DR. SERVATIUS: I am satisfied with handing over the affidavit.
COL. PHILLIMORE: My Lord, as far as the Prosecution are concerned, an affidavit would suffice.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
DR. SERVATIUS: Then I shall submit the affidavit and I will give the exhibit number together with my list.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, there is one other matter to which I wish to draw the attention of defendants’ counsel.
The Tribunal have been informed as to the length of the speeches of certain of the defendants’ counsel which have been placed before the Translation Division for translation, and in the case of the Defendant Keitel and in the case of the Defendant Jodl the speeches which have been put into the Translation Division seem to be very much longer than the Tribunal had anticipated and quite impossible to be spoken in 1 day.
Would counsel for the Defendant Keitel explain to the Tribunal why that is and what steps he has taken to shorten his speech?
DR. NELTE: Mr. President, I have sent a letter to the Court today which I believe is not yet in the Tribunal’s possession. In it I requested that in the case of the Defendant Keitel I should be permitted to exceed the regular length of time, which had been limited to 1 day for the big cases. When, at the request of the Tribunal, I stated the time which my final speech would take, I had my manuscript completed. This manuscript would have taken about 7 hours. I gave that manuscript to the Translation Division in that form because it was no longer possible to alter it. I submitted the first part last Wednesday and then the second part on Saturday morning.
If the Tribunal, in accordance with its decision, fixes 1 day, that is, 5½ hours of actual speech, as the maximum and is unwilling to depart from that ruling in any case, not even in the case of the Defendant Keitel, who has been particularly seriously implicated, then I shall be forced to eliminate certain passages from the manuscript and to submit them only in writing. I hope the Tribunal will also decide whether that is possible.
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Nelte, the Tribunal takes note of the fact that when you were asked how long your speech would take, you said, I think, 7 hours.