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also read into the record. THE PRESIDENT: Have you not read it? Read it into the record then, if you say it is short. DR. SEIDL: "In the second half of September 1944, Governor Dr. Von Burgsdorff reported to me that the Prior of the Carmelite Monastery Czerna had lost his life and that there was a suspicion of punishab... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fourth Day | 12,600 | 13,100 |
which was submitted today as GB-615, Document Number D-923. The report of the Defendant Frank of 6 September 1933 shows, under Number 3, that the defendant demanded with the utmost rigor that penal proceedings be instituted against the accused SA Fuehrer, and even ordered it. THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Seidl, the Tribunal has ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fourth Day | 13,050 | 13,550 |
that the cross-examination by the Prosecution dealt with a number of new matters, especially with the matters which were freshly introduced today and yesterday afternoon. THE PRESIDENT: We do not want any arguments from you, Dr. Boehm. I am telling you what the Tribunal rules. If your questions arise out of the cross-e... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fourth Day | 13,500 | 14,000 |
in the "Hinterland" was the activity of the SA in occupied territories. Herr Jöttner, if you will look at Page 4 of this report where it says that when the disaster of the Elbe floods occurred in the spring of 1941, for example, it was the SA engineer unit who were the first to arrive to give assistance, and who by me... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fourth Day | 13,950 | 14,450 |
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in connection with the statements on Page 14 of Document 4011-PS, do you know, Herr Jöttner, when Memelland became part of the Third Reich? Do you know, perhaps, that it was in March 1939? JUETTNER: I cannot say that exactly, but it is probably correct. HERR BOEHM: Did the region of Memelland belong to Estonia, Latvia... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 450 | 950 |
it could not exist, and we did not organize or establish any. The men of the SA who were employed there were not under the SA Leadership. For example, the SA leaders Kunze and Kramer, who were mentioned yesterday, were Fuehrer for special purposes. They were not under the SA Leadership when they were employed there. Th... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 900 | 1,400 |
pogroms against the Jews. Acting on orders, the Security Police was determined to use every means to solve the Jewish question." In the case against the SD the Prosecution says that it was the Security Police who carried out the pogroms in Vilna, Schaulen, and Kovno. In the case against the SA, on the other hand, the P... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 1,350 | 1,850 |
the SA Föhrung at any time? JUETTNER: No. No Reichskommissare in Ostland were under the SA Leadership. They were under the Eastern Administration. The SA Leadership had no influence on them,'nor was that its function. HERR BOEHM: Now I should like to show you the paragraph which yesterday formed the subject of stateme... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 1,800 | 2,300 |
"SA Wehrmannschaften" and "Wehrmannschaften" of the type mentioned here. The "SA Wehrmannschaften," according to the decree of Adolf Hitler of January, 1939, were to be set up by the SA in the Reich consisting of released soldiers so that they could be kept ready for defense physically and mentally. The "Wehrmannschaft... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 2,250 | 2,750 |
was only asking what the meaning of the word was. The witness has now explained to me that according to the Hitler decree of January 1939, certain men called "Wehrmannschaften" were to be set up in the Reich, as he says, ready for defense. If you can confirm that, it would be useful perhaps. HERR BOEHM: If the explanat... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 2,700 | 3,200 |
letter was signed by a certain Gewecke. He was actually an SA man, but it is interesting to point out in this connection that the contents of this document show that this Gewecke complains about attacks on Jews committed by the SS Leadership. The next document was submitted under Number D-970 and refers to the commande... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 3,150 | 3,650 |
to ask you, Herr Jöttner, whether the Supreme SA Leadership had a labor camp for drunkards and s1iirkers, as was asserted yesterday by the Prosecution and as this document might be interpreted to indicate. Regarding the camp Frauenberg near Admont, it says: "About 20 men of the SA guarded the camp." What do you have t... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 3,600 | 4,100 |
document yesterday, Number D-951. On the second page of the document it says: "According to the report of the Military District Headquarters VI, the SA Brigadefuehrer are also said to be considering forming such a staff guard and to be engaging SA men for one or one and a half year's service for this purpose ... Numeri... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 4,050 | 4,550 |
