THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps you will give the defendants’ counsel the subject
matter upon which they can prepare themselves for cross-examination. I
am told that this subject matter has already been communicated to the
defendants and is on their bulletin board at the present moment.
[_The Tribunal recessed until 1400 hours._]
_Afternoon Session_
MARSHAL: May it please the Court, I desire to announce that the
Defendants Kaltenbrunner, Seyss-Inquart, and Streicher will be absent
from this afternoon’s session on account of illness.
THE PRESIDENT: The question which was raised this morning about certain
documents has been investigated, and the Tribunal understands that the
documents were placed in the Defense Counsel’s Information Center
yesterday; but it may be that the misunderstanding arose owing to those
documents not having been in any way indexed, and it would, I think, be
very helpful to the Defense Counsel if Prosecuting Counsel could, with
the documents, deposit also some sort of index which would enable the
Defense Counsel to find the documents.
M. FAURE: It is understood that we shall present a table of contents of
the documents.
THE PRESIDENT: I think if you could, yes.
M. FAURE: Your Honors, I was speaking this morning of the incident which
occurred at the Strasbourg faculty in Clermont-Ferrand, on 25 November
1943. I pointed out to the Tribunal that I shall produce to this effect
a document. This document has not been classified in the document book,
and I shall ask the Tribunal to accept it as an annex number or as the
last document of this book, if that is agreeable.
This is a report of M. Hoeppfner, Dean of the Faculty of Letters,
established on 8 January 1946, and transmitted from Lorraine to the
French Prosecution. I should like simply to read to the Tribunal, in
order not to take up too much of its time, the two passages which
constitute the texts which were submitted to it as an appendix.
THE PRESIDENT: Have you got the original document here?