Legal Division, OMGGUS, at request of the International Military
Tribunal, Nuremberg, has arranged for the printing of 100,000 copies of
official notice to defendants. Shipment of approximately this number by
air priority will be made to OMGGUS Zone as soon as they are printed,
probably Thursday. It is desired that one-half of the shipment be
relayed by OMGGUS Zone, to Headquarters, French Military Government,
Baden-Baden. Court has directed that the notices be posted on official
bulletin boards throughout US Zone and read and posted in all prisoner
of war camps. Similar distribution has been ordered in other zones in
Germany. Request Legal Branch, OMGGUS Zone, take necessary action to
insure immediate relay of posters to the French and immediate
distribution to military detachments throughout US Zone with instruction
that they shall be posted within 24 hours of receipt. Distribution by
OMGGUS Zone, to include Bremen Enclave, but not Berlin District.
Distribution in Berlin District made direct by Legal Division, OMGGUS.
Request that regional military government detachments report through
Legal Branch, OMGGUS Zone, to Harold B. Willey, General Secretary,
International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, upon compliance with posting
of notices as directed, and that a copy of such report be forwarded to
Legal Division, OMGGUS.
ORIGINATOR: Legal AUTH: F. H. GORDON
Major
INFORMATION: O/SS, Pub. Relations, AG Records.
CC 18221 30 Oct 45 JAK/tb 0444B
_UNCLASSIFIED_
Exhibit II C. Dissemination in the American Zone
INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL
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, et al.,
Defendants.
_Certificate_
I hereby certify that acting on instruction from Lieut. Colonel Raymond
K. Fried I have performed the following services or have been informed
of the following facts in connection with the publication and broadcast
of notices in the above entitled cause under order of the above titled
tribunal issued at Nuremberg, Germany, on or about 18 October, 1945:
1. I caused to be transmitted to the DANA news service in Bad Nauheim
copies of the attached notices to Martin Bormann and to members of
certain organizations (Exhibit I) with instructions that these notices
were to be published in German language newspapers in the United States
Zone of Germany and the United States Sector of Berlin, and broadcast
over radio stations in the United States Zone.
2. Through the Radio Section of Information Control Division, U.S.
Forces, European Theater, I have been informed that the above mentioned
notices were broadcast three times each between October 26 and November
8, 1945 (Exhibit II D).
3. Through the DANA news service and through personal observation I have
learned that copies of the above mentioned notices were printed in
German language newspapers in the United States Zone and the United
States sector of Berlin between 18 October and 17 November 1945.
Dated at Berlin, Germany, this 23rd day of November 1945.
/s/ HOWARD DENBY
Press Control News Unit (Berlin)
Information Control Division
United States Forces, European
Theater