Trial of the Major War Criminals before International Military Tribunal ...

11. MATTERS INVESTIGATED
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2. Murder by shooting, beating, use of poison gas, drowning,
starving, injections, stoning, exposure, burning, and choking of
nationals of twenty-three (23) nations, including members of the
United States armed forces, of the German civilian population
working under the Gerrnan armed forces and of other nationals
under the orders of said German armed forces, in violation of
Article 2 of the Geneva Prisoner of War Convention (Par 73, Rules
of Land Warfare, Article 2 of same, Par 25, 26, 30, and 31, Rules
of Land Warfare).
111. PROCEEDINGS
3. a. The testimony of all witnesses examined in the Course
of this investigation and which is attached and made a part hereof
was secured through the use of interpreters where requisite, after
the witness had been sworn by me, through the interpreter, under
the authority of Article of War 114, in the following form: "You
swear (or affirm) that the evidence you shall give in this investi-
gation now being conducted by me shall be the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God." Where practi-
cable, the witness was given an opportunity to sign his testimony
in my presence and, in all cases, it was signed after such testimony
had been read back to the witness in his own language by the
interpreter. The use of a stenographic reporter was impracticable
under existing conditions.
The interpreter was sworn in the following form: "You swear
(or affirm) th,at you will truly interpret this investigation now being
conducted by me. So help you God."
b. The transcribed testimony of each such witness whose
name is below Listed is hereto attached as an Exhibit - the number
of which is indicated immediately following the witness' name. As
a further aid, the name of each camp in the chain at which the said
Exhibit was prepared is listed alongside the name of the witness:
C. Other Exhibits:
Description
(a) (Exhibit 4 is a report by an International Committee
set up by this Investigation, and same is sworn to in due form by
the two witnesses named.