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was established and administrators and custodians were appointed. Q.What was the purpose of sealing up the properties? A.Well, in order to protect them from thefts. Q.So that no unauthorized persons could enter them? A.Yes. Q.Did you ever hear whether the so-called Central Office was included in this in any form by the... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 208,350 | 208,850 |
you please state your name? AMy name is Petrakova, Ruzena. QWhen and where were you born? AI was born in Beloky, Prague outskirts, on the 29th April 1906. QOf what country are you a citizen? AI am a Czech citizen. QDid you ever live in the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia? AI lived there for fifteen years. QWere you... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 208,800 | 209,300 |
the grandmothers, and all of us. QWitness, let me interrupt for just one moment. When you were interrogated in Kladno, did they ask who your mother was and your father's mother and father? AYes, they did. QDid they ask whet nationality they were? AYes, they did. QDid they ask you which one of the parents your own child... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 209,250 | 209,750 |
make would be immaterial. BY MR. NEELY: QWitness, after the children were taken away from the mother, then what happened to you and the other mothers from Lidice? AWhen they took the children from us, they locked the door, counted us up according to the police registration, took us to the yeard of the high school where... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 209,700 | 210,200 |
they were thinking about me, and that my husband was working just in the same capacity as I, and that I should keep well and come home once again. I believed this for all these three years that I would see my children again and that I would also see my husband, and that we would live happily again as we used to back in... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 210,150 | 210,650 |
requests the witness, Maria Hanfova be called to the stand. THE PRESIDENT:Let the witness come to the stand. MARIAHANFOVA, a witness, took the stand and testified as follows: THE PRESIDENT:The witness will raise her right hand and repeat after me: I swear by God, the Almighty and Omniscient, that I will speak the pure ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 210,600 | 211,100 |
into groups in Litzmannstadt? A.Then they came and selected seven of us. Q.Would you state the name, if you remember, of these seven children? A.Yes. Marie Hanfova, Anna Hanfova, Marie Dolezalova, Vera Vokata, Emilie Freyova, Vaclav Hanf. Q.And how were you treated while you were in the camp in Litzmannstadt? A.We were... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 211,050 | 211,550 |
you have any ceremonies where you had to give the Nazi salute and so forth? A.There were festivities in Hitler Jugend. Q.Were you forbidden to speak Czech while in the home in Puschkau? A.Yes. Q.Did you ever forget and speak Czech at any time? A.No, I didn't. Q.Well, if any of the children ever spoke Czech were they pu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 211,500 | 212,000 |
should be proud to become a German? A.Yes; they told me that. Q.What did you do while you were with the family Richter? A.I had to go to a German school. Q.Did you go to school with other German children? A.Yes. Q.How were you treated by these German children? A.At the beginning it was bad because I was a Czech and I d... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 211,950 | 212,450 |
MR. SHILLER: QWitness, will you please state your name? AMaria Dolexalova. QHow old are you? AFifteen. QWhere were you born? ALidice. QWere you there on the 9 and 10 of June, 1942? AYes. QWith whom were you living at the time? AWith my parents, my grandmother and my brother. QDo you remember what happened in Lidice at ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 212,400 | 212,900 |
piece of bread. The little children were crying and we tried to hide the bread for them and German woman took it away from us and we were not given anything to eat. We also asked about our parents but we didn't get an answer to that question. On the first floor there were some Polish women billeted. We asked them for s... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 212,850 | 213,350 |
raight? AYes. QWhat did you do while you were at this home in Puschkau? AWe had to go to school and then we had to work in the garden. QWhat did you learn at school, witness? AWe learned how to write, read German, count, and then we had gymnastics. QWitness were you ever allowed to speak the Czech language? ANo. QDid y... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 213,300 | 213,800 |
the 8th of October, 1946. QWho took you hack to Czechoslovakia? AAt Berlin the Czech office. The papers in Berlin wrote that they were looking for children which were given for education to families. Schiller went with me to Berlin, and in Berlin they showed me pictures from Lidice which I immediately recognized. They ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 213,750 | 214,250 |
Exhibit 318. The Prosecution next offers the document shown on page 89, being document No.NO-3220, instructions from Himmler on the treatment of families of men escaping from internment camps in Silesia, dated 21 September 1942, being Prosecution's Exhibit No. 319. The Prosecution next offers the document shown on page... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 214,200 | 214,700 |
