Title Pages
Title Pages
Foreword
Introduction
Glossary
Comparative Ranks in the Wehrmacht, S.S., and British Army
The Court and Counsel
List of the Accused and Defending Officers |
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THE TRIAL |
| First Day - Monday, 17th September, 1945 |
Indictment
Request by Defence for the services of an expert on International Law
Application by Defence for charges to be heard separately
Application by Defence for separate trials
Opening Speech for the Prosecution |
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| Second Day - Tuesday, 18th September, 1945 |
EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION |
| Brigadier Hugh Llewelyn Glyn Hughes |
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| Third Day - Wednesday, 19th September, 194 |
Brigadier Glyn Hughes (continued)
Deposition of Lieut.-Colonel J. A. D. Johnston
Captain Derek A. Sington |
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| Fourth Day - Thursday, 20th. September, 1945 |
Major A. L. Berney
Film of Belsen Camp shown
Harold Osmond Le Druillenec |
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| Fifth Day - Friday, 21st September, 1945 |
Dr. Ada Bimko
Visit by Court to Belsen Camp |
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| Sixth Day - Saturday, 22nd September, 1945 |
| Dr. Ada Bimko (continued) |
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| Seventh Day - Monday, 24th September, 1945 |
Sophia Litwinska
Cecilia Frommer
Anni Jonas
Dora Szafran |
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| Eighth Day - Tuesday, 25th September, 1945 |
Dora Szafran (continued)
Helen Hammermasch |
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| Ninth Day - Wednesday, 26th September, 1945 |
EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE |
| Major G. A. J. Smallwood |
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| EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION (continued) |
Ilona Stein
Abraham Glinowieski |
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| Tenth Day - Thursday, 27th September, 1945 |
Application by the Defence for Colonel H. A. Smith to be admitted as an additional Defending Officer
Abraham Glinowieski (continued)
Hanka Rozenwayg |
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| Eleventh Day - Friday, 28th September, 1945 |
Lieut.-Colonel S. G. Champion
Lidia Sunschein
Dr. Fritz Leo |
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| Twelfth Day - Saturday, 29th September, 1945 |
Estera Guterman
Paula Singer
Ruchla Koppel
Helen Klein |
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| Thirteenth Day - Monday, 1st October, 1945 |
Dr. Charles Sigsmund Bendel
Roman Sompolinski
Anita Lasker
Geria Zylberdukaten
Syncha Zamoski |
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| Fourteenth to Eighteenth Days - Tuesday, 2nd October, 1945, to Saturday, 6th October, 1945 |
Ester Wohlgruth
Marcel Tuchmann
Ewa Gryka
C.S.M. John Liddle
Sergeant C. A. Scamans
Sergeant E. Dinsdale
Sergeant L. W. Higgs
Sergeant H. Aitchison
Captain Saville Malcolm Stewart
Affidavit by Heinz Masseth
Affidavit by Sergeant Trip
Affidavit by Sergeant Rothschild
Objection by Defence to affidavits
Reading of affidavits by the Prosecution (see also Appendix III) |
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| Nineteenth Day - Monday, 8th October, 1945 |
| EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE |
Opening Speech for the Defendant Kramer
Josef Kramer |
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| Twentieth Day - Tuesday, 9th October, 1945 |
| Josef Kramer (continued) |
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| Twenty-first Day - Wednesday, 10th October, 1945 |
Josef Kramer (continued)
Mrs. Rosina Kramer
Dr. Fritz Klein
Peter Weingartner
George Kraft |
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| Twenty-second Day - Thursday, 11th October, 1945 |
George Kraft (continued)
Franz Hoessler
Postcard written by Erika Schopf |
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| Twenty-third Day - Friday, 12th October, 1945 |
Juana Bormann
Elisabeth Volkenrath |
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| Twenty-fourth Day - Saturday, 13th October, 1945 |
Prosecution request to use Soviet film
Elisabeth Volkenrath (continued)
Erika Schopf (for the Defendant Franz Hoessler)
Herta Ehlert |
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| Twenty-fifth Day - Monday, 15th October, 1945 |
Soviet film of Auschwitz shown
Herta Ehlert (continued)
Jutta Madlung
Inga Madlung |
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| Twenty-sixth Day - Tuesday, 16th October, 1945 |
Opening Speech for Grese, Lothe, Lohbauer and Klippel
Helene Grese
Irma Grese |
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| Twenty-seventh Day - Wednesday, 17th October, 1945 |
Irma Grese (continued)
Argument on admissibility of affidavits by witnesses
Ilse Lothe |
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| Twenty-eighth Day - Thursday, 18th October, 1945 |
Hilde Lohbauer
Josef Klippel
Paul Kreutzer
Emmi Sochtig
Emile Kltscho |
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| Twenty-ninth Day - Friday, 19th October, 1945 |
