1:12:02
Certain measures were needed
to protect it from its enemies.
1:12:05
I cannot say that I am sorry
we applied those measures.
1:12:09
We were a bulwark against Bolshevism.
1:12:12
We were a pillar of Western culture.
1:12:16
A bulwark and a pillar
the West may yet wish to retain.
1:12:24
The defendant Friedrich Hoffstetter
may address the tribunal.
1:12:35
I have served my country
throughout my life...
1:12:39
and in whatever position
I was assigned to...
1:12:42
in faithfulness,
with a pure heart, and without malice.
1:12:47
I followed the concept that I believed
to be the highest in my profession.
1:12:52
The concept that says:
1:12:55
"To sacrifice one's own sense of justice...
1:12:57
"to the authoritative legal order.
1:13:01
"To ask only what the law is...
1:13:04
"and not to ask
whether or not it is also justice. "
1:13:08
As a judge, I could do no other.
1:13:12
I believe Your Honors will find me...
1:13:15
and millions of Germans like me...
1:13:16
who believed they were doing their duty
to their country...
1:13:20
to be not guilty.
1:13:27
The defendant Werner Lammpe
may address the tribunal.
1:13:38
Your Honors...