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Herr Rolfe will make the opening statement
for the defense.
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May it please the tribunal...
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it is not only a great honor...
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but also a great challenge...
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for an advocate...
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to aid this tribunal in its task.
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The entire civilized world...
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will follow closely what we do here.
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For this is not an ordinary trial...
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by any means
of the accepted, parochial sense.
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The avowed purpose of this tribunal...
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Is broader than the visiting of retribution
on a few men.
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It is dedicated to the reconsecration...
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of the temple of justice.
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It is dedicated to finding a code of justice...
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the whole world will be responsible to.
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How will this code be established?
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It will be established...
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in a clear...
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honest evaluation...
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of the responsibility for the crimes
in the indictment stated by the prosecution.
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In the words of the great American jurist,
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
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"This responsibility will not be found
only in documents...
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"that no one contests or denies.
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"It will be found in considerations
of a political or social nature.
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"It will be found, most of all...
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"in the character of men. "