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I can sue can have an insight into that question, was connected with it. QDo you mean to say that that according to your knowledge, you think that it is impossible? AAccording to my knowledge, it is out of the question, but I think that it is possible that we thought it over, what could be done in that question. QDidn'... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 478,350 | 478,850 |
the Main Staff Office racial questions and racial ideologies were preached? AThe contrary is the case everybody would smile when the question of racial checkers indulging in funny manipulations somewhere arose. This smiling went to the point that I was even under the impression that Herr Greifelt would look at everybod... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 478,800 | 479,300 |
a guarantee to see to it that the existing regulations, decrees and laws were complied with in an expert manner. Q.- And what about Freifelt? A.- Greifelt had the hobby of not appraising jurists very highly when he talked about them, but in reality he wouldn't deal with any question unless he had it considerably checke... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 479,250 | 479,750 |
can you briefly describe the activity of the defendant Creutz at that time? A.- On the one hand, he was the internal organizer. He had a great interest in registration and the whole organization and the staff and for the rest he can best be compared with the so-called ante-room man in the ministries. Q.- This activity ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 479,700 | 480,200 |
but on a very large scale Office I, that is the legal department, collaborated in this matter. Q.- Do you know whether through these regulations the HTO was caused to sell property? A.- No. That was not even possible THE PRESIDENT:You are getting away from your - COURT INTERPRETER TREIDELL:I am sorry, Your Honor, but b... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 480,150 | 480,650 |
ABecause under the Reich Commissioner we have the Field Office of the Race and Settlement Main Office, the VOMI, the EWZ. That is not correct, because all those were agencies on the Reich level which were certainly not under the Staff Main Office nor the Reich Commissioner. QWas Creutz a member of the Waffen SS? AYes h... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 480,600 | 481,100 |
you have knowledge of a case where the Planning Department and the defendant Meyer made proposals and suggestions referring to the activities of the other departments, or which were connected with the extermination and destruction of entire peoples? AI remember only one case in which I was interested, which constituted... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 481,050 | 481,550 |
also cover questions of racial selection and re-Germanization, or were other agencies competent for these matters? AOnly the RuSHA had to deal with racial selections. QDid the defendant Meyer have anything to do with the resettlement action itself? AI never saw that he did. QDid the defendant Mayer have anything to do ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 481,500 | 482,000 |
SCHAEFER - Resumed DIRECT EXAMINATION (Continued) BY DR. BEHLING: Q.If the Tribunal permits I would like to ask only two more questions to the witness in so far as it concerns the defendant Meyer -Hetling. Witness, yesterday I asked you whether you had an insight in the planning activities of the defendant Meyer-Hetlin... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 481,950 | 482,450 |
I was now referring to the following: was it possible for Office V to take an influence on the question of what firms would receive the contract from Office III for the production of furniture? A.No. Q.Thank you. No further questions. CONTINUED DIRECT EXAMINATION BY DR. DURCHHOLZ: Q.Dr. Durchholz for the defendant Hueb... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 482,400 | 482,900 |
of the Main Staff Office required when a re-settler was made the trustee or owner of real estate other than agricultural property which had been seized by the HTO and had a value of less than 500,000 Reichsmark? AThere were a few passages of your question which were not quite clear to me. What I did understand was the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 482,850 | 483,350 |
know of any orders signed by the defendant creutz? ANo, I don't remember any orders. QThank you. Was the defendant Creutz generally present at the Monday meetings? AYes. QWitness, on direct examination you testified with regard to the organization of the offices of the Main Staff Office at Lodz. Were you familiar with ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 483,300 | 483,800 |
describe it? What was the volume? What were the contents? AWell, it looked exactly alike and it had been arranged in the same manner, too. QIs it possible, I mean, printed volumes are often existing in several copies? Is it possible that it is another copy of the black folder? AWell, you see, the folder was not printed... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 483,750 | 484,250 |
and most of all for matters pertaining to Office 1 and to the office of agriculture. But a general knowledge of the activities of those offices, even in a half-way satisfactory manner, I did not have. QNow, what about the superiors of these offices? I mean those officials to whom the offices were subordinated. Did they... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 484,200 | 484,700 |
