1947-07-19, #22: Doctors' Trial (Adolf Pokorny's personal statement)
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THE PRESIDENT: The defendant Pokorny. DEFENDANT POKORNY: Your Honor, during this trial I have often asked myself what I should have done at the time in order to record my tru motive for this letter I had written to Himmler, but I believe that at the time when I dispatched this letter, I could not do anything else but to talk to the people in whom I had confidence and of whom I know that they would not betray me and confide in them my true reasons If today, this letter, which is against me, may seem objective, then this is a fact with which I must bear, although to the end I must say in correspondence with the truth that not surface reasons were the cause for my writing this letter, but that letter was written because at the time I had heard facts about Himmler's plans, and, because at that time in my position standing lonely and slandered because of my family implications in a small town in Czechoslovakia, I felt that I was able to take the action described.
1947-07-19, #22: Doctors' Trial (Adolf Pokorny's personal statement)
1947-07-19, #22: Doctors' Trial (Adolf…
1947-07-19, #22: Doctors' Trial (Adolf Pokorny's personal statement)
THE PRESIDENT: The defendant Pokorny. DEFENDANT POKORNY: Your Honor, during this trial I have often asked myself what I should have done at the time in order to record my tru motive for this letter I had written to Himmler, but I believe that at the time when I dispatched this letter, I could not do anything else but to talk to the people in whom I had confidence and of whom I know that they would not betray me and confide in them my true reasons If today, this letter, which is against me, may seem objective, then this is a fact with which I must bear, although to the end I must say in correspondence with the truth that not surface reasons were the cause for my writing this letter, but that letter was written because at the time I had heard facts about Himmler's plans, and, because at that time in my position standing lonely and slandered because of my family implications in a small town in Czechoslovakia, I felt that I was able to take the action described.