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must be placed in true perspective.
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And this is the decision
that faces Your Honors.
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It is the dilemma of our times.
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It is a dilemma...
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that rests with you.
2:32:30
The prosecution rests.
2:32:53
The defendants
may now make their final statements.
2:33:01
Defendant Emil Hahn
may address the tribunal.
2:33:10
Your Honors...
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I do not evade the responsibility
for my actions.
2:33:16
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.
2:33:25
I will not say of our policy today
that it was wrong...
2:33:28
when yesterday I say it was right.
2:33:31
Germany was fighting for its life.
2:33:34
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.
2:33:41
We were a bulwark against Bolshevism.
2:33:44
We were a pillar of Western culture.
2:33:47
A bulwark and a pillar
the West may yet wish to retain.
2:33:56
The defendant Friedrich Hoffstetter
may address the tribunal.