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It seems as if at Natzweiler they are trying to make as much money as possible out of this matter. We are not conducting those experiments, as a matter of fact, for the sake of some fixed scientific idea, but to be of practical help to the armed forces and beyond that, to the German people in a possible emergency." Bra... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,285,000 | 3,285,500 |
Ahnenerbe in the performance of sea water experiments conducted at Dachau from July through September 1944, was chiefly in connection with the furnishing of space and equipment for the experiments. Sievers made those necessary arrangement on behalf or the Ahnenebe. As result of Schroeder's request to Himmler though Gra... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,285,450 | 3,285,950 |
he requested Sievers to make available a hundred concentration camp inmates for his research. This is seen from a letter of 30 September 1943 from Sievers to Haagen in which he states that he will be glad to assist, and that he is accordingly contacting the proper source to have the "desired personnel" placed at Haagen... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,285,900 | 3,286,400 |
4 Asiatics. The corpses of the victims were sent in three shipments to the Anatomical institute of Hirt in the Strasbourg University. When the Allied Armies were threatening to overrun Strasbourg early in September 1944, Sievers dispatched to Rudolf Brandt the following teletype message: "Subject: Collection of Jewish ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,286,350 | 3,286,850 |
The fact remains that the record shows the case of several men who did, and who have lived to tell about it. Sievers' second matter of defense is equally untenable. In support of the defense Sievers offered evidence by which he hoped to prove that as early as 1933 be became a member of secret resistance movement which ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,286,800 | 3,287,300 |
medicine at the Universities of Berlin and Braslau, and was admitted to practice in the fall of 1921. After serving as interne in several medical institutes, he received an appointment on the staff of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. Later he served on the staff of Heidelberg University and for three year., engaged... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,287,250 | 3,287,750 |
Berlin, stating that he had inoculated a person intracutaneously with Sperecoides from the salivary glands of a female anopheles which Rose had sent him. The letter continues: "For the second inocculation I miss the Sperecoides material because I do not possess the "Strain Rose" in the anopheles yet. If you could find ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,287,700 | 3,288,200 |
innocence of knowledge that the malaria research was not confined solely to vaccinations designed for the purpose of immunizing the persons vaccinated. On the contrary it is clear that Rose well knew that human beings were being used in the concentration camp as subjects for medical experimentation. However, no adjudic... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,288,150 | 3,288,650 |
those vaccinated." The Ding Diary, under dated 19 August to 4 September 1942, referring to use of vaccines for immunization, states that 20 persons were inoculated with vaccine from Bucharest, with a note "this vaccine was made available by Professor Rose, who received it from Navy Doctor Professor Ruegge from Buchares... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,288,600 | 3,289,100 |
fell sick: a) 17 persons immunized: 9 medium, 8 seriously; b) 9 persons control, 2 medium, 7 seriously. ..2 Jun 44; The experimental series was concluded. 13 Jun 44: Chart and case history completed and sent to Berlin. 6 deaths (3 Kepenhagen) ( control). Dr. Ding." When on the witness stand Rose vigorously challenged t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,289,050 | 3,289,550 |
for an order to produce typhus vaccine to be used by the armed forces in the eastern area. Under the date 4 October 1943 Haagen again wrote Rose concerning his plans for vaccine production; making reference in the letter to a report made by Rose on the Ipsen vaccine. Haagen stated that he had already reported to Rose o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,289,500 | 3,290,000 |
not burden the judgment further. It will be sufficient to say that the evidence proves conclusively that Rose was directly connected with the criminal experiments conducted by Haagen. Doubtless at the outset of the experimental program launched in the concentration camps Rose may have voiced some vigorous opposition. I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,289,950 | 3,290,450 |
Counts Two and Three of the Indictment. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal will now be in recess for a few moments. (A recess was taken.) THE MARSHAL:Persons in the Courtroom will be seated. The Tribunal is again in session. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal has determined that the rest of the Judgment will be read this evening. The ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,290,400 | 3,290,900 |
The evidence is overwhelming and not contradicted that experiments involving the effect of low air pressure on living human beings were conducted at Dachau from the latter part of February through May 1942. In some of these experiments great numbers of human subjects were killed under the most brutal and senseless cond... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,290,850 | 3,291,350 |
