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Col. Lawson?
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Your Honors...
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I offer in evidence a decree
signed by Adolf Hitler...
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directing all persons accused...
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or suspected of disloyalty
or resistance of any sort...
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might be arrested secretly...
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with no notice to friends or relatives,
without any trial whatsoever...
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and put into concentration camps.
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I also offer a group of orders
issued under that decree...
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each one signed by one of the defendants...
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by which hundreds of persons were arrested
and placed in concentration camps.
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Signed by Friedrich Hoffstetter...
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Werner Lammpe...
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Emil Hahn...
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Ernst Janning.
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Your Honors...
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the defendants on trial here today...
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did not personally administer
the concentration camps.
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They never had to beat victims...
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or pull the lever that released gas
into the chambers.
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But as the documents we've introduced
into this case have shown...
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these defendants fashioned
and executed laws...
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and rendered judgments...
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which sent millions of victims to their...
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destinations.
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Maj. Radnitz?
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Your Honors, I would like to request that
Col. Lawson be sworn in as a witness.
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- Granted.
- Thank you.
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Will you raise your right hand?
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I swear by God,
the Almighty and Omniscient...
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that I will speak the pure truth
and withhold and add nothing.
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I do.