AFFIDAVIT OF FRITZ WIEDEMANN
Fritz Wiedemann, being first duly sworn, deposes and says as follows:
From the month of January 1935 to January 1939 I served as Adjutant to Hitler. In this time my duties were to handle correspondence and complaints addressed to the Fuehrer's office. Occasionally I attended conferences held by the Fuehrer.
I recall that on the afternoon of 28 May 1938 Hitler called a conference in the winter garden of the Reichs Chancellory of all the people who were important, from the Foreign Office, the Army, and the Command Staffs. Those present at this conference, as I recall, included Goering, Ribbentrop, von Neurath, General Beck, Admiral Raeder, General Keitel, and General von Brauchitsch. On this occasion Hitler made the following statement: "It is my unshakeable will that Czechoslovakia shall be wiped off the map." Hitler then revealed the outlines of the plan to attack Czechoslovakia. Hitler addressed himself to the Gen-
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erals, saying: "So, we will first tackle the situation in the East. Then I will give you three to four years' time, and then we will settle the situation in the West." The situation in the West was meant to be the war against England and France.
I was considerably shaken by these statements, and on leaving the Reichs Chancellory I said to Herr von Neurath : "Well, what do you say to these revelations?" Neurath thought that the situation was not so serious as it appeared and that nothing would happen before the spring of 1939.
/&/ Fr. Wiedemann
Subscribed and sworn to before me in Nürnberg, Germany, this 21st day of November 1945.
/s/ John J. Monigan, Jr.
Major, CAC