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the SS. However, he left active SS service on 1 January 1937. Because of his unimportant political influence and the very special activities, which had nothing at all to do with inhuman actions, Lorenz had no information about the crimes which were committed by some parts of the SS. He certainly did not approve of any ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 343,350 | 343,850 |
not trained in civil or international law could not immediately recognize or suspect an illegality, assuming that the illegality of that annexation be presupposed. For the idea, that those areas with a German population in German villages and towns formerly belonged the Germany was too deeply rooted in the German peopl... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 343,800 | 344,300 |
of the executed resettlement and evacuations is presupposed. It should be sufficient to state at this point, that without doubt any state, i.e. any community of human beings, who live not only in a de jure, but also in a natural association, has the undisputed and undisputable right to issue regulations of which it ass... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 344,250 | 344,750 |
were examined. It is proved by the documents presented by the prosecution alone, that the examinations were carried out only in the few cases, where unrestricted citizenship was to be granted in lieu of revocable citizenship, i.e. the right of revocation was renounced before the normal 5 or 10 year period had expired. ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 344,700 | 345,200 |
concentration camp", the following must be said in regard to it: It was not the "racial examination" which led to the extermination or to confinement in a concentration camp, rather it was caused by the orders of the Reich Main Security Office, which had been formulated and issued without the cooperation of the Main Ra... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 345,150 | 345,650 |
in the least would prove the suspicion of special responsibility voiced in the indictment, nor has any witness testified in that direction against Schwalm, not one witness has as much as mentioned the name of the defendant Schwalm, here. Neither the activities of the defendant Schwalm from September 1940 until Septembe... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 345,600 | 346,100 |
difference of opinion with the then business manager of the Lebensborn Pflaum, Dr. Ebner asked the Chief of the SS for his discharge from the Lebensborn service in order to join the Wehrmacht, Himmler's decision was: "Who is to deliver the mothers if it is not Dr. Ebner? Pflaum must go." I place this quotation, which w... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 346,050 | 346,550 |
to carry it out. In all nations of the earth, at all times one creed of physicians held a special place. It is the privilege of the doctor and his solemn duty to give medical aid to all people whenever help is required; the doctor's help must never be dictated or handicapped by considerations other than those of humane... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 346,500 | 347,000 |
that Lebensborn had taken care of seven Czech children whose parents and relatives, through a cruel retaliation and terror measure of the police had been either killed or taken into concentration camps. Even if it were true that the manager of the Lebensborn reluctantly made up his mind to take over these seven childre... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 346,950 | 347,450 |
Germany at their own wish and with knowledge and approval of the authorities of the Rumanian State which was then on friendly terms with Germany. The indictment accuses the defendants from Lebensborn of having annexed alien property by way of looting. The Defense will prove that this taking over of pieces of property w... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 347,400 | 347,900 |
asked the leading counsel about how long these opening statements were going to be. If all of the attorneys were going to make a statement, unless the time by agreement had been divided, thirty minutes is the limit, but I guess it is a little late now to enforce that. DR. BEHLING:I would have to hurry up, but I do not ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 347,850 | 348,350 |
PRESIDENT:Military Tribunal I will come to order. MR.Marshal, have you ascertained that all the defendants are present in the court? THE MARSHALL:May it please Your Honors, all the defendants are present in the courtroom. THE PRESIDENT:Proceed with the opening statement on behalf of the defendant Meyer-Hetling. DR.HEIM... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 348,300 | 348,800 |
has so far not been clarified in the literature of international law. In recent times this conception has been the subject of much comment launched through a book by an American author to be classified as propaganda rather than as a legal publication. But not even the legal committee of the UN has so far been successfu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 348,750 | 349,250 |
planning activity of the individual offender is not declared criminal, but rather the participation in a planning activity of the Nazi government which was established to be criminal, in which the said government was involved although acting through individuals. The defense intends to prove that the defendant Meyer-Het... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 349,200 | 349,700 |