HERR BOEHM: Then I should like to add a short question: with the death of Röhm were not these plans completely shelved, that is, did they not fall through? JUETTNER: To my knowledge these plans were not followed up in any way. On the contrary, the comparatively few arms which the staff guards possessed were collected ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 4,500 | 5,000 |
witness a question as to the document. HERR BOEHM: Herr JUETTNER, the document which I read to you, now that I have pointed out the mistakes, should, according to the Prosecution, prove the military character of the SA, because it speaks of foot care and because this article appeared in the SA Mann. Did you order this ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 4,950 | 5,450 |
know who wrote this article; it was not ordered by you in any case; but can one take the attitude expressed here to mean a military training or a militaristic attitude? JUETTNER: No one would take it to mean a militaristic attitude or an attempt to adopt one. HERR BOEHM: Document 3050-F is called militaristic because i... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 5,400 | 5,900 |
in marching and in field observation? JUETTNER: None of these questions you have put were leading questions. It was clear to every SA man that our field observation in the SA could in no way be compared with the military field observation, which was along purely military lines. We in the SA combined field observation a... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 5,850 | 6,350 |
his affair. If he also gives himself the title of press consultant of the Supreme SA Leadership, then in this capacity his task consisted merely in transmitting to the rest of the Germans press news which we wanted to have published, and in taking care of its publication. HERR BOEHM: 750,000 subscribers are mentioned i... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 6,300 | 6,800 |
not have any military value. HERR BOEHM: Then Document 3993-PS was submitted yesterday. It is a letter from the Chief of Staff, Lutze, to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg, in which he thanks him for congratulations which he received because the premilitary and postmilitary training of the SA was entrusted to him. This has... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 6,750 | 7,250 |
and had the court carry it out. HERR BOEHM: Then Document 784-PS was submitted yesterday, which was said to be a typical case of forcefully suppressing political opponents, and I have discovered in my study of the files that particularly old fighters of the NSDAP were ill-treated. For example, there was a certain Stahl... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 7,200 | 7,700 |
are two letters. Is it probable that these two letters which may mean the same thing were written by the same hand? JUETTNER: On closer observation of the writing on the stamp, one must come to the conclusion that the stamp which follows the report of Brigade 50 is forged. The differences are so obvious. The "F," for i... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 7,650 | 8,150 |
JUETTNER: This statement is quite incomprehensible to me. The Reichswehr at that time, with the approval of the Government, carried on a training program for the purpose of protecting the border, especially after the incidents along the Polish border, which made it necessary to protect our home borders. The men who wer... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 8,100 | 8,600 |
could assert such a thing. General Ludendorff after the first World War wanted a peaceful solution ... THE PRESIDENT: It is quite sufficient if he says no to your question. HERR BOEHM: Yes, Mr. President. [Turning to the witness.] Do you remember that weapons were found in 1933 in the Trade Union House in Munich? JUETT... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 8,550 | 9,050 |
be labelled as criminals, then we were criminals. HERR BOEHM: Mr. President, I have no further questions. THE PRESIDENT: The witness can retire. DR. OTTO PANNENBECKER (Counsel for Defendant Frick): Mr. President, one document for Frick is still outstanding, a document which was granted to me before the end of the evide... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 9,000 | 9,500 |
STAHMER: Mr. President, I tried to do that, and I am anxious to prove that. I have not received the transcript, as yet. These documents were submitted in the afternoon session of 9 August. I could not get the individual numbers; I will submit them later today. THE PRESIDENT: You are misunderstanding me. What I asked yo... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 9,450 | 9,950 |
Funk to the witness box. [The Defendant Funk took the stand.] THE PRESIDENT: Defendant, you understand you are still under oath? FUNK: Yes. THE PRESIDENT: You may sit down. DR.SAUTER: Dr. Funk, can you understand me? FUNK: Yes. DR. SAUTER: Dr. Funk, today I must examine you about this affidavit submitted by the Prosecu... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 9,900 | 10,400 |
office co-operated of course with the textile department of the Ministry. It is my conviction that it was done in this way: the old material, that is, the old used textiles, from the collecting depots went directly to the factories which processed material of this sort. Therefore, I firmly believe that the officials of... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 10,350 | 10,850 |
