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Page 369 and I think I need not offer the book or the law in;
evidence.
The text of the law itself is very brief and I might read that.
It is right at the end of the article. I should refer to that as our
Document Number 1654-PS, so as to identify it:
"In this spirit the German Reich
Cabinet has today passed the following law:
"Law for the Organization of the Armed Forces of March 16,
1935.
"The Reich Cabinet has passed the following law which is
herewith promulgated:
"Paragraph 1. Service in the Armed Forces is based upon
compulsory military duty.
"Paragraph 2. In peace time, the German Army, including the
police troops transferred to it, is organized into 12 corps and 36
divisions."--There is a typographical error in the English
version of that. It says "16 divisions", but the original
German says 36 divisions.--
"Paragraph 3. The Reich Minister of War is charged with the
duty of submitting immediately to the Reich Ministry detailed laws on
compulsory military duty."
Signed: "Berlin, 16 March 1935."
It is signed first by the Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf
Hitler, and then many other officials, including the following
defendants in this case:
Von Neurath, Frick, Schacht, Göring, Hess, Frank.
Does the Court contemplate a short recess?
THE PRESIDENT: We will adjourn for 10 minutes.
[A recess was taken.]
COL. STOREY: If the Tribunal please, the
Prosecution expects, on tomorrow, to offer in evidence some captured
enemy moving pictures and in order to give Defense Counsel an
opportunity to see them before they are offered in evidence--and in
response to their request made to the Tribunal some time ago--the
showing of these films for Defense Counsel will be held in this court
room this evening at 8 o'clock, for the Defense Counsel.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well, Colonel Storey.
MR. ALDERMAN: May it please the Tribunal, I have reached now
Paragraph IV, F. 2 (e) of the Indictment, which alleges: