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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.
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The prosecution asks nothing more.
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Herr Rolfe will make the opening statement
for the defense.
:19:18
May it please the tribunal...
:19:23
it is not only a great honor...
:19:27
but also a great challenge...
:19:29
for an advocate...
:19:33
to aid this tribunal in its task.
:19:37
The entire civilized world...
:19:40
will follow closely what we do here.
:19:44
For this is not an ordinary trial...
:19:47
by any means
of the accepted, parochial sense.
:19:53
The avowed purpose of this tribunal...
:19:55
Is broader than the visiting of retribution
on a few men.
:19:59
It is dedicated to the reconsecration...