question you. FUNK: I would not have allowed a report like that to rest. I -would have applied immediately to my superior, the Delegate for the Four Year Plan, and would have told him about it. DR. SAUTER: That is the one point, Witness. I believe it has been cleared up sufficiently with your testimony. Now I would lik... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 10,800 | 11,300 |
question with "yes" or "no," and if it is "no," then you may give a brief explanation. FUNK: That he talked with me at this lunch, that I do recall. That he discussed with me the valuables deposited by the SS, that I do not recall. But I know with certainty that he did not talk to, me about these valuables about which ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 11,250 | 11,750 |
them, that was clear to me ... DR. SAUTER: You have already explained that. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I have no further questions. MR. DODD: You now tell us that you did know about the gold deposits and the jewelry coming in from the concentration camps, is that so? FUNK: I did not know anything about it. MR.... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 11,700 | 12,200 |
said to me: "The SS deliveries are now being deposited," and on that occasion he perhaps made a sarcastic remark, "who knows what is contained in them?" and that is approximately what I have testified to here. MR. DODD: You also told us, on that same day, and in the next answer to the very next question you made this s... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 12,150 | 12,650 |
deposit of your bank? You would have to know that, wouldn't you? FUNK: Will you please repeat the sum. It doesn't appear to have been translated correctly. MR. DODD: We don't need to get it down to the pfennig, it was over a hundred million Reichsmark. FUNK: One million? MR. DODD: No, no, a hundred million. FUNK: A hun... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 12,600 | 13,100 |
remem-ber or is your answer that you absolutely did not know? Or is it both? FUNK: The amount mentioned first, of a hundred million marks, that I consider absolutely absurd. The second sum of 500,000 dol-lars, that I consider possible. It is quite within the realm of pos-sibility that such sums were taken away from peo... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 13,050 | 13,550 |
officials. How could I, who at that time knew nothing about these matters, have inferred from this that it was a moral burden. MR. DODD: I do not know how long you are going on with this, but as far as I am concerned, you've given me all the information I want about the matter. Really, Mr. President, I do not think thi... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 13,500 | 14,000 |
FUNK: I have never asserted that I knew nothing about it. I have always said that I knew that confiscated valuables were depos-ited in the Reichsbank by the SS and that foreign exchange, gold, and other foreign securities and bank notes were converted by the Reichsbank. But that I knew nothing ... MR. DODD: Wait a minu... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 13,950 | 14,450 |
foreign currency, et cetera ... MR. BIDDLE: I did not ask you that. Will you listen now? Was it any of Himmler's business or duties to see that gold and notes were turned into the bank? That did not come under his jurisdiction, did it? FUNK: Yes, if these things, for example, had been taken from the innmates of concent... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 14,400 | 14,900 |
regular deposits; I think it would be appropriate to say that-it was not one of your regular deposits, was it? It was unusual? FUNK: Certainly. MR. BIDDLE: You did not ask him any questions about it at all? FUNK: No, I did not speak with him any more than what I have said here. Last night I racked my brains to reconstr... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 14,850 | 15,350 |
was not able to do so owing to the limited time. In this connection I should like to point out one more thing. Mr. President, in my written application I made an application in case the witness Schreiber, whose statement was referred to by the Russian Prosecution a few days ago, is brought here as a witness. If the wit... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 15,300 | 15,800 |
1935. In order to give the figures, there are the Frauen-schaft and Frauenwerk (Women's Organizations), about 50,000; the Student's Associations, 1,600; the DAF (Labor Front) and so forth, 800,000; the Office of Public Welfare and NSV (Nazi Welfare), 300,000 -I am giving round figures-and the Reich Food Estate, about 1... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 15,750 | 16,250 |
charges the Political Leaders-the "Corps of Political Leaders"? DR. SERVATIUS: Yes. THE PRESIDENT: In that corps there are persons who were "Political Leaders" who are not included in the "Gauleiter down to the Blockleiter"? DR. SERVATIUS: Yes. THE PRESIDENT: Then at a later stage in the Trial Brief, the Prosecution li... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 16,200 | 16,700 |
is so. LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: My Lord, as I understand the position, all these Political Leiter to which Dr. Servatius is referring, the ones set out here, the Women's Organizations and so on, they are all under the staff, they do work for the Political Leaders on the staffs of the various Hoheitstr5ger. I think it m... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 16,650 | 17,150 |
