AFFIDAVIT
I, Robert M. W. Kempner, an expert Consultant of the War Department appeared before the undersigned attesting officer and having been duly sworn stated as follows:
In my capacity as Superior Government Counsellor and Chief Legal Adviser of the pre-Hitler Prussian Police Administration, I became officially acquainted with the criminal record of Martin Bormann, identical with the Defendant Martin Bormann now under indictment before the International Military Tribunal in Nürnberg, Germany. ,
The official criminal record of Martin Bormann contained the following entry:
Bormann, Martin, sentenced on May 15, 1924, by the State Tribunal for the Protection of the Republic, in Leipzig, Germany, to one year in prison, for having been an accomplice in the commission of a political murder.
Robert M. W. Kempner
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of December 1945.
Normann A. Stoll
Captain, JAGD
Affidavit on Bormann's conviction in 1924 for being an accomplice in a political murder
Authors
Robert M. W. Kempner (prosecutor, US war crimes staff)
Robert M. W. Kempner
German-American lawyer
- Born: 1899-10-17 (Freiburg im Breisgau)
- Died: 1993-08-15 (Königstein im Taunus)
- Country of citizenship: Germany (until: 1936-01-01); United States of America
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer
- Position held: Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
- Educated at: Humboldt University of Berlin
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/109498307
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000109333168; https://isni.org/isni/0000000368560787
Date: 08 December 1945
Literal Title: Affidavit
Defendant: Martin Bormann
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3355
Citation: IMT (page 2782)
HLSL Item No.: 453197