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Veltmann scored a victory at the beginning of his defense: he moved and was granted that each officer's testimony could only be applied to the men they had specifically named as having been given the order to work.

In principle, this ruling was favorable, but in practice it would only benefit the men if the court had been attentively keeping notes for each accused man.

Instead, the court was observed by reporters to be drowsy at times, with one particular judge regularly nodding off.