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see me, or my Referent and they would discuss these things also with the Home Administration. QFrom the Prosecution's DocumentNO-2428, Exhibit No. 727, which is contained in Document 8-E, it becomes evident that Frau Petel visited you once, that she declared herself willing to give her name to a child in order to avoid... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,243,350 | 1,243,850 |
and the ending Ova, was nothing but Czech ending to the name by using a few additional letters. QLater on did you have to deal with these children again? AThat was considerable time later. This was in the middle of December 1945. At the time, in my Hildesheim Apartment, the colonel from the Czech Secret Police, Anatol ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,243,800 | 1,244,300 |
that connection? AI personally don't know anything about it. However, according to the regulations which were issued for the treatment of the children in our homes, and according to the personnel who were working there, I consider that to be out of the question. QWhat staff did you have there at Puschkau? AWe had a mat... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,244,250 | 1,244,750 |
you were in charge of Department III of the District Self- Administration which dealt with matters pertaining to the Decree 67-1 as far as any collaboration of the District Self-Administration was necessary; is that correct? AYes, that is quite correct. QFrom your knowledge of the state of affairs, can you testify abou... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,244,700 | 1,245,200 |
did you negotiate with anybody who told you that he was acting upon the orders of Huebner? AThat was not the case. DR. MUELLER:Thank you; I have no further questions. DIRECT EXAMINATION BY DR. ORTH: (Attorney for the Defendant Viermetz) QWitness, you have stated that the defendant Viermetz had come to see you at your o... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,245,150 | 1,245,650 |
(Counsel for the defendant Hofmann): With the permission of the Court, I would like to put a few questions to the witness. THE PRESIDENT:Proceed. BY DR. SCHWARZ: QWitness, you have just stated that the Reichsstatthalter of the Warthegau, in his capacity as representative of the Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,245,600 | 1,246,100 |
best term a courtesy visit. THE PRESIDENT:Witness, he did not ask you the history of your trip to Berlin, he simply asked you if you went there and discussed this decree with the defendant Creutz. Answer the question. THE WITNESS:I can't remember that we discussed any details concerning 67-1 in the course of this visit... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,246,050 | 1,246,550 |
that decree it states that Lebensborn will get children of a certain age, and that the Heimschulen will receive children of a different age. Now, at any time was this changed so that the Lebenshorn took children of all ages? AYes, and I have already stated that. After the first transport that was received by the home s... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,246,500 | 1,247,000 |
the years just prior to the war, by the NSV, the National Socialist Welfare Agency. Q.Here these orphanages or other institutions sufficient in resources to take care of all who should be admitted and cared for? A.I don't know anything to the contrary. I don't know of any case where an orphan could not be cared for, fo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,246,950 | 1,247,450 |
add that when I was taken into the Waffen SS, at the end of 1943 or at the beginning of 1944, I was given the rank of SS Sturmmann, but because of the fact that I remained at the Lebensborn in my position there, I was designated Expert Leader, with the rank of Sturmbannfuehrer, within the ranks of the Waffen SS. Q.You ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,247,400 | 1,247,900 |
near Bergen. The maternity homes were located in Hural in Letschen; in Trondheim, at Bergen itself, and Gailo, in Hopsber near Hara, and also in Oslo. Q.Were children also placed in Norwegian children's homes? A.Yes, also in Norwegian children's homes. As far as we did not have sufficient accommodations for them these ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,247,850 | 1,248,350 |
going to Germany, and in the case of every application that a Norwegian mother made for the occasion of bringing her child into Germany, the permission of the Norwegian Department of Justice was applied for. Q.And that was the Norwegian authority? A.Yes, that was the Norwegian authority which corresponds about to the M... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,248,300 | 1,248,800 |
in the cases in which they did not do that? A.In that case it was like this, the children either were placed in a Norwegian institution or the mother herself usually had already made an application to have the child brought to Germany, either because she herself wanted to go to Germany in order to marry the father of h... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,248,750 | 1,249,250 |
Q.I would like to caution you once again to remember that you have to make a pause between my question and your answer. Now, what happened after the surrender concerning the Department Mothers' Aid in the Office of the Reich Commissar, Norway? A.All activities of the Department Mothers' Aid in Norway was examined after... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,249,200 | 1,249,700 |
