THE PRESIDENT: I haven’t got any note that he referred to that document.
I don’t know whether he—did you refer to 744-PS this morning, General
Alexandrov?
GEN. ALEXANDROV: I referred this morning to the document in question. It
was a directive of the Defendant Keitel, dated 8 July 1943, referring to
the employment of prisoners of war in the mining industry.
DR. NELTE: Then the Russian Prosecution presented me with the original,
that is the photostatic copy of a letter dated 8 July 1943, signed by
Keitel. I now have two German versions before me. Not only do they
differ greatly as far as the contents are concerned, but also the
translation contains something additional which is not in the original,
namely that to the heading of the letter, “Chief of the High Command of
the Wehrmacht,” is added “Army General Staff.”
I do not want to delay you by reading the other incorrect translations,
but I must assume that you have before you the texts in the foreign
languages, which, as I see from the translation back into German, are
incorrect. As this document, the original, is the evidence and is not
being objected to, I should like to ask you to order that the
translations in the foreign languages, which you have before you, be
checked in order to find out to what extent they differ from the
original document.
THE PRESIDENT: Had the document been put in evidence before? Had it been
offered in evidence? Was it an exhibit?