event they survived the experiments. Rascher, who was active in the conference, assured the defendants that this also was one of the conditions under which Himmler had authorized the use of camp inmates as experimental subjects. The decisions reached at the conference were then made to Hippke, who gave Ms approval to t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,291,300 | 3,291,800 |
in the experimental series. One was a group of 10 to 15 inmates known in the camp as "exhibition patients" or "permanent experimental subjects". Host, if not all; of these were German nationals who were confined in the camp as criminal prisoners. These men were housed together and were well-fed and reasonably contented... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,291,750 | 3,292,250 |
hand, it cannot be gainsaid that there is a certain consistency, a certain logic, in the story told by the defendants. And some of the story is corraborated in significant particulars by evidence offered by the Prosecution. The value of circumstantial evidence depends upon the conclusive nature and tendency of the circ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,292,200 | 3,292,700 |
Indictment; and directs that he be released from custody under the Indictment when this Tribunal presently adjourns. THE PRESIDENT:Judge Crawford will continue the reading of the Judgment. JUDGE CRAWFORD: DEFENDANT BRACK. "Should you, Reichsfuehrer, decide to choose this way in the interest of the preservation of labor... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,292,650 | 3,293,150 |
members of the race, he was perfectly willing to and did act as an important administrator in furthering the euthanasia program. After it had gotten under way, he wrote letters to various public officials, explaining to them how to keep the matter secret and to allay the public sentiment against the program. This much ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,293,100 | 3,293,600 |
"Action 14F 13; which, briefly stated, amounted to an extermination of concentration camp inmates by methods and agencies used in euthanasia. One of the prime motives behind the program was to eliminate "useless eaters" from the scene, in order to conserve food, hospital facilities, doctors and nurses for the more impo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,293,550 | 3,294,050 |
BeckerFreyseng was an assistant consultant to Anthony, Chief of the Referat for Aviation Medicine, Berlin. All low-pressure chambers owned by the Luftwaffe were under the general control of that office. It is submitted by the Prosecution that the record shows that Becker-Freyseng was a principal in, accessory to, aided... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,294,000 | 3,294,500 |
in evidence that two series of experiments were to be conducted. The first, a maximum period of six days during which one group of subjects would receive sea water processed with the Berka method; a second group, ordinary drinking water; a third group no water at all; and the fourth group, such water as would be availa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,294,450 | 3,294,950 |
of the dangerous nature of the experiments. He knew that deaths were reasonably to be expected. He knew that concentration camp inmates were to be used as experimental subjects. It is impossible to believe that he supposed that the inmates of the camps, who were to be furnished by Himmler, were to be volunteers. The en... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,294,900 | 3,295,400 |
Bureau of the Reich Ministry of Aviation; and others. The subject of discussion was the feasibility of using the Schaefer process, or of turning to another process known as the Berka method. The latter method, while cheap, did not precipitate salts time - as Schaefer, previous to the meeting, had already reported to Sc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,295,350 | 3,295,850 |
They have already been described at length in other portions of this judgment. The Prosecution has shown beyond a reasonable doubt that Hoven was a criminal participant in these experiments In collaboration with the SS camp administration he helped select the concentration camp inmates who became the experimental subje... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,295,800 | 3,296,300 |
some instances I supervised the killings of these unworthy inmates by injections of phenol at the request of the inmates, in the hospital assisted by several inmates. Dr. Ding came once and said I was not doing it correctly, and perform a some of the injections himself, killing three inmates who died within a minute. "... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,296,250 | 3,296,750 |
tho record; the only real difference being that tho evidence shows the defendant to have been guilty of even many hundreds more murders than are admitted by him in his affidavit. As stated, in essence, by one of the Prosecution witnesses in connection with the subject: Hoven personally killed inmates in the hospital ba... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,296,700 | 3,297,200 |
he also reported to and talked with the defendant Schroeder. From these conversations he learned that the prime purpose of the experiments was to test the process developed by Berka for making seawater potable and also to ascertain whether it would be better for a shipwrecked person in distress at sea to go completely ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,297,150 | 3,297,650 |