if there are 2,000,000 here, how many staff officers of the Ortsgruppenleiter are there, according to you? LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: My Lord, I will be able to tell the Tribunal within a quarter of an hour, if I might just send for the figures. I am afraid that I cannot carry them in memory. I win get them, and I will l... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 17,100 | 17,600 |
doubtful. Here it says that a political organization is forbidden and the term prohibited. It is an order by Hess issued in the year 1935, with the legal justi-fication that there can be no such special organization. Then I come to Document Number 13. This is important for the following reason: One does not become a Po... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 17,550 | 18,050 |
document Number 2 on Page 14, is important because it also closes the circle of Hoheitsträger with the Ortsgruppenleiter, excluding therefore the small officials as far as this term is concerned. The next document is Number 21, on Page 15. It equally restricts the term to Gauleiter, Kreisleiter, and Ortsgruppenleiter.... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 18,000 | 18,500 |
of the Gauleiter. The next document, Number 28, deals with recruitment groups and the question of -how propaganda should be spread; assistance should be given by word and deed, and above all, people have to, be won over and convinced. It also deals with spies and informers, a subject which comes up later. The next docu... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 18,450 | 18,950 |
civil servant. The German Civir Service Law is quoted here. Paragraph 3 specifies: "All circumstances which may endanger the interests of the Reich or of the NSDAP, even if not discovered in the course of his official duties, should be brought by him to the attention of his superior in office." Document Number 38 is on... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 18,900 | 19,400 |
of secrecy regulations, which disproves the existence of a common plan. First of all, the well-known secrecy order issued to the Wehrmacht also applies to the Party, that no office and no officer may have more knowledge of any matter than is absolutely necessary. In Document Number 45 this order is extended to every ag... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 19,350 | 19,850 |
sentence on the following page, which is: t "It is in the nature of the matter that these partly very difficult problems will, in the interest of the final protection of our people, only be solved with ruthless severity." My Lord, on the first page of that document it will be seen under the "Remarks" column, "Open only... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 19,800 | 20,300 |
have to be transmitted in his name to leading personalities of State and Government agencies." This is of significance because Bormann decided very essential things in his capacity as Secretary of the Fuehrer, for example, the subject of euthanasia. Document Number 54 on Page 62 gives general points of view on politica... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 20,250 | 20,750 |
you are going to deal with the substance of the documents in your final speech, it is not necessary to take up time and give us the substance of the documents when you offer them in evidence. If you are going to deal adequately with it subsequently for your own purposes in -your final speech, it means that you will do ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 20,700 | 21,200 |
to the Party statutes. This is Document Number 63. On Page 77 the practical ,conclusion is drawn that whoever acts contrary to the Party's tendencies can be expelled from the Party for lack of interest. The next document, Number 8 on Page 78, shows a verdict where this actually took place when someone did not wish to a... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 21,150 | 21,650 |
run on non-political lines. Document Number 73 gives special standing to the staff officials of the Reich Party Treasury who deal with financial control and accounts. Document Number 74 again shows the separate development of the financial system apart from the regular political system. Document Number 75 orders the se... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 21,600 | 22,100 |
directive was issued by Hess which also opposed interference in Church matters. It states that the Party should abstain entirely from intervening in these questions and that individual action against churches is prohibited. Document Number 89 is a circular letter taken from the Party regulations of the year 1937. It st... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 22,050 | 22,550 |
custody. This excep-tionally severe measure may only be resorted to when the facts of the case and the question of guilt have been thoroughly investigated, and it is expected that it will be asked for only in really urgent and well-founded cases. This circular is addressed to the Kreisleiter. Document Number 100 deals ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 22,500 | 23,000 |
concerning the size of the organi-zation and the activity of the various members. It is frequently repeated that this book was only a draft and was to be a working basis rather than a final official Party solution. Document Number 2 has not been translated. It may be found in the transcript of 16 July 1946 before the f... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 22,950 | 23,450 |