March 1943 I was employed in Oslo. My field of work there was the opening and distributing of incoming mail. From March 1943 until the surrender I was stationed in Trondheim. My work there consisted of taking care of the personnel matters of the agency in Trondheim. That is the agency of the Reich Commissar, Norway." D... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,249,650 | 1,250,150 |
described, I can only say something about that if you can give me the name of the mother of this child and the date at which this is supposed to have been happening. Q.Well, I am afraid I can't give you these exact clues since they are not contained in the affidavit of Herr Foehl. We will therefore have to be satisfied... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,250,100 | 1,250,600 |
separate them on the alleged reference to certain directions according to which it was legal to force an involuntary separation against the will of the mother. Now I ask you, were there such regulations in existence? A.The head of the office Reich Commissar in Trondheim knew such regulations were not in existence, and ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,250,550 | 1,251,050 |
have the mothers' rights and welfare and that of course was the fact that was examined by the National Norwegian Welfare Agency. THE PRESIDENT:Witness did you say you were a lawyer or trained in a lawyer's office? WITNESS ERNST RAGALLER:Well, yes, I was office manager of a law office. THE PRESIDENT:Worse than being a l... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,251,000 | 1,251,500 |
agencies in Berlin were put at the disposal of the Norwegian office by the Berlin Labor Exchange, and the German women put at its disposal the teachers; therefore it is not possible to say the Lebensborn in Munich with the exception of a few people, four or five were transferred, that is left the Lebensborn in Munich a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,251,450 | 1,251,950 |
was in charge of it as a deputy leader and Sollmann was the chief of the department. QAnd by whom was she released? AShe was released by Oberfuehrer Dr. Ebner. QAnd when was that? AI don't know the exact period of time, but I think it must have been the first half of the year. QDo you know anything about the fact that ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,251,900 | 1,252,400 |
in your testimony of any child's being brought into Germany without its mother's consent? AI have previously mentioned that I know of no such case. QI have here a paper, which is a Berlin newspaper. dated 16 January and I would like to present it to you. It concerns a Norwegian mother looking for a child. I just want t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,252,350 | 1,252,850 |
sent to the Chief of the Health Service in the Lebensborn, Dr. Ebner. Perhaps you will remember this report; otherwise, I would ask you to look at it again. Cout you tell us, Witness, whether you are the originator of this report? AYes. QIn this report you say that in the Gynecological Institute in Polzin three German ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,252,800 | 1,253,300 |
also made the report to that agency? A.Yes, I reported to that agency as well. Q.Did you discuss the matter with Dr. Ebner before or did you correspond with him about it or did he only find out through your report? A.No, he gave me the order to do it, to take care of these women. I only took these women to this home by... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,253,250 | 1,253,750 |
Poland? were you not then of the opinion that the Warthegau was German? A.Yes, I was. In my interrogation I had spoken about ethnic German orphans from the Warthegau. In the affidavit which I was then shown by the interrogator, these children were called "Polish children". I drew the attention of the interrogator to th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,253,700 | 1,254,200 |
three children who came, did not know anything about relatives of those three children who came from Paris. Did you mean by that, that these children had no relatives? A.No, I merely meant that personally I was not aware of any relatives of these children. Also in this case it was only a matter of my taking medical car... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,254,150 | 1,254,650 |
Your Honor, I have one document book for the defendant Viermitz. I would like to submit this document book which included affidavits 1 to 27 - I would like to submit in consecutive form as document #l. THE PRESIDENT:Very well. Congratulations on your manner of introducing these. DR.GAWLIK for the defendant Schwarzenber... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,254,600 | 1,255,100 |
Q.Give the Tribunal your first and sur-name? A.Hans Hagen. Q.When and where were you born? A.On 21 August 1900. In Lustenau, Vorarlberg, Austria. Q.What did you do daring the war? A.At the outbreak of the War, I was chief of the Advisory Office for Immigration. Owing to the Fuehrer decree of Octoner 1938 in the Ethnic ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,255,050 | 1,255,550 |
time these auditings took place, was in 1921 through the main Office of the Reich Auditing Court. The administrations were, of course, audited by the Reich Auditing Court as a rule, but smaller auditings were carried out by the Main Staff Office. This office audited only as far as balances were concerned while the audi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,255,500 | 1,256,000 |
Ethnic German office. The term SS agency is not correct and I do not know today how at this time it ever occurred to me. I assume that the issuance of this directive was based on correspondence of the DUT in which this agency asked for a directive to this effect and in this I took ever this term from this draft, or sha... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,255,950 | 1,256,450 |
