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TRIALS
OF
WAR CRIMINALS
BEFORE THE
NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNALS
UNDER
CONTROL COUNCIL LAW No. 10
NUERNBERG
OCTOBER 1946–APRIL 1949
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 12Nuernberg war crimes trials which had begun in October 1946, and wereheld pursuant to Allied Control Council Law No. 10. Far from beingof concern solely to lawyers, these trials are of especial interestto soldiers, historians, students of international affairs, andothers. The defendants in these proceedings, charged with war crimesand other offenses against international penal law, were prominentfigures in Hitler’s Germany and included such outstanding diplomatsand politicians as the State Secretary of the Foreign Office, vonWeizsaecker, and cabinet ministers von Krosigk and Lammers; militaryleaders such as Field Marshals von Leeb, List, and von Kuechler; SSleaders such as Ohlendorf, Pohl, and Hildebrandt; industrialists suchas Flick, Alfried Krupp, and the directors of I. G. Farben; and leadingprofessional men such as the famous physician Gerhard Rose, and thejurist and Acting Minister of Justice, Schlegelberger.
In view of the weight of the accusations and the far-flung activitiesof the defendants, and the extraordinary amount of officialcontemporaneous German documents introduced in evidence, the records ofthese trials constitute a major source of historical material coveringmany events of the fateful years 1933 (and even earlier) to 1945, inGermany and elsewhere in Europe.
The Nuernberg trials under Law No. 10 were carried out under thedirect authority of the Allied Control Council, as manifested inthat law, which authorized the establishment of the Tribunals. Thejudicial machinery for the trials, including the Military Tribunalsand the Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, was prescribed byMilitary Government Ordinance No. 7 and was part of the occupationadministration for the American zone, the Office of Military Government(OMGUS). Law No. 10, Ordinance No. 7, and other basic jurisdictional oradministrative documents are printed in full hereinafter.
The proceedings in these trials were conducted throughout in the Germanand English languages, and were recorded in full by stenographic notes,and by electrical sound recording of all oral proceedings. The 12cases required over 1,200 days of court proceedings and the transcriptof these proceedings exceeds 330,000 pages, exclusive of hundreds ofdocuments, books, briefs, etc. Publication of all of this material,accordingly, was quite unfeasible. This series, however, contains theindictments, judgments, and[IV] other important portions of the recordof the 12 cases, and it is believed that these materials give a fairpicture of the trials, and as full and illuminating a picture as ispossible within the space available. Copies of the entire record of thetrials are available in the Libra