relationship with the Church in the district of Cologne, and says that at the creation of this cell they were all strictly orthodox members of the Evangelical Church; that the parson was a member of the Party and that in the neighborhood theologians appeared as speakers; however, all that was changed in the year 1935 w... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 23,400 | 23,900 |
question of the treatment of the population; winning of confidence, exemplary behavior, no chicanery, spying prohibited. Affidavit Number 13 comes from the Gau organization leaders of the Gau Munich, Upper Bavaria, and deals with the evidential value of the organization book which I mentioned previously; it deals there... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 23,850 | 24,350 |
Affidavit Number 26 made by Foertsch. He is the former Gau Organisationsleiter of Munich, Upper Bavaria. He, too, says. that the book was a theoretical work. Affidavit Number 27 is a second affidavit by the same Hederich of the Reichsleitung just mentioned, in which the significance of the organization book is describe... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 24,300 | 24,800 |
unchallenged as far as it is humanly possible. Therefore, rather than have any dispute on the document, the Prosecution will not rely on that document which is dealt with here. DR.SERVATIUS: Mr. President, if I understand correctly, this Document D-728, by Sprenger, is being withdrawn. Is that correct? THE PRESIDENT: Y... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 24,750 | 25,250 |
in finance and technical administrative matters, and how the personnel were kept away from all political tasks. The third group of expert offices comprises the expert liaison agents between the Party branches, the professional representatives, the general expert counsellors and offices, and finally the office of welfar... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 25,200 | 25,700 |
of the National Socialist physicians' league were at the same time leaders of their respective Gau offices for public health. He states that he was consulted as far as professional work was concerned, while at the inner staff conferences the physicians were not admitted, so that they were not informed along political l... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 25,650 | 26,150 |
of the fact that we had not been able to find any passages in the examination of the Defendant Göring. It extends over certain ones. I hoped we had not missed them, but we have been through them and cannot find them. THE PRESEDENT: Well, then... SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: My Lord, that leaves the applica-tion of Dr. Stah... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 26,100 | 26,600 |
they do want to make two points-one particular to this application and one in general. The point peculiar to this application is that it was known, of course, when the Defendant Göring went into the witness box, that there were these letters in existence and that his second- in-command, Field Marshal Milch, had said t... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Fifth Day | 26,550 | 26,956 |
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to the Court's attention that, long before Göring took the witness stand, the Prosecution had offered its proof concerning these Luftwaffe medical experiments, so that he knew about them; his counsel knew about them, and if his counsel had cared to inquire about them, he could have done so on Göring's direct examinat... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 450 | 950 |
this stage of these proceedings the opportunity again to get on this stand and again take up time with matters that really do not go to the heart of the proof. I would be the last man here to try to cut out of this very important trial anything that I thought was really vital or important. I would not cast any shadow o... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 900 | 1,400 |
adviser. The essential thing is his statement that during his two years of activity he had but one opportunity to speak to the Gauleiter personally. Of particular significance, perhaps, is Affidavit Number 50, by the Plenipotentiary for Racial Policy. It sets forth that he had nothing whatever to do with the actual rac... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 1,350 | 1,850 |
local association. The last affidavit deals with Document EC-68. It is an affidavit, also Number 68, and it concerns the confidential letter of the Baden Farmers' Association and also deals thoroughly with matters which are known to the High Tribunal regarding the treatment of the Polish workers. In the next affidavit ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 1,800 | 2,300 |
states how the entire thing was done. That was the guide to this inquiry, as I might say. Then comes the next one which deals with the Jewish question; that is Affidavit Number 54. THE PRESIDENT: What I am pointing out to you is that what you are saying is set down identically in this transcript. What is the point of r... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 2,250 | 2,750 |
numbers, which he proposed to give to the Tribunal at the close of Dr. Servatius' speech, which may remove some of the difficulties which Dr. Servatius has in mind. But, My Lord, I make no objection to the document going in to assist the Tribunal. THE PRESIDENT: Very well DR. SERVATIUS: I did not quite follow as to whe... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 2,700 | 3,200 |
