AFTERNOON SESSION (The hearing reconvened at 1330 hours, 14 October 1947) THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is again in ses [ ... ]
14 0ct.-A-BK-13-2-Sampson (Int. Steuer) May it please the Court: Your task, Your Honors, is certainly without precedence in history. You have to [ ... ]
concepts either to accepted as customary and try as it were to live in an altogether different world. I know how difficult this is. Even we, who [ ... ]
all countries is recognized as an excuse, wherever an inescapable situation exists in relations between individuals, is thus transferred to the larg [ ... ]
Therefore I shall shortly deal with Dr. Schlegelberger's person and work up to the time referred to by the indictment against him, before I deal wit [ ... ]
retained, his old field of work, Civil Law, until he was put as the Senior State Secretary at Guertner's death, in charge of the Ministry of Justice [ ... ]
in predominantly Catholic Bavaria and there his good qualities had been recognized by everyone. He was himself a Catholic and strictly religious up [ ... ]
of the Armistice Belgium unconditionally surrendered to Germany, without the latter ever expressly renouncing an annexation. The decree concerning t [ ... ]
said, can only be made understandable from a national-socialist mentality; to refute this I may refer to Mettgenberg, Exhibit 35, which proves that [ ... ]
therefore, justified in saying that a Civil Servant who held the position of State Secretary, by deciding to become a Party member, sufficiently pro [ ... ]