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| defendant, called by the defense. However,
some of the witnesses called by the defense had given affidavits which were
introduced as a part of the prosecution's case in chief, and in some cases,
these witnesses were examined about these affidavits by the defense. Each of
the 23 defendants who stood trial testified in his own behalf, except the
defendant Rasch who was unable to complete his testimony for reasons of health
and whose case was severed from that of the other defendants. Rasch died in
prison on 1 November 1948. Each of the defendants who testified was subject to
examination on behalf of other defendants. The exhibits offered by both
prosecution and defense contained documents, photographs, affidavits, letters,
maps, charts, and other written evidence. The prosecution introduced 48
affidavits, 34 of which were affidavits given by the defendants prior to their
indictment. The defense introduced 549 affidavits. The prosecution called 3 of
the defense affiants for cross-examination. In addition to examining the
defendants who gave affidavits prior to their indictment, the defense called
one affiant for cross-examination. The case-in-chief of the prosecution took 2
court days and the case for the 23 defendants took 136 court days. The Tribunal
was in recess between 30 September and 6 October 1947 to give the defense
additional time to prepare its case. The members of the Tribunal and prosecution and defense counsel are listed on the ensuing pages. Prosecution counsel were assisted in preparing the case by Walter H. Rapp (Chief of the Evidence Division), Rolf Wartenberg and Alfred Schwarz, interrogators, and Nancy Fenstermacher and Charles E. Ippen, research and documentary analysts. |
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| Selection and arrangement of the
"Einsatzgruppen Case" material published herein was accomplished principally by
Arnost Horlik-Hochwald, working under the general supervision of Drexel A.
Sprecher, Deputy Chief Counsel and Director of Publications, Office U. S. Chief
of Counsel for War Crimes. Henry Buxbaum, Gertrude Ferencz, Paul H. Gantt,
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Erhard Heinke, Helga Lund, Gwendoline Niebergall,
Johanna K. Reischer, and Enid M. Standring assisted in selecting, compiling,
editing, and indexing the numerous papers. John H. E. Fried, Special Legal Consultant to the Tribunals, reviewed and approved the selection and arrangement of the material as the designated representative of the Nuernberg Military Tribunals. Final compilation and editing of the manuscript for printing was administered by the War Crimes Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General, under the direct supervision of Richard A. Olbeter, Chief, Special Projects Branch, with Alma Seller as editor, Amelia Rivers as assistant editor, and John W. Mosenthal as research analyst. |
