THE PRESIDENT: Is this document in the PS series?
M. HERZOG: No, Mr. President, it is a new document which I am submitting
now, a French document which will bear Exhibit Number RF-1509 (Document
Number F-809).
THE PRESIDENT: Where did this document come from?
M. HERZOG: That document comes, Mr. President, from the archives of the
Majestic Hotel in Paris, where the German offices in Paris were located.
Some months ago these archives were found again in Berlin, and we have
extracted the Sauckel documents.
I submit to the Tribunal the certificate of authentication for the
Sauckel files, as well as for the documents which I intend to submit to
the Tribunal in the course of my cross-examination. Perhaps, as the
document is in French, the Tribunal would like me to read it.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, read it, will you? You mean this procès-verbal? What
is this procès-verbal? Who is it identified by?
M. HERZOG: This procès-verbal is identified by two persons, by
Commandant Henri, French liaison officer at the American Documentation
Center in Berlin, and by my colleague, M. Gerthoffer, who, with
Commandant Henri, took these archives.
THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps you had better read this procès-verbal so that it
will go into the record.
M. HERZOG: “I, Charles Gerthoffer, Deputy Prosecutor at the
Court of the Seine, on duty with the International Military
Tribunal for the Major War Criminals, having gone to Berlin to
the offices of the Ministerial Collecting Center, Commandant
Henri, Chief of the French Mission, gave to me, with the
authority of Colonel Helm of the American Army, Chief of the
6889 Berlin Collecting Center, seven files from the archives of
the German military command in France concerning forced labor
and registered at the M.C.C. under the following numbers: 3 DS,
lumbers 1 to 213; 4 DS, Numbers 1 to 230; 5 DS, Numbers 1 to
404; and two appendices; 6 DS, Numbers 1 to 218; 7 DS, Numbers 1
to 118; and one appendix; 1 to 121; 50 DS, Numbers 1 to 55; 71
DS, Numbers 1 to 40.
“I declared to Commandant Henri that I took the said files in
order to submit them to the International Military Tribunal for
the Major War Criminals so that they might be used in the course
of the proceedings and that they will thereafter be delivered to
the French Ministry of Justice, whose property they remain.
“There are five copies of this document, one of which is to
serve as an affidavit for the International Military Tribunal
for the Major War Criminals.”
Signed, “Charles Gerthoffer,” and Signed, “Henri.”
This represents the certificate of authentication of the files
themselves.