Day 11 - Monday, December 3, 1945 - Sidney J. Alderman, Prosecutor from the United States, begins to outline Nazi aggression in Czechoslovakia. This takes up almost the entirety of the day, save for a brief moment when Dr. Otto Stahmer, representing the German defense, objects to the use of an affidavit written by Gottlob Berger, a motion which is upheld by the tribunal. Alderman discusses the circumstances around the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, such as the Nazi’s ultimate goal of occupying all of Czechoslovakia, not just the Sudetenland, and Fall Grün, the planned German invasion of the country that was rendered moot by the Munich agreement. All of this is outlined in documents that Alderman presents to the tribunal, including correspondences between the defendants about the planned invasion.
The United States Army Signal Corps produced two sets of verbatim audio recordings of the Nuremberg Trials outside of the courtroom in a studio. Set A (archived at the International Court of Justice in the Hague) consists of 1,942 double-sided black disc gramophone records with a cellulose trinitrate lacquer surface and aluminum core made by the Presto Recording Corporation. Set B (archived at the US National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC) consists of cardboard and aluminum gramophone discs. The two sets are not exact copies and generally stagger against each other, but sometimes have the same start or stop time corresponding to the beginning or end of a court session. The digitized and restored files made from Set A (ICJ) are much better quality than the files from Set B (NARA) which contain occasional audio distortion, especially at the beginning of a file, and skipping throughout.
Day 11 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)