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Volume VI · Page IV
| trials, and as full and illuminating a
picture as is possible within the space available. Copies of the entire record
of the trials are available in the Library of Congress, the National Archives,
and elsewhere. In some cases, due to time limitations, errors of one sort or another have crept into the translations which were available to the Tribunal. In other cases the same document appears in different trials, or even at different parts of the same trial, with variations in translation. For the most part these inconsistencies have been allowed to remain and only such errors as might cause misunderstanding have been corrected. Volumes VI, VII, VIII, and IX of this series are dedicated to the three "industrialist" cases, commonly referred to as the Flick, Farben, and Krupp cases because the defendants were charged principally for their conduct as officials of one of these three German firms. The materials selected from the records of these three trials have been apportioned to the volumes in this series as follows: Flick, volume VI; Farben, volumes VII and VIII; Krupp, volume IX. Each of the three industrial cases contained charges relating to slave labor and to the plunder and expropriation of property in occupied countries. Under these charges findings of guilty were made by the Tribunals as to one or more defendants in each of the three cases. The Farben and Krupp cases, but not the Flick case, involved charges of crimes against the peace by criminal participation in the planning and waging of aggressive wars. These charges were dismissed as to all defendants. The Flick and Farben cases, but not the Krupp case, contained charges relating to membership in and support of the SS, an organization of the Nazi Party declared to be criminal by the International Military Tribunal. Under these charges findings of guilty were made by the Tribunal in the Flick case, whereas in the Farben case these charges were dismissed as to all defendants charged. The Flick case was the only one of these three industrialist cases which charged crimes against humanity by conduct involving the "Aryanization" of Jewish property begun before the invasion of Austria in March 1938. This charge was dismissed on the ground that the Tribunal did not have jurisdiction. |
