exner said that he arrived at court to-day to " ask for the acquittal of this gallant soldier." Jodl said to him: "Rest assured that if I felt a spark of guilt I would not ask you to defend me,"
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Evening Star, Issue 25849, 20 July 1946, Page 7
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163NO GUILT FELT Evening Star, Issue 25849, 20 July 1946, Page 7
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