Bormann, dated 3 October, 1941, Volume II of the publication "Decrees, Orders, Announcements", page 147. This is our document, I rejoice to be able to say, 3243-PS, which announces a Ministry of Foods decree, issued at Bormann's instigation, which deprived Jews of many essential food items, all special sickness and pregnancy rations for expectant mothers and ordering confiscation of food parcels sent to the beleaguered Jews from the sympathetic outside world. Ordinance under the Reich Citizenship Law of 1 July, 1943, 1943 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 372, signed by the Defendant Bormann, under which all Jews were completely withdrawn from the protection of the ordinary courts and handed over to the exclusive jurisdiction of Himmler's police. This is cur Document 1422-PS. opportunity to underline the significance of that decree. In a society which desires to live under the rule of law men are judged only after an appearance before and adjudication by a Court of law. The effect of this decree was to remove all alleged Jewish defendants from the jurisdiction of the Courts of law and to turn them over to the police. The police were to have jurisdiction ever alleged Jewish offenders, not the Tribunals of law. Defendant Bormann shares the responsibility. On July 3, 1943 Himmler issued a decree, our Document 3085-PS, which I respectfully request the Tribunal take judicial notice of -- 1943 Ministry of Interior Gazette, page 1085, which charged the Himmler police and Gestapo with the execution of the foregoing ordinance closing the courts to the Jews and entrusting them to Himmler's police.
Finally, with respect to Bormann's responsibility for the persecution of the Jews, I request the Tribunal to notice judicially a decree of Bormann's dated 9 October, 1942, Volume II, Decrees, Regulations and Announcements, page 131-132, which declared that the problem of eliminating forever the millions of Jews from Greater German territory could no longer be solved by emigration merely, but only by the application of ruthless force in special camps in the East.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): What are you referring to there?
LT. LAMBERT: That, sir, is Document 3244-PS. irrefutable answer to a question put by defense counsel some days ago in cross-examination, as to whether or not the anti-semitic policies of the conspirators were the policies merely of certain demented or deviational members of the conspiracy itself. Time does not permit the full quotation of this decree, but with the indulgence of the Tribunal, if I may offer the essence of this decree in a brief sentence or two. been stimulated throughout the Reich as to violent things we are doing with respect to the Jews. These rumors are being brought back to the Reich by our returning soldiers, who have eye-witnessed them in the East. If we are to combat the effect of these rumors, then our attitude, as I now outline it to you officially, must be communicated to the German civil population. Bormann then reviews what he terms the two thousand years old struggle against Judaism and he divides the Party's program into two spheres: the first the effort of the Party and the conspirators to excommunicate and expel the Jews from the economic and social life of Germany. Then he adds -- when we started rolling with our war, this measure by itself was not enough; we had to resort to forced emigration and get up our camps in the East. He then goes on to say that as our armies advanced in the East, we have overrun the lands to which we have sent the Jews and now these emigration measures, our second proposal, are no longer sufficient.
Party Chancery--we must transport these Jews eastward and place them in special camps for forced labor, and I quote now merely the last sentence of Bormann's decree:
"It lies in the very nature of the matter that these problems which in part are very difficult, can be solved only with ruthless severity in the interest of the final security of our people. Bormann."
THE PRESIDENT: It is signed by Bormann? It does not appear to be. I thought you said, "Bormann."
LT. LAMBERT: That is what I said, true, sir. that this is a Bormann decree, issued from the Office of the Deputy of the Fuehrer. It is true, in this translation of the decree Bormann's name is not affixed but in the original volume it is very clear that this is a decree of Bormann's, issued from the Party Chancery. The Prosecution so assures the Tribunal and accepts responsibility for that submission. the Defendant Bormann for overt acts, for the commission and planning of a wide variety of crimes in furtherance of the conspiracy. The Tribunal knows the powers that Bormann possessed; that has been put in -- vast powers. Our point is that he issued these powers, buttressed by his position as Secretary to the Fuehrer, attending all the conferences at the Fuehrer's headquarters; that he used these vast powers in the planning, the authorization and the participation in overt acts denominated war crimes, crimes against humanity. put in as U.S.A. Exhibit 317. The Tribunal knows that this document is a comprehensive report, dated 16 July, 1941, made by the Defendant Bormann just three weeks after the invasion of the territory of the Soviet Union by Germany.
