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what happened on August 30, 1942? A.On the 30th of August, 1942, the Chief of the Civilian Administration, Gustav Simon, proclaimed in Luxembourg, on the occasion of a public meeting, the granting of German citizenship to a number of Luxembourg citizens. COURT I CASE VIII He also introduced the compulsory military cons... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 298,350 | 298,850 |
got hold of it? A.This picture shows the railroad station Luxembourg-Hellerich which was always requisitioned for purposes of deportation and sealed off. This picture shows us shortly before entering the special car. The photo was taken by a German photographic agency at Koblenz-Trier. The Luxembourg Security Police fo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 298,800 | 299,300 |
they were either stopped immediately, or partly taken by the camp administration. Q.Could you move freely? A.We could move about freely to a certain extent, but we had to move within certain limits and whenever we exceeded such limits or whenever we disregarded the censorship, we were subject to severe penalties. Q.Cou... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 299,250 | 299,750 |
house in Germany under the supervision of the Higher SS and Police Leaders. Those, however, who were not beyond reproach from a racial point of view could, under no circumstances, be released from the VOMI camps. QDr. Kasel, did you ever hear that the defendant Greifelt and Mr. Hinze of the Main Staff Office, appeared ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 299,700 | 300,200 |
in the Sudeten-Gau, Restomitz and AussigSchreckenstein. QDr. Kasel, what is your estimate in regard to the number of deported Luxembourgians? AOn the basis of the deportation numbers which accumulated during the course of the thirty-four months, about 1400 families were deported which means approximately 5600 persons. ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 300,150 | 300,650 |
Luxembourg citizen from Boberstein sent off a letter disregarding censorship to Luxembourg and where this letter was found when the security service made a raid, the sender of the letter Bassing was sent into the concentration camp of Gross-Rosen and as a result of his treatment in that camp he died. QDr. Kasel, do you... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 300,600 | 301,100 |
salute in that way whenever we were to accept a package or a letter from Luxembourg, and that we would not receive such a package or letter unless we did make such a greeting; when we still refused and rather forfeited such letters and packages, we were in large numbers sent to the Polish frontier on the 29th of August... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 301,050 | 301,550 |
At the beginning of our stay in Leubus we were given the address of of the main staff office and other addresses as well in case we wanted to write to the main staff office. If I recall that correctly, the address of the main staff office was Kufuerstendamm 100. Later we were not allowed to correspond directly with the... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 301,500 | 302,000 |
EXAMINATION BY DR. SCHUBERT (Counsel for defendant Lorenz): QDr. Kasel, you still have the photograph which was given to you a while ago. Are you on that photostat? AYes. QCan you tell me who you are on that photograph? Count from left. AIt is best if you take the window on that station building on the left. There you ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 301,950 | 302,450 |
without my having anything to do with it. QThat was in Boberstein? AYes, in Boberstein. QAnd then did you work as a liaison officer also in the Eastern Wall? ANo, there I have been just an ordinary digger. QYou just said from May 1943 to May 1945. AYes. QBut, if I understood you correctly, from September 1944 to May 19... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 302,400 | 302,900 |
can in some parts be traced partly to Henniges? AIn all camps we received the impression and we also proved it that part of the rations which were due to us were given to the camp personnel and their families. QWitness, do I understand you correctly -- this was the case of personal embezzlement of the camp management; ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 302,850 | 303,350 |
salute when receiving parcels. That means that the prohibition on parcels was rescinded in the meantime. AI might point out to defense counsel that in the treatment of Luxembourg citizens in the camps and in the introduction and carrying out of all these measures no definite line of policy was ever followed. What was t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 303,300 | 303,800 |
my presence were taken into a room of this camp and were never seen again. QYou saw that they were taken into a room, but you did not see anything else? AYes, on the days.... MR. SCHWENK:Your Honor, I object to this sort of questioning and arguing with the witness. The witness has repeatedly expressed himself very clea... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 303,750 | 304,250 |
camp of Gross-Rosen. AYes. QHave I understood you correctly that this letter was found during a raid by the security service SD? AYes. This security service raid took place in Luxembourg; this raid took place in the flat of a person who received the letter. QIn this case too, I can assume that the VOMI had nothing to d... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 304,200 | 304,700 |
