THE PRESIDENT: Colonel Amen, have these documents been translated into all languages?
COL. AMEN: I believe they have, every one of them, yes. No, I am told that all of them have not; some of them have. This one is in English and German, Your Lordship. We did not have time to get them translated into the Russian and French, although it is now in process.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, then it will be done?
COL. AMEN: Yes, Sir; it is being done, yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
KALTENBRUNNER: May I reply to it?
THE PRESIDENT: In order that the record should be properly complete, the Tribunal would like the Prosecution to state when the translation has been done, so that the matter should be thoroughly in order.
COL. AMEN: Precisely.
Defendant, we will now read this document together:
“I, Kurt Becher, former SS Standartenführer, born 12 September 1909, at Hamburg, declare the following under oath: