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The prosecution
will begin its opening address.
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Slow and easy, Junior.
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The case is unusual...
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in that the defendants
are charged with crimes...
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committed in the name of the law.
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These men, together with their deceased
or fugitive colleagues...
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are the embodiment of what passed
for justice during the Third Reich.
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The defendants served as judges
during the period of the Third Reich.
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Therefore, you, Your Honors,
as judges on the bench...
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will be sitting in judgment...
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of judges in the dock.
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And this is as it should be.
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For only a judge knows
how much more a court is than a courtroom.
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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.
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They sat in their black robes...
:17:18
and they distorted, they perverted,
they destroyed justice and law in Germany.
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Will the prosecution please watch the light?
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- The interpreter cannot follow you.
- I'm sorry, Your Honor.
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They distorted, they perverted...
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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...
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for murder...
:17:56
brutalities...
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torture...