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then compare or show to your client either the
photostat or the original.
DR. SERVATIUS: I have done that and only object now to the fact that
from the reading of this document parts which I consider important are
being omitted. If this letter is being read here it must be read in its
entirety, including the parts which I consider important, namely, the
letterhead and the type of signature.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you repeat that.
DR. SERVATIUS: I am asking that if it is to be used as evidence, the
letter should be read in its entirety, including its complete heading
and the signature as it appears, namely, "signed Sauckel." The
certification of the signature is missing, a fact from which my client
draws certain conclusions in his favor.
THE PRESIDENT: You will have an opportunity after adjournment of seeing
this document; and you have been told already that you can refer, when
your turn comes to present your defense, to the whole of any document.
It is inconvenient to the Tribunal to have many interruptions of this
sort; and if you wish to refer to the whole document, you will be able
to do so at a later stage.
DR. SERVATIUS: I must assume then, Mr. President, that it is admissible
to read parts of a document instead of the whole. Did I understand
correctly?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, certainly. You can put in a part or the whole of
the document when your turn comes. We will adjourn now; but, Mr. Dodd,
you will satisfy this counsel for the Defense as to the reason why he
had not got these documents.
DR. SERVATIUS: Yes, I understand, Mr. President.
MR. DODD: Yes, I will.
THE PRESIDENT: And you will make them available to him and insure that
he has an opportunity of seeing the original of this document so that he
can check the signature.
MR. DODD: We will, and I will see that the original is available to
him.
THE PRESIDENT: All right, we will adjourn now.
[The Tribunal adjourned until 12 December
1945 at 1000 hours.]