:17:04
It is a process and a spirit.
:17:08
It is the house of law.
:17:12
The defendants knew this, too.
They knew courtrooms well.
:17:16
They sat in their black robes...
:17:18
and they distorted, they perverted,
they destroyed justice and law in Germany.
:17:22
Will the prosecution please watch the light?
:17:26
- The interpreter cannot follow you.
- I'm sorry, Your Honor.
:17:29
They distorted, they perverted...
:17:33
they destroyed justice and law in Germany.
:17:38
Now, this in itself
is undoubtedly a great crime.
:17:41
But the prosecution
is not calling the defendants...
:17:43
to account for violating
constitutional guarantees...
:17:47
or withholding due process of law.
:17:50
The prosecution
is calling them to account...
:17:54
for murder...
:17:56
brutalities...
:17:59
torture...
:18:01
atrocities.
:18:03
They share with all the leaders
of the Third Reich...
:18:07
responsibility for the most malignant,
the most calculated...
:18:10
the most devastating crimes
in the history of all mankind.
:18:15
And they are perhaps more guilty
than some of the others.
:18:18
For they had attained maturity
long before Hitler's rise to power.
:18:23
Their minds weren't warped at an early age
by Nazi teachings.
:18:27
They embraced the ideologies
of the Third Reich as educated adults...
:18:33
when they, most of all...
:18:36
should have valued justice.
:18:43
Here they'll receive the justice
they denied others.
:18:49
They'll be judged according to the evidence
presented in this courtroom.
:18:53
The prosecution asks nothing more.