THE PRESIDENT: The Hotel Majestic was the place where the...
M. HERZOG: The place in Paris where the offices of the German military
command in France and the various occupation offices were located. These
documents, which had vanished at the time of the liberation, were found
again at the Ministerial Collecting Center in Berlin. The document which
I have just submitted to you is the certificate of authentication of
these files, and I also have the certificate of authentication of the
documents which I have extracted from these files and which I am now
ready to read to the Tribunal, if the Tribunal so desires.
THE PRESIDENT: The Hotel Majestic was the place where the German
military government was established in Paris; isn’t that right?
M. HERZOG: Yes, Mr. President, if I am not mistaken. Does the Tribunal
desire that I should read the other certificate of authentication, that
is to say at least in part—the one concerning the document itself?
THE PRESIDENT: I thought you had already read it.
M. HERZOG: No, Mr. President. I am submitting to the Tribunal two
certificates of authentication. The first, the one which I have just
read, is the certificate of authentication of seven files which contain
a very large number of documents. From these seven files we have
extracted only a certain number of documents which we are submitting to
the Tribunal; and that is why, after having presented the certificate...
THE PRESIDENT: The second document only says that the documents which
you are submitting are documents which came from those files?