The Nuremberg Trials (Vol.1). International Military Tribunal

DEFENDANT HESS17

       REPORT OF PRISON PSYCHOLOGIST ON MENTAL COMPETENCE OF DEFENDANT HESS18

       MOTION ADOPTED BY ALL DEFENSE COUNSEL19

       JUDGMENT

       DISSENTING OPINION OF THE SOVIET MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL

       SENTENCES

      INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL

      THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, and THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

      — against —

      HERMANN WILHELM GÖRING, RUDOLF HESS, JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, ROBERT LEY, WILHELM KEITEL, ERNST KALTENBRUNNER, ALFRED ROSENBERG, HANS FRANK, WILHELM FRICK, JULIUS STREICHER, WALTER FUNK, HJALMAR SCHACHT, GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN UND HALBACH, KARL DÖNITZ, ERICH RAEDER, BALDUR VON SCHIRACH, FRITZ SAUCKEL, ALFRED JODL, MARTIN BORMANN, FRANZ VON PAPEN, ARTHUR SEYSS-INQUART, ALBERT SPEER, CONSTANTIN VON NEURATH, and HANS FRITZSCHE, Individually and as Members of Any of the Following Groups or Organizations to which They Respectively Belonged, Namely: DIE REICHSREGIERUNG (REICH CABINET); DAS KORPS DER POLITISCHEN LEITER DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (LEADERSHIP CORPS OF THE NAZI PARTY); DIE SCHUTZSTAFFELN DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (commonly known as the “SS”) and including DER SICHERHEITSDIENST (commonly known as the “SD”); DIE GEHEIME STAATSPOLIZEI (SECRET STATE POLICE, commonly known as the “GESTAPO”); DIE STURMABTEILUNGEN DER NSDAP (commonly known as the “SA”); and the GENERAL STAFF and HIGH COMMAND of the GERMAN ARMED FORCES, all as defined in Appendix B of the Indictment,

      Defendants.

      PREFACE

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      Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German war criminals, the International Military Tribunal directed the publication of the Record of the Trial. The proceedings are published in English, French, Russian, and German, the four languages used throughout the hearings. The documents admitted in evidence are printed only in their original language.

      The first volume contains basic, official, pre-trial documents together with the Tribunal’s judgment and sentence of the defendants. In subsequent volumes the Trial proceedings are published in full from the preliminary session of 14 November 1945 to the closing session of 1 October 1946. They are followed by an index volume. Documents admitted in evidence conclude the publication.

      The proceedings of the International Military Tribunal were recorded in full by stenographic notes, and an electric sound recording of all oral proceedings was maintained.

      Reviewing sections have verified in the four languages citations, statistics, and other data, and have eliminated obvious grammatical errors and verbal irrelevancies. Finally, corrected texts have been certified for publication by Colonel Ray for the United States, Mr. Mercer for the United Kingdom, Mr. Fuster for France, and Major Poltorak for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

      MEMBERS AND ALTERNATE MEMBERS

       OF THE TRIBUNAL

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LORD JUSTICE LAWRENCE, Member for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, President

MR. JUSTICE BIRKETT, Alternate Member

MR. FRANCIS BIDDLE, Member for the United States of America

JUDGE JOHN J. PARKER, Alternate Member

M. LE PROFESSEUR DONNEDIEU DE VABRES, Member for the French Republic

M. LE CONSEILLER R. FALCO, Alternate Member

MAJOR GENERAL I. T. NIKITCHENKO, Member for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

LIEUTENANT COLONEL A. F. VOLCHKOV, Alternate Member

OFFICIALS OF THE GENERAL SECRETARIAT

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BRIGADIER GENERAL
	WM. L. MITCHELL	General Secretary (from 6 November 1945 to 24 June 1946)
COLONEL JOHN E. RAY		General Secretary (from 24 June 1946)
MR. HAROLD B. WILLEY		General Secretary (to 6 November 1945)
		American Secretary (to 11 July 1946)
MR. WALTER GILKYSON		American Secretary (from 16 July 1946)
MR. IAN D. McILWRAITH		British Secretary
MAJOR A. POLTORAK		Soviet Secretary
MR. A. MARTIN-HAVARD		French Secretary
COLONEL CHARLES W. MAYS		Marshal (to 26 June 1946)
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES
	R. GIFFORD	Marshal (from 26 June 1946)
COLONEL LEON DOSTERT		Chief of Interpreters
	(From the Office of	(to 17 April 1946)
	U.S. Chief of Counsel)
COMMANDER ALFRED STEER,
	U.S.N.R.	Chief of Interpreters
	(From the Office of	(from 18 April 1946)
	U.S. Chief of Counsel)

MAJOR JACK L. BAILEY		Administrative Section
CAPTAIN D. P. SULLIVAN		Witness Notification and Procurement
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
	A. M. S. NEAVE, B.A.O.R.	Applications and Motions Section
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER
	ALBERT E. SCHRADER, U.S.N.R.	Defendants’ Information Center
MR. BERNARD REYMON		Custodian of Documents and Records

LIEUTENANT COLONEL
	LAWRENCE D. EGBERT	Editor of the Record
CAPTAIN SIGMUND ROTH		Director of Printing

PROSECUTION COUNSEL1

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      United States of America

CHIEF OF COUNSEL:
	Mr. Justice Robert H. Jackson
EXECUTIVE TRIAL COUNSEL:
	Colonel Robert G. Storey
	Mr. Thomas J. Dodd
ASSOCIATE TRIAL COUNSEL:
	Mr. Sidney S. Alderman
	Brigadier General Telford Taylor
	Colonel John Harlan Amen
	Mr. Ralph G. Albrecht
ASSISTANT TRIAL COUNSEL:
	Colonel Leonard Wheeler, Jr.
	Lieutenant Colonel William H. Baldwin
	Lieutenant Colonel Smith W. Brockhart, Jr.
	Commander James Britt Donovan, U.S.N.R.
	Major Frank B. Wallis
	Major William F. Walsh
	Major Warren F. Farr
	Captain Samuel Harris
	Captain Drexel A. Sprecher
	Lieutenant Commander Whitney R. Harris, U.S.N.R.
	Lieutenant Thomas F. Lambert, Jr., U.S.N.R.
	Lieutenant Henry K. Atherton
	Lieutenant Brady O. Bryson, U.S.N.R.
	Lieutenant (j. g.) Bernard D. Meltzer, U.S.N.R.
	Dr.