“He killed them by firing a machine gun salvo at each of them in the back, after which each airman was dragged by the feet and thrown into the Rhine.”
This affidavit was received by the Police Magistrate of Strasbourg. The document which we shall submit was signed by the magistrate’s clerk of the court as a certified copy. This is how the orders given by the leaders of the German Government were carried out by the German people.
THE PRESIDENT: M. Dubost, I see that it is 5 o’clock now, and perhaps you would be able to tell us what your program would be for tomorrow.
M. DUBOST: Tomorrow we shall complete the presentation of the question of prisoners of war. We shall present to you in an abridged form documents which seem to us to be indispensable, in spite of the hearing of witnesses concerning the camps. There are only a few documents, but they all directly inculpate one or other of the defendants. Then we shall show how the orders given by the leaders of the German Army led subordinates to commit acts of terrorism and banditry in France against the innocent population, and also against patriots who were not treated as francs-tireurs but as ordinary criminals.
We expect to finish tomorrow morning. In the afternoon, my colleague, M. Faure, could begin the presentation of this last part of the French charges concerning crimes against humanity.
THE PRESIDENT: Are you not able to give us any estimate of the length of the whole of the French Prosecution?
M. DUBOST: I believe that three days will be sufficient for M. Faure. The individual charges will be summarized in one-half day by our colleague, M. Mounier, and that will be the end.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will adjourn now.