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The Trial
which is now about to begin is unique in the history of the
jurisprudence of the world and it is of supreme importance to millions
of people all over the globe. For these reasons, there is laid upon
everybody who takes any part in this Trial a solemn responsibility to
discharge their duties without fear or favor, in accordance with the
sacred principles of law and justice.
The
four Signatories having invoked the judicial process, it is the duty of
all concerned to see that the Trial in no way departs from those
principles and traditions which alone give justice its authority and the
place it ought to occupy in the affairs of all civilized states.
This
Trial is a public Trial in the fullest sense of those words and I must,
therefore, remind the public that the Tribunal will Insist upon the
complete maintenance of order and decorum, and will take the strictest
measures to enforce it. It only remains for me to direct, in accordance
with the provisions of the Charter, that the Indictment shall now be
read.
MR.
SIDNEY S. ALDERMAN (Associate Trial Counsel for the United States): May
it please the Tribunal:
I.
The United States of America, the French Republic, the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics by the undersigned, Robert H. Jackson, François de
Menthon, Hartley Shawcross, and R. A. Ru- denko, duly appointed to
represent their respective governments in the investigation of the
charges against and the prosecution of the major war criminals, pursuant
to the Agreement of London dated 8 August 1945, and the Charter of this
Tribunal annexed thereto, hereby accuse as guilty, in the respects
hereinafter set forth, of Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes
against Humanity, and of a Common Plan or Conspiracy to commit those
Crimes, all as defined in the Charter of the Tribunal, and accordingly
name as defendants in this cause and as indicted on the Counts
hereinafter set out:
Hermann
Wilhelm Goring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Wilhelm
Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm
Frick, Julius Streicher Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Gustav Krupp van
Bohlen und Halbach, Karl Donitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur van Schirach,
Fritz Sauckel, Alfred JodL Martin Bormann, Franz van Papen, Arthur
Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin van Neurath and Hans Fritzsche,
Individually and as members of any of the groups or organizations next
hereinafter named.
II.
The following are named as groups or organizations (since dissolved)
which should be declared criminal by reason of their aims and the means
used for the accomplishment thereof, and in
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