If the Honorable Tribunal please, all of the defendants are in the dock. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: The defendants will be seated. The counsel for the prosecution will now proceed with the arraignment of the defendants. [Here Brigadier General Taylor read the indictment in full. See pp. 8-17.] PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: I shall now call upon the defendants to plead guilty or not guilty to the charges against them. Each defendant, as his name is called, will stand and speak into the microphone. At this time there will be no arguments, speeches, or discussion of any kind. Each defendant will simply plead either guilty or not guilty to the offenses with which he is charged by the indictment. Karl Brandt. DR. PELCKMANN: Mr. Chairman, before the defendant pleads guilty or not guilty, may I say a word? I am defense counsel for the defendant Schaefer, number 18. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: For which defendant? DR. PELCKMANN: Schaefer, number 18. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: We are now receiving the plea of the defendant Karl Brandt. You do not represent him as counsel, do you? DR. PELCKMANN: No. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Then I see no reason for counsel for another defendant making any remarks at this time. DR. PELCKMANN: May I speak before the defendant Schaefer speaks? A formal objection. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: When the name of the defendant Schaefer is called, you may address the Court. Karl Brandt, are you represented by counsel in this proceeding? DEFENDANT KARL BRANDT: Yes. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: How do you plead to the charges and specifications and each thereof set forth in the indictment against you, guilty or not guilty? DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: Yes. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Be seated. Siegfried Handloser, are you represented by counsel in this cause? DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: No, I have no counsel yet. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Do you desire that the Tribunal appoint counsel for you? DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: I hope that today or tomorrow I may receive an affirmative answer from a defense counsel. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Are you at this time ready to plead to the indictment, guilty or not guilty? DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: Yes. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: How do you plead to the charges and specifications and each thereof set forth in the indictment against you, guilty or not guilty? DEFENDANT HANDLOSER: Not guilty. PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Be seated. [At this point the defendants Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, Karl Genzken, Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Wolfram Sievers, Gerhard Rose, Siegfried Ruff, Hans Wolfgang Romberg, Viktor Brack, Hermann Becker-Freyseng and Georg August Weltz were arraigned. All were represented by counsel. All pleaded not guilty to the indictment.] DR. PELCKMANN: Your Honor, may I speak? PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: What is the purpose of the remarks you desire to make?