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| VIII. JUDGMENT | ||
| A. Opinion and
Judgment of the United States Military Tribunal II |
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| UNITED STATES
MILITARY TRIBUNALS SITTING IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, NUERNBERG, GERMANY AT
A SESSION OF MILITARY TRIBUNAL II HELD NOVEMBER 3, 1947 |
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| The United States of America
-vs- Oswald Pohl, August Frank, Georg Loerner, Heinz Karl Fanslau, Hans Loerner, Josef Vogt, Erwin Tschentscher, Rudolf Scheide, Max Kiefer, Franz Eirenschmalz, Karl Sommer, Hermann Pook, Hans Baier, Hans Hohberg, Leo Volk, Karl Mummenthey, Hans Bober min, and Horst Klein, Defendants. |
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OPINION AND JUDGMENT Case No. 4 |
| United States Military Tribunal
II was established on the 14th day of December 1946 by General Order No. 85 of
the United States Military Governor for Germany. It was the second of several
Military Tribunals constituted in the United States Zone of Occupation pursuant
to Military Government Ordinance No. 7, for the trial of offenses defined as
crimes by Law No. 10 of the Control Council for Germany. Under the order which established the Tribunals and designated the undersigned as members thereof, Military Tribunal II was ordered to convene at the Palace of Justice, Nuernberg, Germany, and to hear and determine such cases as might be filed by the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes. Telford Taylor, Brigadier General, U. S. Army, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, on 13 January 1947, filed an indictment against the defendants herein named, in the Office of the Secretary General of Military Tribunals. A copy of said indictment in the German language was served on each defendant on 13 January 1947, except for the defendant Georg Loerner, who was served on 14 January 1947. More than thirty days after said indictment was served on each defendant, |
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