example, I remind the High Tribunal of Document Number NO-3981, Prosecution Exhibit36, dealing with planning by the Bepatriation Office for Ethnic Germans, or of DocumentNO-2477, Prosecution Exhibit 200-c, which says that the overall planning of the resettlement had to take place through the department headed by Dr. St... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 349,650 | 350,150 |
of Berlin and corresponded in important details to the American concept of "social planning." This activity served the purpose of developing principles of planning for the creation of ideal relations between town and village, as well as for the best possible locations of villages, village grazing areas and farms. Beyon... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 350,100 | 350,600 |
of the planning office. "Thoughts are free", that is a recognized human right and may be one of the few principles about the general validity of which there would be no argument from anyone taking part in this trial. Moreover, Military Tribunal I expressly confirmed this consideration in the case against Brandt and oth... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 350,550 | 351,050 |
thereupon took place, Germany could also issue the laws in those parts of Poland which had fallen to it according to the agreement with the USSR. In these areas, Reich law was valid. The defendant was bound by this development according to national law. If, therefore, the administrative acts of the Central Land Office ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 351,000 | 351,500 |
With the occupation of Poland, the area in question became an occupation area. According to general views of international law, the occupying country has the full right of legislation, unlimited by the constitution of the occupied state, like an absolute monarch. This power, in itself unlimited, may be limited in only ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 351,450 | 351,950 |
instructing authorities, Chiefs of Civilian Administrations or the DAG who may have confiscated landed property in other parts of Europe. The defense will, moreover, affirm this present result of evidence by summoning a further expert witness. The competency of the Land Main Office (Zentralbodenamt) relative to this ma... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 351,900 | 352,400 |
in the field of private agricultural property, did not undertake actions of administration which may be considered as plundering or illegal infringement upon agricultural property. The Land Main Office had the task to register and "confiscate" the Polish landed property subject to the Polish property regulation. In ind... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 352,350 | 352,850 |
since he merely acknowledged an already existing condition which had arisen without his cooperation. Moreover, the defense will have to prove that the requisitions, which were kept at a minimum, were within the framework of the prescriptions of the Hague Land Warfare Convention. In this connection it may be anticipated... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 352,800 | 353,300 |
network, which was especially in Poland in very bad shape, should exclude theoretically the characterization of spoliation, because they constitute a constant value for the national wealth. The defense will bring forth an additional point of view for the vindication of the defendant. Waltzog: "law of Land Warfare", Ber... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 353,250 | 353,750 |
greater extent with the practical demands of the rural architecture. A further duty of the Amt construction was to make investigations in order to find out in what way the rural settlements which were contemplated after the end of the war could be constructed in the most suitable manner. In that respect the questions o... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 353,700 | 354,200 |
new Chiefs of the Amtsgruppen received no power of authority which would fix the limits of their scope of responsibility. Actually the new classification of the Amtsgruppen became only a matter of mere representation. It was done less for reasons of official necessity but more for some kind of organizational fancy. The... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 354,150 | 354,650 |
defendant denies also that he had ever seen the secret decree of Himmler regarding the treatment of foreign people. The documents which were introduced do not permit a conslusion in this direction either, for the fact that Himmler's document was to be forwarded to the defendant is no proof yet that it was actually done... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 354,600 | 355,100 |
operations or participated in them through giving his agreement. The fact alone that he belonged to the Staff Main Office, even though temporarily in the capacity of Amtsgruppenchef (Chief of a group of offices) does not, in the opinion of the defense, suffice to declare him guilty. Finally the defendant is charged wit... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 355,050 | 355,550 |
of the defendant. With the beginning of the war the majority of the German university professors was drafted as experts for collaboration in the Ministries, a fact apparent also in the other countries. At this time, the defendant Meyer-Hetling was called into the Staff Main Office by Himmler. In view of the example set... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 355,500 | 356,000 |
private association and remained a private association until the collapse of Germany. The foundation took place on the COURT I CASE VIII initiative of Himmler, who here translated a special, i.e. a charitable idea into action. This idea had a double aspect; support of families with many children and care for expectant ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 355,950 | 356,450 |
