Evening star., 1945-11-26
Trial Court Told
OF Nazi Plot 10
Kill Own Envoy
Plan Aimed to Create
Incident in '38 for
Attack on Czechs
BY the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
NUREMBERG, Nov. 26.-Amer-
lean prosecutors disclosed at the
war crimes trial of 20 top Nazis
today that Adolf Hitler and Field
Marshal Wilhelm Keitel plotted
in 1888 to assassinate their own
German Ambassador in Prague
to create an incident" leading
to the invasion of tiny Czecho-
slovakia.
(The Almanach de Gotha lists
the leading German diplomat in
Prague at the time of the pro-
jected assassination plot as DR..
Ernst Eisenlohr. German Minis
ter to Czechoslovakia)
The plot was just one step in
Hitler's lawless plans to subjugate
Germany's neighbors that were out
lined in detail before the Interna-
tional Military Tribunal.
Evidence designed to show that
German leaders incted Japan to
make the attack on Pearl Harbor
also was placed before the tribunal
by American prosecutors.
American prosecutors produced
stenographic notes of talks between
Hitler and Japanese Foreign Min.
lister Yosuke Matsuoka several
months before the Pearl Harbor at.
tack and asserted that "our evil
dence will show these Nazi con-
spirators melted and kept up force
that could reasonably be expected
to result in war with the United
States"
Assistant American Prosecute,
Sidney S. Alderman produced a
memorandum signed by German
Gen. Thomas saying war with Rus.
sia was necessary to provide fooo
for the German Army. Mr.. Alder.
man charged the German high com.
nlandis plan to Systematically starys
millions OF Russians in occupied
areas ~ zone Of the most sinister
on record.
Adjntani ksps File.
Residing from captured German
documents, American prosecutor
charged that detailed plans for thu
invasion Of Czechoslovakia wert
made on April II, 1938-just one
month after Hitler overran Austria
and assured the world he had nt
further plans for territorial ex-
pansion.
Plans for the proposed assassina-
tion Of the German diplomat and /
subsequent blitz invasion of ths
little country were known by the
code name Case Green" and wert
revealed in a file carefully kept By
Hitler's adjutant who was captured
by American airborne troops, Al.
derman told the court.
While American prosecutors pro-
ceeded to pile up evidence of Hitler.
plans for aggressive war, defense
counsel filed lists of prospective wit
nesses and desired documents, which
included an indication that Rudolf
Hess, No. Nazi, will carry his In.
sanity plea to the court.
Hess, who ignored the opening o.
the court session as he continued tt
read novel, was later led from tn,
courtroom. apparently in great pair
from stomach cramps. He reap
peared short time later.
Counsel for Hjalmar Schacht dis,
closed that the former Reichsbanl
president viii seek to prove that h,
participated in the bomb plot to xii
Hitler on July 20, 1914, and tried tt
overthrow the Nazi government ir
1888. s
1.-TWO Hateful Enemies"
In a document described by Amer.
ican prosecutors as "Hitler's last viii
and testament" the Fuehrer fatefully
predicted he would "solve the Ger.
man space problem no later thar
1856"
Hitler was quoted as describing
England and France as. the Reich,
two hateful enemies" and saying
on November 5, 1887, that '.the ques.
;tion for Germany is where tn,
greatest possible conquest could b,
made at the lowest cost"
The document described by Mr.
Alderman as Hitler's last will was /
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