“Why didn’t you join the party?” Freisler asked. “Because I am not and never could be a Nazi,” the count replied. When Freisler had recovered from this answer and pressed the point, Yorck tried to explain. “Mr. President, I have already stated in my interrogation that the Nazi ideology was such that I—” The judge interrupted him. “—could not agree… You didn’t agree with the National Socialist conception of justice, say, in regard to rooting out the Jews?” “What is important, what brings together all these questions,” Yorck replied, “is the totalitarian claim of the State on the individual
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