between "Lenbensborn" and numerous SS main offices. It will be shown that this invention is an error. It would also be incorrect to assume something else, or to consider "Lebensborn" as being something else than a society for the pursuance of charitable tasks, merely because it was a foundation of Himmler, and because ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 356,400 | 356,900 |
up till 1939. The statements concerning this did not come from the National Socialists at all but from the German Protestant COURT I CASE VIII parsons who worked in the areas which were Polish at that time. After the Regional Youth Office (Landesjugendamt) had been set up in Posen, the leader of the German Protestand Y... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 356,850 | 357,350 |
were being put into practice, ideas which to them, the workers at the Lebensborn, were just as unfamiliar as to anyone among the German people. The evidence will show in detail how unfounded the claims of the prosecution are in the case on those children from the Warthegau, and will bring to light much evidence of comp... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 357,300 | 357,800 |
did not change anything in the facts that in this Instance children came under its protection and care who had required help and who had to be helped with particular readiness, no matter from what motive they had been turned over to their jurisdiction. I must, however, mention the following: The Lebensborn with its mat... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 357,750 | 358,250 |
U.S. Occupational Zone of Germany as an organization covered by the law. As a former co-worker of this organization the defendant Tesch is charged with the participation in the kidnapping of foreign children. Contrary to this, I shall show in my presentation of evidence that the defendant Tesch neither participated in ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 358,200 | 358,700 |
the facts and that at any rate a number of 250 children is not surpassed. If, in addition, the Tribunal will be presented with evidence according to which that number does not represent the beginning of a major action, but a final figure, the surpassing of which had been neither planned nor tackled, then We shall have ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 358,650 | 359,150 |
subsequent fact which is beyond legal appreciation. For the annexed districts were considered as parts of the Reich just the same as the other territories of the Reich, and, therefore, it was not necessary to transport children from one part to another if one wanted to kidnap them. Not even at the stage of the transpor... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 359,100 | 359,600 |
employees who could have served for Germanization. It will be the task of the Defense to disprove, for instance, the assertion of the Prosecution that the Lebensborn had particular homes in which children were forced to learn the German language or were educated in the sense of a national-socialist ideology. The durati... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 359,550 | 360,050 |
possibility of safeguarding the future of an orphan. The Lebensborn tried to meet the uncertain circumstances with respect to the origin and the missing personal records of the children by abstaining on principle from any adoption for the duration of the war. All other measures such as the issuance of certification, in... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 360,000 | 360,500 |
It pretends that there was a question of children from abroad. Although questions of nationality should be of no importance in the care of children, the Defense will also prove in this case that, the question of the nationality was dealt with by the Lebensborn and has to be estimated in the sense of a mitigation. It is... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 360,450 | 360,950 |
of the defendant Tesch, with a jurist whose career is typical for conditions in Germany prior to and during the war; a man without political ambitions, but who could not evade contact with the Party and its organizations since they were altogether the prerequisites for anyone who wanted to engage in the legal professio... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 360,900 | 361,400 |
in personnel, there were no specialists available to arrange for forster for ethnic German children, Dr. Tesch came, for the first time, in contact with this sphere of acativity. That was at a time when the obligation for Lebensborn to take over such children had already been established. This shows that the defendant ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 361,350 | 361,850 |
be conducted in order to ensure the support of illegitimate children, etc.; I can also explain to you the procedure relative to pensions for widows of soldiers killed in the war, what has to be done in order to secure allowances for their children in the best possible way; and finally, I can also tell you, as we know h... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 361,800 | 362,300 |
of the common good and charity. I repeat: With inward satisfaction, Frau Viermetz found that to be the case. For what is closer to a woman than the care of mothers and children who are in need of help? And what was closer to the defendant Viermetz at that time than this welfare work, to her who, disappointed by her fir... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 362,250 | 362,750 |