population was assigned to this enterprise. AThat is correct. And I want to say that this labor assignment of the German civilian population took place only on Sundays, and the enthusiasm of the Germans for this digging work on Sundays was so slight, and their work was so bad that we had to do it all over again on the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 304,650 | 305,150 |
210 Luxembourgians picked by him would have to be reduced to 55 because the plant leaders of the German enterprises had opposed the reassignment of all these Luxembourgians. QWitness, what you say now is very interesting. You had to take the mail which had been written in the camp to the Post Office? ANo, I had succeed... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 305,100 | 305,600 |
of which this commission consisted? AFour to six men. QDid the members of this commission wear a uniform? AYes. QDo you know the uniform of the political leaders? ANo. QThen, you cannot state whether the members of this commission wore the uniform of the political leaders. AIf you mean by a political leaders' uniform t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 305,550 | 306,050 |
all examinations which were called "racial examinations." DR. MAAS:I have no further questions. THE PRESIDENT:Judge O'Connell desires to ask the witness certain questions. BY JUDGE O'CONNELL: QMr. Witness, what was the total population approximately of Luxembourg? AThree hundred thousand. QAnd what was the common langu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 306,000 | 306,500 |
the beginning of August 1940. QDo you know when he was made Plenipotentiary of the Reich Commissioner for the strengthening of Germanism? AI cannot answer this with certainty. QWas there an office of the Reichs Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism in Luxembourg? AI must try and explain to Defense counsel tha... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 306,450 | 306,950 |
a degree have you, are you a doctor of law or of philosophy? AOf philosophy. QThank you. In other words you have no legal training? ANo. QWhat was your income in the year 1939 when you owned a printing plant in Luxembourg? AI can no longer exactly remember the figures. QThank you, that is sufficient. Witness, when, aft... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 306,900 | 307,400 |
AIn Darmstadt. QAre you a citizen of Germany? AYes. QDid you ever join the Nazi Party? ANo. QDid you ever join any of the affiliated organizations of the Party? ANone, with the exception of the NSV, and the National Socialist League of Lawyers. QWhat is your profession? AI am a lawyer by profession and at present a mem... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 307,350 | 307,850 |
I remember rightly, took over, but municipal real estate was administered by the DUT. With reference to real estate, it was assigned to many racial Germans. QDo you know from where those other Germans came? AYes, from the Southern Tyrol and from Romania. QDo you know who seized the property of the deported Luxembourgia... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 307,800 | 308,300 |
as far as I know, they were drafted and therewith they received the German citizenship, but I am not quite certain about that. QDo you know whether any Luxembourgians were executed because they resisted drafting in the army? AYes, I have been told that. That was in the year of 1942, that is before my time. Quite a numb... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 308,250 | 308,750 |
letter to Document No.NO-4877which may be found on page 8. This is a letter dated 3 July 1942 from Creutz to the RFSS Himmler concerning the settlement in the Government General. I should like to offer these documents as two exhibits, Document No.NO-4876as Prosecution Exhibit NO.659, and Document No.NO-4877as Prosecuti... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 308,700 | 309,200 |
persons of German stock. in the Lublin District, which report was made by the EWZ. Part (b), immediately following, is a cover letter, dated 16 August 1944, from Brueckner to Dr. Weibgen concerning the activities of VOMI in Poland. I offer both parts of this document as Prosecution Exhibit No.670. Document No.NO-5219, ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 309,150 | 309,650 |
Part (a) begins on page 39 of the English and is a letter dated 19 December 1944 from Dr. Bethge to Brueckner concerning deported Slovenes. Part (b) is the answer by Brueckner dated 7 January 1945. I offer both parts of this document as Prosecution Exhibit No.680. Document No.NO-3531-e is a memo dated 4 July 1941 by Gr... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 309,600 | 310,100 |
judgment these documents will all be very carefully considered, and, when found to be documents that are not proper to be admitted in evidence, not proper to be considered as evidence, the Court will give them, under those circumstances, no consideration. In your arguments to the Court, to the Tribunal, at the conclusi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 310,050 | 310,550 |
offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No. 697. Document No.NO 5054found on page 77 of the English is a copy of a memo dated 22 October 1942 from VOMI to Behrends, by Brueckner, concerning the return of Luxembourg Nationals. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No. 698. Document No.NO 5082found on page 78 o... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 310,500 | 311,000 |
and Lower Styria. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No.707. Document No.NO 5223found on page 19 of the English is an affidavit by one Hans Willibald Zwirner. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No,708. I should like to skip the next three documents and resume with Document No.NO 5285found on page 30... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 310,950 | 311,450 |