with RKFDV, dated 2 December 1943, as Prosecution's Exhibit 331. The Prosecution next offers the document shown on page 113, being document No.NO-4698, letter by Panzer to VOMI at Metten, concerning relatives of partisans shot in Lower Styria, dated 24 February 1943, as Exhibit 332. The Prosecution next offers the docu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 214,650 | 215,150 |
what I have here, you skipped, in your exhibit numbers, from 337 to 339. MR. LAMB:According to what I have, Your Honor, the document shown on page 14, beingNO-682, is our Exhibit 338. THE PRESIDENT:Which one? MR. LAMB:NO-682, which is shown on page 14, is our Exhibit No. 338. THE PRESIDENT:And the next,NO-4668, had pre... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 215,100 | 215,600 |
1942 as our Exhibit 349. That is all of Document Book VI-A. We how take up Document Book VI-B. The Prosecution next offers Document shown on Page 1, Document No. NO-3316, copy of Himmler order concerning reenforcement of the SS and police troops in the Government-General and occupied Eastern territories, dated 17 Augus... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 215,550 | 216,050 |
mimeographed copy is not very clear. I want to check and see what that document number is. THEPRESIDENT: 3096 seems to be correct. MR. LAMB:I think that is correct, Your Honor. She wants to get it straight here for a minute. THE PRESIDENT:That, is what it shows on the original document in the book. MR. LABM:I think we ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 216,000 | 216,500 |
Book No. VII. THE PRESIDENT:The members of the Tribunal do not seem to have copies of VII. I, myself, do have a copy but the other two members do not. MR. LAMB:Your Honor, the young lady says they have been delivered and the Marshal has gone out to get copies. THE PRESIDENT:All right. We have them now. You can go ahead... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 216,450 | 216,950 |
of them. MR. LAMB:The Prosecution next offers document shown on page 16, Document No.NO-5258, being an affidavit- THE PRESIDENT:Is that 5258 or 5288? MR. LAMB:NO-5258 is correct, that is the original, being an affidavit of Karl Faust on co-participation of RKFDV in the DVL and Ru SHA, as our Exhibit 375. We next offer ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 216,900 | 217,400 |
No. NO_5267, Exhibit 376. As far as I am able to see, from the photostatic copy of the Polish text, this record has not been certified at all. If, however, the signature should be considered as being a certificate of veracity, then I believe that for this document and particularly for this form in which this certificat... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 217,350 | 217,850 |
foud on page 17 of the English and 84 of the German. It is an affidavit by Hilmar Staudte, and it is hereby entered into evidence as Prosecution Exhibit 389. 30 Oct 1947_A_MSD_24_4_Sampson (Garand) DR.SCHMIDT: (Attorney for the Defendant Tesch) Your Honor, I suggest that in the place of the affidavit, by the witness St... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 217,800 | 218,300 |
the Tribunal, I would like to make some corrections in Document Hook VI-B. Yesterday afternoon, when we were introducing these documents, a little confusion resulted which I can straighten out in just a minute, if the Tribunal will permit. THE PRESIDENT:Is that the last document book you were on? MR. LAMB:No, sir. This... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 218,250 | 218,750 |
get the sound system working, so the Court will recess subject to call. (A recess was taken.) THE MARSHAL:The Tribunal is a*ain in session. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal will announce at this time: it appears that several of the attorneys for the Defense were also attorneys in the case in which the judgment is to be rende... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 218,700 | 219,200 |
to say, I had to carry out the preliminary examination and the drafting of suggestions about directives with regard to property assimilation. Then I had to deal with questions of doubt which concerned the DUT, the German Resettlement Trustee Company and which had been turned over to Office III of the Staff Main Office ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 219,150 | 219,650 |
owner, but he is deprived of all other rights in the property, the primary one, of course, being use. In the case of a confiscation all rights in the property are lost, including title. Now, if that had been translated in German to the witness, I think it would be quite simple to ask him the admittedly leading question... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 219,600 | 220,100 |
who were subsequently entered into the German People's list in Group 1 or Group 2. Q.Did the Main Staff Office take any part in the disposition of property seized or confiscated by HTO? AYes. The Staff Main Office played a part in the drafting of the decree pertaining to Polish property. Furthermore, the Main staff Off... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 220,050 | 220,550 |
all. The Main Staff Office had to give its consent in all cases. QHad the majority of the property seized and confiscated by HTO been used for resettlers in the manner in which you described it? AYes. As far as enterprises were utilized, as far as the number is concerned, they were mainly given to resettlers. QYou are ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 220,500 | 221,000 |
