| Thirtieth Day, Wednesday, 9 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [1] | |
| Afternoon Session | [31] | |
| Thirty-first Day, Thursday, 10 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [65] | |
| Afternoon Session | [100] | |
| Thirty-second Day, Friday, 11 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [131] | |
| Afternoon Session | [159] | |
| Thirty-third Day, Monday, 14 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [197] | |
| Thirty-fourth Day, Tuesday, 15 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [230] | |
| Afternoon Session | [260] | |
| Thirty-fifth Day, Wednesday, 16 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [296] | |
| Afternoon Session | [329] | |
| Thirty-sixth Day, Thursday, 17 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [368] | |
| Afternoon Session | [399] | |
| Thirty-seventh Day, Friday, 18 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [434] | |
| Afternoon Session | [459] | |
| Thirty-eighth Day, Saturday, 19 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [489] | |
| Thirty-ninth Day, Monday, 21 January 1946, | ||
| Morning Session | [520] | |
| Afternoon Session | [547] | |
THIRTIETH DAY
Wednesday, 9 January 1946
Morning Session
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE (Deputy Chief Prosecutor for the United Kingdom): If the Tribunal please, when the Tribunal adjourned I had just dealt with the last of the two Norway documents, which I how put in as Exhibits GB-140 and GB-141. Their numbers are 004-PS and D-629.
My Lord, for convenience the first document, to which I shall refer in a few minutes, will be Document Number 1871-PS.
THE PRESIDENT (Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence): I have that here.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: My Lord, before I come to that, I just want to say one word about the aggression against the Low Countries—Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
The facts as to the aggression against these countries, during the period when this defendant was Foreign Minister, were stated in full by my friend Mr. Roberts, and I think if I give the Tribunal the reference to the transcript at Pages 1100 to 1125 (Volume III, Pages 289 to 307), I do not need to detain the Tribunal on that part of the case. I only remind the Tribunal that the action of this defendant as Foreign Minister to which attention may be called is the making of a statement on the 10th of May 1940 to representatives of the foreign press with regard to the reasons for the German invasion of the Low Countries; and these reasons were, in my respectful submission, demonstrated to be false by the evidence called by Mr. Roberts, which appears in that part of the transcript.
My Lord, I then proceed to the aggression in southeastern Europe against Greece and Yugoslavia, and the first moment of time in that regard is the meeting at Salzburg in August 1939, at which the Defendant Von Ribbentrop participated, when Hitler announced that the Axis had decided to liquidate certain neutrals. That is Document 1871-PS, which I now put in as Exhibit GB-142, and the passage to which I should like to refer the Tribunal is on Page 2 of the English version, two-thirds down the page in the middle of the fifth paragraph, six lines from the top. Your Lordship will find the words “Generally speaking.”