Home, Puschkau, to Lebensborn, requesting clothes for seven children transferred to Puschkau by RuSHA. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No.719. Document No.NO 5418found on page 46 of the English is a letter dated 12 October 1942 from Viermetz to Children's Home Puschkau concerning clothes for children to be... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 311,400 | 311,900 |
I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No. 730. Document No.NO 5464found on page 14 of the English is an affidavit by one Vera Vokata. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No. 731. Document No.NO 5466found on page 16 of the English is an affidavit by one Anna Hanfova. I offer this document as Prosecution ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 311,850 | 312,350 |
No.NO 5094found on page 5 of the English is a letter dated 20 July 1942 from the defendant Brueckner to Hoffmeyer of VOMI stating that Kommando Mitte of VOMI should not start operations. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No.742. Document No.NO 5092is dated 30 September 1942 and if from Brueckner to VOMI Offi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 312,300 | 312,800 |
on page 16 of the English is an extract from judgment in the case of United States vs. Karl Brandt at al concerning euthanasia. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No. 752. Document No.NO 2275is somewhat incorrectly indentified in the index. It should be subdivided in to parts A and B; A being a cover letter 1... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 312,750 | 313,250 |
follow them now. We have received a heap of documents in this order early this morning and I have now tried to pick out the individual documents according to their numbers; however, I have failed. The defense is unable to ascertain whether the documents, which are being presented, have actually been handed over to the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 313,200 | 313,700 |
as Prosecution Exhibit No,764. Document No.NO-5242is an affidavit by one Alfred Kulemann. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No,765. Document No.NO-5243is a supplementary affidavit by Alfred Kulemann. I offer this document as Prosecution Exhibit No,766. Document No.NO-5244is an affidavit by one Emil Behr. I o... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 313,650 | 314,150 |
This technical requirement has long since been met. I should merely like to have, these exhibits now entered into the record as official exhibit rather than as just being marked for identification. The exhibit numbers are number 300 through 308 inclusive. Would your Honors like me to read the document numbers? Very wel... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 314,100 | 314,600 |
We all experienced a terrible tragedy. The statistics tell us that during the time after 1 September 1939, nearly thirty million human beings have perished or suffered injury to their health. The statistics cannot register what immeasurable misery further millions of human beings, one can rightly say the whole of manki... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 314,550 | 315,050 |
the Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of Germanism. Any kind of a direct personal interference in alien life, liberty, or property has not been proved, Whatever he did, he did in his capacity of an official. He did not do it for himself but for the state which he served. His personal integrity is without blemish. H... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 315,000 | 315,500 |
our case, Greifelt? 2. Were the measures which had been undertaken in the scope of resettling measures in the form of state and people's guadance, and only on this high level can this subject be discussed--crimes? That is, did they violate a valid law? And which law? The Prosecution characterized Greifelt as the deputy... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 315,450 | 315,950 |
the basis for this code of legislature, as, for example, the Four Year Plan, Cabinet Council for National Defense, and others, it principally submitted only such documents and correspondence which had been issued after the beginning of the war. The documents of the Staff Main Office which were sent from Vilshofen on th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 315,900 | 316,400 |
ordinances were then enforced and how they themselves understood and carried out existing ordinances. It must be explained how the actual power relations were; whether the defendant Greifelt could assert himself or whether his efforts were limited to ordinances existing only on paper and which could not be carried out.... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 316,350 | 316,850 |
the world after they themselves have been reduced to ashes." These disastrous forces must be unmasked not only for the purpose of preventing further disaster; this we may leave to the politicians or to the historians. The English philosopher Macaulay once said that world history was a trial in which the past was judged... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 316,800 | 317,300 |
been installed without a possibility to withdraw, and in which he had to continue to rotate long after he had ceased wishing to do so, since "a choice corresponding to the moral law" was actually no longer possible for him. Therefore the construction of the entire apparatus and his position in it must be investigated. ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 317,250 | 317,750 |