intends to rely on written evidence at a trial does not fraudulently alter such evidence from any honest or worthy motive. The defendant claims that he was at all times extremely reluctant to perform the experiments with which he is charged, and did so only out of his sense ob obedience as a soldier to superior authori... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,297,600 | 3,298,100 |
German Folkdom the following: "Dr. Madaus published the result of his research on a medicinal sterilization (both articles are enclosed). Reading these articles, the immense importance of this drug in the present fight of our people occurred to me. If, on the basis of this research it were possible to produce a drug wh... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,298,050 | 3,298,550 |
that he was motivated by the high purposes which he asserted impelled him to write the letter. Rather are we inclined to the view that the letter was written by Porkorny for very different and more personal reasons. Be that however as it may, every defendant is presumed to be innocent until he has been proven guilty. I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,298,500 | 3,299,000 |
Fischer at the conclusion of each operation by deliberately neglecting the patients so that the wounds which had been given the subjects would reach the maximum degree of infection. Testimony of the witness Zofia Maczka, an X-ray technician in the camp at Ravensbruck, is that deaths occurred among the experimental subj... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,298,950 | 3,299,450 |
offered in his behalf is twofold; that the experimental subjects were to have alleged death sentences, then impending, commuted to something less severe in the event they survived the experiments; and that defendant Fischer was acting under military orders from his superior officer Professor Gebhardt. These defenses ha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,299,400 | 3,299,900 |
ten o'clock tomorrow morning. (The Tribunal adjourned until 20 August 1947 at 1000 hours.) Official Transcript of the American Military Tribunal in the matter of the United States of America against Karl Brandt, et al. defendants, sitting at Nuernberg. Germany, on 20 August 1947, 1000, Justice Beals presiding. TEE MARS... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,299,850 | 3,300,350 |
guilty of War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and membership in an organization declared criminal by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on which you have been and now stand convicted Military Tribunal I sentences you, ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,300,300 | 3,300,800 |
I sentences you, Helmut Poppendick, to imprisonment for a term of ten years, to be served at such prison or prisons, or other appropriate place of confinement, as shall be determined by competent authority. The Officer of the Guard will remove the defendant Poppendick. The Officer of the Guard will bring before the Tri... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,300,750 | 3,301,250 |
the Tribunal the defendant Waldemar Hoven. Waldemar Hoven, Military Tribunal I has found and adjudged you guilty of War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and membership in an organization declared criminal by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the indictment heretofore filed against yo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 3,301,200 | 3,301,667 |
Official Transcript of the American Military Tribunal No. 1, in the matter of the United States of America against Ulrich Greifelt et al, defendants, sitting at Nurnberg, Germany on 10 October 1947, Justice Wyatt, presiding. THE MARSHAL:The Honorable, the Judges of military Tribunal I Military Tribunal 1 is now in sess... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 0 | 500 |
Chief of Amtsgruppe "B" of the Main Staff Office. Rudolf Creutz - Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the SS; Deputy to Greifelt and Chief of Amtsgruppe "A" of the Main Staff Office of the RKFDV. Konrad Meyer-Hetling - Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the SS; Chief of Amtsgruppe "C" of the Main Staff Office of the RKFDV. Ot... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 450 | 950 |
destruction of foreign nations and ethnic groups, in Part murderous extermination, and in part by elimination and suppression of national characteristics. The object of this program was to strengthen the German nation and the so- called "Aryan" race at the expense of such other nations and groups by imposing Nazi and G... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 900 | 1,400 |
deportation of Eastern workers, deportation to slave labor of members of other countries eligible for Germanization, kidnapping of so-called "racially valuable" children for Germanization, participation in the performance of abortions on Eastern workers, murder and plunder of property. Ultich Greifelt was Chief of the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,350 | 1,850 |
kidnapping of foreign children for the purpose of Germanization. Max Sollmann was the Chief of Lebensborn and in personal charge of Main Department A, which consisted of offices for reception into homes, guardianship, foster homes and adoptions, statistics, and registration: Gregor Ebner was the Chief of the Main Healt... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,800 | 2,300 |
Yugoslav and Norwegian children were taken from their parents or guardians and classified according to their "racial value". Also included in this program were the illegitimate children of non-German mothers, fathered by members of the German Armed forces in the occupied countries. Those children considered to be "raci... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 2,250 | 2,750 |
