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connection
with the conviction of such of the named defendants as were members
thereof:
Die
Reichsregierung (Reich Cabinet); das Korps der Politischen Leiter der
Nationalsozialistischen DeutschenArbeiterpartei (Leadership Corps of the
Nazi Party); die Schutzstaffeln der Nationalsozialistischen
Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the "SS") and including the
Sicherheitsdienst (commonly known as the "SD"); die Geheime
Staatspolizei (Secret State Police, commonly known as the "Gestapo");
die Sturmabteilungen der NSDAP (commonly known as the "SA");
and the General Staff and the High Command of the German Armed Forces.
The identity and membership of the groups or organizations referred to
in the foregoing titles are hereinafter in Appendix B more particularly
defined.
COUNT
ONE--THE COMMON PLAN OR CONSPIRACY. Reference: the Charter, Article 6,
especially Article 6 (a).
III.
Statement of the Offense.
All
the defendants, with divers other persons, during a period of years
preceding 8 May 1945, participated as leaders, organizers, instigators,
or accomplices in the formulation or execution of a Common Plan or
Conspiracy to commit, or which involved the commission of, Crimes
against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity, as defined in
the Charter of this Tribunal, and, in accordance with the provisions of
the Charter, are individually responsible for their own acts and for all
acts committed by any persons in the execution of such plan and
conspiracy. The Common Plan or Conspiracy embraced the commission of
Crimes against Peace, in that the defendants planned, prepared,
initiated, and waged wars of aggression, which were also wars in
violation of international treaties, agreements, or assurances. In the
development and course of the Common Plan or Conspiracy it came to
embrace the commission of War Crimes, in that it contemplated, and the
defendants determined upon and carried out, ruthless wars against
countries and populations, in violation of the rules and customs of war,
including as typical and systematic means by which the wars were
prosecuted' murder, ill-treatment, deportation for slave labor and for
other purposes of civilian populations of occupied territories, murder
and ill-treatment of prisoners of war and of persons on the High Seas,
the taking and killing of hostages, the plunder of public and private
property, the wanton destruction of cities, towns, and villages, and
devastation not justified by military necessity. The Common Plan or
Conspiracy contemplated and came to embrace as typical and systematic
means, and the defendants determined upon and committed, Crimes against
Humanity, both within Germany and within occupied territories, including
murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts
committed
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