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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-
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