Meyer-Hetling, Schwarzenberger, Hofmann, Hildebrandt, and Schwalm are charged with special responsibility for and participation in these crimes. 15. Hampering Reproduction of Enemy Nationals. To further weaken enemy nations, both restrictive and prohibitive measures were taken to discourage marriages slid reproduction ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 2,700 | 3,200 |
descent who could easily be Germanized, and members of minority Slavic groups which were considered to have Germanic affiliations; and Group IV-persons allegedly of soma German descent who were actively anti-German. Persons in Groups I and II were given full German citizenship while persons in Groups III and IV receive... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 3,150 | 3,650 |
Administrative Office) in agreement with the Main Staff Office and the proceeds placed in special accounts. The Main Staff Office was thus a partner in the exploitation of the slave labor of the Jews and other inmates of concentration camps and in the taking over of Jewish property in the Government General. The defend... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 3,600 | 4,100 |
and private property, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, and ill-treatment of and other inhumane acts against thousands of persons. These crimes embraced, but were not limited to, the particulars set out in Paragraphs 11 to 21, inclusive, of this Indictment, which are incorporated h... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 4,050 | 4,550 |
the indictment? RUDOLPH CREUTZ:Yes. PRESIDENT:How do you plead to this indictment, Guilty or Not Guilty? RUDOLPH CREUTZ:Not guilty. PRESIDENT:Be seated. SECRETARY GENERAL: KONRAD MEYER-HETLING: PRESIDENT:Judge Crawford will now propound the questions, JUDGE CRAWFORD:Are you now represented by counsel before this Tribun... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 4,500 | 5,000 |
in the German language served upon you at least 30 days ago? DEFENDANT SCHWALM:Yes. JUDGEO'CONNELL: Have you read the indictment? DEFENDANT SCHWALM:I have. JUDGEO'CONNELL: How do you plead to indictment, Guilty or Not Guilty? DEFENDANT SCHWALM:Not guilty. JUDGEO'CONNELL: you may be seated. SECRETARY GENERAL: MAX SOLLMA... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 4,950 | 5,450 |
the prosecution. We will move immediately after the prosecution had finished, into the hearing of the evidence on behalf of the defendants. The Tribunal is of the opinion that reading excerpts from documents introduced in evidence will not be helpful to the Court. You will simply indentify your documents,-both for the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 5,400 | 5,900 |
carrying out this broad program which had the two-fold objective of weakening and eventually destroying other nations while at the same time strengthening Germany at their expense, territorially and biologically, in order to secure German domination first of Europe and finally of the world. This program was based prima... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 5,850 | 6,350 |
of all food Germans to have an many children as possible. Lebensraum was not, as many think it, a cry of an under-privileged people for the possibility of existence. It was a demand for more and more land, in fact, for more land that the German People could use at the time. The Nazis felt that only by expansion into a ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 6,300 | 6,800 |
and Jews not even human, than such an outcome is inevitable'." 2/ It may seem somewhat inconsistent for the Nazis to prate of race and purity of blood on the one hand and on the other to take Poles, Czechs, and nationals of many other countries and decide, upon the basis of physical characteristics such as blue eyes an... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 6,750 | 7,250 |
scale for the Poles." .... "A basic issue in the solution of these problems is the question of schooling and thus the question of sifting and selecting the young. For the non-German population of the East there must be no higher school than the four grade elementary school. The sole goal of this school is to be: Simple... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 7,200 | 7,700 |
Carniola and South Styria in Yugoslavia. This was to be a 20-year plan, so Himmler said, and was to bring about a thorough Germanization of Esthonia and Latvia, as well as of the General Government in Poland. This then was the program of genocide. It was a coordinated plan aimed at the destruction of the essential foun... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 7,650 | 8,150 |
"RKFDV"), the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans (commonly known as RuSH A), and the Well of Life Society (commonly known as "Lebensborn"). To assist the Tribunal in this regard the prosecution has prepared and delivered to the Tribunal a brief containing basic information on the SS and the aforementioned offices t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 8,100 | 8,600 |
Police, which was defined to include both the Criminal Police (Kripo) end the notorious Gestapo or State Secret Police. In this connection, mention should also be made of the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsfuehrer SS or SD, which worked closely with the Gestapo. The SD was the espionage agency first of the SS, and, after ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 8,550 | 9,050 |
