Present Status of the Case Against Defendant Speer (Indictment and Presentation)-Page 1

sm м i'twa at u.s. сиш мм шят* iPO 136A, 0.3. Array 6 Jane 1946. S0BJ3CT t Present Statue of the Case Against Defendant Speer. (Indictment and Presentation). ЮМ0ИАКШ 70* Hr* Justice Jackson. 91m official printed iadietnsnt p. 31 elsins that Speer * (l) "Participated in the military and economic planning and preparation of the Iasi conspirators for ware of qvreeslem end ears in ' violation ef international treaties, agreements and assurance* eet forth in Counts One and Two of the Indictment." (3) "So authorised, directed and participated in the war crimes eet forth in Count Throe of the Indictment, end the erincs ag&inet humanity eet forth in Count four of the Indictment, including no re particularly the ahuee and exploitation of human beings for forced labor la the conduct of aggressive war." % brief on the individual responsibility of the defendant Speer has been presented te the Tribunal. The presentation on slave labor (see transcript U December 1945, page 1365, to 13 December, page 139?) covers Speer* a participation in the sieve labor in pages 1384-1396. Hone of the other дЬдцц аГ.Цц ladtgfeaat„af 3p.eer v»re carered in the presentation The presentation te date, therefore, has not shown in particular Speer's responsibility under Const Three - war crimes N "plunder of public and Private Property* - and although sene short documents on this subject linking Speer directly with ouch plunder nay still be introduced in Speer's cross-examination an eh e presentation Must be necessarily very short. The french Delegation, to vhon the material prepared by the American Seenomlc Scotian on the econonlc spoliation of Western Scraps wee handed ever, did not present aay evidence on Speer’s responsibility for oeononlc spoliation. Also when M. Mounter of tfemt french Delegation, who on 7 February 1946, Transcript pp. 4033-4033, summarised the activity cf the defendant Speer, -1-