Presiding Judge Toms: Dr. Bergold, will you be ready to proceed with the trial on the second of January?
Dr. Bergold: Yes.
[63] Tr. p. 7.
III. OPENING STATEMENTS
A. Opening Statement for the Prosecution[[64]]
Mr. Denney: May it please your Honors, this defendant is Erhard Milch, Field Marshal in the Luftwaffe, Inspector General of the Luftwaffe, State Secretary in the Air Ministry, Generalluftzeugmeister, sole representative of the Wehrmacht on the Central Planning Board, Chief of the Jaegerstab,[[65]] and member of the Nazi Party.
This man is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in that he took part in the program for the enslavement and ill-treatment of the civilian population of vast territories conquered by the armed forces of Germany and in the employment of prisoners of war in tasks forbidden by the laws and customs of war. He is also accused of the torture and murder of concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war who were made the unwilling subjects of savage and fatal medical experiments.