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Volume I · Page 18
Extract from the official Transcript of Military Tribunal I in the matter of the United States of America vs. Karl Brandt at at., defendants, sitting at Nuernberg, Germany, on 21 November 1946, Judge Beals presiding
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: We will now proceed to arraign the defendants on the cause now pending before this Tribunal. As the names of the defendants are called each defendant will stand, and will remain standing until told to be seated. Mr. Secretary General of the Tribunal will call the roll of the defendants.
THE SECRETARY GENERAL: Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, Karl Genzken, Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Wolfram Sievers, Gerhard Rose, Siegfried Ruff, Hans Wolfgang Romberg, Viktor Brack, Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Georg August Weltz, Konrad Schaefer, Waldemar Hoven, Wilhelm Beiglboeck, Adolf Pokorny, Herta Oberheuser, Fritz Fischer. (As their names are called, the defendants rise.)
If the Honorable Tribunal please, all of the defendants are in the dock.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: The defendants will be seated.
The counsel for the prosecution will now proceed with the arraignment of the defendants.
[Here Brigadier General Taylor read the indictment in full. See pp. 8-17.]
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: I shall now call upon the defendants to plead guilty or not guilty to the charges against them. Each defendant, as his name is called, will stand and speak into the microphone. At this time there will be no arguments, speeches, or discussion of any kind. Each defendant will simply plead either guilty or not guilty to the offenses with which he is charged by the indictment.
Karl Brandt.
Dr. PELCKMANN: Mr. Chairman, before the defendant pleads guilty or not guilty, may I say a word? I am defense counsel for the defendant Schaefer, number 18.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: For which defendant?
DR. PELCKMANN: Schaefer, number 18.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: We are now receiving the plea of the defendant Karl Brandt. You do not represent him as counsel, do you?
DR. PELCKMANN: No.