SS men who volunteered for four years' military service in lieu of compulsory service with the Army. It was organized as an armed unit to be employed with the Army in the event of mobilization. The Death's Head Formations were selected from SS volunteers and were used to guard concentration camps. After the outbreak of... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 9,000 | 9,500 |
of the finance, supply, and administration of the whole of the SS. It also was engaged in large scale building projects and the operation of various industries in connection with concentration camps. The surviving leaders of this Main Office have been recently tried before Military Tribunal II. The defendant Lorenz had... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 9,450 | 9,950 |
the Reich Sommissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism." (Dienstelle" RKFDV). In his order of 17 October 1939 establishing the Office of the RKFDV, Himmler said: "I wish to mention particularly some of these tasks as well as the institutions and agencies which are charged with the solution and execution of these tas... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 9,900 | 10,400 |
of the SS, numerous government and party officials were subject to Himmler's authority insofar as their activities related to the Strengthening of Germanism. Thus, Himmler as RKFDV, and in practice the defendant Greifelt as his deputy, could give orders to the Gauleiters and Reich Governors. The Main Staff Office also ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 10,350 | 10,850 |
of the oldest Main Offices of the Supreme Command of the SS. Before the war, the main function of RuSHA was the translation into practice of the racial theories of the SS. It concerned itself with checking the proof of Aryan descent of candidates for admission into the SS. An SS Officer was required to provide a family... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 10,800 | 11,300 |
the Germanization of citizens of Poland and other countries, transfers of populations, abortions, slave labor, persecution of Jews, punishment for sexual intercourse between Germans and non-Germans, and kidnapping of children. In some cases the RuSHA Field Leaders also represented Lebensborn. Lebensborn was a registere... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 11,250 | 11,750 |
laws and conventions". The general program of Germanization called for a special effort to be made to get "racially valuable" children who could be bred as a contribution to the Greater German Reich. Moreover, children of foreign birth could be molded and shaped into Nazis much more easily than their parents. Thus, it ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 11,700 | 12,200 |
vantage point of numerical, biological, and spiritual superiority. To this end, elaborate and detailed plans for the forced Germanization of their conquered territories were made. It was in the execution of these plans that the defendants in this case worked so eagerly. This "Germanization" policy was applied to all co... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 12,150 | 12,650 |
Jews, and only 7 Per cent Germans. This lack of "Germanic" population was handled in part by mass murder. In a memorandum received by the Main Staff Office under the defendant Greifelt, the plan was made clear. It said: "The necessity arises for a ruthless decimation of the Polish population and, as a matter of course,... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 12,600 | 13,100 |
cultural value. One of the most ingenious methods used in completing this process of forcible Germanization was the compulsory registration of Polish citizens in the so-called "German Peoples List" (Deutsche Volksliste), commonly known as the "DVL" procedure, and in the list of persons considered suitable for so-called... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 13,050 | 13,550 |
their political attitude and "racial characteristics" were concerned. Group 4 comprised those persons allegedly of German stock who were not only Polonized but also were loyal and active Polish nationalists. The persons listed in the two first groups were automatically made German citizens upon registration. The situat... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 13,500 | 14,000 |
sent to concentration camps. These who were not put into concentration camps were constantly under police supervision. After resettlement they had to join the affiliated organizations of the NSDAP; and their children, the Hitler Youth, Higher SS and Police leaders took punitive measures against recalcitrant persons, pu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 13,950 | 14,450 |
saw too many Polish men, women and children whose physical attributes corresponded to the Germanic beauty ideal much more than did the faces and figures of their own Goebbels and Himmler. In order to include those people in the process of forcible Germanization, a new theory was invented. They just said black was white... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 14,400 | 14,900 |
in their language and allegiance. It seems that from among those carriers of Germanic blood there rose these leaders for the former Polish state, who finally, be it by an ill union, became the most determined enemies of their own Germanic people. ..... "Therefore it is absolutely essential from the standpoint of popula... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 14,850 | 15,350 |
