The proceedings in these trials were conducted throughout in the German and English languages, and were recorded in full by stenographic notes, and by electrical sound recording of all oral proceedings. The 12 cases required over 1,200 days of court proceedings and the transcript of these proceedings exceeds 330,000 pages, exclusive of hundreds of document books, briefs, etc. Publication of all of this material, accordingly, was quite unfeasible. This series, however, contains the indictments, judgments, and other important portions of the record of the 12 cases, and it is believed that these materials give a fair picture of the trials, and as full and illuminating a picture as is possible within the space available. Copies of the entire record of the trials are available in the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and elsewhere. In some cases, due to time limitations, errors of one sort or another have crept into the translations which were available to the Tribunal. In other cases the same document appears in different trials, or even at different parts of the same trial, with variations in translation. For the most part these inconsistencies have been allowed to remain and only such errors as might cause misunderstanding have been corrected. Volume I and part of Volume II of this series are dedicated to the first of the twelve cases, _United States vs. Karl Brandt, et al._ (Case No. 1). This trial has become known as the Medical Case, because 20 of the 23 defendants were doctors, and the charges related principally to medical experimentation on human beings. The remainder of Volume II is devoted to the trial of former Field Marshal Erhard Milch, who was also charged with criminal responsibilities for medical experimentation on human beings (of which charge he was acquitted), and with responsibility for the deportation to forced labor of numerous civilians, in violation of the laws of war (of which charge he was convicted). CONTENTS Preface III Trials of War Criminals before Nuernberg Military Tribunals VII Declaration on German Atrocities VIII Executive Order 9547 IX London Agreement of 8 August 1945 IX Charter of The International Military Tribunal XI Control Council Law No. 10 XVI Executive Order 9679 XX General Orders Number 301, Hq. USFET, 24 October 1946 XX Military Government—Germany, United States Zone, Ordinance No. 7 XXI Military Government—Germany, Ordinance No. 11 XXVI Officials of the Office of the Secretary General XXVIII “_The Medical Case_”