as ethnic German children or unattached children. Whatever might have "been the aims of the persons who carried off the children from Polish orphan homes or from Lower Styria, Frau Viermetz did not Know these aims, and they were of no interest to her and of no importance. She only knew that here there were children who... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 362,700 | 363,200 |
through other state agencies. In No. 8 of the Indictment, it is alleged that the Lebensborn Society worked in very close cooperation with the Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of Germanism, with the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans (VOMI), and the Main Race and settlement Office. This is not all in accordance... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 363,150 | 363,650 |
to aid suffering fellow-humans, and beyond that also alleviates the needs of other out of her personal funds, would not think of enriching herself with someone else's property. If the Prosecution indicts Frau Viermetz, under counts 24 and 25 of the indictment, of the commission of war crimes, it is completely unfounded... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 363,600 | 364,100 |
also to the time when the defendant Hildebrandt who was Hofmann's successor as chief of office, albeit with this limitation that during the time of office of Hildebrandt the former sphere of action of the RuSHA was steadely diminishing because of the general and special conditions which had been caused by the war and t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 364,050 | 364,550 |
the regulations and reports contained in the documents for the safeguarding of the principle of procedure. To this suggestion I should like to add the request to grant to the defense a more independent argumentation, also concerning the contents of the documents as, otherwise, efficient defense would be completely impo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 364,500 | 365,000 |
worlds, the Byzantine and the Romanseque, quite some time after its appearance in the limelight of history the GermanRoman culture, festered economic and business relations with the old Russian Empire, the present Ukraine, and gave rise to the development of the first German cities in Poland. This theory is equally una... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 364,950 | 365,450 |
Since that time, the German provinces, German people regardless of ethnographic and political points of view, had been assigned to Poland, the Polish state started a planned de-Germanization policy which extended from the year 1919 to 1939. and which load via the treaty between the allied and associated high powers wit... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 365,400 | 365,900 |
Main Security Office the destructive influence of the alien population was to be excluded and a group of settlements of German ancestry was to be created from the ranks of such Ethnic German groups who had lived in foreign countries and who had been brought back. In the course of this policy the defendant Hildebrandt c... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 365,850 | 366,350 |
present in the court? THE MARSHAL:May it please your Honors, all the defendants are present in the courtroom with the exception of the Defendant Viermetz who is absent due to illness. THE PRESIDENT:The record will so indicate. Before we begin the taking of testimony on behalf of the defendants, the Tribunal desires to ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 366,300 | 366,800 |
to be revised. It didn't come through properly. Above all, the difference between facts and crimes was not made clear and that was a difference which the Court wanted to make clear. Perhaps it would be helpful to have the English text. It will be possible, from the transcript, to make a proper translation. THE PRESIDEN... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 366,750 | 367,250 |
School at Berlin, Lichterfelde. Q.Were you good at school? AI was one of the best students during my whole career at school. THEPRESIDENT; Does counsel think that will be helpful to the Tribunal, whether he was good at school or not. Whether he went to school at all or not doesn't seem to make much difference in this i... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 367,200 | 367,700 |
I was always on very pod terms with the owners of the firm, the Israel brothers. Their names were Felix and Eli Israel. With them I did work which dealt with all technical manufacturing pursuits. The entire manufacturing construction and laboratory affairs of the factory were under my direction and that factory, at tim... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 367,650 | 368,150 |
That appeal was similar to the appeal which had been made in 1919. to us soldiers who had returned from the war. That tine it was the new republic that had made that appeal to us. That appeal was for us to work for and with the German people and I complied. I followed that appeal. That is to say, in April of 1933, afte... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 368,100 | 368,600 |
possible. Q.Did you study the National Socialist literature; did you read "Mein Kampf" and did you make any propaganda? A.I have already told you I did not engage in any political activity and I should like to point out that the tasks of the standard works of National Socialism included for example "The Myth of the 20t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 368,550 | 369,050 |
