NMT01-T019
Volume I · Page 19
DR. PELCKMANN: May I speak before the defendant Schaefer speaks? A formal objection.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: When the name of the defendant Schaefer called, you may address the Court.
Karl Brandt, are you represented by counsel in this proceeding?
DEFENDANT KARL BRANDT: Yes.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: How do you plead to the charges and specifications and each thereof set forth in the indictment against you, guilty or not guilty?
DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: Yes.
JUDGE BEALS: Be seated. Siegfried Handloser, are you represented by counsel in this case?
DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: No, I have no counsel yet.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Do you desire that the Tribunal appoint counsel for you?
DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: I hope that today or tomorrow I may receive an affirmative answer from a defense counsel.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Are you at this time ready to plead to the indictment, guilty or riot guilty?
DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: Yes.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: How do you plead to the charges and specifications and each thereof set forth in the indictment against you, guilty or not guilty?
DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: Not guilty.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Be seated.
[At this point the defendants Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, Karl Genzken, Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blame, Rudolf Brandt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Wolfram Sievers, Gerhard Rose, Siegfried Ruff, Hans Wolfgang Romberg, Viktor Brack, Hermann Becker-Freyseng and Georg August Weltz were arraigned. All were represented by counsel. All pleaded not guilty to the, indictment]
DR. PELCKMANN: Your Honor, may I speak?
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: What is the purpose of the remarks you desire to make?
DR. PELCKMANN: I should like to object to the indictment. I should like to say that in my opinion, as far as Schaefer is concerned, the, indictment does not conform to Ordinance No. 7. I can explain that.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: How much time do you desire to present your argument?
DR. PELCKMANN: Three minutes.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: You may proceed. First, have you filed "in the proceeding any written notice of the objection to the indictment and served it upon the prosecutor?