regard to the differentiation between industrial property which came under the competence of the Main Trustee Office East and agricultural property which came under the competence of the Main Staff Office. Office I of the Main Staff Office also participated in these cases on questions of priority, which for example, al... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 220,950 | 221,450 |
you saw? AWith regard to this question, could you just give me an explanation of what you are referring to? QDid you notice anything worthwhile to describe here in regard to the status of those Jews? AYes. That ghetto made a very bad and frightening impression on me. We were able to see from the street that these peope... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 221,400 | 221,900 |
( A recess was taken.) Court No. I, Case No. VIII. THE MARSHAL:The Tribunal is again in session. BY MR. SCHWENK: Q.Witness, I have only a few more questions. Do you remember any conferences in the Main Staff Office in which you participated and in which the use of property was discussed that would be available as a res... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 221,850 | 222,350 |
the result I mentioned before. Q.Do you know what property was turned over to the Main Staff Office as a result of all those negotiations and conferences? A.Do you mean the articles, or whether they were turned over? Q.Both. A.The whole thing related to furniture, stoves, and it also concerned construction material. I ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 222,300 | 222,800 |
that? A.While I was with the HTO, no. Q.Was that property seized or confiscated property? A.As far as I know, that property had not been seized. Q.Did it belong to Poles or Jews? A.It belonged to both Poles and Jews, yes. Q.Could you estimate the value of that property? A.I believe I can recall a figure which was appro... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 222,750 | 223,250 |
Can you imagine what the purpose was behind it? Why was it that the Main Staff Office had to agree or participate in this? A.Well, the reason was that part of the function of the Main Staff Office was the new organization of the Eastern Territories. Q.Why so conplicated - A.Just a minute, please. So the Main Office was... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 223,200 | 223,700 |
A.As far as the seizures were concerned which were carried out by the HTO, the owner had no right whatsoever to the fruits of his property. Q.Did not some Poles -- or shall we say, many Poles or most of the Poles -- remain on the seized property at first? A.Not in the industrial sector. It only occurred that the owners... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 223,650 | 224,150 |
that because I did not participate in the negotiations concerning the enactment of this decree. Q.Can you remember a Generalreferent of the RK with the HTO? A.Yes, Galke. Q.Would you tell us something about that -- whether this general referent, with reference to this decree for Polish property -- whether he participat... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 224,100 | 224,600 |
they influence the living conditions of these inmates in a bad or good sense? A.When I was in Lodz, I was told that those Jews who were working would receive an additional food ration. Q.The agency of the Main Staff Office in Lodz, did it have any influence on the billeting of Jews in the ghettos, or with the occupatio... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 224,550 | 225,050 |
these large textile plants in Lodz. Is it correct that these enterprizes were first supervised by a special committee, and that the Reich Ministry also participated in this matter? A.I mentioned before that I could not recall the committes; however, it is possible; because now that you are putting the question to me, I... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 225,000 | 225,500 |
Q.Did this field agency in Lodz have anything to do with the procurement of furniture and household equipment, or did it only have something to do with the distribution of those articles? A.I believe that originally they only dealt with the procurement, and later on, only with the distribution. Q.Do you know whether th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 225,450 | 225,950 |
was that they signed it together. Q.Do you know why then the defendant Creutz signed the carrying out order winch you mentioned and why was it that the defendant Greifelt had not consigned it? A.I assume that the defendant Greifelt, on that particular day when the carrying out order was signed, was not present. Q.Then ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 225,900 | 226,400 |
was preceded by regulations issued by the Military Commanders concerning the seizure. Q.Can you recall the decree concerning the seizure of the pro party of the former Polish State, dated 15 January, 1940? A.Yes, but that decree, according to my knowledge, referred to state property, therefore not to private property. ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 226,350 | 226,850 |
for instance, about brick factories. A.The HTO was competent for brick plants and was also competent for sugar factories. According to my recollection the line drawn with reference to their competencies between HTO and Main Staff Office had been taken care of by regulations. The decisive fact thereby was as to whether ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 226,800 | 227,300 |
continue my examination of this witness. THE PRESIDENT:Go ahead. CROSS EXAMINATION (CONTINUED) BY DR. BEHLING: Q.Witness, shortly before the recess of the morning session we discussed the difference between the seizure of industrial property and the seizure of agricultural property. You confirmed to me that the owner s... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 227,250 | 227,750 |
