[6] A “Staatssekretaer” is approximately the equivalent of an under secretary in one of the executive departments of the United States Government. During the trial “Staatssekretaer” was translated synonymously as State Secretary or Under Secretary.
[7] This caption, with the necessary factual changes, appeared at the top of the first page of the transcript for each day of the proceedings. Hereinafter it will be omitted from all extracts from the transcript.
[8] The defendant Westphal committed suicide in the Nuernberg prison adjacent to the Palace of Justice where the trials were held.
[9] Tr. pp. 34–137, 5 March 1947.
[10] Trial of the Major War Criminals, Nuremberg, 1947, volume I, page 181.
[11] These two charts are reproduced below in section IV C 2.
[12] Later nine more were formed in Austria, Danzig, Poland, Sudetenland, and Bohemia, making 35 in all.
[13] Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag 13 July 1934, Voelkischer Beobachter, 15 July 1934.
[14] Voelkischer Beobachter, 27 August 1930.
[15] Deutsche Allgemaine Zeitung, 28 November 1934.