that this seizure was carried out by the Senior President and not by Vomi. Also I would like to correct concerning the passage "Polish or Jewish property" of this factory here, that part. After I made out this affidavit I found out, and I can remember now perfectly well that it was German property which was concerned h... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,256,400 | 1,256,900 |
originate from such an operation. Q.How many car loads full did you receive from this so-called operation Reinhardt for Vomi? A.Altogether, as I have stated in my affidavit, there must have been 10 to 12 car loads full. Q.Witness, are you quite certain - couldn't there have been more? A.No, it is quite possible only 10... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,256,850 | 1,257,350 |
while he was Chief of Finance Administration in the office of the Reich Commissar? AThe question, as far as I understand it, is whether I was acquainted with the task that Schwarzenberg had to deal with. I am not clear about it, whether I am well acquainted with the tasks which Schwarzenberg or had to deal with in the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,257,300 | 1,257,800 |
and Defense. Now, I understood that probably some of the documents had not been translated. Is that what I understand is true? DR.THIELE-FREDERSDORF(Attorney for Dr. Ebner): That is correct, your Honor. Although the documents were submitted to the Translation Department in time, they have not been translated in full ye... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,257,750 | 1,258,250 |
77, affidavit von Fragstein will become Exhibit 74. Document 78, affidavit Meyer will become Exhibit 75. Document 76, affidavit Stein will become Exhibit 76. Document 75, affidavit Bachmaiyer will become Exhibit 77. Document 74, affidavit Klante will become Exhibit 78. Document 73, affidavit Schreiner will become Exhib... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,258,200 | 1,258,700 |
been translated into English already, and I should like to start with the first document of this volume, which is Document No. 2. I would like to correct that, for Document No. 2 has already been identified and submitted. I would like to change its number to Document No. 2_A. I would now like to submit the documents co... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,258,650 | 1,259,150 |
and again I should like to submit these documents as Exhibits 92 through 124. My Document Volume IV contains Documents 125 through 161. I ask the Court's permission to submit these documents as Exhibits 125 through 161. I would like to say the following concerning my Document Book I. Essentially it contains documents t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,259,100 | 1,259,600 |
from various essays. I am not submitting Huebener Document No. 83 contained in this volume, since this document has been submitted by the Prosecution in the course of this trial; I believe it was in the course of the cross examination of one of the witnesses. This document volume contains my Exhibits 88 through 100. Th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,259,550 | 1,260,050 |
have any documents which are ready to present? MR. LAMB:May it please the Tribunal, the documents that we identified during the course of the defense's case have all been translated, as have all the documents that we expect to introduce in rebuttal, but these documents have not been assembled yet, and they will be read... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,260,000 | 1,260,500 |
with the judges and the personnel all here ready to go, waiting for this courtroom. So whether we know it or not now, when we got our income tax returns we will find out it costs something to operate these courts. The Tribunal will do this about it. We will give you until Monday at noon in which to get your documents a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,260,450 | 1,260,950 |
volume as Sollmann Exhibit No. 10. These are my ten exhibit numbers. I would like to ask the permission of the court to submit an individual document later on. This is an amended certificate for Sollmann which does not need to be translated, and therefore was not submitted by me for translation. At the moment I do not ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,260,900 | 1,261,400 |
also receive the current exhibit numbers 22 to 49. I have now concluded my presentation of the documents. DR.HEIM (for defendant Schwalm): If the Tribunal please I now would like to present my documents for the defendant Schwalm. I now offer Schwalm documents 1 to 30 as Exhibit numbers 1 to 30. They are contained in Do... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,261,350 | 1,261,850 |
SCHWARZ:I want to enquire during the recess, your Honor. Up to now I have not been notified as yet that the documents have been translated. After the recess I shall inform the Tribunal the result of my enquiries. THE PRESIDENT:I wish you would make enquiry at recess because I was assured that they would all be ready th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,261,800 | 1,262,300 |
is coming I want to caution counsel that this is strictly rebuttal. Do not go into anything that is not strictly in rebuttal to something that has been brought out in the course of the evidence on behalf of the defense. MR. SHILLER:Yes, your Honor. DR.FROESCHMANN (for the defendant Hildebrandt): Your Honor, the Prosecu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,262,250 | 1,262,750 |
