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Suppl. B

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A Collection of Documentary Evidence and Guide Materials
Prepared by the American and British Prosecuting Staffs for
Presentation before the International Military Tribunal at Nurn-
berg, Germany, in the case of

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

-against

HERMANN WILHELM GOERING, RUDOLF HESS,
JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP, ROBERT LEY, WILHELM
KEITEL, ERNST KALTENBRUNNER, ALFRED ROS-
ENBERG, HANS FRANK, WILHELM FRICK, JULIUS
STREICHER, WALTER FUNK, HJALMAR SCHACHT,
GUSTAV KRUPP von BOHLEN und HALBACH, KARL
DOENITZ, ERICH RAEDER, BALDUR von SCHIRACH,
FRITZ SAUCKEL, ALFRED JODL, MARTIN BORMANN,
FRANZ von PAPEN, ARTUR SEYSS-INQUART, AL-
BERT SPEER, CONSTANTIN von NEURATH, and HANS
FRITZSCHE, Individually and as Members of Any of the
Following Groups or Organizations to which They Respec-
tively Belonged, Namely: DIE REICHSREGIERUNG
(REICH CABINET); DAS KORPS DER POLITISCHEN
LEITER DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUT-
SCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (LEADERSHIP CORPS OF
THE NAZI PARTY); DIE SCHUTZSTAFFELN DER
NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEIT-
ERPARTEI (commonly known as the "SS") and including
DIE SICHERHEITSDIENST (commonly known as the
"SD"); DIE GEHEIME
GEHEIME STAATSPOLIZEI (SECRET
STATE POLICE, commonly known as the "GESTAPO”);
DIE STURMABTEILUNGEN DER N.S.D.A.P. (commonly
known as the "SA") and the GENERAL STAFF and HIGH
COMMAND of the GERMAN ARMED FORCES all as de-
fined in Appendix B of the Indictment,

Defendants.

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PREFACE

This Supplement B brings to completion the series of volumes on "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" in which the principal documents and other papers pertaining to the prosecution at Nurnberg of the major German war criminals have been made generally available to the American public.

Space limitations, made necessary by the limited funds available, have made impossible the full publication of all defense documents. The final arguments of defense counsel and defendants' final pleas summarize in considerable detail not only the defense contentions, but also the defense evidence. Both the arguments, as delivered before the Tribunal, and the pleas are contained in Part I of this volume, and they should furnish an adequate basis on which to evaluate prosecution documents and the final judgment of the Tribunal itself. Part I also includes a few defense documents which appear to have unique historical interest. The text of all defense documents, including those referred to in the final arguments of defense counsel, may of course be obtained from the official transcript of the Tribunal published by the Secretariat of the International Military Tribunal. The title of this publication is "Trial of the Major War Criminals, Nuremberg." The text of most of the prosecution documents referred to in the closing arguments will be found in prior volumes of this series.

Part II this volume contains excerpts from interrogations conducted by the prosecution of most of the defendants and of many other witnesses. Space limitations have again made full publication impossible except in a few cases, since several hundred witnesses were interrogated in the course of almost a thousand separate interrogations, and the transcript total exceeds 17,000 typewritten pages. The passages here included have therefore been chosen as those which appear to be the most significant from the standpoint of their general historical interest, their bearing on the issues raised in the case, and in some instances, the light which they shed on the character or personality of certain defendants.

Practically all the interrogations were conducted by examiners on the American prosecution staff, headed by Col. John Harlan Amen. Almost all the interrogations of defendants were taken before trial. In the majority of cases defendants were not interrogated after they were served with the indictment on 18

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