Evening star., 1945-10-18

With Crimes Before
And During War
By the Associated Press.
FOLLOWING is partial tert OF
the indictment Of major ,Uar
criminals as signed II, Berlin:
INTERNATIONAL MILITARY
TRIBUNAL.
Indictment.
The United States of America, the
French Republic, the United King
dom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics by the under
signed, Robert H Jackson, Francois
de Mention, Hartley Shawcross
and R. A. Rudenko, duly appointed
to represent their respective gov
ernments in the investigation of
the charges against and the prose-
cution of the major war criminals,
pursuant to the agreement of Lon
don dated 9th August, 1915, and
the charter of this tribunal an
nexed thereto. hereby accuse as
guilty in the respects hereinafter
set forth, of crimes against peace,
war crimes and crimes against hu-
manity and of common plan or
conspiracy to commit those crimes,
all is defined in the charter of the
tribunal and accordingly name as
defendants in this cause and as indi-
Gated on the counts hereinafter set
out, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Ru-
dolph Hess, Joachim Won Ribbentrop,
Robert Ley, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst
Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg
Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius
Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar
Schacht. Gustav Krupp Won Bohlen
und Halback, Karl Doenitz Erich
Raeder, Baldur Won Schirach, Fritz
SSlckel, Alfred Jodl, Martin Bor-
mann, Franz Won Papen, Arthur
Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Con-
stantin Won Neurath and Hans
Fritzche, individually and as men,
bers of any of the groups or organi-
cations next hereinafter named.
The following are named as
groups or organizations since dis
solved, which. should be declared
criminal by reason of their aims
and the means used for the ac-
complishment thereof and in con-
nection with the conviction of such
of the named defendants as were
members thereof, Die Reichsregier-
ung, Reich cabinet; Das Korps der
Politischen Letter, der National
sozialistichen Deutschen Arbeiter-
partei Leadership Corps of the Nazi
Party; Die Schutzstaffeln, der Ma
tionalsozialistischen Deutschen Ar
beiterpartei commonly known as
the $50, and including Die Sich-
erheitsdienst Commonly known as
the SD, Die Geheime Stats
polizei (secret state police, COM
monty known as the "Gestapo'D
Die Sturmabteilungen, der N. S. D.
A. P. commonly known as the
SAD and the general staff and
high command of the German
command of the German armed
forces. =
COUNT ONE-THE MMON
PLAN OR CONSPIRACY.
(Charter, Article 6, Especially (A4)
Statement of the offense: All the
defendants, with divers other per-
sons, during a period of years pre-
ceding 9th May, 1945, participated
as leaders, organizers, instigators or
accomplices in the formulation or
execution Of common plan or con-
spircay to commit, or which in
volved the commission of, crimes
against peace, war crimes and
crimes against humanity. as defined
in the charter of this tribunal, and,
in accordance with the provisions
Of the charter, are individually re-
sponsible for their own acts and
for all acts committed by any per-
sons in the execution of such plan
or conspiracy. The common plan
or conspiracy embraced the commits
sion Of crimes against peace, in that
the defendants planned, prepared,
initiated and waged wars of aggres-
sion, which were also wars in viola
tion of international treaties, agree
ments or assurances in the develop
nent and course of the common
plan or conspiracy it came to en-
brace the commission of war crimes
in that it contemplated and the
defendants, determined upon and
carried out, ruthless wars against
countries and populations in viola
tion of the rules and customs of
war, including as typical and sys-
tematic means by which the wars
we're prosecuted, murder, ill-treat-
ment, deportation for slave labor
and for other purposes of civilian
populations of occupied territories;
murder and ill-treatment of prison.
ers of war and of persons on the
high seas; the taking and killing
of hostages; the plunder of public
and private property; the wanton
destruction of cities, towns, ard
villages. and devastation not justi-
@lCO ny ullAlGdly IlCSCoolIy.
The common plan or conspiracy
contemplated and came to embrace
as typical and systematic means.
and the defendants determined
upon and committed crimes against
humanity both within Germany
and within occupied territories, in
Guiding murder, determination, en-
slavement, deportation and other
inhumane acts committed against
civilian populations before and dur
ing the war prosecutions on politi-
cal, racial or religious grounds, in
execution of the plan for preparing
and prosecuting aggressive or illegal
wars, many of such acts and perse-
cutions being violations of the
domestic laws Of the countries where
perpetrated,
Party Instrument of Cohesion.
Particulars of the nature and de-
velopment of the common plan or
conspiracy.
(A) Nazi party as the central
core of the common plan or con-
spiracy