examination. BY MR. SHILLER: DIRECT EXAMINATION QWitness, what is your full name? AMy name is Willy Sydower. QWhen and where were you born? AI was born on 24 July 1894 at Roseck in the District of Deutsch-Krone. QAre you of the Jewish faith? AYes. QIs your wife Jewish, witness? ANo, she is not; she is of mixed blood. H... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,262,700 | 1,263,200 |
your wife go to see a Mr. Aust in Brussels? AYes, that was in the year 1944. QWitness, will you please tell the Tribunal the conversation which Mr. Aust had with you in connection specifically with the point of sterilization? AI had been exempted by the Army Headquarters as the result of the statement that my wife was ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,263,150 | 1,263,650 |
in doing so. However, the racial office must of here discovered that my previous statements were not correct because toward the end of August, 1944 I received a letter from the CFK that I had to come there, together with my exemption certificate. On one Monday my wife went there - - THE PRESIDENT:Wait a minute, wait a ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,263,600 | 1,264,100 |
date on the document? AYes. It is stated 27th May, but I can't say that precisely; I cannot tell you that at all. QDid Aust state toward you that he was acting upon his own decision in order to help you? AAfter all, I went there myself; why should Aust have a free decision to help. I had been sent there by the field he... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,264,050 | 1,264,550 |
the child action, the Germanization of children, was of a very limited scope, of approximately 200, of approximately 200 to 300 children involved in this scope. At this time I would like to call the witness Loues Lavitan, specialist in the field of child search as to the number of children who had been brought into the... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,264,500 | 1,265,000 |
into Lebensborn. DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. NEELY: QWitness, would you please state your name and your profession? ALoues Lavitan; my profession is public welfare administration. QAnd what is your present position today? AI am at present director for the U.S. Zone of the IRO Tracing Children Search Division. QAnd in you... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,264,950 | 1,265,450 |
a witness who stated that the number of children who came under the care of the Lebensborn from the Warthegau, at the most 80, then is correct? AI am sorry -- I didn't understand your question. QI will repeat my question. THE PRESIDENT:Mr. Counsel, we will have four days for arguments; let's wait until we get around to... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,265,400 | 1,265,900 |
Exhibit 902. NO-5731as Exhibit 903. And then in Document Book Rebuttal B, 1061-PS as Exhibit 904. That concludes the rebuttal documents. THE PRESIDENT:That is all of the documentsthat you have to offer in rebuttal as I understand? MR SHILLER:That is correct. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal makes this ruling about those docu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,265,850 | 1,266,350 |
the witness stand. THE PRESIDENT:The pity is that he wasn't here on time. MR. SHILLER:All I am asking for now, Your Honor, is one half hour. THE PRESIDENT:I heard what you asked for. Well, it is the view of the Tribunal that the witness should have been here. He is not here. Anything else? DR SHILLER:The Prosecution ha... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,266,300 | 1,266,800 |
Document No. 184-A. And now I should like to turn to the supplementary Document Book IV, of which No. 148 has been submitted for identification as Exhibit 27. And herewith I should like to submit this in a final amnner. The next docu ment, No. 162, will be submitted by me as Exhibit 184. Furthermore, Document 163 I sha... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,266,750 | 1,267,250 |
Tribunal will note your objection and when we come to write the judgment if we agree with you about it it will get no consideration. Is there anything else by the defendants? DR. FROESCHMANN:Your Honor, in Document Book which the Prosecution has submitted this afternoon in connection with Hildebrandt there is contained... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,267,200 | 1,267,700 |
that man; however, the kin could not be seen since this man was an Eastern worker. QWitness, I would like to ask you to simply say whether you know this document or whether you signed it. AThis is obvious since you put me into the witness stand for that reason, but I do not know the document. THE PRESIDENT:Any question... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,267,650 | 1,268,150 |
to the actual interrogation. THE PRESIDENT:You will be permitted to put him on the stand strictly for rebuttal, whatever that shows. DR. SCHWARZ:Thank you. OTTOHOFMANN, having been previously sworn, testified as follows: BY DR. SCHWARZ: - REDIRECT EXAMINATION QHerr Hofmann, will you please look at the transcript of the... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,268,100 | 1,268,600 |
behalf, having been sworn previously, testified further as follows: REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY DR. BEHLING: (Attorney for the Defendant Meyer-Hetling) QWitness, did you ever report to Himmler concerning the question of settlement in the Government General, Alsace Lorraine, and the settlement of Germans from Dobrudja and G... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,268,550 | 1,269,050 |
