AFTERNOON SESSION (The hearing reconvened at 1330 hours, 3 April 1947.) THE MARSHAL: Persons in the Courtroom will [ ... ]
Q. Would you please describe once again briefly the crime that Heller and the co-defendant Mueller committed? [ ... ]
pertaining to the case which will reflect upon the conduct of these defendants. But to repeat and ask him to repeat these things would draw this ca [ ... ]
bility for shooting?
A. The possibility exists that in the participation in detail - I can't remember in detail.
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Q. Is it correct that the case was such a special one because at that time the Fuehrer happened to be in Nurnberg and [ ... ]
A. According to my certain knowledge, Streicher was just as surprised that Hitler had made a stopover here as Denzler [ ... ]
Q. Witness, can you remember that the defendant Rothaug at that time used the occasion in order to criticize the Reic [ ... ]
JUDGE BRAND: May I interrupt? The witness has been discussing the speed with which this decision was made. I should [ ... ]
Q. Was the limitation actually imposed upon the defense? Was that true? Was it actually there? In your opinion, at [ ... ]
A Except for one point, and that would be the reason for a pardoning, because the death sentence had been threatened [ ... ]