1947-07-19, #25: Doctors' Trial (court adjourns until the judgment)

THE PRESIDENT: The personal statements by the defendants in this proceeding, made on their own behalf, have been heard by the Tribunal during this session in open court, and these statements are now concluded.

After over seven months of trial, consuming, I think, 139 trial days, hearing over 80 or 89 witnesses, the reception in evidence of many hundreds of documents and affidavits, the trial, insofar as the reception of evidence, arguments of counsel, and personal statements of the defendants, is now concluded. The Tribunal will now recess and enter upon the preparation of the judgment to be rendered in this cause. How long that preparation of the judgment will consume is, of course, uncertain, probably not less than three weeks nor more than five.

Counsel for the defendants must keep the Secretary General's office advised of their whereabouts, so that when the Tribunal is ready to formally render its judgment they will be available to appear before the Tribunal.

The Tribunal will now be in recess, subject to call by its own order, to reconvene to render the formal judgment in the case.

(At 1225 hours, 19 July 1947, a recess was taken, subject to call by the Tribunal.)