opportunity to become acquainted with whatever idealogical or political aims they might have had. A.As far as I know Dittmarsch died. When did he die and what happened next? A.Dittmarsch died, I believe, in February 1934 and following that I was wondering what I was to do next. I was wondering whether I should remain i... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 369,000 | 369,500 |
of command, etc? A.No, my work there was just office work which dealt exclusively with questions of internal organization within the main office. In my position I did not have any particular influence on the leadership of the organization. Q.We shall have to talk quite frequently of the FourYear Plan. Will you tell us ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 369,450 | 369,950 |
the FourYear-Plan. Q.When an outsider heard of Heinrich Himmler he was always inclined to think of the Police and the Gestapo. Did you have anything to do with police tasks in that executive sense? A.No, never; there was no question of that; it was purely an economic office. Q.What about the raw material office? A.Late... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 369,900 | 370,400 |
considered and may I suggest to counsel that it seems to me that he is very mush at this time getting into the field of evidence that would be construed if this defendant was charged with planning aggressive war; but he is not. BY DR. HAENSEL: Q.When war broke out you, as an alert officer, were called up were you not? ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 370,350 | 370,850 |
was directed expressly to the effect that I would not have to deal with political matters. MR. SCHWENK:Your Honor, the Prosecution would like to make a statement. The Prosecution does not want to charge any of the defendants for the evacuation of the ethnic Germans as a result of any valid Treaty or agreement. This is ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 370,800 | 371,300 |
was the 12th, anyhow, it must have been the 12th or 13th of October, 1939. Hitler wanted to go to Italy, and wanted to have further discussions there concerning the evacuation from the Southern Tyrol. I was ordered to go with him. During the trip Himmler sent an officer to me to hand me a document, and with the documen... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 371,250 | 371,750 |
can do all that by myself? You will have to help me, and at the same time Himmler told me that the various tasks enumersted in this decree of 7th October had already been allotted to various agencies. He said that the resettlement of the Reich Germans and the ethnic Germans abroad would be the task of VOMI, which had a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 371,700 | 372,200 |
October, and we shall begin with the document book which I handed to you. The next exhibit will be Exhibit 21, which is a decree regarding the organization of the Office of the Reich Commissar. Did you draft this decree? ANo, I did not draft this order. After my return from Italy I saw it for the first time when Himmle... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 372,150 | 372,650 |
I don't know whether the name of Gotteberg or Baron von Holzschuher was mentioned on that occasion. At any rate, at a later date Baron von Holzschuher directed the Central Land Office. QDid Himmler tell you something about planning on that occasion? AHimmler did not give me an explanation regarding his planning. At tha... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 372,600 | 373,100 |
this connection? A.As to the Ministries, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of Labor. As to the Party agencies, the following were mentioned in the directives: The NSV and the Race and Settlement Main Office. Q.At that time, what did you know of the Race and settlement Main O... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 373,050 | 373,550 |
circle at the time - the question was raised with Himmler to create a so-called chief of staff agency. Himmler did not comply with this request, which was discussed and with which Himmler was approached by higher leaders of the 38. Q.According to the discussion which you described, did you assume that now you would hav... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 373,500 | 374,000 |
was? A.The EWZ. which means Immigrant Central Agency (Einwanderer-Zentrale), was created during the period from the 8th to the 10th of October, 1939, that is, during the period when my commissioning had not yet been carried out. The agency was under the Chief of the security Police end the SD, in other words, under Hey... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 373,950 | 374,450 |
Chancellery had to be called on the telephone, My agency had the Reich seal, had its own government budget, and had its own official agencies. The employees were paid in accordance with the wage scale for public servants. QWhat were the viewpoints with which you chose your officials? ADecisive for me, there were only f... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 374,400 | 374,900 |
this Court as witnesses of the Prosecution already. The directors of my legal department were, first of all, the witness Goetz; later, the witness Wirsich. The professional affairs were also handled by lawyers: by Goetz, whom I have just mentioned, by the witness Hofmann, and by other lawyers. In the agricultural field... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 374,850 | 375,350 |
