 The Tribunal has heard with great satisfaction of the steps which have been taken by the Chief Prosecutors to make available to Defending Council the numerous documents upon which the prosecution relies. With the aim of giving to the defendants every possibility for a just defense, it only remains for me to direct in accordance with the provisions of the Charter that the indictment shall now be read. And the Charter of this Tribunal annexed that too hereby accused as guilty in the respects here and after said forth of crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. And are they common plan or conspiracy to commit those crimes? All as defined in the Charter of the Tribunal. And accordingly, name as defendants in this cause, and as indicted on the counts here and after set out, Hermann Wilhelm Gehring, Rudolph Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Lai, Wilhelm Keidel, Ernst Carlton Brunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Drescher, Walter Funk, Halmar Schacht, Gustav Krupp von Bolland and Halbach, Karl Dönitz, Eric Grader, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Zafl, Alfred Yodl, Martin Bormann, Franz von Pappen, Atir R. Conspiracy, a. the Nazi party as party. Together with certain of its subsidiary organizations became the instrument of cohesion among the defendants and their co-conspiratives and an instrument for the carrying out of the aims and purposes of their conspiracy. Each defendant became a member of the Nazi party and of the conspiracy with knowledge of their aims and purposes or with such knowledge became an accessory to their aims and purposes at some stage of the development of the conspiracy. Be tough as the sole bearer of the foregoing and other doctrines of the Nazi party was entitled to shape the structure, policies and practices of the German state and all related institutions to direct and supervise the activities of all individuals within the state and to destroy all opponents. The acquiring of totalitarian control of Germany political one first steps in the acquisition of control of state branches or agencies of the state and party were permitted to operate without restraint of law. The Nazi conspirators conceived that in addition to the suppression of distinctively political opposition it was necessary to suppress or exterminate certain other movements or groups which they regarded as obstacles to the retention of total control in Germany. Before launching their aggression against Poland they appointed the defendant Funk, planning potential for economics. On 30 August 1939 they set up the ministerial council for the defense of the Reich to act as a war cabinet, if utilization of Nazi control for foreign aggression. First the status of the conspiracy by the middle on 10 March 1935 the defendant Gehring announced that Germany was building a military force. On 16 March 1935 the Nazi conspirators promulgated a law for universal military service in which they stated the peacetime strength of the German army would be fixed at 500,000 men. E on 21, 5 expansion of the war into a general war of aggression, planning and execution of attacks on Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia and Greece. 1939 to April 1941 individual group and organization responsibility for the offense stated in count two. Reference is hereby made to appendix A of this indictment for a statement of the responsibility of the individual defendants for the offense set forth in this count two of the indictment. Reference is hereby made to appendix B of this indictment for a statement of the responsibility of the groups and organizations named herein as criminal groups and organizations for the offense set forth in this count two of the indictment.