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and if the copies were not furnished upon request, they have been
made and delivered to them.
May I say, Sir, that working 24 hours a day, we are trying to
furnish 10 sets of all of these to defendants' counsel, and they will
be... One complete set was delivered to defendants' counsel here now
as a convenience to follow. The other sets, I feel certain, will be
in their hands sometime Sunday, but one complete list we now turn
over to them--not a list, complete copies.
DR. WALTER SIEMERS (Counsel for Defendant Raeder): I should like
to point out one fact. The Prosecution declared this morning that the
documents that will be put before us today are contained in the list
which was submitted on the 1st of November, that is-in the list which
was submitted this morning. This morning a list was made available to
us in room 54. I have it in my hand. This morning nine documents were
named. Of these nine documents, only one, contrary to what the
Prosecution said, was found in the old list; the other eight
documents were neither in the old list nor in the new list. The eight
other documents are, as I ascertained at lunch time today, not in the
document room. Neither are they available in photostatic copies, so
they could not be made available to me. I think, gentlemen, that it
will not be possible for us to work on this basis. I therefore
request that we should be allowed to wait until we know the result of
the discussion which we are told will take place tomorrow with the
Prosecution, so that we may then...
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal proposes to adjourn now and to give
Defense Counsel the opportunity of meeting Counsel for the
Prosecution tomorrow morning. Both Counsel for the Prosecution and
Defense Counsel appear to be perfectly ready to make every possible
effort to deal with the case in the most reasonable way, and at that
meeting you will be able to discuss these documents which you say
have been omitted and the Counsel for the Prosecution will try to
satisfy you with reference to the other documents.
DR. SIEMERS: Yes, I have one more request. The Prosecution has
just said that it will hardly be possible to make 23 photostatic
copies. I believe, gentlemen, that if these documents are as
important as the Prosecution said today, it is a conditio sine qua
non that every defense counsel and every defendant should have a
photostatic copy of these documents. As we all know it is easy to
produce a photostat in a few hours. With the excellent apparatus here
available to the Pros-