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| expectations with which the whole world watches this first trial of
industrialists. And last but not least, remember this people, which amid its
rubble has little more left than the hope for justice. Remember also that
destroyed towns and dismantled plants may be rebuilt more easily than destroyed
faith. Act in such a manner that the world will some day say, "There were
judges at Nuernberg." I move, Your Honors, that the defendant Burkart be acquitted. |
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| D. Extracts from the Closing Statement for the Defendant Steinbrinck¹ |
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| DR. FLAECHSNER: Your Honors. In order to abbreviate my plea, I wish
to solicit your permission to confine my arguments to counts one and two in
writing and to submit this in writing to you, and I solicit your permission to
present orally counts three, four, and five. Thus I hope not to avail myself of
too much time of this Tribunal. I assume that the translation will be submitted
to the Tribunal within a short period of time. The reproduction, however, I
believe, is not yet ready. Otherwise Your Honors would already have the
translation before you.² PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: You have the Court's approval of proceeding as you suggest. DR. FLAECHSNER: May I therefore begin with count three? In its argumentation and opening statement, no less than in presenting its evidence, the prosecution devotes an especially large space to count three of the indictment, and they would obviously like to see it played out under the heading of "crimes against humanity, committed in connection with measures of Aryanization" as third act and climax of the drama that they are staging against Flick and associates. By presenting the play in three scenes, namely — 1. Aryanization of Rawack and Gruenfeld A.G. and Hochofenwerk Luebeck, 2. United Continental Corporation and distribution of the property of Julius Petschek, 3. Ignaz Petschek and barter soft coal for brown coal, the prosecution tries to show the audience the crimes of the defend- [...ants] |
¹ Complete closing statement is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 28 November 1947, pages 10715-10785.
² Counsel refers to the fact that a mimeographed translation of the closing statement he intended to give was not yet available for distribution. Ordinarily such a translation was made available before the actual delivery of the argument so as to assist the Tribunal in following the argument, observing the footnotes, etc.