such. Q.Witness, you mentioned the Ghetto action at Litzmannstadt. In this connection I would like to ask you the following: In your official capacity did you in any form participate in this action? A.What Ghetto action are you referring to, counsel? Q.I am referring to the action where the procurement of furniture was... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 227,700 | 228,200 |
1944, with regard to the construction office, probably must have been very small. Q.Can you confirm to me, witness, that in spite of the establishment of the office groups, the heads of the individual offices could report directly to the chief of the Main Office? A.I don't know that because Office III was directly subo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 228,150 | 228,650 |
that the Staff Main Office had something to do with the kidnapping of children and the compulsory abortions on female eastern workers; things of that sort. DR. BEHLING:Thank you, I have no further questions. My cross examination is completed. CROSS EXAMINATION BY DR. DINNER: (Attorney for the defendant Schwarzenberger)... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 228,600 | 229,100 |
been concluded before, and further negotiations in which I participated only referred to the execution of the contract which had already been concluded before. Q.Who were the parties in that contract? A.It was Greiser in his capacity as Gauleiter, and the defendant Greifelt in his capacity as chief of the Main Staff Of... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 229,050 | 229,550 |
make inquiries about the man's professional capabilities? A before he gave his consent to the purchasing contract, he also would make inquiries as to the man's professional capabilities with the competent professional authorities. QIs it correct that directives concerning the field of tasks of office III were issued by... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 229,500 | 230,000 |
the letterhead "the Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of Germanism," and below that, Race and Settlement Main Office? AI have never seen a letterhead of that nature. DR. SCHWARZ:Thank you; I have no further questions. THE PRESIDENT:Is that all for the Defense? CROSS EXAMINATION BY DR. ORTH: (For the defendant Vier ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 229,950 | 230,450 |
you were not present, and you did not see any file notes? AI was not present. * cannot recall ever having seen a file note about this discussion. QAs a lawyer you should know about Roman law, which starts from the superstition that a sale is only concluded when people are in agreement about the goods and the price invo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 230,400 | 230,900 |
his opinion on the laws and orders? Did he ever listen to your advice? AGreifelt was an autocrat. QHowever, there are independent rulers who have their ministers of justice. AThat is quite correct, but in this case the minister of justice, in the case of a dictator, in general, has not very much to say. QAnd you took t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 230,850 | 231,350 |
AYes. THE PRESIDENT:I don't think this witness's feeling would help this Court any. Let's get down to a strictly rebuttal examination, not over this same territory again. BY MR. SCHWENK: QYou were asked, in the cross-examination about the Ostland and Reichsland. Did the supervision of the trustee by Ostland and Reichsl... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 231,300 | 231,800 |
had seized and confiscated property prior to the time when HTO into operation. Is it correct that when HTO came-- Pardon me, I would like to rephrase my question. Is it correct that even that property seized and confiscated by the Army was taken over by HTO handled in the manner in which you described it? AYes. MR. SCH... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 231,750 | 232,250 |
PRESIDENT:What is the trouble? DR. SCHWARZ:The documents have been given wrong number. THE PRESIDENT:Well, suppose you see if you can't get together about that. That is a mechanical matter; that makes no material difference. DR. SCHWARZ:I would have liked to have the corrections in the transcript. THE PRESIDENT:All rig... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 232,200 | 232,700 |
indicate that the defendant was identified. MR. LAMB:All right, sir. BY MR. LAMB: Q.Did you ever serve under the defendant Hildebrandt? A.Yes, I did. Q.At that time, what position did the defendant Hildebrandt hold? A.The defendant Hildebrandt at the time held the position of the Higher SS and Police Leader, Schwarzes ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 232,650 | 233,150 |
the additional tasks, first of all, in my area at this particular time, in the general district of Dnepropetrovsk, which had not been reoccupied so far by the Russians. Here the Higher SS and Police Leader of Dnepropetrovsk reassigned these police units which did not have any other assignment at the time. They were giv... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 233,100 | 233,600 |
arms and no person capable of performing work should fall alive into Russian hands, in any case, so that he would mean an increase in the strength of the Russian manpower in the Russian armed Forces or as a Russian worker. THE PRESIDENT:Just a minute. The Tribunal will be in recess for 15 minutes. (A recess was taken) ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 233,550 | 234,050 |
