The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)

The Trial of German Major War Criminals

Sitting at Nuremberg, Germany
February 14 to February 26, 1946


(Versión en Español)
  • Session 59, February 14, 1946 (Part 1 of 15)

    WAR CRIMES (Contd.): Crimes against prisoners of war (concluded) (Colonel Pokrovsky): "Special treatment" in Educational Labour Camps; Nazi brutalities against members: of the Polish Forces-mass executions in the Katyn forest, of the Yugoslav Forces-their treatment as "bandits". Crimes against the civilian populations in the Eastern Countries (Mr. Smirnov): Introductory remarks on uniformity of criminal methods and techniques of depopulation; Training for murder by issue of "The Twelve Commandments for the behaviour of Germans in the East and for their treatment of Russians" and by lectures; by courses in burning corpses, by practice shooting at living targets. Nazi regime of terror: Tortures and murder (Molotov Note of 6th January, 1942); Use by German troops of Soviet civilians: as shield against Red Army, for clearing minefields

  • Session 60, February 15, 1946 (Part 1 of 8)

    Nazi regime of terror: for medical experiments. Judicial terror-lawlessness under the guise of law: The responsibility of defendant Hans Frank, "Legal" reduction of Poles and Jews to slaves, System of "Standgerichte (drum-head courts martial)in Czechoslovakia. Mass extermination: Organisation of so-called special commandos- their powers and tasks, Keitel directive of 16th December, 1942, for anti-partisan warfare-impunity of German soldiers for any acts against Soviet civilians, Effects of Keitel's directive on the civilian population-reports of Extraordinary State Commission and Molotov Note Of 27th April, 1942, on appalling German atrocities. Other terror methods: Sadistic tortures during interrogations; Reprisals: Taking and killing of hostages.

  • Session 61, February 18, 1946 (Part 1 of 7)

    Tribunal's ruling on submission of evidence by Defence
    Argument on Defence Counsel's motion for a recess after conclusion of Prosecution's case: Destruction of villages and the inhabitants (The case of Lidice in Czechoslovakia), Atrocities against children (burning, gassing, drowning). Photographs of atrocities shown and commented on: Reports on Nazi crimes by Polish, Yugoslav and Greek Governments, by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission and by medico- forensic experts

  • Session 62, February 19, 1946 (Part 1 of 6)

    Tribunal's ruling on Defence motion of 18th February, 1946: Recess not granted. Extermination by gas vans; Systematic infection of concentration camp inmates by transfer of typhus-stricken patients from camp to camp; Death industry: Contracts for concentration camp crematoria Trade in dead women's hair, ground human bones, clothing and other articles of deceased internees; Concealment of crimes: exhuming and burning of corpses,crushing of bones, camouflaging of grave sites. Death industry (concluded): Manufacture of soap from human fat and tanning of human skin.

  • Session 63 February 20, 1946 (Part 1 of 8)

    Plunder of public and private property: Czechoslovakia: Dispossession of Czech farmers, Expropriation of banks and industries. Poland: Sequestration and confiscation, Defendant Hans Frank's activities-excerpts from his diary. Yugoslavia and Greece: Predatory currency and credit measures Requisitions, fines, confiscations U.S.S.R : Programme for plunder: "Barbarossa, Oldenburg" plan and other directives elaborated before invasion; Implementation of programme: Molotov Notes of 6th January, 1942, and 27th. April, 1942,and reports of Extraordinary State Commission; Statistics of damage; Responsibility of individual defendants, particularly Goering and Keitel. Concluding remarks

  • Session 64, February 21, 1946 (Part 1 of 8)

    Looting and destruction of works of art and science and of religious and social institutions: Introductory remarks: on "Einsatzstab Rosenberg"; on Ribbentrop's "Special Purpose Battalion"; on Goering's "acquisitions". Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia: Nazi methods of suppressing national culture: closing down of schools and universities-removal; of scientific books and instruments, libraries and art collections-purge and control of literature- annihilation of intelligentsia-spoliation of cultural monuments. U.S.S.R: Molotov Notes and Extraordinary State Commission's reports on wholesale looting and destruction of cultural and social institutions. Film on destruction of art and museums in U.S.S.R shown

  • Session 65, February 22, 1946 (Part 1 of 7)

    Destruction of cities and towns without military necessity: Devastation by special detachments before retreat of German troops; The fate of capitals of invaded countries (Leningrad, Belgrade, Warsaw); Destruction by punitive expeditions in retaliation for alleged partisan activities. Film on destruction of Lidice shown. Extraordinary State Commission's summary of destruction. Film on destruction in U.S.S.R territories shown: Oral evidence of Soviet citizen Joseph Abgarovitch Orbeli, former director of Hermitage State Museum, on destruction of art and cultural monuments in Leningrad; Deportation for slave labour of civilian populations of the Eastern Countries-complicity of Nazi Government and Party and of German High Command.
    THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS: ARGUMENTS ON DEFENCE WITNESSES AND DOCUMENTS

  • Session 66, February 23, 1946 (Part 1 of 8)

    Tribunal's order prescribing procedure for submission of evidence and presentation of case by Defence.
    Defence Counsel's submission and Prosecution's views, on witnesses and documents: for defendant Hermann Wilhehn GOERING; Prosecution's, objection to admissibility of evidence on the issues of "tu quoque" Defence Counsel's reply (doctrine of reprisal). for defendant Rudolf HESS; for defendant Joachim von RIBBENTROP

  • Session 67, February 25, 1946 (Part 1 of 8)

    Prosecution's views as to starting point of the Nazi Conspiracy and on the question of responsibility of a conspirator for acts committed prior to his joining the conspiracy. for defendant Wilhelm KEITEL;
    COUNT FOUR-Crimes against Humanity in the Eastern Countries: Extermination of Slav peoples: Starvation

  • Session 68, February 26, 1946 (Part 1 of 7)

    Deportation and expulsion: Oral evidence of Soviet citizen Jakob Grigoriev on destruction of a Soviet village and its inhabitants as reprisal for alleged harbouring of partisans; Discrimination against Soviet prisoners of war by particularly severe treatment. Oral evidence of Soviet citizen Dr. Eugene Alexandrovich Kivelisha, physician, on his experiences as prisoner of war in P.O.W. camps; Murder of 50 R.A.F. officers recaptured after escape from "Stalag Luft III" (for continuation of this case, see Part 8). Extermination of Jews

Published
Under the Authority of H.M. Attorney-General
By His Majesty's Stationery Office
London:1946


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