Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume III

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                                TRIALS

                                  OF

                             WAR CRIMINALS

                              BEFORE THE

                     NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNALS

                                 UNDER

                      CONTROL COUNCIL LAW No. 10

                               NUERNBERG
                        OCTOBER 1946–APRIL 1949

  [Illustration: NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNALS]

                              VOLUME III

                             UNITED STATES
                      GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
                           WASHINGTON: 1951

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                                PREFACE


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
documents, 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.

Volume III of this series is dedicated to the case United States of
America _vs._ Josef Altstoetter, et al. (Case 3). This trial has
become known as the Justice Case, because all of the defendants held
positions in the Reich system of justice, as officials of the Reich
Ministry of Justice or as judges or prosecutors of the Special Courts
and the People’s Courts.




                               CONTENTS


                                                              _Page_

    Preface                                                      III

    Trials of War Criminals before Nuernberg Military
      Tribunals                                                   IX

    Declaration on German Atrocities                               X

    Executive Order 9547                                           X

    London Agreement of 8 August 1945                             XI

    Charter of The International Military Tribunal              XIII

    Control Council Law No.