this witness because I have been called to the Justices Trial. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal desires to make an announcement, so that there may not be any misunderstanding about what happened yesterday when we proceeded to hear witnesses when the twenty-fourhour rule had not been complied with. We did that yesterday in or... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 484,650 | 485,150 |
abroad and matters of a similar nature, and as an employee of that department I was taken over by Obergruppenfuehrer Lorenz into an agency which later on developed into the Vomi. QDid you then make an attempt to get into the work concerning the resettlement in the South Tirol? ANo, I couldn't state that in this manner.... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 485,100 | 485,600 |
and a few details, teachers and professors. Basic questions of principle. Wall, resettlement contracts, the formulation there is not quite in line with what we actually did there. It really wasn't a preparation of organizational and technical matter. It rather was nothing else but an occasional part taken into the draw... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 485,550 | 486,050 |
directly or via Vomi from the confidential trustees of the resettlers. Such spokesmen of the resettlers as, for instance, the directors of the professional associations of the teachers, Court No. I, Case No. VIII. deputies, and special experts. Furthermore, through the channels of the EWZ, mainly by receiving reports o... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 486,000 | 486,500 |
the Nazi Party, Himmler personally as Reich Commissar, and above all the State, the Chiefs of civil Administration, and the Gauleiters or Reichstatthalters of the areas of the border. QThe work of the Main Staff Office was it limited to the registration work concerning resettlers, as you have just described it? AI am s... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 486,450 | 486,950 |
then plans of resettlements were then worked out or were resettlements done because certain plans existed before that? AAt no time did we have the latter situation. QYou are a lawyer, did you have any misgivings at any time concerning the legal basis of this? MR. LAMB:We object. THE PRESIDENT:We do not care what his id... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 486,900 | 487,400 |
on various occasions urge that a deportation drive should be limited or that it should be prevented? AOn one occasion in a matter dealing with Lower Styria I urged that this should be done. I urged that these measures should be prevented. On other occasions I had nothing to do with deportation drives. QWhen did you fir... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 487,350 | 487,850 |
an appeasement in the various areas. QDid this first protest of the Staff Main Office have any success? ANo. We were informed that no objection could be raised to an order which had been issued by the Fuehrer. QWhere were the Slovenes supposed to be taken? AThe district of Gotschee was mentioned, Croatia and Serbia. QW... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 487,800 | 488,300 |
resettled somewhere in the East, QTherefore, the Slovenes were to stay in the Reich only on a temporary basis? AYes, that is correct. Q when and where did you hoar for the first time of any deportation measures which were carried out in the Lorraine? AI heard of it in Metz in the Spring of 1942. I had been sent there b... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 488,250 | 488,750 |
same treatment as the resettlers. QI am now coming to Alsace. When did you hear about deportations which were carried out in Alsace, and who ordered that they were to be carried out there? AAlready in the year 1942 after my first discussion at Metz, but before the discussion which took place between Himmler and Buerkel... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 488,700 | 489,200 |
file note for my memory about a conference between experts of the Main Offices, and none of these experts had the right to make a decision there. This document only contains comments which perhaps were to be submitted to the respective office chiefs. Now it says here that the deportation plans could be agreed on princi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 489,150 | 489,650 |
not actually entitled to reside in Alsace. After all, the Alsacians who spoke French and who lived in Alsace were listed under the term of the Patois population. Therefore, the group belonging to an alien race belongs to the circle which would suffer the least in case their place of residence should be changed. Further... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 489,600 | 490,100 |
were able to take along their personal goods? A. Yes. Q.When did the chiefs of the civil administration in these territories become the representatives of the Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of Germanism? A.As far as I am able to recall, Buerkel began to act in that capacity after the conference with Himmler at W... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 490,050 | 490,550 |
could not possibly agree with the deportation regulations, because it was hardly thinkable that an entire village had committed an offense against the State Police. The matter was later on clarified by Obergruppenfuehrer Berkelmann who was in a certain way our liaison officer. He objected there and the deportation was ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 490,500 | 491,000 |
