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in — June 7, 1946 — Trial Day 149:Soviet Deputy Chief Prosecutor Colonel Pokrovsky conducted a sustained cross-exami...
06/08/2026

in — June 7, 1946 — Trial Day 149:
Soviet Deputy Chief Prosecutor Colonel Pokrovsky conducted a sustained cross-examination of Jodl. He pressed Jodl on whether he functioned as Keitel's de facto deputy, citing Keitel's own interrogation testimony that Jodl had authority to call meetings in his absence and Warlimont's testimony that Jodl had on July 29, 1940 at Bad Reichenhall informed subordinate officers of Hi**er's decision to prepare for war against the Soviet Union.

Pokrovsky confronted Jodl with the discrepancy between Jodl's account of the Reichenhall meeting as concerning defense against a Soviet threat to Romanian oil fields, and Warlimont's sworn statement that it concerned preparation of an attack plan. Jodl maintained his characterization while acknowledging the factual divergence with Warlimont's account.

Pokrovsky also questioned Jodl on his description of the war against the Soviet Union as preventive, contrasting it with testimony from Keitel, Raeder, Goering, Milch, and Paulus that they had each urged Hi**er not to attack. The session was marked by repeated exchanges in which Jodl declined to give direct yes or no answers, drawing commentary from Pokrovsky and the President on the evasiveness of the responses.

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06/06/2026

🎬 Starting soon!

Tonight at 6 PM - Nathan-ism screens at the Jackson Center!

Join us for this powerful documentary about Nathan Hilu, the Jewish U.S. soldier who guarded N**i war criminals at Nuremberg - and the art and memory he carried home. Filmmaker Elan Golod joins us after the screening, and original Hilu artwork will be on display.

Free and open to all!
305 E. Fourth St., Jamestown
https://www.roberthjackson.org/event/movie-night-atrhjc-nathan-ism/

06/06/2026

in — June 6, 1946 — Trial Day 148:
Jodl's examination continued on Thursday with cross-examination by defense counsel for Keitel, Dr. Nelte, and further direct examination by Dr. Exner.

Testimony covered the economic war potential reports submitted by General Georg Thomas to Hi**er, with Jodl testifying that he and Keitel believed Thomas's assessments of enemy industrial capacity to be accurate and that Hi**er regularly dismissed them as exaggerated.

Jodl testified regarding relations between Keitel and Admiral Canaris, describing them as marked by excessive confidence on Keitel's part, and stated that even after the July 20 plot Keitel refused to believe charges against Canaris and supported his family financially after Canaris's arrest.

Jodl also testified that he had signed a document concerning the deportation of Jews from Denmark not because it fell within his operational responsibilities but because Keitel was absent and the matter required an immediate signature.

This admission later became a focus of Soviet cross-examination on the question of Jodl's scope of authority within the OKW.

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06/04/2026



Join us for at the Jackson Center with a showing of "Nathan-ism," followed by a conversation with the filmmaker, Elan Golod.

Viewer Advisory: The film contains depictions of wartime experiences that may be intense or emotionally affecting.

Nathan-ism is a that follows Nathan Hilu, a Jewish U.S. soldier assigned to guard N**i war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials, and traces how those experiences shaped his life and his art. The film weaves together animation, interviews, and Hilu's distinctive outsider-art drawings to explore memory, trauma, and the power of personal testimony in bearing witness to history.

Following the screening, filmmaker Elan Golod will join the audience for a discussion on the making of the film and the process of translating Hilu's memories into a visual narrative. Guests will also have a rare opportunity to view original Nathan Hilu artwork on display, made possible through the generosity of Rabbi Jessica Spitalnic Mates of Temple Beth El of Boca Raton, FL.

Details and registration at www.roberthjackson.org/events

Please note: The event is Saturday evening, not Friday. Some reporting and social media listed the wrong day. 🫠 Apologies for any confusion.

The Jackson Center is extending its hours this summer, opening most Saturdays and select Sundays through September 5. Op...
06/03/2026

The Jackson Center is extending its hours this summer, opening most Saturdays and select Sundays through September 5.

Open daily Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Guided tours 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and:

June 6*, 13^, 14^, 20^, 21^, 27
July 11, 18
August 1, 8, 15, 22
September 5

* Movie Night Featuring Nathan-ism at 6 p.m.
^ Early Voting weekends

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06/03/2026

in — June 3, 1946 — Trial Day 145:
Defense counsel Dr. Servatius opened the session by completing the introduction of documentary exhibits for the Sauckel case.

He read into the record excerpts from a series of decrees and official publications covering conditions of employment for Eastern Workers and prisoners of war, emphasizing regulations governing feeding, housing, medical care, wages, and camp inspections, and attributing responsibility for those conditions to agencies other than Sauckel's office.

An affidavit from Karl Goetz, a banking expert who had accompanied Sauckel to negotiations in Paris with French Prime Minister Laval, was submitted as Exhibit Number 10.

Goetz described Sauckel as repeatedly emphasizing that foreign workers must be treated humanely and must return home as favorable witnesses to their time in Germany.

Defense witness Dr. Wilhelm Jager, a physician employed by the firm of Krupp in Essen and responsible for medical care of foreign worker camps, then took the stand.

Dr. Servatius began examining him on the administrative structure of camp health oversight, the role of the German Labor Front, the public health authorities, and the Trade Inspection Board in supervising conditions at the camps where Jager worked.

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06/01/2026

OTD in — June 1, 1946 — Trial Day 144:
Defense witness Max Timm, who had served on Sauckel's labor allocation staff, resumed testimony under examination by Dr. Servatius. Timm described Sauckel's administrative relationships with the Four Year Plan office, the Reich Ministry for Food, and Himmler's apparatus.

Contact with the SS was maintained through a liaison on Sauckel's staff covering police matters such as badge requirements and other restrictions for foreign workers.
Timm testified that Sauckel's deputies in the occupied territories had been unable to function independently because regional military and civilian governments refused to permit representatives with separate authority.

The deputies were folded into local administrations in dual-role positions, an arrangement Timm said originated from demands of the regional governments. On recruitment, he estimated approximately two to three million foreign workers could be considered voluntary, with a comparable number arriving under compulsory service laws.

On conditions in Germany, Timm testified that complaints reaching Sauckel's office concerned housing, clothing, food, badges, and barbed wire, and that abuses of the severity alleged by the Prosecution had not come to his knowledge. Dr. Flachsner, counsel for Speer, then questioned Timm on the tension between Sauckel and Speer over labor allocation authority, which Timm said had been resolved through a series of agreement conferences sometimes chaired by Reichsminister Lammers.

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06/01/2026

in — May 31, 1946 — Trial Day 143:
Soviet Prosecutor General Alexandrov cross-examined Sauckel on the scale of the foreign labor program. He presented Document 1296-PS, Sauckel's own July 27, 1942 report, which showed 5,124,000 foreign workers then employed in Germany including 1,576,000 prisoners of war.

He then presented Document 1739-PS, Sauckel's November 1942 survey, which contained a sentence referring to the total of foreign workers including prisoners of war as having reached 7 million.

Sauckel confirmed both figures as accurate for their respective dates while attempting to explain that the number was in constant flux as workers completed short-term contracts and returned home, and that the figures for different dates reflected a rolling population rather than a cumulative total.

The President repeatedly told Sauckel to answer the questions directly without extended explanation.

Defense witness Max Timm then began testimony on the mechanisms of foreign labor recruitment and deployment, providing detail on the administrative structure Sauckel's office operated within and the extent to which actual day-to-day management of foreign workers was handled by other agencies.

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