It is a report of a twenty-hour conference at Hitler's field headquarters with the Defendants Goering, Rosenberg, Keitel, and with Reich Minister Lammers. This conference resulted in the adoption of detailed plans and directives for the enslavement, depopulation, Germanization and annexation of extensive territories in the Soviet Union and other countries of Eastern Europe. included numerous proposals of his own for the effective execution of these plans. conspiratorial program. The attention of the Tribunal is invited to Document 072-PS, previously put in as U.S.A. Exhibit 357. The Tribunal will recall that this is a letter from the Defendant Bormann to the Defendant Rosenberg, dated 19 April, 1941, dealing with the confiscation of cultural property in the East. I quote merely the last two paragraphs of the English translation of Document 072-PS, which reads as follows:
"The Fuehrer emphasized that in the Balkans the use of your experts" (I parenthetically insert that is the experts of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg organization, the plundering organization) -- "the use of your experts would not be necessary, since there were no art objects to be confiscated. In Belgrade only the collection of Prince Paul existed, which would be returned to him completely. The remaining material of the lodges, etc. would be seized by the organs of Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich.
"The libraries and art objects of the monasteries, confiscated in the Reich, were to remain for the time being in these monasteries, insofar as the Gauleiters had not determined otherwise. After the war, a careful examination of the stock could be undertaken. Under no circumstances, however, should a centralization of all the libraries be undertaken; the Fuehrer has repeatedly rejected this suggestion. Signed Bormann."
I now offer in evidence Document 061-PS, U.S.A. Exhibit 692. This is a secret letter from Bormann, dated 11 January, 1944, in which Bormann discloses and we stress this, very important as it seems to us, the existence of largescale operations to drain off commodities from German-occupied Europe for delivery to the bombed-out population in Germany.
The Tribunal knows that the Hague Regulations and the laws of war permit the requisitioning of goods and services only for the use of the army of occupation and for the needs of the administration of the area occupied. This proposal and this action represents the requisitioning of materials in occupied areas for the use of the folk at home, of the homefront. Bormann's letter of 11 January, 1944, set forth in the English translation of our Document 061-PS, which reads as follows:
"Since the supply of textiles and household goods for the bombed populations is becoming increasingly difficult, the proposition was made repeatedly to affect purchases in the occupied territories in greater proportions. Various district leaders (Gauleiter) proposed to let these purchases be handled by suitable private merchants who know these districts and have corresponding connections.
"I have brought these proposals to the attention of the National Economic Minister and am quoting his reply of 16 December 1943 on account of its fundamental importance: 'I consider it a specially important task to make use of the economic power of the occupied territories for the Reich. You are aware of the fact that since the occupation of the Western territories the buying out of these countries has been affected in the greatest proportion. Raw materials, semi-finished products and stocks of finished goods have been rolling to Germany, for many months, valuable machines were sent to our armaments industry. Everything was done at that time to increase our armament potentialities. Later on the shipments of these important economic goods were replaced by the so-called distribution of orders from industry to industry."
I shall end the quotation there. The rest is not material to the point. view of the prosecution -
THE PRESIDENT: Is it clear that was confiscation?
LT. LAMBERT: It was not suggested, sir, that this was confiscation. Our point was that that the Hague Regulations allow requisitions in return for payment only for the needs of the army of occupation and for the needs of administration of the occupied area. This represents, as it seems to us, a requisitioning program for the need of the home front. It was on that point that we offer it. against the defendant Bormann. In the course of the war Bormann issued a series of orders establishing Party jurisdiction over the treatment of prisoners of war, especially when employed as forced labor.
The Tribunal knows that under the Geneva Convention of 1929 relating to prisoners of war, prisoners of war are the captives, not of the troops who take them or even of the army which captures them, but of the captive power; and it is the captive power which has jurisdiction over and responsibility for them.
lishes Nazi Party jurisdiction over Allied prisoners of war. In the exercise of that Party jurisdiction he called for excessively harsh and brutal treatment of Allied prisoners of war.
I now offer in evidence Document 232-PS as USA Exhibit 693. This is a decree of the defendant Bormann, dated 13 September 1944, addressed, will the Tribunal please note, to all Reichsleiter, Gauleiter, and Kreisleither, and leaders of the Nazi affiliated organizations -- numerous levels, that is, of the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party -- a decree establishing Nazi Party jurisdiction over the use of prisoners of war for forced labor.
