THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
DR. STAHMER: If the High Tribunal agree, I wish to call the former Reich Marshal, Defendant Hermann Göring, to the witness stand.
[The Defendant Göring took the stand.]
THE PRESIDENT: Will you give your name please?
HERMANN WILHELM GÖRING (Defendant): Hermann Göring.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you repeat this oath after me: I swear by God—the Almighty and Omniscient—that I will speak the pure truth—and will withhold and add nothing.
[The witness repeated the oath in German.]
THE PRESIDENT: You may sit down if you wish.
DR. STAHMER: When were you born and where?
GÖRING: I was born on 12 January 1893 in Rosenheim, Bavaria.