conflicts, which may be traced back for centuries--even for a thousand years. It is not attempted in this connection to give a historical analysis of these thousand years. we are all fed up with the "thousand year Reich." It is, however, impossible to understand the idea of the colonization, resettlement and repatriati... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 317,700 | 318,200 |
countries gathered in order to view this pathological degeneration of mankind. The conception of genocide cannot be regarded on the plain of the conventional penal law. An individual cannot murder an entire people. If one wants to arrive at this legal construction, one has to start out from the premise that a people ca... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 318,150 | 318,650 |
or by the entire civilized world, when international law is concerned. Since, however, this indictment has been made and has thus been reasoned, an investigation is necessary to ascertain to what degree the shifting of entire parts of a people, also against the will of individual personalities, is admissible under exis... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 318,600 | 319,100 |
I request to reserve the right to file, before the end of the proceedings, a trial brief on one subject or another, and I request that they be kindly considered while it Will not be necessary to include their full text in the minutes. The Prosecution has, at various places of its presentation of evidence, for instance ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 319,050 | 319,550 |
much agricultural property as possible and to push out German settlers. He also tried to Polonize and win for the Polish language and views, people who spoke German or were of German origin. According to a report by the Prussian Major General Beguslawski, 200,000 Germans were Polonized in the Province of Poznan in the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 319,500 | 320,000 |
Expulsions of persons having voted for Germany took place; German landed property was broken up by means of a land reform legislation made up as associal measure; workers and employees were dismissed; artisans and business men were boycotted; acts of violence ware committed. Subject to this coercion, approximately one ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 319,950 | 320,450 |
the Council of the League of Nations, acting on an appeal from the great philanthropic organizations, decided to intervene and utilize its entire authority for organizing relief work. Dr. Fritjof Nansen was appointed High Commissioner for the aid to Russian refugees and commissioned to bring about a final arrangement a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 320,400 | 320,900 |
were agreed upon by Moscow and Berlin. On 28 September 1939 the Soviet-German frontier and friendship treaty was concluded in Moscow. The secret agreement on the demarcation of the respective spheres of interest was, forthe benefit of the Soviet Union, extended also to Lithuania. On the same day (28 September 1939) Est... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 320,850 | 321,350 |
operation was initiated. Anybody who, in this turmoil in individual cases, has made himself liable to punishment according to existing criminal laws, who in criminal wantonness has trampled human rights underfoot, must be condemned rightly and justly. The defendant Greifelt does not belong to this group of criminals. T... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 321,300 | 321,800 |
people. This presumptuous saying has come into discussion after it has been contradicted by itself. But law is not simply all that is useful to mankind. Who can believe himself to be omniscient as to be able to decide which actions will ultimately serve the great aims of mankind? Within the limited scope of the present... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 321,750 | 322,250 |
the conclusion must be drawn that he could not have acted according to a previously rigidly f fixed plan. Furthermore, the defense will prove that the defendant Creutz in his position and in his activity was able to survey only a part, a small segment of the entire proceedings, and that it was impossible for him to est... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 322,200 | 322,700 |
No. 17 - Germanization of foreigners;No. 18 - Slave labor; and No. 20 - Spoliation; it might be possible to impute some kind of formal incrimination to the defendant Creutz if one interprets the submitted evidence in the widest possible manner because some of the submitted documents are signed by him. In that respect i... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 322,650 | 323,150 |
evident in exceptional cases and during a short, transitory absence of the Chief of the Main Office and was confined to a deputizing in minor matters. All important matters or even basic decisions were help up by the defendant Creutz until the Chief of Office had resumed his duties. It will be proven that the so-called... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 323,100 | 323,600 |
down to the last details the tasks of the defendant Creutz in his capacity as Chief of the Central Office, a position which he held since August 1942, in order to convey to the court a true picutre of the activities of the defendants. In this connection it will have to be stressed that, as before, it was Creutz' main t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 323,550 | 324,050 |
