| Description: "Had the 20th of July bomb plot against Hitler succeeded there
would have been strikes and civil war within Germany," the former
head of the German national defense testified today in his trial at
Nuernberg. General Walter Warlimont is one of thirteen generals and
one admiral indicted at Nuernberg on war crimes for their alleged
participation as leaders and accomplices in the third Reich's
aggressive wars. Warlimont, who was present and wounded in the
explosions at Hitler's staff meeting, told the American court that
the removal of Hitler would have neither brought peace nor democracy
to Germany. Under the direct examination of his attorney he stated,
"Already there were fanatic National Socialists in the army with
ranks of Captain and Major; in the air force the doctrine was even
at the highest levels, and the SS was entirely a party group - a state
within a state. There were even divisions among the people who for
12 years had heard the same party line and had been effected either
favorably or unfavorably from the NSDAP. Out of all this chaos
there was not a single person who could have brought these factions
together and achieve a peace and a democratic government." [Original Descriptive Caption] |
| Date: 28 June 1948 |
| Provenance: From Public Relations Photo Section, Office Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nuernberg, Germany, APO 696-A, US Army. Photo No. OMT-XII-D-29. |
| Citation: |
| Telford Taylor Papers, Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia University Law School, New York, N.Y. : TTP-CLS: 15-2-3-180. |