Leader of RuSHA and was informed of all orders issued in connection with the WED procedure and made drafts of many of them. The defendant Huebner was chief of the RKFDV office and Field Leader of RuSHA in the Warthegau, one of the provinces in the Incorporated Eastern Territories where many of the candidates for "re-Ge... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 15,300 | 15,800 |
-- inhabitants of the districts of Lower-Styria, South Corinthia and Upper Carniola, parts of Yugoslavia which were incorporated into Germany. The story of their ruthless deportation will be told at a later point. The Slovenes evicted from their country were processed by the Main Staff Office; the defendant Greifelt pe... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 15,750 | 16,250 |
compulsion or be duped by these deceitful practices, sterner measures were used. As a matter of fact, Himmler and his assistants anticipated this resistance. The memorandum of the Race Office of the Nazi Party quoted above, when first outlining the program of Germanization stated: "...the groups, which are the most val... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 16,200 | 16,700 |
boarding schools as pupils. I request a report on their conduct every 3 months. Correspondence with the mother will be prohibited until further notice, till the mother has become conscious of the treason com mitted. In thecase of the 2 boys of good race, teachers and school-fellows should do their best to convince them... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 16,650 | 17,150 |
because those in Group 4 were not trusted, they were not drafted into the army. In may instances the people in the first three groups went so far as to admit membership in Polish organizations in order to be placed in Group 4 and thus avoid military service. A method used, by those who had already been drafted into the... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 17,100 | 17,600 |
was arrested because he did not fulfill his obligation to work on the Westwall. At the time of his assignment he even had the impertinence to 11k up the Kreisleiter of the NSDAP in Darmstadt and to declare to him that he would not go to the Westwall because he wag a Pole. I am going to turn the Pole over to concentrati... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 17,550 | 18,050 |
of good blood will be taken from the Polish people and added to the German people". The defendats Greifelt and Creutz were especially energetic in the recruitment and selection of these girls and arranged for their transportation to Germany. Their families were usually left behind in Poland. In one of Ms reports to Him... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 18,000 | 18,500 |
racial policies without any compromise, Among many others, two main tasks consequently arose: 1) A clean segregation between people of German and of foreign blood must be carried out without any compromise. 2) It is indispensable to settle without exception these ancient Kultur territories, which once already belonged ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 18,450 | 18,950 |
bolld one must distinguish between those which being of foreign race will never merge into the German nation and such which became alienated to the German nation in regard to nationhood and language but belong to it by blood: (2) Any attempt to gain people of foreign race for Germanization or even to make him a German ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 18,900 | 19,400 |
were resettled in Polish territories. According to a statistical survey of the defendant GREIFELT's Main Staff Office, over 507,000 ethnic Germans were taken by 15 January 1942 from a number of countries in the east. A proximately 289,000 of these were brought to the incorporated territories of Poland as resettlers and... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 19,350 | 19,850 |
the representatives of the SS Race and Settlement Office, the RSHA, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Labor and other agencies. In this EWZ the resettlers were processed in order to determine whether they were "politically reliable" and "racially valuable". At the end of the processing, the ethnic Germans f... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 19,800 | 20,300 |
he felt that it would be much better to face this difficulty then to keep the ethnic Germans cooped up in camps during another winter. In many CourtI, Case VIII instances the defendant GREIFELT personally gave the expulsion order while in other instances it was the defendant HUEBNER as a local representative of the Mai... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 20,250 | 20,750 |
to work as farmers or farm laborers for settlers in so-called Z-villages which are situated between the German settlements. Those incapable of work were put up in other districts in so-called "Renten" -- vil lages . The Ukrainians living mainly in the settlement areas of the Northeastern and Eastern regions of the Zamo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 20,700 | 21,200 |
sooner or later he would lose his homestead and fields has caused a sentiment of deep distrust and despair in the Polish farmer, who until now had well fullfilled the tasks and duties imposed upon him by the Administration, which of course can not remain without negative results as to his efficiency. Already the delive... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 21,150 | 21,650 |
to take care of them." On 28 January 1943, Krueger, the Higher SS and Police Leader at Cracow, reported to Himmler that some Polish farmers tried to return to the village of Ciesyn located in the German resettlement area, He suggested that the resistance shown by Poles in the resettle ment area be broken by a large sca... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 21,600 | 22,100 |