I quote the first three paragraphs of Bormann's order set forth on Page 1 of the English translation of Document 232-PS, which reads as follows:
"The regulations, valid until now, on the treatment of prisoners of war, and the tasks of the guard units are no longer justified in view of the demands of the total war effort." exigencies of the war effort repeal or modify the provisions of international law? End of our intrusion.
"Therefore, the Supreme Command, (OKW) of the Armed Forces, on my suggestion, issued the regulation, a copy of which is enclosed.
"The following is cited for its contents:
"1. The understanding exists between the Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (OKW) and myself, that the cooperation of the party in the commitment of prisoners of war is inevitable. Therefore, the officers, assigned to the prisoner of war system, have been instructed, to cooperate most closely with the bearers of sovereignty (Hoheitstraeger). The commandants of the prisoner of war camps have to detail immediately liaison officers to the Kreisleiters.
"Thus the opportunity will be afforded the Hoheitstraegers to alleviate existing difficulties locally, to exercise influence on the behaviour of the guard units" -- and this is the point we underline -- "and to better assimilate the commitment of the prisoners of war to the political and economic demands."
it is addressed to Reichsleiter, Gauleiter, and Kreisleiters, addressed to these officials of the Leadership Corps, and in the temrs of the order itslef Hoheitstraeger are referred to as cooperating measures in this scheme.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you go a little bit more slowly?
LT. LAMBERT: Certainly, sir. decree is addressed to Reichsletier, Gauleiter, Kreisleiter, and to the leaders of the affiliated and controlled Nazi organizations. As the Tribunal knows, within the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, the Kreisleiter is a pretty low level. That is a county leader. On the face of the decree the cooperation of the Hoheitstraeger is directed, and the Tribunal knows under the evidence presented against the Leadership Corps that Hoheitstraeger range all the way from the Reichsleiter on the top, down to and including the 500,000 or so Blockleiters implicated.
I next offer in evidence Document D-163-PS, as U.S.A. Exhibit 694 This is a letter of the Defendant Bormann, dated 5 November 1941 -
THE PRESIDENT: D-163?
LT. LAMBERT: That is D-163 -- addressed, the Tribunal will please note, to all Reichsleiter, Gauleiter, and Kreisleiter, the last just mere county leaders, transmitting to these officials of the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party the instructions of the Reich Minister of the Interior prohibiting decent burials with religious ceremonies for Russian prisoners of war. I quote the pertinent portions of these instructions, beginning with the next to the last sentence of page 1 of the English translation of D-163, which reads as follows:
"To save costs, Service Departments of the army will generally be contacted regarding transport of corpses (furnishing of vehicles) whenever possible. No coffins will be indented for the transfer and burial. The body will be completely enveloped with strong paper (if possible, oil, tar, asphalte paper) or other suitable material. Transfer and burial is to be carried out unobtrusively. If a number of corpses have to be disposed of the burial will be carried out in a communal grave. In this case, the bodies will be buried side by side (but not on top of each other) and in accordance with the local custom regarding depth of graves. Where a graveyard is the place of burial a distant part will be chosen. "No" -- we repeat -- "No burial ceremony or decorations of graves will be allowed."
I now offer in evidence Document 228-PS, USA Exhibit 695. This is a Bormann circular, dated 25 November 1943, issued from the headquarters of the Fuehrer, demanding harsher treatment of prisoners of war and the increased exploitation of their manpower. I now quote the Bormann circular which is set forth on page 1 of the English translation of Document 228-PS, which reads as follows:
"Individual Gau-administrations often refer in reports to a too indulgent treatment of PW's on the part of the guard personnel. In many places, according to these reports, the guarding authorities have even developed into protectors and caretakers of the PW'S.
"I informed the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces of these reports, with the comment that the productive German labor population absolutely cannot understand it, if, in a time in which the German people is fighting for existence or non-existence, PW's - hence our enemies - are leading a better life than the German working man, and that it is an urgent duty of every German who has to do with PW's, to bring about a complete utilization of their manpower.
"The Chief of PW affairs in the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces has now given out the unequivocal order, attached hereto in copy form, to the commanders of PW's in the military districts. I request that this order be brought orally to the attention of all party office holders in an appropriate manner.
