THE PRESIDENT: Do any of the other members of the Prosecution wish to ask any question?
[Each indicated that he had no question.]
Do any of the defendants’ counsel wish to ask any questions?
[Each indicated that he had no question.]
Then the witness can retire.
[The witness left the stand.]
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: May I say a few words by way of concluding my report?
THE PRESIDENT: You may, certainly.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Your Honors, in his note of 6 January 1942 the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R. declared that the Soviet Government considered it their duty to inform the “entire civilized world and all honest people throughout the world” of the monstrous crimes committed by the Hitlerite bandits.
In the battles of this war, the greatest ever fought by men, millions of honest people achieved victory over fascist Germany. The will of millions of honest people created this International Tribunal for the purpose of judging the main criminals of war. Behind him each representative of the Prosecution feels the invisible support of these millions of honest people, in whose name he accuses the leaders of the fascist conspiracy.