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the 97 percent of them were imprisoned,
executed, or put into concentration camps.
"13. By January 1941 about 700 priests were killed, 3,000 were
in prison or concentration camps."
I refer also to Document Number 3268(a)-PS, Exhibit Number USA-356,
excerpts from the allocution of Pope Pius XII to the Sacred College June
2, 1945, which has already been introduced into evidence and read from
extensively. I shall not read from that again. This gives some very
revealing figures concerning the priests and lay brothers confined in
the concentration camp at Dachau.
The Tribunal will recall, from the previous reading of this document,
the imprisonment of 2,800 priests and lay brothers in Dachau alone from
1940 to 1945, of whom all but about 800 were dead by April 1945,
including an auxiliary bishop.
This document presents a forceful summary of the principal steps in the
struggle of the Nazi conspirators against the Catholic Church.
In summation the Prosecution submits that the evidence presented to the
Court proves that the attempted suppression of the Christian churches in
Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland was an integral part of the
defendants' conspiracy to eliminate internal opposition and otherwise to
prepare for and wage aggressive war and shows the same conspiratorial
pattern as their other War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
COL. STOREY: If the Tribunal please, before we present the subject of
individual defendants, by agreement with our British colleagues, Major
Elwyn Jones will now present a brief subject entitled, "Aggression
as a Basic Nazi Idea."
MAJOR F. ELWYN JONES (Junior Counsel for the United Kingdom): May it
please the Tribunal, it is now my duty to draw to the Tribunal's
attention a document which became the statement of faith of these
defendants. I refer to Hitler's Mein Kampf. It is perhaps
appropriate that this should be considered at this stage of the Trial
just before the Prosecution presents to the Tribunal the evidence
against the individual defendants under Counts One and Two of the
Indictment, for this book, Mein Kampf, gave to the defendants
adequate foreknowledge of the unlawful aims of the Nazi leadership. It
was not only Hitler's political testament; by adoption it became theirs.
This book, Mein Kampf, might be described as the blueprint of
Nazi aggression. Its whole tenor and content enforce the Prosecution's
submission that the Nazi pursuit of aggressive designs was no mere
accident arising out of the immediate political situation in Europe and
the world which existed during the period of Nazi power. Mein Kampf,
establishes unequivocally that the use of