—against—

HERMANN WILHELM GOERING, RUDOLF HESS, JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP, ROBERT LEY, WILHELM KEITEL, ERNST KALTENBRUNNER, ALFRED ROSENBERG, HANS FRANK, WILHELM FRICK, JULIUS STREICHER, WALTER FUNK, HJALMAR SCHACHT, GUSTAV KRUPP von BOHLEN und HALBACH, KARL DOENITZ, ERICH RAEDER, BALDUR von SCHIRACH, FRITZ SAUCKEL, ALFRED JODL, MARTIN BORMANN, FRANZ von PAPEN, ARTUR SEYSS-INQUART, ALBERT SPEER, CONSTANTIN von NEURATH, and HANS FRITZSCHE, Individually and as Members of Any of the Following Groups or Organizations to which They Respectively Belonged, Namely: DIE REICHSREGIERUNG (REICH CABINET); DAS KORPS DER POLITISCHEN LEITER DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (LEADERSHIP CORPS OF THE NAZI PARTY); DIE SCHUTZSTAFFELN DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (commonly known as the “SS”) and including DIE SICHERHEITSDIENST (commonly known as the “SD”); DIE GEHEIME STAATSPOLIZEI (SECRET STATE POLICE, commonly known as the “GESTAPO”); DIE STURMABTEILUNGEN DER N.S.D.A.P. (commonly known as the “SA”) and the GENERAL STAFF and HIGH COMMAND of the GERMAN ARMED FORCES all as defined in Appendix B of the Indictment,

Defendants.

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I.	Agreement by the United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union for the Prosecution and Punishment of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis		[1]

II.	Charter of the International Military Tribunal and Protocol of 6 October 1945		[4]

III.	International Military Tribunal, Indictment No. 1 and Statement of Reservation Filed by U. S. Chief of Counsel		[13]

IV.	Motions, Rulings, and Explanatory Material Relating to Certain of the Defendants		[83]
	1.	Robert Ley	[83]
	2.	Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach	[84]
	3.	Martin Bormann	[94]
	4.	Ernst Kaltenbrunner	[95]
	5.	Julius Streicher	[96]
	6.	Rudolf Hess	[97]

V.	Opening Address for the United States		[114]

VI.	Organization of the Nazi Party and State		[175]

VII.	Means used by the Nazi Conspirators in Gaining Control of the German State		[184]
	1.	Common Objectives, Methods, and Doctrines of the Conspiracy	[184]
	2.	Acquisition of Totalitarian Political Control	[199]
	3.	Consolidation of Totalitarian Political Control	[218]
	4.	Purge of Political Opponents and Terrorization	[239]
	5.	Destruction of the Free Trade Unions and Acquisition of Control over the Productive Labor Capacity	[252]
	6.	Suppression of the Christian Churches	[263]
	7.	Adoption and Publication of the Program for Persecution of Jews	[296]
	8.	Reshaping of Education and Training of Youth	[312]
	9.	Propaganda, Censorship, and Supervision of Cultural Activities	[328]
	10.	Militarization of Nazi Organizations	[341]

VIII.	Economic Aspects of the Conspiracy		[349]

IX.	Launching of Wars of Aggression		[370]
	1.	The Plotting of Aggressive War	[370]
	2.	Preparation for Aggression: 1933-1936	[410]
	3.	Aggression Against Austria	[450]
	4.	The Execution of the Plan to Invade Czechoslovakia	[515]
	5.	Opening Address for the United Kingdom	[593]
	6.	Aggression as a Basic Nazi Idea: Mein Kampf	[644]
	7.	Treaty Violations	[651]
	8.	Aggression against Poland, Danzig, England and France	[673]
	9.	Aggression against Norway and Denmark	[733]
	10.	Aggression against Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg	[760]
	11.	Aggression against Greece and Yugoslavia	[775]
	12.	Aggression against the USSR	[794]
	13.	Collaboration with Italy and Japan and Aggressive War against the United States: November 1936 to December 1941	[840]

X.	The Slave Labor Program, the Illegal Use of Prisoners of War, and the Special Responsibility of Sauckel and Speer Therefor		[875]

XI.	Concentration Camps		[949]

XII.	The Persecution of the Jews		[978]

XIII.	Germanization and Spoliation		[1023]

XIV.	The Plunder of Art Treasures		[1097]

PREFACE

I

On the 2d day of May 1945, President Truman signed Executive Order 9547 appointing Justice Robert H. Jackson as Representative of the United States and as its Chief of Counsel in the preparation and prosecution of the case against the major Axis war criminals. Since that date and up to the present, the staff of the Office of Chief of Counsel, or OCC, has been engaged continuously in the discovery, collection, examination, translation, and marshalling of documentary evidence demonstrating the criminality of the former leaders of the German Reich. Since the 20th day of November 1945, a considerable part of this documentary arsenal has been directed against the 22 major Nazi war criminals who are on trial before the International Military Tribunal in Nurnberg. As of this writing the American and British cases-in-chief, on Counts I and II of the Indictment charging, respectively, conspiracy and the waging of wars of aggression, have been completed.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I