THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps you better put that off until after the
adjournment.
[_The Tribunal recessed until 1400 hours._]
_Afternoon Session_
M. HERZOG: Mr. President, I believe that Mr. Dodd has a statement to
make to the Tribunal.
MARSHAL: May it please the Tribunal, the report is made that the
Defendant Jodl is absent.
MR. DODD: Document Number 3057-PS, concerning which M. Herzog questioned
the defendant this morning, was in the document book offered by the
United States with reference to the slave-labor program, but it was not
offered in evidence, and I found the reference in the record at Page
1397 of the transcript for 13 December 1945 (Volume III, Page 494) and
the President of the Tribunal particularly asked why we had not read
Document 3057-PS. I answered that we had intended to offer it, but that
counsel for Sauckel had told me that his client maintained that he had
been coerced into the making of the statement, and for that reason we
preferred not to offer it, and were not offering it.
THE PRESIDENT: I want to announce that the Tribunal will rise this
afternoon at half past 4 to sit in closed session.
SAUCKEL: May I be permitted to give my explanation on that document?