THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, AND THE UNION OF
SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
— against —
HERMANN WILHELM GÖRING, RUDOLF HESS, JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP,
ROBERT LEY, WILHELM KEITEL, ERNST KALTENBRUNNER, ALFRED
ROSENBERG, HANS FRANK, WILHELM FRICK, JULIUS STREICHER, WALTER
FUNK, HJALMAR SCHACHT, GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN UND HALBACH, KARL
DÖNITZ, ERICH RAEDER, BALDUR VON SCHIRACH, FRITZ SAUCKEL, ALFRED
JODL, MARTIN BORMANN, FRANZ VON PAPEN, ARTHUR SEYSS-INQUART,
ALBERT SPEER, CONSTANTIN VON NEURATH, and HANS FRITZSCHE,
Individually and as Members of Any of the Following Groups or
Organizations to which They Respectively Belonged, Namely: DIE
REICHSREGIERUNG (REICH CABINET); DAS KORPS DER POLITISCHEN
LEITER DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI
(LEADERSHIP CORPS OF THE NAZI PARTY); DIE SCHUTZSTAFFELN DER
NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (commonly known
as the “SS”) and including DER SICHERHEITSDIENST (commonly known
as the “SD”); DIE GEHEIME STAATSPOLIZEI (SECRET STATE POLICE,
commonly known as the “GESTAPO”); DIE STURMABTEILUNGEN DER NSDAP
(commonly known as the “SA”); and the GENERAL STAFF and HIGH
COMMAND of the GERMAN ARMED FORCES, all as defined in Appendix
B,
Defendants.
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[13] This text of the Indictment has been corrected in accordance with
the Prosecution’s motion of 4 June 1946 which was accepted by the Court
7 June 1946 to rectify certain discrepancies between the German text and
the text in other languages.
=I.= The United States of America, the French Republic, the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics by the undersigned, Robert H. Jackson, François de
Menthon, Hartley Shawcross, and R. A. Rudenko, duly appointed to
represent their respective Governments in the investigation of the
charges against and the prosecution of the major war criminals, pursuant
to the Agreement of London dated 8 August 1945, and the Charter of this
Tribunal annexed thereto, hereby accuse as guilty, in the respects
hereinafter set forth, of Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes
against Humanity, and of a Common Plan or Conspiracy to commit those
Crimes, all as defined in the Charter of the Tribunal, and accordingly
name as defendants in this cause and as indicted on the counts
hereinafter set out: HERMANN WILHELM GÖRING, RUDOLF HESS, JOACHIM VON
RIBBENTROP, ROBERT LEY, WILHELM KEITEL, ERNST KALTENBRUNNER, ALFRED
ROSENBERG, HANS FRANK, WILHELM FRICK, JULIUS STREICHER, WALTER FUNK,
HJALMAR SCHACHT, GUSTAV KRUPP VON BOHLEN UND HALBACH, KARL DÖNITZ, ERICH
RAEDER, BALDUR VON SCHIRACH, FRITZ SAUCKEL, ALFRED JODL, MARTIN BORMANN,
FRANZ VON PAPEN, ARTHUR SEYSS-INQUART, ALBERT SPEER, CONSTANTIN VON
NEURATH and HANS FRITZSCHE, individually and as members of any of the
groups or organizations next hereinafter named.
=II.= The following are named as groups or organizations (since
dissolved) which should be declared criminal by reason of their aims and
the means used for the accomplishment thereof and in connection with the
conviction of such of the named defendants as were members thereof: DIE
REICHSREGIERUNG (REICH CABINET); DAS KORPS DER POLITISCHEN LEITER DER
NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (LEADERSHIP CORPS OF
THE NAZI PARTY); DIE SCHUTZSTAFFELN DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN
DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (commonly known as the “SS”) and including DER
SICHERHEITSDIENST (commonly known as the “SD”); DIE GEHEIME
STAATSPOLIZEI (SECRET STATE POLICE, commonly known as the “GESTAPO”);
DIE STURMABTEILUNGEN DER NSDAP (commonly known as the “SA”); and the
GENERAL STAFF and HIGH COMMAND of the GERMAN ARMED FORCES.
The identity and membership of the groups or organizations referred to
in the foregoing titles are hereinafter in Appendix B more particularly
defined.