dealing with territorial gains acquired by threats of force and with actual aggressions and aggressive wars, constitute the real heart of the case. Ac [ ... ]
importance on this aspect of the case. That paragraph reads as follows: "Leaders, organizers, instigators and accomplices participating in any pers [ ... ]
criminal responsibility of a defendant is imposed by the Charter not merely by reasons of direct, immediate participation in the crime. It is suffici [ ... ]
"All the defendants, with divers other persons, during a period of years preceding 8th May 1945 participated as leaders, organizers, instigators or a [ ... ]
the Tribunal. would be faulty if I did not invite the Tribunal to consider with me the relationship between history and the evidence in this case. Nei [ ... ]
Charter of this Tribunal, drawing on this uniformly recognized principle, declares in Article 21: "The Tribunal shall not require proof of facts of [ ... ]
substitute for History. We hope the Tribunal will find it to be an authentication of history. The evidence which we have drawn from captured documen [ ... ]
time divided into rather definite phases, phases that reflect the development and execution of the Nazi master plan. I suggest that the Tribunal as i [ ... ]
conspirators carried the war eastward by invasion of the territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and finally, through their Pacific ally [ ... ]
While on the phase of the case we shall not rest exclusively on them alone, the essential elements of the crime which I have already pointed out can b [ ... ]