PRESIDENT:Go ahead; let the witness retire from the stand. DR.ORTH: (Attorney for the Defendant Viermetz) Mr. President, I would like to call the defendant Viermetz into the stand, and I only have two questions for rebuttal. THE PRESIDENT:Now, I am going to permit it, but this is the most remarkable procedure; this is ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,269,000 | 1,269,500 |
there is anything in the written testimony that is filed in rebuttal about the matter,then the Tribunal will decide for itself whether they are entitled to any consideration or not. The Tribunal will recess until 9:30, Friday, February 13. (At 1600 hours, 2 February 1948. a recess was taken until 0930 hours, 13 Februar... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,269,450 | 1,269,950 |
were carried out threatened, and very nearly accomplished, the destruction of entire nations. THE PRESIDENT:I presume that there is copies that are being distributed to the defense counsel. MR. SHILLER:Yes, Your Honor. THE PRESIDENT:Suppose you just wait a minute until they all get their copies. All right, proceed. MR.... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,269,900 | 1,270,400 |
the Strengthening of Germanism, with which all the defendants in this case were directly or indirectly connected, was created for the particular purpose of planning and executing this program and it is this office and its satelites with which the evidence in this case is primarily concerned. No where else can the world... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,270,350 | 1,270,850 |
million copies had been cir culated. The general contents are well known..."2 - - - - - - - - 1. Trial of the Major War Criminals, Vol. 1, P. 174. 2. Ibid, p. 187. "The second chapter of Book One of 'Mein Kampf' is dedicated to what may be called the 'Master Race' theory, the doctrine of Aryan superiority over all othe... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,270,800 | 1,271,300 |
North East, Vistula, Warthe and South East and to have a report made on this subject in the same manner. The noti fication to the chiefs of the Main Offices shall be effected by an SS-leader who will have to wait until the concerned chief of the Main Office has read the report and has acknowledged it by his signature. ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,271,250 | 1,271,750 |
millions of the Eastern provinces, will it be possible for us to carry out the racial sifting which must be the ba sis for our considerations: namely selecting out of this con glomeration the racially valuable and bringing them to Germany and assimilating them there." (Pros. Ex. 84,NO-1860, Doc. Bk. III, p. 41). Himmle... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,271,700 | 1,272,200 |
and impossible the bolshevist method of physical extermination of a people. "The parents of such children of good blood will be given the choice to either give away their child; they will then pro bably produce no more children so that the danger of this sub human people of the East obtaining a class of leaders which, ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,272,150 | 1,272,650 |
to Himmler's complete satisfaction and twenty-three million people would have been dissolved." As it was, the Polish nation was very nearly destroyed by this diabolical scheme. The defendants may contend that this was Himmler's plan and they had nothing to do with the preparation of it. Our only answer to this is that ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,272,600 | 1,273,100 |
was called upon to do under this decree covered a multitude of sins. Those sixty-four words set the stage for what proved to be one of the most revolting tragedies over perpetrated on a large group of peoples. This was the cue that set off a series of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity such as the world had never k... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,273,050 | 1,273,550 |
and promulgation of general orders and directives and for the execution of certain tasks which can only be dealt with centrally, I established the Office of the Reich Commissar. I have placed SS-Oberfuchrer Greifelt in charge **** "To carry out these tasks I ask all high offices of Party and State for their cooperation... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,273,500 | 1,274,000 |
slave labor; RuSHA was to conduct racial examinations, decide who went to concentration camps, who were to be sterilized, on whom abortions were to be performed, which children were to be kidnapped and which were to be exterminated; the Security Police and SD, including the Higher SS and Police headers, were to "take c... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,273,950 | 1,274,450 |
so each of the defendants. KIDNAPPING The evidence in this case proves that all offices and all the defendants in this case were involved in the crime of kidnapping and Germanizing children from occupied countries. The Main Staff Office, by virtue of Greifelt's infamous Regulation 67-1 (Pnos. Ex. 407, Dec. Bk. VIII-B, ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,274,400 | 1,274,900 |
the Main Staff Office, RuSHA, VOMI and Lebensborn, and therefore all of the defendants, participated in those kidnappings. ABORTIONS The Main Staff Office and RuSHA were both involved in the carrying out of abortions on Eastern female workers. When a foreign woman worker in Germany became pregnant this fact had to be r... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,274,850 | 1,275,350 |
could be expected. The defendant Hildebrandt, in outlining the duties of the Race and Settlement leaders in this connection, stated: "Though I have already done so in the regulations on the decisions of the interruption of pregnancies, I want to point out once more the grave responsibility which as been assigned to the... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,275,300 | 1,275,800 |