defendant further, amongst other things, with having carried out resettlement drives in order to find people for the German armed forces. Did Herr Greifelt carry out any work in that direction? A.- I never heard anything about it. Q.- Did the Main Staff Office repeatedly negotiate with agencies of the Wehrmacht in orde... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 490,950 | 491,450 |
to the Reich became necessary for that particular reason, and consequently they had proven that actually they had returned to their countries of origin in the Baltic countries with the intention of committing illegal acts. Q.- Did the Staff Main Office now demand the conscription of these people, or only their registra... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 491,400 | 491,900 |
capacity as representative of the Reich Commissar, or as a government agency? A.In his capacity as Reichsstatthalter. Q.Now one question in regard with the evacuation measures. Do you know anything about the fact of whether even after the resettlement of groups, there was still some farms left which had not been re-occ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 491,850 | 492,350 |
direct examination if I ever heard it. This witness has already been examined directly. If you want to ask him anything about Hofmann, you may do so, but unless counsel, and all counsel, will respect the request of the court that that be done, we will be compelled to limit the direct examination to one man. BY DR. ZAPP... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 492,300 | 492,800 |
be a distinction made between an A and an O case? A.Himmler. Q.Did that mean discrimination against the A cases, or did the A cases lose their rights or was this intended at least? A.No, these people had the same rights and were entitled to examination in the same manner as the O cases. The only thing was that they did... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 492,750 | 493,250 |
the decision of commitment changed, and where at the same time it had to be considered a hardship to leave those people COURT I CASE VIII in Germany proper, the Staff Main Office and the Resettlement Staff, with the approval of the Staff Main Office, gave permits for the persons to remain in the incorporated Eastern te... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 493,200 | 493,700 |
camps? A.As far as humanly possible, these people in category A were resettled in the Altreich, Germany proper as well as it was done in the East. Q.Did these A cases receive compensation in kind? A.Yes. Q.Were there also O cases which were resettled in Germany proper? A.Yes, that would happen occasionally, upon specia... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 493,650 | 494,150 |
PRESIDENT:Your answer is not responsive to the question. The question is all right. If you will just answer the question that was propounded... THE WITNESS:I am very sorry. If the question could be repeated, it would be helpful. BY DR. MERKEL: QYes, I will repeat it, please just answer my question. Why were the identit... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 494,100 | 494,600 |
their citizenship subject to revocation. This decree here, takes care of those people who were no longer in Lower Styria, and therefore, were under the care of the CWZ. QWhat was the effect of granting nationality provisionally? AThere were general regulations regarding nationality. QHad the people with provisional nat... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 494,550 | 495,050 |
Oh, I see, the 7th of October. This is the result of an order issued by Himmler from Cracow. This order of Himmler was kept in rather furious tone, and he said that in Lublin, everything had bean prepared for the resettlement, and that the only thing that was missing were the resettlers. THE PRESIDENT:Since the steam s... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 495,000 | 495,500 |
groups of resettlers were to be put on the way and these groups were mentioned in this connection. QJust how many resettlers were involved in this case? AI cannot give you the exact figure but in my estimation there were approximately six thousand. QDo you know how many resettlers Globocnik had requested originally? AY... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 495,450 | 495,950 |
Main Staff Office which have been signed by the defendant Creutz? AThis form of decree was issued in every case whenever Himmler had given the Main Staff Office an order pertaining to a resettlement of a group of resettlers in a certain area. Himmler's orders for the most part lacked all form and they would arrive in a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 495,900 | 496,400 |
QHow long did this plan continue in force? AIt was changed to a considerable extent in the fall of 1942. Some very small, unimportant changes probably were carried out before that. QWhen did Dr. Fehndrich leave the Main Staff Office? AIn the spring of 1942. QWhen did you yourself take over Office 1? AIn the fall of 194... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 496,350 | 496,850 |
to get support and advice from Creutz. Creutz never gave me any factual instructions. QIn his capacity as chief of the Office Group, did he ever give you any signature? Did he ever submit papers for signature to you? ANo. 4 Dec 1947_M_MSD_2_3_Fox (Garand) QWho decided about your tasks and plans? AGreifelt did. QAfter t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 496,800 | 497,300 |
BY DR. DOETZER: (For the defendant Brueckner) QDr. Stier, do you know the defendant Brueckner? AYes. QDid you meet the defendant Brueckner in the course of conferences? AYes, frequently. QCan you recall, Witness a conference which took place in August 1942 in the Main Staff office where the deportation drives were disc... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 497,250 | 497,750 |
