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[NUREMBERG TRIALS]: [GORING HERMANN]: (1893-1946) German Political and Military leader, Commander of the Luftwaffe during World War II. One of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, Goring was convicted as a war criminal. An historically important D.S. by the four chief prosecutors representing France, the United Kingdom, the USSR and the United States of America at the Nuremberg Trials, six pages, 4to, n.p. (Nuremberg), n.d. (1946). The typed document is headed International Military Tribunal No.1. - The United States of America, The French Republic, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - against - Hermann Wilhelm Goering et al,, Defendants and is a Motion as to evidence of defendants addressed to the Honourable Tribunal following their ruling of 11th December 1945, that the defence counsel, at the conclusion of the case for the Prosecution, would be invited to submit to the Tribunal the evidence they propose to offer. The Prosecutor's proposals, intended to avoid 'issues upon uncontested facts, and to assisting the defendants' counsel in the presentation of evidence' are set out in a number of paragraphs, in part, 'FIRST: That the Tribunal require counsel for each defendant to submit in writing, not later than at the close of the case for the Prosecution, particulars showing the nature of the defense and of any evidence in support thereof which he desires to offer to the Tribunal. The statement of the nature of the defense will include an admission or denial of the following: 1) That for a period of years preceding 8 May 1945 there existed a common plan or conspiracy to commit or which involved the commission of the following crimes defined in the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, to wit, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. 2) That the defendant concerned participated in the said common plan or conspiracy. 3) That the wars…..were (a) wars of aggression, and (b) wars in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances. 4) That the facts and events, particulars of which are set out under the following paragraphs of the Indictment, took place substantially as stated in the said Indictment, to wit - Count One. Paragraph IV (A) Nazi Party as the central core of the common plan or conspiracy. (B) Common objectives and methods of conspiracy. (C) Doctrinal techniques of the common plan or conspiracy. (D) The acquiring of totalitarian control of Germany: Political. (E) The acquiring of totalitarian control of Germany: Economic; and the economic planning and mobilization for aggressive war. (F) Utilization of Nazi control for foreign aggression. Count Three. Paragraph VIII (A) Murder and illtreatment of civilian population of or in occupied territory and on the high seas. (B) Deportation for slave labor and for other purposes of the civilian populations of and in occupied territories. (C) Murder and illtreatment of prisoners of war, and of other members of the armed forces of the countries with whom Germany was at war, and of persons on the high seas. (D) Killing of hostages. (E) Plunder of public and private property. (F) The exaction of collective penalties. (G) Wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages and devastation not justified by military necessity. (H) Conscription of civilian labor. (I) Forcing civilians of occupied territories to swear allegiance to a hostile power. (J) Germanisation of occupied territories. Count Four. Paragraph X (A) Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts committed against civilian populations before and during the war. (B) Persecution on political, racial and religious grounds in execution of and in connection with the common plan mentioned in Count One. Where any of the matters recited in the foregoing paragraphs (1) to (4) inclusive and in the sections of the indictment referred to in said paragraphs are admitted, the statement of admission