mass crimesof the most horrible kind which, as I have learned now, have been committed and are still being committed above all in Eastern Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and Sudetenland by Russians, Poles and Czechs against Germans have already now paid to the last any guilt whatsoever of our people." THE PRESIDENT:Proceed... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 324,000 | 324,500 |
have prevented these remittances, Already for this reason punishable participation of the defendant Schwarzenberger ought to be regarded as disproved. Furthermore, the defendant Schwarzenberger was up to the time of the remittance completely unaware of the purposes to which these funds would be put. Even after these fu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 324,450 | 324,950 |
demolition of the ghetto between the Main Staff Office and Greiser came to no result. This in itself is proof that a punishable offense is out of the question here. Anyhow these negotiations were not carried on by Schwarzenberger. Exhibit 566 of document No 2665, vol. XIII A, page 100 of the German and page 124 of the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 324,900 | 325,400 |
the law subsequently to a clearly defined circle of an already bygone era my duty as defense counsel will be clearly the following: To add that material to the statements by the prosecution, and to change then according to those facts to which the defendant rightly and justly is and has to be entitled to. With referenc... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 325,350 | 325,850 |
criminal law which are common to all civilized nations will have to be taken as guides in this respect. When deciding on whether acts of the defendant as such were unlawful, the Court will have to take into consideration the question also of whether they had for their only aim the setting aside developments which had b... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 325,800 | 326,300 |
any personal acquaintance with the leading persons, nor by having an insight into the over-all events in the Reich, was in a better position to realize the fact of a systematic program of wholesale murder of nations and the aims of the war in detail than was any other German. The Prosecution in the individual counts of... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 326,250 | 326,750 |
the defendant over and above the general responsibility with his own participation in the individual actions had been made clear only from the opening statements and from the reading of the evidence of the individual counts. 1. As a reason for the participation in the Germanization process, the opening statements says ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 326,700 | 327,200 |
Office had signed orders of expulsion for the Warthegau. A.As far as the indictment wants to demonstrate the responsibility for the evacuation on the basis of the document; Exhibit 199, I will establish the proof that this regulation presents a single case which was caused by the special circumstances of housing the Ge... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 327,150 | 327,650 |
Reichsland GMBH, and the Farmers Resettlement Associations, where agricultural property was concerned. As far as the approval of the Representative of the Reich Commissar for the strengthening of Germanism in Poznan was necessary for this, my evidence will give a clear insight into the fact that the responsible decisio... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 327,600 | 328,100 |
effect that the remark made by SS Sturmbannfuehrer Hirschboeck mentioned therein; namely, that he had received instructions from the defendant Huebner to start demolition work, is erroneous. On the contrary, we will see that the deputy Commissioner of the RKFDV in Poznan, SS Gruppenfuehrer Reinefarth himself participat... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 328,050 | 328,550 |
prosecution intends to prove a participation by the defendant Huebner solely by presenting the relevant general directives. Although such an argumentation could not suffice to prove a concrete guilt, I shall adduce proof that the relevant directives of the Reich agencies did not apply in the annexed Eastern territories... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 328,500 | 329,000 |
himself in all party strife and respecting his apponents' opinion, and who, even after the NSDAP seized power, keeps his eyes open for errors and deficiencies and does not lack the courage to censure them; the official devoted to his duty and incorruptible, who hates any kind of corruption and dishonesty, and who is ab... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 328,950 | 329,450 |
and the activities of its individual executive members within the framework of the activities of the RKFDV, Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of Germanism. Far be it from me in dealing with this problem to burden another Main Office with responsibility for the RuSHA, as the prosecution witness Bach-Zelewski has pre... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 329,400 | 329,900 |
the Prosecution Bach-Zelewski had to admit that, and I quote: "Whereas Gross, the leader of the race-political office of the NSDAP, RPA, more strongly concerned himself with the negative aspects of the racial idea than with the extermination of foreign races. Darre, the leader of RuS activities of 1932 - 1938, has prom... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 329,850 | 330,350 |
actual duties, a person trying to give preponderance to his ambitious ideas. The documents of the Prosecution which are not decrees or official records of meetings have only questionable value insofar as they represent the personal ideas and suggestions of these ambitious people, since such plans were not realized. The... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 330,300 | 330,800 |