hanging, or sent to a concentration camp, a somewhat slower death. If the RuSHA field leader found the foreigners racial characteristics to his liking then his life was spared if the foreign worker agreed to be Germanized. Copies of all reports were sent to the Main Staff Office. Eastern women who had intercourse with ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,275,750 | 1,276,250 |
subsistence for the care of the child, the subsistence to be paid for by the Polish fathers and to be paid out only if the care of the child is not assured by either the unwed mother or her family. This was to prevent any negligence. Here it must be the primary principle not to spend one German penny for Polish welfare... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,276,200 | 1,276,700 |
was a crime against the first category because fraud, deceit and coercive measures were used to make the people of so-called German stock agree to leave their homes and their property and to be resettled. They were promised that they would be given lands and goods equivalent to that which they left behind but upon arri... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,276,650 | 1,277,150 |
who were considered to be of "German stock". This was known as the DVL procedure, the German peoples List. Another program was what was known as re-Germanization and applied to Poles who were never considered to be of German stock but who had good racial characteristics. This was known as the WED. The basic decrees con... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,277,100 | 1,277,600 |
of Yugoslavia as well as with the peoples of Luxembourg, Alsace and Lorraine. The persons selected as racially valuable by RuSHA were evacuated from their native country. They were processed by the Main Staff Office and that office issued directives as to their treatment. They were transported from their homes by VOMI ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,277,550 | 1,278,050 |
using that force herewith and declare this building seized as of the 26th of this month. It is easier for 60 nuns to find shelter than it is for 500 racial Germans." This complaint was submitted to the defendant Greifelt who forwarded it to Himmler with the recommendation that the convent remain seized. Himmler suggest... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,278,000 | 1,278,500 |
group or organization declared criminal by the International Military Tribunal" is recognized as a crime by Article II (d) of Control Council Law No. 10. The International Military Tribunal held the following with respect to the SS : "The Tribunal declares to be criminal within the meaning of the Charter the group comp... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,278,450 | 1,278,950 |
commission of such crimes. Theevidence in this case shows that they not only had knowledge that the SS was used for the commission of criminal acts, but also that they personally participated in their commission. These defendants were active, full-time, professional SS men; it was their creed and career. Not only that,... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,278,900 | 1,279,400 |
with the offices of the Supreme Command of the SS (SS Reichsfuehrung)".(Pros. Ex. 70,NO-4057, Doc. Bk. II-B, p. 12) In his decree of 28 November 1941, Himmler refers to VOMI, RuSHA, RSHA and the Main Staff Office as "four Main Offices of the SS". (Pros. Ex. 24, No-4237, Doc. Bk. II-B , p. 16). Precisely the same inform... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,279,350 | 1,279,850 |
committed by the SS. They were all high ranking officers with very responsible positions. But these defendants not only had guilty knowledge; they were active and important executioners of SS crimes. As we have already pointed out, the International Military Tribunal, singled out RuSHA. and VOMI as having been ultra-cr... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,279,800 | 1,280,300 |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Trial of the Major War Criminals, Vol. 1, p. 270. even more detailed picture of the criminal program of these defendants. Be this as it may, it was the defendant Creutz, not the Prosecution, who burned the secret records of the Main Staff Office a short time before the Americans en... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,280,250 | 1,280,750 |
the guilt of all the defendants beyond every reasonable doubt. The few affidavits which we have introduced, including those of the defendants, merely clarify and corroborate what is contained in the other documents. Several of the defendants found fault with their pre-trial.interrogations. But, for the most part, those... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,280,700 | 1,281,200 |
ization of those offices, their functions and authority, and we think that their testimony served the purpose for which it was intended. It was not expected, nor did we ask, that these witnesses, who were generally hostile to the Prosecution, implicate the defendants personally in the various crimes with which they are... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,281,150 | 1,281,650 |
documents which we have introduced do not mean what they say, we think a question of credibility is a principal issue before the Tribunal. We submit that it is incredible that all of the many incriminating documents which have been submitted by the Prosecution are mistaken in what they say. This question of credibility... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,281,600 | 1,282,100 |
