PROSECUTION WILL SAY HITLER BEGAN REVOLT

"If three traitors in Germany agree to meet with a foreign statesman and carry out this meeting after removing domestic help and giving orders to keep the meeting secret, let such men be shot dead, even if it should be true that in a conference thus kept secret from me, there was talk only about the weather or old coins, or similar things."

With these words, Hitler himself defends the Putsch of June 30, at which time 77 persons were put to death.

Whether or not this Putsch was justified, whether Hitler did or did not commit high crimes against humanity, will be the question before the Debating Council tonight.

The defense has made a detailed study of the documentary evidence on the question and hopes to prove that Hitler's actions were justified on the grounds of a higher duty to the state. "In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German nation," said Hitler.

Prosecution attorneys will claim that Hitler deliberately permitted the revolt to mature, in order to serve his own motives.