Stefan Hermann
Oscar Schmitz
Karl Francioh |
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| Thirtieth Day - Saturday, 20th October, 1945 |
Affidavit by Raymond Dujeu
Ladislaw Gura
Fritz Mathes
Gisela Koblischek |
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| Thirty-first Day - Monday, 22nd October, 1945 |
Otto Kulessa
Karl Egersdorf
Ansgar Pichen
Walter Otto |
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| Thirty-second Day - Tuesday, 23rd October, 1945 |
Franz Stofel
Defendant Gura admitted to hospital
Franz Stofel (continued)
Heinrich Schreirer
Maria Schreirer
Wilhelm Dorr |
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| Thirty-third Day - Wednesday, 24th October, 1945 |
Wilhelm Dorr (continued)
Gertrud Neumann
Erika Ceconi |
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| Thirty-fourth Day - Thursday, 25th October, 1945 |
Ilse Steinbusch
Statement for Barsch
Dr. Ernst Heinrich Schmidt
Dr. Alfred Kurzke
Erich Zoddel |
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| Thirty-Fifth Day - Friday, 26th October, 1945 |
Erich Zoddel (continued)
Ignatz Schlomoivicz
Siegmund Freund
Deposition of Daniel Blickblau
Ilse Forster |
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| Thirty-sixth Day - Saturday, 27th October, 1945 |
Ida Forster
Klara Opitz
Charlotte Klein |
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| Thirty-seventh Day - Monday, 29th October, 1945 |
Plan of Belsen Camp accepted in evidence
Charlotte Klein (continued)
Herta Bothe
Gertrud Rheinholdt
Freida Walter
Irene Haschke |
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| Thirty-eighth Day - Tuesday, 30 October, 1945 |
Agreement with regard to the taking over of Belsen Camp
Oscar Schmitz continued
John Mallon
Gertrud Fiest
Gertrud Sauer
Hilde Lisiewitz
Johanne Roth |
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| Thirty-ninth Day - Wednesday, 31st October, 1945 |
Anna Hempel
Statement on behalf of Hildegard Hahnel
Opening Speech by Lieut. Jedrzejowicz
Stanislawa Starostka |
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| Fortieth Day - Thursday, 1st November, 1945 |
Stanislawa Starostka (continued)
Anna Wojciechowska
Krystyna Agnieszka Janicka
Maria Chudzik
Stanislawa Komsta
Sofia Nowogrodzka
Anton Polanski
Siegmund Krajewski |
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| Forty-first Day - Friday, 2nd November, 1945 |
Wladislaw Rakoczy
Marian Tatarczuk
Helena Koper |
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| Forty-second Day - Saturday, 3rd November, 1945 |
| Helena Koper (continued) |
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| Forty-third Day - Monday, 5th November, 1945 |
Vladislav Ostrowski
D. Saloman
Affidavit by Rumauld Weber
Medislaw Burgraf
Josef Trzos |
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| Forty-fourth Day - Tuesday, 6th November, 1945 |
Antoni Aurdzieg
Medislav Andrzejewski |
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| ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE |
| Hermann Müller |
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| Forty-fifth Day - Wednesday, 7th November, 1945 |
Affidavit by Brigadier Glyn Hughes
Letter by Johanna Therese Kurd
Heinrich Brammer
Albert Tusch
Heinrich Schreirer (recalled)
Captain David Hubert James Williams
Legal Argument for the Defence by Colonel Smith |
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| Forty-sixth Day - Thursday, 8th November, 1945 |
Closing Speech for Kramer, Fritz Klein, Weingartner and Kraft
Closing Speech for Hoessler, Bormann, Volkenrath and Ehlert
Closing Speech for Klippel, Grese, Lothe and Lohbauer |
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| Forty-Seventh Day - Friday 9th November, 1945 |
Closing Speech for Klippel, Grese, Lothe and Lohbauer (continued)
Closing Speech for Schmitz and Francioh
Closing Speech for Mathes, Kulessa and Egersdorf
Closing Speech for Pichen, Otto and Stofel
Closing Speech for Schreirer, Dorr, Barsch and Zoddel |
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| Forty-eighth Day - Saturday, 10th November, 1945 |
Closing Speech for Schreirer, Dorr, Barsch and Zoddel (continued)
Closing Speech for Schlomoivicz, Ilse Forster, Ida Forster and Opitz
Closing Speech for Charlotte Klein, Bothe, Walter and Haschke |
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| Forty-ninth Day - Monday, 12th November, 1945 |
Closing Speech for Fiest, Sauer and Lisiewitz
Closing Speech for Roth, Hempel and Hahnel
Closing Speech for Starostka, Polanski, Koper, Ostrowski, Burgraf and Aurdzieg |
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| Fiftieth Day - Tuesday, 13th November, 1945 |
| Closing Speech for the Prosecution |
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| Fifty-first to Fifty-third Days - Wednesday, 14th November, 1945, to Friday, 16th November, 1945 |
Summing-up
Findings by the Court |
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| Fifty-fourth Day - Saturday, 17th November, 1945 |
Pleas in mitigation of Sentences
Sentences |
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APPENDICES |
I - Royal Warrant of 18th June, 1945
II - List of Exhibits
III - Affidavits and Statements - Index
Context |