of Strassbourg were removed from Strassbourg for State Police reasons and sent to the interior of France? A.Yes. Q.Do you know whether Brueckner when he heard of this deportation saw to it that these students were again allowed to study at Strassbourg? MR. LAMB:We object to that question, your Honor. THE PRESIDENT:Go a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 497,700 | 498,200 |
entire subject. Q.I wanted to know just who initiated these measures. Thank you. That is sufficient. Witness, since you had a lot of official contact with Brueckner I would like to ask you, on the basis of the testimony which you have given today, whether it is correct that his attitude was always such that he was oppo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 498,150 | 498,650 |
ahead. BY DR. MUELLER: Q.Was the field of work of the agency at Poznan of which the defendant Huebner was a member discerned as parallel to that of the Main Staff Office? A.Yes. Q.Thank you, I have no further questions. BY DR. BRACH (for the defendant Hildebrandt): Q.Witness, yesterday you were asked a question with re... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 498,600 | 499,100 |
which figure I cannot give you an estimate of. Q.There were approximately twomillion people handled by the Main Staff Office in this resettlement program, weren't there? A.Two million? I don't believe there were two million. Q.A million and a half? A.No, I wouldn't say a figure higher than one million. However, I am un... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 499,050 | 499,550 |
why some of these resettlers were not allowed to move into certain areas. Q.And that is one of the reasons you gave, their political unreliability? A.Yes. Q.Now when these people who remained in Germany as the "A" cases were brought in from these other countries, these foreign countries, they were promised that they wo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 499,500 | 500,000 |
slave labor at all. I never saw anything of it. Q.They were made to work, were they not? A.According to the general laws and regulations, all Germans had to carry out a certain amount of work. Q.Yes, and people who were not Germans and who lived in Germany had to carry out a certain amount of work, did they not? A.I am... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 499,950 | 500,450 |
they were still there, they couldn't have been dismissed. Q.Now you also stated that in opposing everything that Himmler did which was wrong, that these people disagreed with it, but isn't it a fact that they went ahead and did those things inspite of their opposition to the idea? A.They did not oppose all measures, bu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 500,400 | 500,900 |
on the fifth of August 1906, in Stettin. QWould you kindly give us your education, in brief? AI went to high school and graduated in 1924. I studied law and in 1927 passed my first State Examination. Six months after that I attended the University of Marburg, and was an assistant there at the Institute for the German A... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 500,850 | 501,350 |
the eastern territories, but the conditions under which they were placed were very obscure. It was the task of the Office Agriculture to bring some order into these very obscure conditions. QAs regards the staff, what was the extent of the office? AFor a considerable time it consisted of Mr. Hieke and myself. Subsequen... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 501,300 | 501,800 |
I remember a few individual cases: the family of von Huebschmann, a family of von Korv, a resettler called Klaus School, a resettler called Tillmans, and others as well. QDid racial points of view play any part at all in your work? AThey did not play any part in our work; that is the work of the Main Staff Office. QAnd... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 501,750 | 502,250 |
was that the resettlers were trustees of the Reichsland. This was the legal basis on which they worked their farms during all those years. QWas this agreement valid? That is, that the resettlers were trustees of the Reichsland. Was this valid for all enterprises or was there a difference between large estates and betwe... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 502,200 | 502,700 |
a supervising station from the District office; there was the Provincial office of the Plenipotentiary, and the office of the Reich Commissar was above this Provincial Agency. Q.You said previously that the resettlers had been appointed either as Trustees of the Reischland or of the Settlement Companies. Was this form ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 502,650 | 503,150 |
case of Guderian and the case of Daluege. In these cases Hitler had presented these gentlemen with an estate which we had to give to them, and for which we were paid by Hitler. Q.How many cases do you think there were taken over altogether? A.So far as genuine donations are concerned, I remember only these two cases. Q... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 503,100 | 503,600 |
question of ownership we had to clarify the question of land books first of all, and this created great difficulties, and in such cases we had to operate with provisional lease payments. Q.Excuse me, you said previously that rural property was not transferred, and in this case it must refer to a special group of cases ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 503,550 | 504,050 |