staff are set out. My Lord, those are all taken from the Organization Book and I would only say that those show the maximum establishment of the Gau and Kreis staffs and they were not by any means always up to strength, so that the figures, the total figure of 600,000, is to be the maximum that is possible. THE PRESIDE... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 3,150 | 3,650 |
a copy of the law of 17 June 1936, dealing with the assignment of the chief of the German Police to the Reich Ministry of the Interior. I also ask that judicial notice be taken of Number Gestapo-13, which concerns the employment of inspectors of the Security Police. Number Gestapo-14 was already submitted, as Exhibit U... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 3,600 | 4,100 |
Administration. The only remedy against them is a complaint through investigation channels." Further, to clarify the legal status of the Gestapo and of the Gestapo Office, I should like to quote Page 3 of this same document, which is Page 48 of the document book. I shall quote Paragraph 2: "In accordance with all this,... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 4,050 | 4,550 |
applicants for service in the Security Police. I make the same request with reference to Number Gestapo-22, which is a directive of 14 December 1936. It says that candidates for Criminal Police service' will have to meet the same tests as candidates for the regular Criminal Police. Then I ask that Number Gestapo-23 sho... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 4,500 | 5,000 |
20 already. That doesn't seem to me to be very few. DR.NERKEL: Of course we must take into consideration that we have only three hours at our disposal for the final summation. For that reason it seemed suitable, first of all, to submit my documentary evidence in such a way that the documents could, as far as possible, ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 4,950 | 5,450 |
Number 47 is a questionnaire addressed to Friedrich Karl von Eberstein, dated 26 March 1946. Both have already been submitted by defense counsel for the Defendant Kaltenbrunner. Numbers 48 and 52 deal with the recruitment of foreign workers for the Reich area, and show that this was the sole responsibility of the Pleni... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 5,400 | 5,900 |
resolution of the Court of 5 July 1946, was prepared by former members of the Gestapo who are now imprisoned, and the authenticity of this summary was certified by me. I ask your permission to read that brief summary into the record too. I turn to the first group, and I shall summarize Affidavits Number 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 5,850 | 6,350 |
It is the next paragraph. THE PRESIDENT: Yes. DR. MERKEL: I shall skip the next four paragraphs and read on: "There were no special Security Police or Security Service prisons in the Dijon area. Furthermore, no arrestees in any prisons were ever executed by order of the Security Police (Sipo) or Security Service (SD) t... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 6,300 | 6,800 |
camps, were received at very long intervals. Also the witnesses who deposed affidavits here in the Nuremberg prison arrived one at a time; therefore it is unavoidable that these affidavits are not numbered consecutively. I should like to repeat the numbers: 5, 6, 7, 8, and 14. They prove that the Gestapo not only did n... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 6,750 | 7,250 |
hear of any of my officials laying violent hands upon a prisoner." 'Under Number 4 1 shall read the penultimate sentence of the first paragraph: "I learned that persons frequently posed as Gestapo officials. These persons also committed criminal acts. Because of the increase of such incidents, Himmler issued a decree a... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 7,200 | 7,700 |
activity never took place. "3. Executive Officials: They executed the real tasks of the Gestapo as laid down by law. In this connection it should be noted, however, that a number of these officials also were engaged in pure office work, as is the case in every office. "4. Civilian Employees: The civilian employees were... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 7,650 | 8,150 |
Office of the Security Police, selected from the civil service staff of all offices, especially the police administration, and were transferred to the Security Police or the Gestapo." From Number 30 1 shall read the following, on the first page under the heading "Organization and Composition of the Gestapo in Bielefeld... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 8,100 | 8,600 |
me from this transfer, failed." I now beg to be permitted in connection with the relationship of the Gestapo to the Frontier Police, to read the following from Affidavit Number 22; this is on Page 2 of the German original: "The members of the Frontier Police were taken over from the Frontier Police, which existed in Ba... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 8,550 | 9,050 |