"In case that in the future complaints about unsuitable treatment of PW's still come to light, they are to be immediately communicated to the commanders of the PW's with a reference to the attached order." instructs that these orders be communicated orally to all party officials, and that surely must include the members of the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party.
THE PRESIDENT: Speaking for myself, I don't see anything particularly wrong in that communication.
LT. LAMBERT: On that point, sir, we submit that if you take a document which says, "We wish to utilize all the labor power of PW's in our control possible, and to get this result by suitable means,"probably it tends to appear unexceptional. But viewing this document in relation to the other evidence in and to be presented, which show a concerted and settled policy by Bormann and his conspirators to -
THE PRESIDENT: Well, it isn't necessary to argue it.
LT. LAMBERT: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. put in as USA Exhibit 339. The Tribunal will recall that this is a secret Bormann circular transmitting instructions of the Nazi High Command of 29 January 1943, providing for the enforcement of labor demands on Allied prisoners of war through the use of weapons and corporal punishment.
I quote a brief excerpt from these instructions, beginning with the third sentence of the third numbered paragraph of page 2 of the English translation of Document 656-PS, which reads as follows, and I quotes "Should the prisoners of war not fulfill his order, then he has "--that is the guard unit, the guard personnel--"then he has in the case of the most pressing need and danger, the right to force obedience with the weapon if he has no other means.
He can use the weapon as much as is necessary to attain his goal. If the assistant guard is not armed, then he is authorized in forcing obedience by other applicable means." of 1929 when prisoners of war proved derelict and refuse to carry out proper orders of the captive power or its forces, such prisoners of war are subject to court martial and military proceedings as if they were serving under their own forces. Here is a decree which on its face authorizes or attempts to authorize guard personnel to use the rifle or other suitable means of violence, and of course your Lordship will understand it was this type of document we had in mind when we suggested that the decree of Bormann should be considered in the light of his other orders relating to the treatment of prisoners of war.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will adjourn now.
(Whereupon at 1245 hours the hearing of the Tribunal adjourned to reconvene at 1400 hours).
Military Tribunal, in the matter of: The
LT. THOMAS LAMBERT: The Tribunal will recall that at the close of the morning session I had been putting in a series of decrees of the Defendant Bormann in which he called for increasingly harsh and severe treatment of Allied prisoners of war. These instruction issued by the Defendant Bormann cluminated in his decree of 30 September 1944. The attention of the Tribunal is invited to Document 058-PS, previously put in as U.S.A. Exhibit 456. The Tribunal will recall that this decree of the Defendant Bormann removed jurisdiction over all prisoners of war from the Nazi high command and transferred it to Himmler. The decree also provided that all PW capt commanders should be under the orders of the local SS commanders. By virtue of this order of the Defendant Bormann, Hitler was enabled to proceed with his program of inhumane treatment and even extermination of Allied prisoners of war. important and extremely incriminating evidence against Bormann and the coconspirators, that is, the responsibility of the Defendant Bormann for the organized lynching of Allied airman. I offer in evidence Document 062-PS, U.S.A. Exhibit 669, and I very respectfully request the Tribunal turn to this document. On its face it is an order dated 13 March 1940 from the Defendant Hess addressed to Reichsleiters, Gauleiters, and other Nazi officials and organization. In this order these Party officials are instructed by the Defendant Hess to instruct all German civil population to arrest or liquidate all bailed-out Allied fliers. I call the attention of the Tribunal to the third paragraph on the first page of the English translation of Document 062-PS. In the third paragraph Hess directs that these instructions, which I shall soon read, are to be passed out only orally to all -- will the Tribunal please mark that -- to all district leaders of kreisleiters, ortsgruppenleiter, cell leaders, and even the block leaders; that is to say, this order must be passed out by all the officials of the Leadership Corps in the Hoheitstraeger, ranging from reichsleiter down to and including the blockleiter.