on the part of the HTO. Q.At about what time? A.The first of November, 1939. Q.When and how did the Reich Commissar take part in this seizure? A.On the 10th of November, 1939, Himmler and Winkler, the head of the HTO, agreed that the field of Agriculture, and all the work therein were to be transferred to the Reich Com... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 504,000 | 504,500 |
the Polish agricultural reforms were reversed after 1939, also with regard to the property of the State we could point to efforts on the part of the administration of state property. It happened that small settlements created by this agricultural reform were destroyed by the administration of state property. Q.And you ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 504,450 | 504,950 |
the Restitution Department. Q.May I ask you again to make a pause after each question of mine. How did this procedure of the exchange of farms destroyed by the war originate? A.The Reich Ministry of the Interior had to settle war damages, and it had received the idea instead of building up a farm d estroyed by the war ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 504,900 | 505,400 |
to pile cumulative evidence into the case; so that very seen a very definite restriction will be laid down as to cumulative testimony. I make this statement so that counsel may utilize the time left by getting right down to the facts. Go ahead. SIEGFRIED GOLLING -- Resumed. DIRECT EXAMINATION -- Continued. BY DR. VON D... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 505,350 | 505,850 |
which there were not many. Here they were appointed as custodians. Q.Were deportations necessary in order to carry cut the exchange resettlement at Lublin? A.With regard to this exchange resettlement of the Lublin Ger mans, I don't want to use the term "deportations" at all because the situation here was that a German ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 505,800 | 506,300 |
in order to stop the orders of the district councillors that these Germans were to take care of other properties as custodians. Q.Was it intended that the people who were deported should be given some sort of indemnification? A.Yes, I have already mentioned before that on the basis of the law about expropriation of rea... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 506,250 | 506,750 |
had not acted in a correct manner. On the other hand, something had not been done in the proper way before had been remedied now as a result of this measure, so that the Main Staff Office informed the Ministry of Justice to take any action in this matter. Q.Was this drive an exceptional matter? A.Yes, it was a unique c... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 506,700 | 507,200 |
that agency anymore. His successor, Herr Arlt, had already arrived. Q.Was your work of accommodating rural resettlers subject to an ever-growing pressure in the course of the years, as a result of the numerous waves of resettlers who arrived? A.From the very beginning it was not possible for us to take care of the many... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 507,150 | 507,650 |
am not interested in that. I only want to know whether the chart corresponds to the organization at that time in general, as it was drafted by the defendant Creutz. AYes. QAt the time, were all departments, all main departments, subordinated directly to the chief of the agency? AYes. QWhat changes were brought about ny... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 507,600 | 508,100 |
selected accordingly. Herr Hinze did not fit into that group. QWhat influence could Creutz exert on Office 4 or the Central Land Office? AI can say with regard to Office 4 that he did not have any influence there. Herr Heike, the office chief, always worked very closely with the chief of the main office and he refused ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 508,050 | 508,550 |
this cumulative testimony is about over. We cannot continue to proceed under cumulative testimony, I mean with reference to all the various organizations. We are going to move very soon on to the individual activities of these defendants. I just caution you in that particular that you may use this little time that is l... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 508,500 | 509,000 |
agricultural property had to be stated. QWere these questionnaires filled out in close collaboration with the Polish mayors of the individual localities? AThe registration questionnaires were printed in two languages and the officials of the Land Office were to work on them with the collaboration of the Polish Mayors. ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 508,950 | 509,450 |
me that the defendant Meyer turned against arbitrary acts when somebody tried to dispose of this property. AI can recall things which took place in the District of Zichenau where Senior President Koch had given a very large estate to the so-called Erich Koch Foundation. This was at the beginning of the war when ha was ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 509,400 | 509,900 |
the defendant Meyer had nothing to do with it? ANo, he did not. QIt is correct that the Planning Office, as a result of the so-called Stop Decree slowly disintegrated in 1943? Will you please answer that? AYes, the simplification measures almost brought the work of the Planning Office to a complete halt. That was in th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 509,850 | 510,350 |
Department of Agriculture with the Senior President at Kattowitz. QDid the Staff Main Office have anything to do with this company? AThis department of the Senior President was subordinated to the Reich Ministry of Food and not the Main Staff Office. QConsequently the defendant Meyer had nothing to do with these plans?... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 510,300 | 510,800 |
