[<<The>> Bern Trial - Court Session Protocols]

The Bern Trial. Protocol of the Session in the morning of May 13, 1935. Plea of Ruef in the name of Schnell. Rueff demands that Schnell is acquitted and compensated. he pitties that the trial became so ideological. Then he questions that that the burden of proof was on the side of the accused. He describes the expertises of Loosli and Baumgarten as insufficient and conflicting. He argues that the testimony of the kew witness Radzwill ist false. Then he discusses the testimonies of the Russian witnesses exposing alleged contedictions. Then he also complains that the court didn't hear all the witnesses he wanted be heared. Ruef also complains that the so-called Russian Documents transmitted to the expert C. A. Loosli with permission of the Soviet government by the librarian Tager in Moscow were for personal use only. He then quotes Boris Engelhardt who confirms that the protocolls were obtained from an agent at the World Zionist Congress in 1897. He concludes that it remains unclear if the protocolls are a fabrication. He then argues that Schnell couldn't oversee the impact of distributing the protocols. Brunschvig and Matti denounce the plea of Ruef but don't respond.