which Hess demanded be disseminated by the Leadership Corps orally, the lynching of Allied fliers. These directions are headed up, "About behaviour in case of landings of enemy planes or parachutists." The first three instructions I omit as not material to the basic point now being made. Instruction four reads, and I quote:
"Likewise enemy parachutists are immediately to be arrested or liquidated. It speaks for itself and requires no further commend from the prosecution. Defendant He as, Bormann issued a secret letter dated 30 May 1944 to the officials -- if the Tribunal will please mark -- of the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, prohibiting any police measures or criminal proceedings against German civilians who had lynched or murdered Allied airmen. This document, our 057-PS, has been previously put in and received by the Tribunal in connection with the prosecution's case against the alleged criminal organization, the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party. and consented to by Defendant Bormann actually took place has since been fully and indisputably demonstrated by trials by American Military Commissions which have resulted in the conviction of German civilians for the murder of Allied fliers. I request the Tribunal to take judicial notice of Military Commission Order No. 2, Headquarters 15th U. S. Army, dated 23 June 1945. This order is our Document 2559-PS. This order imposed the sentence of death upon a German civilian for violation of the laws and usages of war in murdering an American airman who bailed out and landed without any means of defense. dated 15 August 1944, and Bormann's order was dated May 1944. No. 5, Headquarters 3rd U. S. Army and Eastern Military District, dated 18 October 1945.
This order is set forth in Document 2560-PS. This order imposed a sentence of death upon a German national for violating the laws and usages of war by murdering on or about 12 December 1944 an American airman who landed in German territory. Commissions sentencing German civilians to death for the lynching and murdering of Allied airmen who had bailed out and landed without means of defense on German territory. We think our point is made by taking the time of the Tribunal to cite those two orders. Nazi defeat in the war had become certain, Bormann assumed political and organizational command of the newly-formed Volkssturm, the Peoples' Army. By virtue of organizing the continued resistance by the Volkssturm, Bormann bears some responsibility for the resistance which prolonged the aggressive war four months. that Bormann authorized, directed, and participated in a wide variety of crimes against humanity in aid of the conspiracy. Bormann played an important role in the administration of the forced labor program. I offer in ecidence Document D-226, U.S.A. Exhibit 697. This is a Speer circular, a circular of the Defendant Speer, of 10 November 1944, transmitting Himmler's instructions that the Party and the Gestapo should cooperate in securing a larger productivity from the millions of impressed foreign workers in Germany. I quote the second numbered paragraph of page two of the English translation of Document D-226, which reads as follows:
"All men and women of the NSDAP its subsidiaries and affiliated bodies in the works (meaning of course factories), will, in accoordance with instructions from the Kreisleiters, be warned by their local group leaders (we intrude to say that means ortsgruppenleiters), and be put under obligation to play their part in keeping foreigners under the most careful observation. They will report the least suspicion to the works foreman, which he will pass on to the Defense Deputy, or, where such a deputy has not been appointed, to the Police Department concerned, whilst at the same time reporting to the works manager and the local group leader (the ortsgruppenleiter) to exert untiringly and continuously their influence on foreigners, both in word and deed in regard to the certainty of German victory and the German will to resist, thus producing a further increase of output in the works.
Party members, both men and women, and members of Party organizations and affiliated bodies, must be expected more than ever before to conduct themselves in an exemplary manner."
Now, in a word, the significance of that decree. It is true it is a circular of Speers' reciting an arrangement between himself and Himmler, but the effect of the arrangement is to impose the onus to continue the task of supplying foreign workers on Party members, a party which, as the Tribunal knows, Bormann headed up as executive chief. issued without the participation of Bormann both in its preparation and its enactment.
I now offer in evidence Document 025-PS as U.S.A. Exhibit 698. This is a conference report dated 4 September 1942 which states that the recruitment, importation, mobilization, and processing of 500,000 female domestic workers from the East would be handled exclusively by Sauckel, the Defendant, Himmler, and the Defendant Bormann. I quote the first two sentences of the third paragraph of the English translation of Document 025-PS, which reads as follow "The Fuehrer has ordered the immediate importation of 400,000 to 500,000 female domestic Eastern workers from the Ukraine between the ages of 15 and 35, and has charged the General Deputy for Labor Mobilization with the execution of this action which is to end in about three months.