to be made which resulted from the assignment of the resettlers and which were to be paid to the accounts of the people who had turned in the property? A.This was handled by the D.U.T. through an agreement with the Agricultural Department. Q.And for what agency did Office 5 receive the instructions to accept these paym... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 510,750 | 511,250 |
Huebner? A.Naturally. I would pay my first visit at Posen to him. This was just a matter of courtesty. After all, he was the senior department chief. Q.Who signed the letters of Main Department IV at Posen which were addressed to the Main Staff Office as far as they contained official information? A.Official letters we... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 511,200 | 511,700 |
company which, I believe, was established in 1920 by the Dresdner Bank. In 1938 it was always the only recognized independent settlement company, and at that time it was the generally authorized settlement company in Austria, and that, for example, explains its activity in Styria. Q.And who was in charge of it, if I ma... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 511,650 | 512,150 |
the so-called "A" cases? A.I am not very familiar with the "A" cases. Q.Do you know who supervised the resettlement of the "A" cases? A.The placement of "A" cases in agriculture as independent farmers took place through Department IV, that is as far as direction is concerned through the Department of Agriculture. In th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 512,100 | 512,600 |
transferred to the German Minister of Finance. QWitness, in the cases of land taken for military use, did you transfer the ownership--that is, the legal title as well as the possession--to the German armed forces? AI didn't quite understand you. QWitness, you mentioned in direct examination that certain property was co... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 512,550 | 513,050 |
as resettlers were concerned, as far as the Reichsland dealt with these matters, but in those other cases- QWitness, when you asked the Reichsland--or ordered them I am not interested in that now--to put a certain resettler on a farm, was not that done with a view to resettling the man on that farm permanently and not ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 513,000 | 513,500 |
QDo you. have any idea, witness, where the farms were situated which were given to those Poles? AIt was to be those farms which the Ethnic Germans who formerly were in Lublin had left. QWitness, do you know whether this trade or exchange of farms was made on A voluntary basis? ANo, I don't know that. QWitness, did you ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 513,450 | 513,950 |
the Central Land Office after the defendant, Meyer Hetling, had been appointed the Department head of the office? AWell, if I am restricted in this way I cannot say, because it is not quite clear to me. I stated that it was one or two months, as representing Holzschuher's resignation, and then I left for Agriculture, Q... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 513,900 | 514,400 |
giving of land to individuals, etc. so-called donations. Can you tell the Tribunal, witness, whether the defendant Meyer-Hetling protested against the confiscation of that land or against the giving of that land to these individuals? A.Are you discussing the case of the estate of Krasnik? In this case no confiscation h... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 514,350 | 514,850 |
SCHILLER: Q.Will you please answer the question? The question is, did you consider at the time, the defendant Meyer-Hetling to be a good Nazi? A.His aim was promotion and support of farmers and peasants, and were partly in conformity with the aims of the National Socialist Party; partly there were differences of opinio... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 514,800 | 515,300 |
letters were Herr Schroeder or Herr Eichinger, as a rule that is, of course. The dictation initials were often on these letters. Q.Witness, do you know whether or not the defendant Huebner ever prepared any such letters? A.I do not know that. Q.Do you know, witness, whether the defendant Huebner ever signed any letters... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 515,250 | 515,750 |
mention on direct examination for transfer of property, that is, donations, troop training grounds, and the small estates of rural property which were transferred to the industrial enterprises? A.I was of that opinion, and I am still of this opinion. Q.You have designated Dr. Fehndrich as a collaborator and associate o... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 515,700 | 516,200 |
the Office Planning and Land had nothing to do directly with the management as far as we leave out of account his activity as Office Group Chief? A.Yes. Q.Now, one last question. You mentioned that the defendant Meyer-Hetling had been active in an honorary capacity, and you concluded that from the fact that he was not ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 516,150 | 516,650 |
be helpful to the Tribunal. We now have a clear picutre of the contention of the Prosecution and the contention of the defendant concerning these matters. Other testimony of a cumulative character would not be helpful. From today on, the only witnesses the Tribunal will be interested in hearing will be such witnesses a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 516,600 | 517,100 |
