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the record. In that way those parts of the documents will
be conveyed to defendants' counsel through the earphones in German.
2. In order that defendants and their counsel may have an
opportunity of inspecting such documents in their entirety in German, a
photostatic copy of the original and one copy thereof shall be deposited
in the defendants' counsel room at the same time that they are produced
in court.
3. The defendants' counsel may at any time refer to
any other part of such documents.
4. Prosecuting counsel will
furnish defendants' counsel with 10 copies of their trial briefs in
English and five copies of their books of documents in English, at the
time such briefs and books are furnished to the Tribunal.
5.
Defendants' counsel will be furnished with one copy of each of the
transcripts of the proceedings.
That is all. I call upon the
prosecuting counsel for the United States.
MR. ALDERMAN: If it
pleases the Tribunal; may I make, Mr. President, one inquiry with regard
to your reference to trial briefs? On my section of the case I shall not
expect to hand up trial briefs to the Court. Whatever I have in the
nature of trial briefs will be put over the microphone. I wonder if that
is satisfactory?
THE PRESIDENT: I think what I said meets
that case.
MR. ALDERMAN: I thought so, yes.
THE
PRESIDENT: Because what I said was that the defendants' counsel would be
furnished with 10 copies of the trial briefs in English at the same time
that they are furnished to the Tribunal. Therefore, if you don't furnish
the trial briefs to the Tribunal, none will be furnished to the
defendants' counsel.
MR. ALDERMAN: Yes. When the Tribunal rose
on Friday last, I had just completed an introductory statement
preliminary to the presentation of evidence on the aggressive war aspect
of the case. In that introductory statement I had invited attention to
the parts of the Charter and to the parts of the Indictment which are
pertinent to this aspect of the case. I had also discussed the
relationship between recorded history and the evidence to be presented,
indicating what sort of additions to recorded history would be made by
the evidence contained in the captured documents.
I then
indicated to the Court that I would first proceed by presenting singly a
handful of captured documents, which, in our opinion, prove the corpus
of the crime of aggressive war, leaving no reasonable doubt concerning
the aggressive character of the Nazi war, or concerning the
conspiratorial premeditation of that war.
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