this decree Greifelt had issued "Instructions for the expulsion of foreign elements from South Corinthia" in which he ordered that the Slovene intelligentsia be examined, the racially valuable Slovenes be deported to Germany for Germanization, while those not racially valuable be deported to Serbia. By 22 June 1942, 34... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 22,050 | 22,550 |
German Resettlement-Trustee Company".In the deportations of Luxembourgians, the Main Staff Office VOMI, and RUSHA played an important part. The defendants LORENZ and BRUECKNER of VOMI participated in the planning of the expulsion measures. The expelled Luxembourgians were taken first to VOMI camps, where RuSHA carried ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 22,500 | 23,000 |
responsibility of deporting all unreliable persons from Alsace-Lorraine. In another memorandum of 6 October 1942, RuSHA reported that the deportation of politically unreliable Alsatians was underway and that the Race and Settlement Office was determining which of them were racially valuable and hence to be resettled in... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 22,950 | 23,450 |
of the program of genocide and Germanization, all of the defendants participated in the plunder of public and private property. As time will not permit a detailed discussion of all of these crimes, we will limit ourselves to the most important points. The Main Staff Office under the defendant Greifelt was particularly ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 23,400 | 23,900 |
that in Lorraine an area of 214,445 hectares had been registered for seizure and confiscation and in Alsace a total of 10,561 hectares. In October 1943 the defendant Greifelt estimated that the total value of the confiscated land amounted to from 7 to 8 hundred million marks. Greifelt was not content with confiscations... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 23,850 | 24,350 |
by Germans or ethnic Germans. In the Amt III, "Industrial Economy", of the Main Staff Office there was a division called "Procurement of Furniture and Household Goods", the primary function of which was the confiscation of personal effects of Jews for use by ethnic German resettlers. In an office memorandum of 18 Septe... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 24,300 | 24,800 |
genocide was part of the Nazi doctrine of total warfare, war waged against populations rather than against states and armed forces. One must search as far back as the massacres by Genghis Khan and by Tamerlane to find anything remotely comparable to the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. Hans Frank, former Governo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 24,750 | 25,250 |
the deprivations of war - we still had Jews today. in every town as secret saboteurs, agitators and troublemongers. We would now probably have reached the 1916/17 stage when the Jews were still in the German national body. "We have taken from them what wealth they had. I have issued a strict order, which SS Obergruppen... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 25,200 | 25,700 |
July of 1941, Himmler issued an order to the defendant Lorenz, as Chief of Vomi, and Heydrich, directing Lorenz to take all measures necessary to register ethnic Germans in the occupied Russian territories and to lay the foundation for German domination by the assignment of reliable antiBolshevik agents. It stated that... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 25,650 | 26,150 |
on the organizational, physical and material requirements with respect to the final solution of the European Jewish problem necessitated this previous general consultation by all the central offices directly concerned, in order that there should be coordination in policy". After reviewing the steps which had been taken... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 26,100 | 26,600 |
that Eichmann be contacted in order to assign a deputy to that office. Since there were 60,000 Jewish families in the occupied part of France, the agent stated that the work would be plentiful. Another indication of the activities of RuSHA in the persecution of the Jews is found in a letter of 27 May 1944 from a RuSHA ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 26,550 | 27,050 |
hide their children under their clothing, but of course when we found them and we would send the children in to be exterminated".Extermination centers similar to Auschwitz existed at Treblinka, Majdanck, Belzec, and Sobibor in the vicinity of Lublin, and the procedure there was the same. The victims were stripped of th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 27,000 | 27,500 |
Pure silk underwear is to be delivered to the Ministry of Economics, according to an order of the SS-Economic and Administrative-Main Office: the same goes for the underwear, mentioned under d). f) Feather beds, quilts, blankets, suiting material, scarves, umbrellas, walking-sticks, thermosflasks, car protectors, peram... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 27,450 | 27,950 |
Jews were to be exterminated and the Ghetto destroyed. Greifelt was advised of this decision by Greiser, the Gauleiter of the Warthegau, and the Main Staff Office was assigned the task of demolishing the Ghetto and confiscating COURT I CASE VIII the property of the Jews. Greifelt directed the defendants Schwarzenberger... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 27,900 | 28,400 |
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