Ulrich Greifelt, et al, defendants, sitting at Nuernberg, Germany, on 5 December 1947, Justice Wyatt, Presiding. THE MARSHAL:The Honorable, the Judges of Military Tribunal No. I. Military Tribunal I is now in session. God save the United States of America and this honorable Tribunal. There will be order in the court. T... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 517,050 | 517,550 |
did you leave your home country Croatia? AOn the 20th October 1942. QWere you known there as an ethnic German? AYes. QWhy did you leave there in 1942? Witness, you must make a pause after my question until the interpreter can translate it. When he stops talking, you can start. Why was the situation dangerous in your ne... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 517,500 | 518,000 |
and could speak very little German, they were told to go back to the Reich in order to learn German and then they could be resettled. Q.And to these people who could not speak proper German, you belonged to that group? A.Yes, I belonged to that group. Q.Were you told that in the Reich proper you would acquire German na... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 517,950 | 518,450 |
comrade from Pomerania told me that we were subordinated to a trustee company which had its seat in Marburg. QAnd what are you now doing? AI am a farm laborer. QWill you please repeat your answer? AI am a servant and my whole family, and of my property I haven't received a single mark yet. Court No. I, Case No. VIII. Q... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 518,400 | 518,900 |
my case to any other agency; it would be best for me to go to the Administration or some other agency. QDid the Reich Ministry of Justice send you to go to the Main Staff Office? AYes. I was.... QThat is quite sufficient. AYes. QWhen did you start your employment in the Main Staff Office? AOn 15 April 1940. QWhat kind ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 518,850 | 519,350 |
constructed by furniture factories in Germany. The first discussions took place at the end of January, 1941. Q.Did you then order furniture on a grand scale with the German furniture industry? A.Yes. Q.Was this your main task at that time? A.Yes. In April, 1941, I only had the procurement division for furniture and hou... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 519,300 | 519,800 |
HAENSEL: Q.Did you then hear that this old furniture which did not come from Berlin originated from the ghetto? A.Yes, I was told that this furniture had been -- THE PRESIDENT:Mr. Witness, he just asked you if you heard that. That is a full answer. THE WITNESS:Yes. BY DR. HAENSEL: Q.Did that surprise you? A.Yes. Q.You ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 519,750 | 520,250 |
the origin of your contacts with this agency? Who suggested these contacts? A.Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl suggested these contacts. Q.Did he approach you with the request to issue orders? A.No, he approached the Obergruppenfuehrer Greifelt. We gave orders to the Deutsche Ausruestungswerke, the German equipment works in Dac... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 520,200 | 520,700 |
drawing rooms and thousands of beds, we only received a fraction of all these. Q.How did the offices on the provincial level help themselves who were supposed to procure furniture for the resettlers? A.The largest requirements had already been covered just before our activity had started. The offices on the provincial ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 520,650 | 521,150 |
Ghetto at Lublin had been carried out by Higher SS and Police leader Krueger at Cracow. A.Yes. Q.Did the Main Staff Office give instructions for this measure or did it only hoar of them subsequently? A.We only heard of these after it had happened. No new orders were given by us. Q.In your affidavit you have said that i... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 521,100 | 521,600 |
the Main Staff Office and that belongs to these experiences. THE PRESIDENT:Mr. Haensel, I see your view point and think it is well taken but under our procedure and circumstances of this kind you are permitted to show that the feelings were not good as between the two men but all the details is not permissible under ou... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 521,550 | 522,050 |
for them. Generally, about these affidavit appears to be dated November 22, 1947, obtained at a time when this trial was actually in progress, and from a witness that could have been very easily produced by the prosecution. The precedent established by this Tribunal is the only precedent that I know anything about on e... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 522,000 | 522,500 |
going to a Junker School, a training school for officers of the Waffen SS. Then I had an accident and for a certain period of time I was declared exempted from armed service. Thereupon, in May 1941, I was ordered to join the Main Staff Office of the Reich Commissar and there I worked as an informant in the main departm... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 522,450 | 522,950 |
the benefit of the SS? AI know Herr Greifelt from his various activities in the SS before that time, personally, and before I was transferred to Marburg, Herr Greifelt informed me personally of my task down in Marburg. QOn that occasion were you told that in accordance with the regulations, laws, and decrees, you had t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 522,900 | 523,400 |
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