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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Volume III

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Excerpt: "In April 1949, judgment was rendered in the last of the series of 12 Nuernberg war crimes trials which had begun in October 1946 and were held pursuant to Allied Control Council Law No. 10. Far from being of concern solely to lawyers, these trials are of especial interest to soldiers, historians, students of international affairs, and others. The defendants in these proceedings, charged with war crimes and other offenses against international penal law, were prominent figures in Hitler's Germany and included such outstanding diplomats and politicians as the State Secretary of the Foreign Office, von Weizsaecker, and cabinet ministers von Krosigk and Lammers; military leaders such as Field Marshals von Leeb, List, and von Kuechler; SS leaders such as Ohlendorf, Pohl, and Hildebrandt; industrialists such as Flick, Alfried Krupp, and the directors of I. G. Farben; and leading professional men such as the famous physician Gerhard Rose, and the jurist and Acting Minister of Justice, Schlegelberger. In view of the weight of the accusations and the far-flung activities of the defendants, and the extraordinary amount of official contemporaneous German documents introduced in evidence, the records of these trials constitute a major source of historical material covering many events of the fateful years 1933 (and even earlier) to 1945, in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The Nuernberg trials under Law No. 10 were carried out under the direct authority of the Allied Control Council, as manifested in that law, which authorized the establishment of the Tribunals. The judicial machinery for the trials, including the Military Tribunals and the Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, was prescribed by Military Government Ordinance No. 7 and was part of the occupation administration for the American zone, the Office of Military Government (OMGUS). Law No. 10, Ordinance No. 7, and other basic jurisdictional or administrative documents are printed in full hereinafter. The proceedings in these trials were conducted throughout in the German and English languages, and were recorded in full by stenographic notes, and by electrical sound recording of all oral proceedings. The 12 cases required over 1,200 days of court proceedings and the transcript of these proceedings exceeds 330,000 pages, exclusive of hundreds of document books, briefs, etc. Publication of all of this material, accordingly, was quite unfeasible. This series, however, contains the indictments, judgments, and other important portions of the record of the 12 cases, and it is believed that these materials give a fair picture of the trials, and as full and illuminating a picture as is possible within the space available. Copies of the entire record of the trials are available in the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and elsewhere. In some cases, due to time limitations, errors of one sort or another have crept into the translations which were available to the Tribunal. In other cases the same document appears in different trials, or even at different parts of the same trial, with variations in translation. For the most part these inconsistencies have been allowed to remain and only such errors as might cause misunderstanding have been corrected."

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1Various

32B. Selected Laws and Decrees, 1933–1944

2PREFACE

33C. Organization and Structure of the German Judicial System and the Reich Ministry of Justice

3TRIALS OF WAR CRIMINALS BEFORE NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNALS

34D. Expert Opinion by Defense Witness Professor Jahrreiss concerning the Development of German Law

4DECLARATION ON GERMAN ATROCITIES

35E. General Development of the Administration of Justice under Hitler

5EXECUTIVE ORDER 9547

36V. EVIDENCE CONCERNING PRINCIPAL ISSUES IN THE CASE

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6LONDON AGREEMENT OF 8 AUGUST 1945

37A. Introduction

7CHARTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL

38B. Measures Outside the Judicial Process—Protective Custody, Transfer of Persons to Concentration Camps and the Police

8CONTROL COUNCIL LAW NO. 10

39C. Measures to Influence or Avoid the Judicial Process (pt. 1)

9EXECUTIVE ORDER 9679

40C. Measures to Influence or Avoid the Judicial Process (pt. 2)

10MILITARY GOVERNMENT—GERMANY UNITED STATES ZONE ORDINANCE NO. 7

41C. Measures to Influence or Avoid the Judicial Process (pt. 3)

11MILITARY GOVERNMENT—GERMANY ORDINANCE NO. 11

42C. Measures to Influence or Avoid the Judicial Process (pt. 4)

12OFFICIALS OF THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL

43C. Measures to Influence or Avoid the Judicial Process (pt. 5)

13“The Justice Case”

44D. The Making and Application of Special Measures Concerning Nationals of Occupied Territories, Minority Groups and Races, and Alleged “Asocials” (pt. 1)

14INTRODUCTION

45D. The Making and Application of Special Measures Concerning Nationals of Occupied Territories, Minority Groups and Races, and Alleged “Asocials” (pt. 2)

15ORDERS CONSTITUTING THE TRIBUNAL

46D. The Making and Application of Special Measures Concerning Nationals of Occupied Territories, Minority Groups and Races, and Alleged “Asocials” (pt. 3)

16PROSECUTION COUNSEL

47D. The Making and Application of Special Measures Concerning Nationals of Occupied Territories, Minority Groups and Races, and Alleged “Asocials” (pt. 4)

17DEFENDANTS AND DEFENSE COUNSEL

48D. The Making and Application of Special Measures Concerning Nationals of Occupied Territories, Minority Groups and Races, and Alleged “Asocials” (pt. 5)

18I. INDICTMENT

49E. High Treason and Treason, Malicious Acts, Undermining the Military Efficiency, Public Enemies (pt. 1)

19II. ARRAIGNMENT

50E. High Treason and Treason, Malicious Acts, Undermining the Military Efficiency, Public Enemies (pt. 2)

20III. OPENING STATEMENTS

51F. Handling of Religious Matters

21A. Opening Statement for the Prosecution[9] (pt. 1)

52VI. FINAL STATEMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS[553]

22A. Opening Statement for the Prosecution[9] (pt. 2)

53VII. OPINION AND JUDGMENT (pt. 1)

23B. Opening Statement for all Defendants[71]

54VII. OPINION AND JUDGMENT (pt. 2)