general instructions concerning the execution of this forced evacuation or deportation, the units had to proceed ruthlessly which meant that under circumstances they also used force. Q.What was the term "Slave hunting" used generally with regard to these people? A.Would you repeat that, please? I didn't understand the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 234,000 | 234,500 |
Schutzpolizei - they were also present and that major of the Schutzpolizei knew me from my time in the Crimea when I was subordinated to Alwensleben and when I told him about my misgivings he said something like this: "Well, we know Gerbel from the Crimea. He is very soft." And Hildebrandt somehow agreed to that remark... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 234,450 | 234,950 |
would not be reported to the proper authorities for the reasons I just mentioned. QIf these women and their expected offspring were not considered racially valuable was it required that an abortion be performed? AYes. That is what I found out, not from any orders which existed, at least not in my time - I never did see... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 234,900 | 235,400 |
woman had to be found so that the necessary measures could be taken against that woman, as I stated them before. QDid he say that Hildebrandt wanted to find the woman so that an abortion could be made? AWhat? QDid the staff officer tell you that Hildebrandt wanted this woman found so that an abortion could be performed... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 235,350 | 235,850 |
to my knowledge he was not transferred there as deputy, but we all thought that he was SS and police leader of the Black Sea area. Q.In your position as major in the police, did you have an opportunity to gain any insight into the conditions and relationships of the higher SS and police leaders in that area. A.As far a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 235,800 | 236,300 |
rather peaceful. Q.And didn't the Krimea become a part of the operational area again when the German armies had in part been destroyed at the Volga and in part were retreating or had been forced to retreat? A.Well, you mean operational area or fighting area. The Krimea at all times was an operational area. It became a ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 236,250 | 236,750 |
be killed. A.Yes, that is correct. Q.Do you know that the higher command of the armies gave orders to direct the traffic of the retreating German forces and the civilians? A.Yes. Q.Is it correct that for that purpose Russian civilians who were traveling back and the retreating Germans were assigned special roads? A.Yes... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 236,700 | 237,200 |
agency. Q.Now, let's come to the second task of the uniform police. Is it correct that it was an additional task of the plice to help the large evacuation, of large military deposts which were in danger of falling into Russian hands? A.I know that, even though in my sector we did not use them because no forces were ava... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 237,150 | 237,650 |
asked you was whether, in 1943 or 1944, around that period of time, these people in those areas had been left to do whatever they wanted to do, choose to stay or follow the German troops; and whether it was also attempted to take these people so that they couldn't fall into the hands of the Russians. AI would like to r... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 237,600 | 238,100 |
place, and that was the retreat of the Transistrian Germans, the so-called Black Sea Germans, under the supervision of the VOMI, or Brigade Leader Hofmeyer, respectively? AI know about that, but I do not know the details. When I arrived in that area all the villages had already been cleared by the VOMI, and I am referr... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 238,050 | 238,550 |
uniform police were also used as infantrymen? ADo you mean the Roumania sector or Russia? QI mean Roumania. ANot in Roumania, no, because in Roumania, on the 22nd of August 1944, I believe it was, the government was overthrown and this resulted in the immediate of almost all our units in that same evening, or the follo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 238,500 | 239,000 |
personnel? A.I would like to answer that question in the affirmative. I remember that he personally permitted, in the course of a conference, that we, from our own food supplies and stocks, feed the members who were retreating along with us. Q.You mentioned an order before, which originated during the time when Poland ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 238,950 | 239,450 |
Hildebrandt was not in southern Russia as yet, but it was Herr von Alvensleben who was there? A.Yes, that is correct. That was prior to that time of the Crimea. Q.And did I also understand you correctly, witness, to the effect that you cannot say whether the second case led to any abortion? A.That is also correct. I co... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 239,400 | 239,900 |
further questions. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal will recess until nine-thirty, Tuesday morning. (The Tribunal adjourned until 4 November 1947, at 0930 hours.) Official Transcript of American Military Tri bunal I in the matter of the United States of America against Ulrich Greifelt, et al, defendants, sitting at Nurmberg,... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 239,850 | 240,350 |
to repair it and I was assigned manpower to do the job, and was told that I was to use the ethnic German population, being told that these people being ethnic Germans would probably hold themselves available for the purpose. But afterwards, what actually happened was that in these settlements we could not find any such... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 240,300 | 240,800 |
