WAR CRIMES TRIAL
TRIBUNAL RESUMES FACILITIES FOR DEFENCE COUNSEL’S TRIP TO LONDON (Rec. 1.15 a.m.) NUREMBERG, Feb. 18. At the resumption of the war crimes trial Mr Justice Lawrence announced that the tribunal would make an order enabling counsel for Goering, Hess. Keitel and Ribbentrop to submit by February 21 a list of the witnesses and documents they wished to produce. The order means that the witnesses will be sought out and will be available as soon as the case for the prosecution is finished. Professor Kraus asked for a three weeks’ adjournment of the tribunal after the end of the prosecution’s case to enable the defence counsel to study the mass of documents. He stated that defence counsel were working with only one assistant each, or sometimes alone. Their evenings, and also the days when the court was not sitting, were occupied with discussions with the prisoners. The British prosecutor, Sir Maxwell Fyfe, opposed any recess longer than a few days or a week at the most. Quoting instances of the facilities given to the defence, he disclosed that counsel for Doenitz had been permitted to go to London for a leisurely examination of a U-boat diary in the Admiralty’s secret files.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26081, 19 February 1946, Page 5
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