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| war, including but not limited to plunder of
public and private property, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation,
imprisonment, torture, and ill-treatment of and other inhumane acts against
thousands of persons. These crimes embraced, but were not limited to, the
particulars set out in paragraphs 11 to 21, inclusive, of this indictment,
which are incorporated herein by reference, and were committed against
prisoners of war and civilian populations of countries and territories under
the belligerent occupation of, or otherwise controlled by, Germany. 25. The acts and conduct of the defendants set forth in this count were committed unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly, and constitute violations of international conventions, including the Articles of the Hague Regulations, 1907, and of the Prisoner of War Convention (Geneva, 1929), enumerated in paragraph 23 of this indictment, of the laws and customs of war, of the general principles of criminal law as derived from the criminal laws of all civilized nations, of the internal penal laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed, and of Article II of Control Council Law No. 10. |
| COUNT THREE — MEMBERSHIP
IN CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION |
| 26. All of the defendants herein, except defendant Viermetz, are charged with membership, subsequent to 1 September 1939, in the Schutzstaffeln der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the "SS"), declared to be criminal by the International Military Tribunal and paragraph 1(d) of Article II of Control Council Law No. 10. Wherefore, this indictment is filed with the Secretary General of the Military Tribunals and the charges herein made against the above named defendants are hereby presented to the Military Tribunals. |
| TELFORD TAYLOR,
Brigadier General, U. S. Army, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Acting on Behalf of the United States of America. |
| Nuernberg, 1 July 1947 |
