In August 1939, American journalist
Louis P. Lochner contacted American diplomat
Alexander Comstock Kirk and showed him the text, but Kirk was not interested. Lochner next contacted British diplomat
George Ogilvie-Forbes, who indeed transmitted it back to
London on 25 August 1939. Three documents were grouped together during the
Nuremberg trials that contained Hitler's speech on 22 August 1939 (1014-PS, 798-PS, and L-3,) and only document L-3 contained
Hitler's reference to the Armenian genocide. Documents 1014-PS but the documents did not contain the Armenian quote. On 16 May 1946, during the Nuremberg trials, counsel for one of the defendants, Dr. Walter Siemers, requested that the court strike document 1014-PS, Document L-3 was brought to the court by Lochner. When later asked at Nuremberg who his source was, Lochner said it was a German named "Herr Maasz" but gave vague information about him.
The Times quoted from Lochner's version in an unattributed article titled "
The War Route of the Nazi Germany" on 24 November 1945. The article stated that the document had been brought forward by the prosecutor on 23 November 1945 as evidence. However, according to the
Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik (ser. D, vol. 7, 1961), the document was not introduced as evidence before the International Military Tribunal for undisclosed reasons, and is not included in the official publication of the documents in evidence. Two other documents containing minutes of Hitler's Obersalzberg speech(es) had been found among the seized German documents and were introduced as evidence, both omitting the Armenian quote. In
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (colloquially known as "the Red Set"), a collection of documents related to the Nuremberg trials which was compiled by the prosecutorial team, the editors describe the relationship between the relevant documents as follows: In his book
What about Germany?, Lochner offered the following English translation of the third paragraph of the document
L-3: ==See also==