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 documents, 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 III of this series is dedicated to the case United States of America _vs._ Josef Altstoetter, et al. (Case 3). This trial has become known as the Justice Case, because all of the defendants held positions in the Reich system of justice, as officials of the Reich Ministry of Justice or as judges or prosecutors of the Special Courts and the People’s Courts. CONTENTS _Page_ Preface III Trials of War Criminals before Nuernberg Military Tribunals IX Declaration on German Atrocities X Executive Order 9547 X London Agreement of 8 August 1945 XI Charter of The International Military Tribunal XIII Control Council Law No. 10 XVIII Executive Order 9679 XXII General Orders Number 301, Hq. USFET, 24 October 1946 XXIII Military Government--Germany, United States Zone, Ordinance No. 7 XXIII Military Government--Germany, Ordinance No. 11 XXIX Officials of the Office of the Secretary General XXXI “_The Justice Case_” Introduction 3 Orders Constituting The Tribunal 7 Members of The Tribunal 13