question of any personal animosity against the defendant Hildebrandt. At this time I would like to state emphatically once more that on the contrary, Obergruppenfuehrer Hildebrandt is really a person to whom I am particularly obliged for the fact that he was the first and only person of higher rank who was my superior ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 240,750 | 241,250 |
against the policy which he used and about which you testified in this case? AOriginally I not only protested to the superior agencies of the police, that is, the Higher SS and Police Leaders, the regular uniformed police. QDid you protest of the defendant Hildebrandt in person that his policies were wrong? ANot person... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 241,200 | 241,700 |
caused an assignment to be ordered, I knew that the regular uniformed police was to be assigned. QAnd to what extent did you consider this assignment to be undisputed for the police? AOf course, it is a question of opinion. It was my personal opinion that this assignment was degrading to the German police, the manner i... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 241,650 | 242,150 |
didn't like that child and I therefore took the other one. Later on however -- I didn't take the child along with me right away because I wanted to discuss it with my wife first and later they wrote me that this child had already been promised to another family. QWhat nationality were the children first shown to you? A... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 242,100 | 242,600 |
welfare of the child as there were no other people alive responsible for taking care of it. QAfter that did Lebensborn ever let you know that anyone else, or the parents of this child,were living? AYes, at the end of 1944 I was notified that the father had been found and was claiming that the child should be returned t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 242,550 | 243,050 |
the child, just one vaccination certificate which was issued by the doctor of the children's institute and read in the name of Wolfgang Uebe. QYou said that the child was taken by you with the intention of adopting it later on? AYes. QWas this desire of yours made known to Lebensborn? AYes. QAnd what answer were you gi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 243,000 | 243,500 |
been in this institution of Korensaalis in order to select a child and you stated that you had been told in regard to a girl that you could not be given this child because most probably the parents were still alive. Is that correct? AYes, I was advised not to take the child which was, as I already said, not acceptable ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 243,450 | 243,950 |
was done by Lebensborn in Korensaalis, was that change of name sufficient for the German authorities in your town? A.Yes, originally in Bayreuth we registered the child and stated it was a child which had been assigned to me by Lebensborn and that they had some special decree the details of which I - as a layman - don'... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 243,900 | 244,400 |
born? A. 30 January 1909. Q.Where were you born? A.In Posen. Q.What was your profession before you joined the Main Staff Office? A.I was Chief of the legal department of the Deutsche Siedlungs Bank, German Settlers' Bank. Q.When were you employed by the Main Staff Office? A.On February 1940. Q.In what department of the... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 244,350 | 244,850 |
it contains. MR. SCHWENK:Your Honor, we don't have the decree in evidence we never obtained it from any sources. I don't have the document. THE PRESIDENT:There is nothing before the Court to show that that is true. We don't know that? MR. SCHWENK:Your Honor, I have to rely on the oral evidence given by this witness. TH... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 244,800 | 245,300 |
a sub-division of the Central Land Office. In organizational respects, as well as - as far as personnel is concerned, they were subordinated to the agencies of the deputies. Q.The person in charge of what you called the Dienststelle, the branch office, on his part was subject to the orders of the Central Land Office? A... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 245,250 | 245,750 |
I will rule out what he says about what it shows. The Tribunal will be in recess for fifteen minutes. (A recess was taken.) 4 November 1947_M_MSD_7_1_Daniels (Garand) THE MARSHAL:The Tribunal is again in session. THE PRESIDENT:Proceed. BY MR. SCHWENK: QWitness, after the eviction of the Poles and the Jews who owned the... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 245,700 | 246,200 |
which were produced in the occupied Polish territory, by order of the Wehrmacht, and did they have the task of securing these products for the German people? AYes. QIs it correct that, at the same time, these district farming experts had the task, by command of the Commander in Chief of the Army, to seize the agricultu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 246,150 | 246,650 |
1940 the public administration of agricultural properties and lands in the Eastern Occupied Territories was ordered? AYes, as far as properties were concerned which were not in the hands of ethnic Germans. QDid this decree come from Goering as the Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan, or did it come from some other ag... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 246,600 | 247,100 |
