[266] Earlier in his direct examination the defendant Rothenberger had testified—“In 1929 I was in England for about 8 months. There I studied the organization and structure of the English courts, the position of the English judges, the positions of the masters and the registrars, and the relations of the barristers and solicitors to the court. I studied these in detail. I worked at the high court of justice with a barrister and with a solicitor. * * *” (Tr. p. 5331).
[267] Reproduced in section C 2 b, above.
[268] Reference is made to Rothenberger’s “Reflections on a National Socialist Judicial Reform,” (Doc. NG-075, Pros. Ex. 27), reproduced at the beginning of this section.
[269] Extracts from this speech as reported in the “Voelkischer Beobachter” are reproduced in section V C 2 a (Doc. NG-752, Pros. Ex. 24).
[270] Reich Minister Thierack’s minutes concerning this conference are reproduced immediately below (Doc. 654-PS, Pros. Ex. 39).
[271] See the testimony of defendant Rothenberger concerning this notation and Thierack’s minutes of the meeting, reproduced later in this section.
[272] Thierack wrote a letter to Bormann on this subject on 13 October 1942, entitled “Administration of Criminal Justice against Poles, Russians, Jews, and Gypsies.” (See Doc. NG-558, Pros. Ex. 143, reproduced in section V D 2.)
[273] Kuemmerlein was Thierack’s adjutant.
[274] SS General Otto Ohlendorf was commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe D, one of the special task forces assigned to exterminate “undesirable elements” in the East. He was also chief of Office III of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) from 1939–1943. Ohlendorf and a number of his codefendants were sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen Case (United States vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al., Case 9, vol. IV, this series).
[275] This document is referred to in the testimony of defendant Schlegelberger, reproduced in section IV E.