The witness has given this in evidence, your Lordship. During the war, a large number of the members of the SD, Amter III and VI, were women. Amter III and VI are accused of having participated in a conspiracy to commit Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. This presumes that all the members of the organization participated in the agreement or the secret plan to commit illegal actions or to carry out legal actions by illegal means. All members adopted this plan as their own.
Organizations can have the aim and the purpose of supporting participants in a conspiracy.
The organization can be used objectively by conspirators, to carry out the secret plan without the members realizing it. In this case there can be no question of punishable participation of the organization, because the characteristic of a factual state of guilt is lacking. The organization is merely an unpunished tool and cannot be declared criminal. This indicates that the prosecution does not want to contend that the organizations were participants in the conspiracy. I shall therefore not deal further with this question.