TRIALS
OF
WAR CRIMINALS
BEFORE THE
NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNALS
UNDER
CONTROL COUNCIL LAW No. 10
VOLUME I
NUERNBERG
OCTOBER 1946-APRIL 1949
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PREFACE
In April 1949, judgment was rendered in the last of the series of 12 Nuernbergwar crimes trials which had begun in October 1946 and were held pursuant toAllied Control Council Law No. 10. Far from being of concern solely to lawyers,these trials are of especial interest to soldiers, historians, students of internationalaffairs, and others. The defendants in these proceedings, charged withwar crimes and other offenses against international penal law, were prominentfigures in Hitler’s Germany and included such outstanding diplomats and politiciansas the State Secretary of the Foreign Office, von Weizsaecker, and cabinetministers von Krosigk and Lammers; military leaders such as Field Marshals vonLeeb, List, and von Kuechler; SS leaders such as Ohlendorf, Pohl, and Hildebrandt;industrialists such as Flick, Alfried Krupp, and the directors of I. G.Farben; and leading professional men such as the famous physician GerhardRose, and the jurist and Acting Minister of Justice, Schlegelberger.
In view of the weight of the accusations and the far-flung activities of thedefendants, and the extraordinary amount of official contemporaneous Germandocuments introduced in evidence, the records of these trials constitute a majorsource of historical material covering many events of the fateful years 1933 (andeven earlier) to 1945, in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
The Nuernberg trials under Law No. 10 were carried out under the directauthority of the Allied Control Council, as manifested in that law, which authorizedthe establishment of the Tribunals. The judicial machinery for the trials,including the Military Tribunals and the Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes,was prescribed by Military Government Ordinance No. 7 and was part of theoccupation administration for the American zone, the Office of Military Government(OMGUS). Law No. 10, Ordinance No. 7, and other basic jurisdictionalor administrative documents are printed in full hereinafter.
The proceedings in these trials were conducted throughout in the German andEnglish languages, and were recorded in full by stenographic notes, and byelectrical sound recor