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Cross-examination: Jackson asks, Göring answers (original audio 1946)

18 March 1946, Nuremberg. US Chief of Counsel Robert H. Jackson cross-examines the defendant Hermann Göring. Question and answer in the original audio, verbatim, Jackson in English, Göring in German.

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    18 March 1946: cross-examination, Jackson asks, Göring answers.

    IMT Vol. 9, p. 417IMT Vol. 9, p. 396IMT Vol. 9, p. 418

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    Robert H. Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States.

    IMT Vol. 2

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    Hermann Göring, defendant.

    IMT Vol. 2, p. 30

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    Jackson: perhaps aware that you are the only living man who can expound the true purposes of the Nazi Party? Göring: I am perfectly aware of that.

    IMT Vol. 9, p. 417

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    Jackson: from the very beginning, together with those associated with you, you intended to overthrow, and later did overthrow, the Weimar Republic? Göring: That was, as far as I am concerned, my firm intention.

    IMT Vol. 9, p. 417IMT Vol. 9, p. 418

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    Jackson: after you came to power, you regarded it necessary, in order to maintain power, to suppress all opposition parties? Göring: We found it necessary not to permit any more opposition, yes.

    IMT Vol. 9, p. 419

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    And individual opponents? Part 2.

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Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT, “Blue Series”), English edition. Page = printed page.

  1. IMT Vol. 9, p. 417

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    THE PRESIDENT: Do. the Chief Prosecutors wish to crossexamine?

  2. IMT Vol. 9, p. 417

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    MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You are perhaps aware that you are the only living man who can expound to us the true purposes of the Nazi Party and the inner workings of its leadership? GÖRING: I am perfectly aware of that.

  3. IMT Vol. 9, p. 396

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    DAY Monday, 18 March 1946

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    MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You, from the very beginning, together with those who were associated with you, intended to overthrow, and later did overthrow, the Weimar Republic?

  5. IMT Vol. 9, p. 418

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    GÖRING: That was, as far às I am concerned, my firm intention.

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    MR. JUSTICE ROBERT H. JACKSON (Chief of Counsel for the United States)

  7. IMT Vol. 2, p. 30

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    accordingly name as defendants in this cause and as indicted on the Counts hereinafter set out: Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baidur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Martin Bormann, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche, individually and as members

  8. IMT Vol. 9, p. 419

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    MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: After you came to power, you regarded it necessary, in order to maintain power, to suppress all opposition parties? GÖRING: We found it necessary not to permit any more opposition, yes.

Further sources of the episode

audio NARA 238.1533B · record IMT Vol. 9, pp. 417 to 419 · film NARA 111-ADC · stamp sound: Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

Portraits in the video (2): image credits
  • Hermann Göring: United States Army Signal Corps photographer · public domain · Wikimedia Commons (Hermann Göring at Nuremberg Trials November 1945.jpeg)
  • Robert H. Jackson: Harris & Ewing · public domain · Wikimedia Commons (Robert H. Jackson cph.3b04770 (cropped).jpg)

How to cite this episode

FUNDSTELLE: „Cross-examination: Jackson asks, Göring answers (original audio 1946)“, Nuremberg Files, Short format F4. https://fundstelle.online/en/short/f4/

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