First of all, my competencies and tasks had to be defined clearly. QYou were a government agency. Now what wereyou usual channels? AThe channels of authority were only clearly defined after Himmler, himself, had come to the conclusion that only with civil servants and government channels he could work properly, I would... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 375,300 | 375,800 |
1940 you could consider your agency as sufficiently set up to start work. When did the first resettlers come -- the resettlers whose settlement was your field of task? A.The first transports of resettlers arrived on the 20 of October 1939 in Germany. That is during the period when my government agency didn't even exist... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 375,750 | 376,250 |
again; a business man was supposed to have his business of the same branch again; a doctor should I have his doctor's study again, according to what specialty was his; and a ship owner should get ships again; and the real estate owner should again get real estate; while a capitalist should receive bonds and shares and ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 376,200 | 376,700 |
perhaps Vomi had, Vomi, the agency which registered these people in their country of origin, but doubtlessly these human beings had to go and wanted to leave and, therefore, the resettlement could not be delayed. Q.How, Will you tell us in a tangible way how you had the first contact with these people whose care had be... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 376,650 | 377,150 |
from the Baltic countries where the resettlement started we have today, among the guards who are guarding us here, quite a number of people who also, under the pressure of Bolshevism, fled under the protection of the Reich at the time. Q.How, in practice how were you informed concerning the resettlers which were to be ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 377,100 | 377,600 |
between the Soviet Union and Germany and the publication was made of this treaty at the same time with the publication of the joint government declaration of both people. In this joint statement it had been expressed that it was exclusively the task of the Soviet Union and of the German Reich to administer those territ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 377,550 | 378,050 |
Tribunal is again in session. THE PRESIDENT:Proceed with the examination of the witness. ULRICH GREIFELT - resumed DIRECT EXAMINATION (continued) BY DR. HAENSEL: Q.We have talked about the Flight of Polish people after the invasion of the German troops. Do you know anything about the concept of the Poniatowken? A.Under... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 378,000 | 378,500 |
which, however, he could not do anything and for that reason he was passing them on to my agency. It is possible that this document belongs to this collection of notes. I personally, however, don't know it, whether it regards its contents or its formulation. Q.Did you have anything to do with deportations? A.My agency ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 378,450 | 378,950 |
this High Tribunal on the occasion of the testimony of the witness Ehlich. The existince of this plan is proved also by a number of other documents submitted here, among them the DocumentNO-2585, submitted as Exhibit 89, in Document Book III. Regarding the deportation measures themselves, and regarding this over-all pl... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 378,900 | 379,400 |
is only valid, as I said, for the incorporated eastern territories, and here, too, I ask your pardon for explaining this very difficult matter; there is an exception, and this exception is the Gau Danzig, West Prussia. In the Gau of Danzig, West Prussia, the Higher SS and Police Leaders always remained plenipotentiaire... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 379,350 | 379,850 |
Higher police Leader who was deputy plenipotentiary was at the same time the local SS Leader; and, therefore, between the RuSHA and between the deputy of plenipotentiary of the Reich Commissar, there was an official channel. QYou just excused yourself regarding the complicated nature of this question, and I am sure thi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 379,800 | 380,300 |
your office was among them who had general authority to issue directives, but in practice, you could not give these orders. Now was it important for practical matters that you personally had no support in the party and the SS and that you were dependent exclusively on the powers of your office in the face of these powe... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 380,250 | 380,750 |
relating to foreign populations were outside my competency, so these measures were not submitted to me. The work of my office was altogether concerned, not with alien populations, but only with German people, and only in the case when Germans were transferred to us as a welfare agency, from other competent offices in o... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 380,700 | 381,200 |
let us revert to the Office of the Plenipotentiary. Could you tell us what level the Office of the Plenipotentiary was on? A.That was definitely an office on the level of the Provincial Administration. Q.And what was the technical structure? A.The technical organization could he carried out by every plenipotentiary acc... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 381,150 | 381,650 |
the plan and show us this channel. Perhaps you can start with the RSHA, I may suggest. Although we only have a small plan behind you, if you point it out, perhaps then afterwards everybody can see it on the large plan in front of them. I therefore suggest that you point it out and you follow it here. Let us start with ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 381,600 | 382,100 |