which later in particular the care of families of SS-men drafted for military service was added. The "borrowed" racial examiners, as it was expressed by the witness Pancke, were, however, put to work directly for the RKFDV in the same way as the branch offices (AST) of the RuSHA. Their official activity was completely ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 330,750 | 331,250 |
of an isolated action in consequence of which individual instrumentalities effected on a purely professional basis, such as the examining physician, the transport agencies, and perhaps a racial examiner had to be utilized. On similar grounds the Reich Health Leader or the Minister of Transport could have been prosecute... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 331,200 | 331,700 |
knowledge by the RuSHA. Himmler's order of 25th June, 1942, Exhibit 390, was not given to the RuSHA. The order for the examination of 14th September 1942, Exhibit 399, was issued by the local representative of the RKFDV, Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of Germanism, Obersteiner, in execution of Himmler's order. A... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 331,650 | 332,150 |
Lodz was not responsible for their evacuations. From this number it selected about 20,000 as eligible for re-Germanization, and who volunteered for WED (re-Germanization) and who for instance could not emigrate to France or the United States. Today these people will declare that they were evacuated by force, be it only... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 332,100 | 332,600 |
was introduced long before the racial examiners were included in the procedure. The historical development will thus show that the racial examiners merely caused an improvement in the position of the people concerned and did not form a conditio sine qua non for the punishment. The Prosecution also has been unable to pr... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 332,550 | 333,050 |
a negative determination, the pregnant woman or the child was treated in the same manner as the other Eastern workers and their children, thus, as if the racial examiners had not been active at all. When the determination was positive, on the other hand, the mothers were accommodated in the best possible places of conf... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 333,000 | 333,500 |
act against the prohibition when petitions were submitted to them for exemption from this prohibition. This is to be taken from Exhibit 536. The evidence of the Prosecution is therefore irrelevant. Hofmann had already left the RuSHA before this decree was published. The Prosecution has not accused him, in his capacity ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 333,450 | 333,950 |
administrative organizations. Their cooperation took place only within the sphere of Department III of the German People's List and only in three cases in which the state authorities had waived their right of retraction. The classification in one of the four departments of the German People's List was not contingent up... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 333,900 | 334,400 |
3. That the practical activity of the Settlement Office was an entirely different one, as one may assume from the off-the-record opinions. Persecution of Jews: The biggest mistake of the Prosecution can be found in the fact that it makes Hofmann responsible for the persecution of the Jews. All of us desire nothing more... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 334,350 | 334,850 |
been made known to Hofmann. These memoranda had been drawn up only after the beginning of the war, after a part of the resettling had already been accomplished. This alone shows clearly that it was only the bitter reality of the facts which were brought about by the return of the ethnic Germans and the complete subjuga... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 334,800 | 335,300 |
legislation in those states where racial contrasts made such legislation necessary. It is quite natural that no people and no race considers itself as the worst one. If Hitler in his own book Mein Kampf, the Office for Racial Policy in its memoranda, and Himmler in his speeches have given themselves over to the theory ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 335,250 | 335,750 |
and personal position of Hofmann that he was in no position to interfere decisively with matters, or even to deter Himmler or other offices competent to issue orders, from carrying out their intentions. He was merely able to mitigate and to protect the good from the bad. I would not fulfill my duty as a defense counsel... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 335,700 | 336,200 |
proposals to drop Sections 13 and 15 of the Indictment against Hofmann. I consider that essential in the interest of the speeding up of the trial and its simplification, since I would have to introduce a considerable amount of evidence in case the Tribunal should not agree with this, my legal Opinion. THE PRESIDENT:Pro... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 336,150 | 336,650 |
the crime against humanity can be interpreted uniformly in international law as a central conception of international criminal law, since this alone can, in my opinion, be the task of the Tribunal; or, in other words: Was there, at the time when the defendant Brueckeer performed the deed, or is there today a generally ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 336,600 | 337,100 |