In connection with this -- this is also approved by Reichsleiter Bormann, the illegal bringing of female housekeepers into the Reich by members of the armed forces, or various other agencies, is to be allowed subsequently, and furthermore, irrespective of the official recruiting, is not to be prevented." four of the English translation of 025-PS, and this is the part that hooks in the Defendant Bormann with the scheme:
"Generally one gathered from this conference that the questions concerning the recruitment and mobilization as well as the treatment of the female domestic workers from the Fast are being handled by the General Deputy for Labor Mobilization, the Reichsfuehrer SS, and the Chief of the German police and the Party Chancery, and that the Reichs's ministry for the occupied territories of the East is not considered as competent or only as half competent," of the Party Chancery, as the Tribunal knows. occupied areas and insisted on the ruthless exploitation of the inhabitants of the occupied East. The attention of the Tribunal is respectfully invited to Document R-36, previously put in as U.S.A. Exhibit 344. The Tribunal is well acquainted with this document, for it has been referred to several times in these proceedings, and knows that this is an official memorandum of the Ministry for Eastern Territories dated 19 August 1942, which states that the repressive views of the Defendant Bormann with respect to the inhabitants of the Eastern areas actually determined German occupational policies in the East. The Tribunal recalls the now almost notorious quotation from this document R-36, which purports to paraphrase and constitute the essence of Bormann's views with respect to German occupational policy in the East. So often has it been quoted that I shall resist the temptation to repeat it, but in essence it comes to this. Bormann in effect says:
"The Slavs are to work for us. In so far as we don't need them, they may die. They should not receive the benefits of the German public health system. We do not care about their fertility. They may practice abortion and use contraceptives; the more the better. We don't want them educated; it is enough if they can count up to one hundred. Such stooges will be the more useful to us. Religion we leave to them as a diversion. As to food, they won't get any more than is absolutely necessary. We are the masters; we come first." phrase and summary of the text of that document.
654-PS, previously put in as U.S.A. Exhibit No. 218. The Tribunal will recall that this is a conference report dated 18 November 1942 embodying an agreement between the Minister of Justice and Himmler entered into by Bormann's suggestion under which all inhabitants of the Eastern occupied areas are subjected to a brutal police regime in the place of an organized, judicious system, And the agreement refers all disputes between the Party Reich Minister for Justice and Himmler to Bormann for settlement. he bears a large share of the responsibility for the discriminatory treatment and the extermination of great numbers of persons in the German-occupied areas of the East. been privileged to present in a few words. We have shown that Bormann, only forty-five years old at the time of German's defeat, contributed his entire adult life to the furtherance of the conspiracy. His crucial contribution to the conspiracy lay in his direction of the vast powers of the Nazi Party in advancing the multiple objectives of the conspiracy. First, as Chief of Staff to the Defendant Hess and then as leader in his own name of the Party Chancery subject only to Hitler's supreme authority. These two positions he applied, and directed the total power of the Party and allegiances to carry into execution the plans of the conspirators. He used his great powers to persecute the Christian church and clergy, and was an unrepentant foe of the fundamentals of Christianity with which he warred. the Jews, and his was a strong hand in pressing down the crown of thorns of misery on the brow of the Jewish people both in Germany and in German-occupied Europe. authorized, directed, and participated in a wide variety of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including without limitation the lynching of Allied airmen, the enslavement and inhuman treatment of the inhabitants of German-occupied Europe, the cruelty of impressed labor, the breaking up of homes contrary to the clear provisions of the Hague regulations, and the planned persecution and extermination of the civil population of Eastern Europe.
an evil man. The point we respectfully emphasize is that without chieftains like Bormann, Hitler would never have been able to seize and consolidate total power in Germany, but he would have been left to walk the wilderness alone.
general scope of the conspiracy. And resting squarely on this this we close.
The name of Bormann is not written in water, but will be remembered as long as the record of your Honors' Tribunal I now have the privilege of introducing Lt. Henry Atherton,
LT. HENRY ATHERTON: May it please the Tribunal, the Seyss-Inquart.
Copies of this brief are now being handed to the Tribunal.
At the same time the document books which bear the are also being handed to the Tribunal.
At the outset I wish to crimes charged in Counts I and II of the Indictment.
Evidence which is USA Exhibit No. 17.
He was State Councilor of Austria from May, 1937, to 12 February, 1938.
He was Minister of Interior the war.
He has also agreed that he became a member of the National the Nazi common plan, or conspiracy.
It shows his steady rise to conspiracy in connection with the Nazi assault on Austria.
As has been Shown by Mr. Alderman the Nazis implemented their diplomatic victims.