:34:06
Yes.
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That's all. Thank you.
:34:15
Herr Rolfe.
:34:27
You used the phrase, "What was necessary
for the protection of the country. "
:34:34
Will you explain for the tribunal...
:34:36
the conditions in Germany at the time
National Socialism came to power?
:34:40
What conditions?
:34:44
Would you say
there was widespread hunger?
:34:47
Yes.
:34:48
Would you say there was internal disunity?
:34:50
Yes.
:34:52
Was there a Communist Party?
:34:53
Yes.
:34:54
Was it the third-largest party in Germany?
:34:57
Yes.
:34:59
Would you say...
:35:01
that National Socialism helped to cure
some of these conditions?
:35:06
Yes, but at a terrible price...
:35:08
Please confine yourself
to answering the questions only.
:35:14
Therefore, was it not possible
that a judge might wear a swastika...
:35:18
and yet work for what he thought was best
for his country?
:35:21
No. It was not possible.
:35:30
You were not in the administration...
:35:32
from the years 1935 to 1943...
:35:37
by your own admission.
:35:39
Is it not possible
that your view of the administration...
:35:44
might be distorted?
:35:47
No. It is not.
:35:50
How can you testify about
what was going on in the administration...
:35:54
if you were not there?
:35:55
I had many friends
in the legal administration.
:35:58
There were journals and books.