was killing Jews. He maintained this even after he was shown a letter over his own signature, in which he said he was happy to hear that 5,000 of the chosen people were being sent daily to Treblinka, a notorious extermination came near Lublin. He gave the same excuse that the defendants always out forward when confront... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,282,050 | 1,282,550 |
Germany authority to deal with the occupied countries as though they were part of Germany. In the view of the Tribunal it is unnecessary in this case to decide whether this doctrine of subjugation, dependent as it is upon military conquest, has any application where the subjugation is the result of the crime of aggress... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,282,500 | 1,283,000 |
forget the citizens of Luxembourg and Poland who were shot because they refused to fight for Germany after being forcibly conferred with German citizenship, and the miserable Poles who were committed to a concentration camp or hanged for having had sexual intercourse with a German. or refusing to sign the DVL List - ev... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,282,950 | 1,283,450 |
to be civilized) that prisoners taken in battle can be reduced to the status of slaves. Even Germany prior to 1939 had repudiated any such fallacious position. And yet, under the hypnotism of the Nazi ideology, the German people readily be came complaisant to this strange and inhuman system. Under the spell of National... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,283,400 | 1,283,900 |
were no more German than Tam O'Shanter. Another contention has been that certain of the incorporated territories were German territories prior to the Treaty of Versailles and that the Germans were, therefore, justified in treating this territory as German This defense was rejected by the International Military Tribunal... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,283,850 | 1,284,350 |
contention with the following language: "The Tribunal is of course bound by the Charter, in the definition which it gives both of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. With respect to War Crimes, however, as has already been pointed out, the crimes defined by Article 6, Section (b), of the Charter were already recogn... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,284,300 | 1,284,800 |
imprisonment, torture, rape, or other inhumane acts committed against any civilian popu lation, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds whether or not in violation of the domestic laws of the country where perpetrated." The definition of Crimes Against Humanity is thus considerably broader than that o... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,284,750 | 1,285,250 |
the inhumane acts charged in the Indictment, and committed after the beginning of the war, did not constitute War Crimes; they were all committed in execution of, or in connection with, the aggres sive war, and therefore constituted Crimes against Humanity." 1 What we have said with respect to the broad scope of the de... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,285,200 | 1,285,700 |
War Crimes Commission estimated that 275,000 mentally deficient and aged people, for whose wel fare he was responsible, fell victim to it." 1 - - - - - - -- - - - - - - 1. Trial of the Major War Criminals, Vol. 1, pp. 247-301. Thus, the International Military Tribunal held that the crime of euthanasia, as widely practi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,285,650 | 1,286,150 |
again who stated in October 1943: '... What the nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type, we will take. If necessary, by kidnapping their children and raising them here with us. Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only insofar as we we need them as slaves for our culture, ot... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,286,100 | 1,286,600 |
So, although the Tribunal did not pin the guilt for these particular crimes on Hess, it did adjudicate the fact that the forcing of persons to accept German citizenship was a crime. --------1. Trial of the Major War Criminals, Vol. 1. p. 242. 2. Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 270. 3. Ibid, Vol. 1, pp. 258-9. 4. Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 284.... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,286,550 | 1,287,050 |
and so interrelated that without complete knowledge of the entire program and without full collaboration on the part of all, they would not have been able to accomplish what they did in carrying cut this criminal program. So we repeat, these defendants constitute a team, they all were involved in one scheme. They are a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,287,000 | 1,287,500 |
on the arguments of the Prosecution as well as the legal arguments. I should like to ask the Tribunal to take note of the parts that are not translated up to now and to have them translated because these parts are very important as well as the arguments of my colleagues. I permit myself to point out that in other Nurnb... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,287,450 | 1,287,950 |
extermination of nations. The treatment of the people who are to be resettled can be considered, as a whole, as a remedying measure and not as slavery, apart perhaps of a few mistakes. I want to express myself more clearly with the help of examples: As long as there are different living conditions in different states, ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,287,900 | 1,288,400 |
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