the persons actually and directly taking part in a matter were informed about it, the more so as, due to the directives which had been issued, the principles of secrecy were strictly observed in Department IV." Then the beginning of the next paragraph: "Still another decisive fact must be given consideration in this co... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 9,000 | 9,500 |
local office chief of the Gestapo and I shall quote from the third sentence of the third paragraph: "As another case, the order by the Chief of the Security Police and the SD of 17 December 1942, according to which at least 35,000 persons capable of working were to be transported to concentration camps to work in the a... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 9,450 | 9,950 |
reported the matter to the Chief of Police who without any reservation shared my point of view. In agreement with him, I then informed the other Landräte concerned by telephone to the effect that they should act accordingly in this matter." Affidavit Number 43 says that, upon objections raised by the competent command... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 9,900 | 10,400 |
the Gestapo is being accused. 39 affidavits deal with the difference in organization between the Gestapo in the Reich and the Security Police in occupied territories. 195 affidavits state that the writers had no knowledge of inhuman treatment and atrocities in the concentration camps. A few ,officials who had entered c... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 10,350 | 10,850 |
now. THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will adjourn now until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. [The Tribunal adjourned until 20 August 1946 at 1000 hours.] Two Hundred and Fifth Day Volume 21 Menu Two Hundred and Seventh Day Nuremberg Trials Page Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Sixth Day | 10,800 | 10,927 |
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towards the 301 20 Aug. 46 regime are concerned, has also been proved by every affidavit submitted; as far as the beginning of the resistance movement and the contact with Kluge are concerned, that has been proved by the witness Focke; the affidavit of Schmidt proves the attempts to avert war at the last.. ~ THE PRESID... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 450 | 950 |
DR. STAHMER: Were you the President of the Reich Research Council? GOERING: Yes. DR.STAHMER: When and by whom was the Reich Research Council established? What were its tasks? GOERING: As far as I remember it was established by me either in 1942 or at the beginning of 1943. It embraced every sphere of science, physics, ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 900 | 1,400 |
you have knowledge of the fact that a certain Dr. Rascher, or an Oberfeldarzt of the Air Force, Dr. Seltz, carried out medical experiments on detainees in the concentration camp of Dachau? GOERING: Dr. Rascher was, as I heard here in Nuremberg and as I gathered from the documents, a medical officer of the Air Force Res... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 1,350 | 1,850 |
matter is supposed to have been discussed during 4 conference in the Air Ministry. Did you convene that conference or were you informed of it afterwards? GOERING: No. Daily conferences of all offices and of all departments were always taking place in the Air Ministry and they could not possibly all have been communicat... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 1,800 | 2,300 |
for all such commissions given by the Reich Research Council was worded: "The Reich Marshal of the German Reich," signature: "The President of the Reich Research Council." It was the custom in Germany that the personal title was given, rather than the office of the person in question; for instance: "The Reich Minister ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 2,250 | 2,750 |
Schreiber might be called to deal with, you must put them now. DR. STAHMER: Did you never receive from Hitler an order or some special authority to carry out preparations for bacteriological warfare? GOERING: I have never received authority or an order of the kind mentioned by General Schreiber of the Medical Service i... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 2,700 | 3,200 |
the President of the Reich Research Council, that is, the heading under which all the thousands of research commissions were given. SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FY]FE: To put it quite bluntly, your defense to this is the rubber-stamp defense that your signature on the orders was merely a rubber-stamp for the equivalent signature ... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 3,150 | 3,650 |
right? GOERING: That is absolutely right. A short explanation, in this connection. Well, you see, it is absolutely... SIR DAVID MAXWELLFYFE: Just a moment. I would like you to consider one or two points before you commit yourself too deeply to that. Do you know that in May of 1942 Field Marshal Milch was expressing you... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 3,600 | 4,100 |
But you know, it didn't stop with your young medical officers. Your service provided the equipment for Dachau for these experiments. GOERING: The translation is not coming through. SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: I will repeat that. It did not stop there. Your service was providing the equipment for these experiments for Dacha... | Yale Avalon (proceedings_vol21): Two Hundred and Seventh Day | 4,050 | 4,550 |
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