TRIAL
OF
THE MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS
BEFORE
THE INTERNATIONAL
MILITARY TRIBUNAL
NUREMBERG
14 NOVEMBER 1945-1 OCTOBER 1946
PUBLISHED AT NUREMBERG, GERMANY
1947
This volume is published in accordance with the
direction of the International Military Tribunal by
the Secretariat of the Tribunal, under the jurisdiction
of the Allied Control Authority for Germany.
VOLUME I
OFFICIAL TEXT
IN THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERNIRELAND, and THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
— against —
HERMANN WILHELM GÖRING, RUDOLF HESS, JOACHIMVON RIBBENTROP, ROBERT LEY, WILHELM KEITEL,ERNST KALTENBRUNNER, ALFRED ROSENBERG, HANSFRANK, WILHELM FRICK, JULIUS STREICHER, WALTERFUNK, HJALMAR SCHACHT, GUSTAV KRUPP VONBOHLEN UND HALBACH, KARL DÖNITZ, ERICH RAEDER,BALDUR VON SCHIRACH, FRITZ SAUCKEL, ALFREDJODL, MARTIN BORMANN, FRANZ VON PAPEN, ARTHURSEYSS-INQUART, ALBERT SPEER, CONSTANTIN VONNEURATH, and HANS FRITZSCHE, Individually and asMembers of Any of the Following Groups or Organizations towhich They Respectively Belonged, Namely: DIE REICHSREGIERUNG(REICH CABINET); DAS KORPS DER POLITISCHENLEITER DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHENDEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (LEADERSHIP CORPSOF THE NAZI PARTY); DIE SCHUTZSTAFFELN DERNATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI(commonly known as the “SS”) and including DER