evident because they were separated as far as location was concerned. QDid it have its own registration department? AYes. QIs it correct that Department I, Planning, was originally completely independent from Department V, which was the Central Land Office? AYes. QIs it correct that after Baron von Holzschuher left, fi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 247,050 | 247,550 |
the end, was Gebert succeeded by Hicke, Chief of Department IV, Agriculture, who was also in the Central Land Office? AYes. QIs it correct that because of the dangers of bombing, and because of the attacks which had been made on Berlin, very important components of the Main Staff Office, or of the Central Land Office, ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 247,500 | 248,000 |
refer to that in your direct examination when you gave the description of managers on their own account, or were you referring to some other measures? ANo; when managers on their own account were appointed, then this was the assignment of resettlers as managers on their own account. That was something different than th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 247,950 | 248,450 |
in the Academy of Science, and in other important institutions? 4 November 1947_M_MSD_9_2_Gaylord (Garand) AI only know his assignment in the Reich Research Council. Just whatever assignments he had to take care of besides that. I don't know. However, I believe that besides his activity in the Reich Research Council, h... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 248,400 | 248,900 |
a conclusion. It seems to be the shortest way out of it, so the Tribunal will let you go ahead with it, but I just warn both sides that you're wasting your time, for conclusions will not control the Tribunal; it will be facts. BY DR. BEHLING: QWitness, did you, as Referent in the Central Land Office, ever handle any qu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 248,850 | 249,350 |
I refer to decrees which have not been dealt with yet in the course of the trial. I am not talking about decrees which were submitted by the prosecution, but I am asking generally whether decrees of that sort existed. I don't know how to introduce this fact into the trial in any other way. 4 November 1947_M_MSD_9_5_Gay... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 249,300 | 249,800 |
(Garand) AIt was in the year 1940. QAt that time, if I am not mistaken, Greifelt was a Brigadefuehrer? AYes, that is quite possible. QIs this a high rank or a lower rank? AIt's a lower rank. QWhat did you do in Herr von Holzschuher's office? AI was an expert on legal questions. QAnd what tasks were you assigned by Herr... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 249,750 | 250,250 |
meant that unauthorized persons were trying to get hold of property in the incorporated eastern territories. QAnd what was the attitude of your office towards these people? AIn official conferences, we repeatedly objected to the attempts of these people. QCan you recall that you also opposed deportations? AYes, within ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 250,200 | 250,700 |
of the Party ever since the year 1938. Q.Were you a member of the SS? A.Yes. I was a member of the Waffen-SS. Q.Were you a member of any of the affiliated organizations of the Nazi Party? A.I was a member of the SA, of the National Socialist Organization of Lawyers and I also was a member of the NSV. Q.When did you joi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 250,650 | 251,150 |
this conference: Gauleiter Bracht; the chief of the Agency of the Commissioner at Kattowitz; Sturmbannfuehrer Dr. Alt; Government President Faust; the defendant Greifelt, Attorney Wirsich from the Main Staff Office, myself and, as far as I can recall, some other persons whose names, however, I cannot remember any more.... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 251,100 | 251,600 |
placed in the hands of the Real Estate Office of the CdZ with the inclusion of the agency of the representative. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal will recess until one-thirty. (A recess was taken until 1330 hours.) AFTERNOON SESSION (The hearing reconvened at 1330 hours, 4 November 1947.) THE MARSHAL:The Tribunal is again in... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 251,550 | 252,050 |
-- SS Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt Pohl? AAs far as I know, yes. QWhich offices of the Main Staff Office participated in that transaction? AThis transaction was handled by Main Department III at that time. QWhich other offices were concerned with that transaction? AIn addition to that, with regard to payment, the Off... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 252,000 | 252,500 |
be able to utilize all this equipment for resettlers. Q.Did Greiser indicate as to what was planned for the Jews in the Ghetto Litzmannstadt, directly or indirectly? A.No. Greiser in this discussion did not mention this question at all. Q.Did Greiser omit mentioning this question because those who participated knew abo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 252,450 | 252,950 |
of the breaking up of the Ghetto? A.The Main Staff Office or the deputies respectively received material from the breaking up of the Ghetto, for example: windows, doors, beams, also to a smaller extent stoves, furniture, and household equipment. Q.Who received the building materials? A.The construction Staffs took over... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 252,900 | 253,400 |
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