Main Office is on the very left. The optical impression of this shows that in the Reich Security Main Office all colors are concentrated. None of the other offices or agencies show such a great number of channels of command as the Reich Security Main Office. From the Reich Fuehrer as Reich Commissar, a black line is th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 382,050 | 382,550 |
going down is continued as an SS channel to the Race and Settlement leader, who simultaneously, to a smaller extent -- and therefore the line is thinner--dealt with tasks of the Reich Commissar Himmler, via the official channel. Apart from that, the RuSHA has the branch agency Lodz, which is also connected with the RuS... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 382,500 | 383,000 |
were to be dealt with by the higher SS and Police Leader. A.Yes. The legal position of the Government General is a very special one. I am not a lawyer to be able to explain this in detail, but in my case, as an ordinary human being, a layman, one could say that the Government General was a completely independent govern... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 382,950 | 383,450 |
plenipotentiaries, The tasks which occurred in the Ostmark, in Austria, were of such minor importance that a large organization was not at all necessary. Q.And how was it in Germany proper? A.In Germany proper, the Higher SS and Police Leaders were plenipotentiaries of the Reich Commissar for the Strenghening of German... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 383,400 | 383,900 |
is Reich Commissar but the Reichsfuehrer-SS and the Chief of the German Police never held that office But still that letterhead appears. The file mark is merely that of the Reich Security Main Office, The decree is addressed exclusively to police offices and pure police measures are concerned therefore, For information... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 383,850 | 384,350 |
office at all and no expert at all of my office existed. In other offices again they Were active. QWill you tell us who was the CDZ in Luxembourg? AIn Luxembourg Gauleiter Simon was the CDZ. QWhom we have mentioned here repeatedly. This concludes the subject of the set-up of the organization in general and we now come ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 384,300 | 384,800 |
BY DR. HAENSEL: QLet us talk about the events in the incorporated Eastern territory. Let us start with the property; how about confiscation? AThe confiscation problem includes a great number of laws and decrees which have not been introduced as evidence yet. The first confiscation of the entire property in the incorpor... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 384,750 | 385,250 |
QDo you remember what reason Goering gave for this decree? ANo, I cannot say that any more. QBut you remember the discussion which took place between you and Himmler When you met Dr. Winkler for the first time? Was it discussed at the time that this property confiscated by Goering was only to be administered by the HTO... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 385,200 | 385,700 |
should not be handled by the HTO alone but should also be handled by the Reich Commissariat, did you do anything about this? ANo, I did nothing to stop this because this was not part of my sphere of tasks. My sphere of tasks was the settlement of the resettlers and fixing up new settlement areas. I had nothing to do wi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 385,650 | 386,150 |
because the Main Staff Office and the Reich Commissar did never deal with utilization and administration of agricultural property. They did not do this because they were warned repeatedly because the administration of agricultural enterprises had only to be dealt with by experts and not by any other authorities. Apart ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 386,100 | 386,600 |
the Strengthening of Germanism, or his organizations, only some exceptional cases did occur which don't play any importance in the general idea. QWho appointed the trustees who administered the property? AThe trustees were appointed by the Eastland or they already existed when the Eastland was founded because immediate... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 386,550 | 387,050 |
of these contracts? AThe resettlers were trustees of the Eastland; the Eastland appointed these resettlers and explained to them how they had to administer the enterprise for the Eastland in return for a certain amount of money they received by the Eastland. QThat was at the beginning; how was it handled later on? ALat... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 387,000 | 387,500 |
individual initiative of the resettlers and of introducing the autonomous exploitation of the soil and eventually a third viewpoint had to be added. All resettlers who had a claim on restitution of the property in the Reich had a claim on payment of interest for this claim of restitution. Therefore, as soon as the rese... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 387,450 | 387,950 |
here is the question of whether the resettler had eventually become owner of these agricultural enterprises and red estate property. A.This question has to be answered emphatically in the negative. Until the collapse of Germany the resettlers in the agricultural sector were not considered owners of these enterprises an... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 387,900 | 388,400 |
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