problem which has only been briefly touched in this connection does not become clearer in its outlines, much less is it being solved, by the Prosecution's introducing conception "genocide" in regard to the crimes against humanity with which Brueckner is being charged. A comparison between the verbal charge of the Prose... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 337,050 | 337,550 |
on by the three large signatory powers of Control Council Law No. 10. Thus, it necessarily follows that forced resettlement, evacuation and deportation of national groups is, objectively speaking, in agreement with international law, and the only point can be, whether during the execution of such forced transfers any c... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 337,500 | 338,000 |
standards. Because of the testimony of the prosecution withess, Ehlich, it is the duty of the prosecution to submit unequivocal proof beyond any reasonable doubt that Brueckner acted against this general attitude in an individual case, through his own decision, in a responsible and decisive position and thus either him... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 337,950 | 338,450 |
even any knowledge of the crimes committed by the SS, nor that he, through his knowledge, supported or promoted them. He also was in too subordinate a position to gain insight or a general Picture of the large plans for genocide, as has been asserted by the Prosecution. Through witnesses, affidavits and documents, the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 338,400 | 338,900 |
the defendant Lorenz has been indicted by the Prosecution before a court having no jurisdiction. The court is called a Military Tribunal, to be sure, but it is not a supreme military court or special court composed of officers, in the sense of Pars. 5 and 6 of the Articles of War of the USA. These are my objections as ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 338,850 | 339,350 |
3.5 millions of ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia, approximately 480,000 ethnic Germans in Hungary and approximately 600,000 ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, I might further mention around 780,000 ethnic Germans in Roumania and the six millions of Austrians, who to be sure lived in German-Austria, but to whom the Versaille... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 339,300 | 339,800 |
consisted of the care, support and maintenance of Germandom in European countries other than Germany, which was seriously threatened in its existence in a great number of states, especially however in Poland. At first the VOMI was a very unimportant office with about 20 workers, including the technical employees. Its i... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 339,750 | 340,250 |
the task which had been assigned to the Office for the Repatriation of Ethnic Germans did not include anything that can be the subject of war crimes and crimes against humanity. We have to distinguish between two kinds of resettlements: 1) Resettlement on the basis of government treaties. Such were concluded for the re... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 340,200 | 340,700 |
political ambitions, but as a former regular Prussian officer and farmer he had, on the other hand, a good deal of common sense, a sense of decency, especially a fine sense for right and wrong and a warm heart for those who were in need, as I shall prove. We need not state in detail that actions on such a large scale d... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 340,650 | 341,150 |
often dragged on for a longer time than originally had seemed necessary, and thus gave rise to criticism, then this is accounted for by the large number of camps (about 1500), and by the fact that the organization had to be set up in the shortest time conceivable and that suitable personnel for the administration of th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 341,100 | 341,600 |
was to direct this movement into regular channels by setting up an organization. Here again the VOMI was mobilized due to its wide experience in the field of moving extensive parts of populations. If in this connection in a document once the expression "compulsory evacuation" has been used, then this expression can onl... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 341,550 | 342,050 |
and Lorenz. Acutally, however, VOMI never gave any orders nor did it function or was it given final authority in this matter. This was laready confirmed by the statements of the witnesses Wirsich and Ehlich. I shall submit further evidence. In connection with re-Germanization, the Prosecution has also made reference to... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 342,000 | 342,500 |
accusation which the Prosecution makes with reference to this has obviously nothing to do with resettlers but only with ethnic Germans in the south east of Europe. I shall prove that VOMI only took action there because it had to look after the interests of the ethnic Germans; that especially the defendant Lorenz had ur... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 342,450 | 342,950 |
3) Appropriation of property of concentration camp inmates The Prosecution has produced some documents, according to which the clothing and other personal property of concentration camp inmates from the concentration camps Auschwitz and Lublin, as well as from concentration camp Hertogenbosch, had been allotted to the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 342,900 | 343,400 |
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