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| INTRODUCTION | |||
| The trial of Friedrich Flick and
five other officials of the Flick Concern was commonly referred to as the
"Flick Case" and is officially designated United States of America vs.
Friedrich Flick, et al. (Case 5). The Flick case was the first of the
so-called industrialist cases tried in Nuernberg. The six defendants were
leading officials in the Flick Concern or its subsidiary companies and were
charged with the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity,
principally because of conduct undertaken a: officials of the Flick Concern.
The specific counts charged trim final conduct relating to slave labor, the
spoliation of property in occupied France and the Soviet Union, the
"Aryanization" of Jewish industrial and mining properties, beginning in the
year 1936 (charged only as crimes against humanity), and member- ship in and
support of the SS and the "Circle of Friends of Himmler." In its judgment the
Tribunal found the defendant Flick guilty under the charges of slave labor,
spoliation, am support of criminal activities of the SS by his financial
contributions to the "Circle of Friends of Himmler;" the defendant Steinbrinck
guilty of membership in the SS and support of the criminal activities of the SS
by his participation in the "Circle of Friends of Himmler;" and the defendant
Weiss guilty under the slave-labor charges. The Tribunal acquitted the three
other defendants Burkart, Kaletsch, and Terberger on all the counts under which
they were indicted. The Flick case was tried at the Palace of Justice in Nuernberg before Military Tribunal IV. The Tribunal convened 136 times, and the trial lasted approximately 9 months, as shown by the following schedule: |
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| Indictment filed | 8 February 1947 | ||
| Indictment served | 8 February 1947 | ||
| Amended indictment filed | 18 March 1947 | ||
| Amended indictment served | 18 March 1947 | ||
| Arraignment | 19 April 1947 | ||
| Prosecution opening statement | 19 April 1947 | ||
| Defense opening statements | 2 July 1947 | ||
| Prosecution closing statement | 24 November 1947 | ||
| Defense closing statements | 25 to 29 November 1947 | ||
