“Time will show how far the outcome of the war with England will make an extension of these demands possible.” (C-41)
The submission of the prosecution is that that and other documents which have been submitted tear apart the veil of Nazi pretense. These documents reveal the menace behind the good-will of Goering; they expose as fraudulent the diplomacy of Ribbentrop; they show the reality behind the ostensible political ideology of tradesmen in treason like Rosenberg; and finally and above all, they render sordid the professional status of Keitel and of Raeder.
LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO AGGRESSION AGAINST NORWAY AND DENMARK
| Document | Description | Vol. | Page |
| Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Article 6 (a). | I | 5 | |
| International Military Tribunal, Indictment Number 1, Sections IV (F) 5; V. | I | 27, 29 | |
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| Note: A single asterisk (*) before a document indicates that the document was received in evidence at the Nurnberg trial. A double asterisk (**) before a document number indicates that the document was referred to during the trial but was not formally received in evidence, for the reason given in parentheses following the description of the document. The USA series number, given in parentheses following the description of the document, is the official exhibit number assigned by the court. | |||
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| *004-PS | Report submitted by Rosenberg to Deputy of the Fuehrer, 15 June 1940, on the Political Preparation of the Norway Action. (GB 140) | III | 19 |
| *007-PS | Report on activities of the Foreign Affairs Bureau from 1933 to 1943 signed Rosenberg. (GB 84) | III | 27 |
| *957-PS | Rosenberg’s letter to Ribbentrop, 24 February 1940. (GB 139) | III | 641 |
| 1546-PS | Raeder memorandum, 9 April 1940, concerning occupation of Norway. | IV | 104 |
| *1809-PS | Entries from Jodl’s diary, February 1940 to May 1940. (GB 88) | IV | 377 |
| *3054-PS | “The Nazi Plan”, script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167) | V | 801 |
| 3596-PS | Covering memorandum and notes of conversation on 8 August 1940, between Chief Custodian of Army Archives GOES and Major-General Himmler. | VI | 299 |
| *C-5 | Memorandum to Supreme Command of the Navy by Doenitz, 9 October 1939, concerning base in Norway. (GB 83) | VI | 815 |
| *C-41 | Memorandum by Fricke, 3 June 1940, on questions of territorial expansion and bases. (GB 96) | VI | 868 |
| *C-63 | Keitel order on preparation for “Weseruebung”, 27 January 1940. (GB 87) | VI | 883 |
| *C-64 | Raeder’s report, 12 December 1939, on meeting of Naval Staff with Fuehrer. (GB 86) | VI | 884 |
| *C-65 | Notes of Rosenberg to Raeder concerning visit of Quisling. (GB 85) | VI | 885 |
| *C-66 | Memorandum from Raeder to Assmann, 10 January 1944, concerning “Barbarossa” and “Weseruebung”. (GB 81) | VI | 887 |
| *C-115 | Naval deception and camouflage in invasion of Norway taken from file of naval operation orders for operation “Weseruebung”. (GB 90) | VI | 914 |
| *C-122 | Extract from Naval War Diary. Questionnaire on Norway bases, 3 October 1939. (GB 82) | VI | 928 |
| *C-151 | Details for execution of operation “Weseruebung”, 3 March 1940, signed by Doenitz. (GB 91) | VI | 965 |
| *C-174 | Hitler Order for operation “Weseruebung”, 1 March 1940. (GB 89) | VI | 1003 |
| *D-627 | Dispatch from British Minister in Copenhagen to Foreign Secretary, 25 April 1940. (GB 95) | VII | 97 |
| *D-628 | Memorandum concerning Germany’s attitude towards Denmark before and during occupation. (GB 94) | VII | 98 |
| *D-629 | Letter from Keitel to Ribbentrop, 3 April 1940. (GB 141) | VII | 99 |
| *L-323 | Entry in Naval War Diary concerning operation “Weseruebung”. (USA 541) | VII | 1106 |
| *M-156 | Year Book of the Ausland (Foreign) Organization of the NSDAP for 1942. (GB 284) | VIII | 49 |
| *TC-17 | Treaty of Arbitration and Conciliation between Germany and Denmark, signed at Berlin, 2 June 1926. (GB 76) | VIII | 346 |
| *TC-24 | Treaty of nonaggression between German Reich and Kingdom of Denmark, 31 May 1939. (GB 77) | VIII | 373 |
| *TC-30 | German assurance to Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands, 28 April 1939, from Documents of German Politics, Part VII, I, pp. 139, 172-175. (GB 78) | VIII | 379 |
| *TC-31 | German assurance to Norway, 2 September 1939. (GB 79) | VIII | 380 |
| *TC-32 | German assurance to Norway, 6 October 1939, from Documents of German Politics, Vol. VII, p. 350. (GB 80) | VIII | 381 |
| *TC-55 | German ultimatum to Norway and Denmark, 9 April 1940, from Documents of German Politics, Part VIII, pp. 21-31. (GB 92) | VIII | 410 |
| *TC-56 | German Plans for Invasion of Norway, 1 October 1945. (GB 93) | VIII | 414 |
| **Chart No. 12 | German Aggression. (Enlargement displayed to Tribunal.) | VIII | 781 |
| **Chart No. 13 | Violations of Treaties, Agreements and Assurances. (Enlargement displayed to Tribunal.) | VIII | 782 |
10. AGGRESSION AGAINST BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS,
AND LUXEMBOURG
The independence of Belgium, which for so many centuries was the cockpit of Europe, was guaranteed by the great European powers in 1839. That guarantee was observed for 75 years, until it was broken by the Germans in 1914, who brought all the horrors of war, and the even greater horrors of German occupation, to Belgium. History was to repeat itself in a still more catastrophic fashion some 25 years after, in 1940.
Among the applicable treaties are the Hague Convention of 1907 (TC-3; TC-4), the Locarno Arbitration and Conciliation Convention of 1925, in which Belgium’s independence and neutrality were guaranteed by Germany; the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, by which all the Powers renounced recourse to war; and the Hague Convention of Arbitration and Conciliation May 1926 between Germany and the Netherlands (TC-16). Article I of the latter treaty provides:
“The contracting parties” (the Netherlands and the German Reich) “undertake to submit all disputes of any nature whatever which may arise between them which it has not been possible to settle by diplomacy, and which have not been referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice, to be dealt with by arbitration or conciliation as provided.” (TC-16)
Subsequent clauses deal with the machinery of conciliation. The last article, Article 21, provides that the Convention shall be valid for ten years, and then shall remain in force for successive periods of five years until denounced by either party. And this treaty never was denounced by Germany at all.