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sent to the Government General. At the time I did this in agreement with the Main Staff Office which completely agreed with me. Several officials of my agency were sent to the Government General in order to get all these people and families back to Danzig, West Prussia. Here I employed them in vacant positions which ex... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,018,350 | 1,018,850 |
anything to do with it in any way, nor did I have anything to do with it as Higher SS and Police Leader. It becomes evident from the distribution on this document that I am not even mentioned there, although Gotenhafen was quite an important city in the Reich District of Danzig, West Prussia. However, this is typical f... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,018,800 | 1,019,300 |
Therefore, I shall only ask you whether you consider that testimony to be correct. Do you want to add anything to the statements made by the witnesses here or do you want to make any corrections in their testimony? A.The statements of the two witnesses, Ehlich, Wolf, and probably Ebrecht are fundamentally correct. That... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,019,250 | 1,019,750 |
slightest tendency to do that. To the contrary, that is why for us old SS leaders when the concept of the Higher SS and Police Leader was established it was not pleasant for us, especially since together with the appointment no clear jurisdiction and competencies were established. As has already been shown by the first... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,019,700 | 1,020,200 |
was to develop a general SS from National Germans although he believed that the majority of these men would become soldiers anyhow so consequently would not remain at home. The Inspector of the regular police who worked in the Gau, Danzig, West Prussia, as far as the organization was concerned, was incorporated into th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,020,150 | 1,020,650 |
given to the Higher SS and Police Leader any more with the exception of the functions which I have already mentioned because the task and the competencies of the police at the time when this Gau agency was established, had already been distributed without any exception. I want to say this in conclusion: the position of... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,020,600 | 1,021,100 |
a clean and decent official and he would not tolerate corruption in the slighest form. Personally nothing can be changed against him. The difficulties probably arose because he did not have the necessary prerequisits in order to fill a position of that sort. Above all he lacked sufficient experience. From the humane po... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,021,050 | 1,021,550 |
to Hitler. In practice he was able to counter ever order by the main staff office and to sabotage it or to carry it cut in a half hearted manner or not at all, whenever he wanted to do so. I personally was in a very embarrassing situation, that on the one hand as I was told constantly, I was to maintain good relations ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,021,500 | 1,022,000 |
were severely endangered as far as their position was concerned. These thnic groups lived throughout the East and the Southeast of Europe and in a certain way they were just very small groups. The wish to assemble all these small groups in the Reich could easily be understood. QIn the conditions which you have referred... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,021,950 | 1,022,450 |
eastern provinces which had been taken away from Germany after 1918, and that is to say West Prussia in which we are interested in this connection, after the incorporation into the Reich, offered the possibility to collect and assemble the ethnic German groups who lived outside of Germany, get them back into the Reich ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,022,400 | 1,022,900 |
these territories amde it extremely difficult for Germany to obtain proper food, and of course, that's how the demand for the returning of these territories arose. After the end of the campaign in Poland the necessity arose that finally clear conditions were to be established in the Last where for more than a century t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,022,850 | 1,023,350 |
other authorities. Q.- And now, you were the representative of the Reich Commissar. A.- Yes. Q.- And on the strength of which decree, please. A.- I was appointed representative by the decree of the Reichsfuehrer of the 2nd November, 1939, which he issued in his capacity as Reich Commissar. At the same time I was higher... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,023,300 | 1,023,800 |
with the Soviet Union? A.- Yes. Q.- And what were these? A.- In order to supplement this statement, these national treaties with Estonia and Latvia were necessary because the Soviet Union in June 1940 made an ultimatum to Romania concerning the giving over of the Old Austrian territory of North Bukovina, and because th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,023,750 | 1,024,250 |
Russians in order to protect the life and property of the people living there. The agreement with Germany in this connection was expressed in a common German-Russian declaration, dated 18th September, 1939. According to the official publications, the significance and the meaning of this declaration was to provide for t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,024,200 | 1,024,700 |
these treaties? A.Yes, absolutely. I could not doubt the validity of these treaties, which were published in the Reich Law Gazette, Germany Estonia, Latvia, and the Soviet Union were sovereign states. They could regulate their national relations; also, with respect to the various ethnic groups living within their borde... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,024,650 | 1,025,150 |
exhiliration. We thought that the ethnic groups of the Baltics should have been looked at, in the first place, from the point of view of labor allocation, and I mean labor allocation not in the narrow sense but, as far as their placement was concerned, altogether. However, since the Balts were mostly over-age, they bro... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,025,100 | 1,025,600 |
236? This shows the classification of refugees from Estonia and Latvia, in four categories. Besides, there was also the possibility for members of Group III -- that is, the Latvians, Estonians, and other aliens -- to have exceptions made for them and not to have them deported to Latvia and Estonia, namely if these peop... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,025,550 | 1,026,050 |
Exhibit 312? This is a note on a lecture by the defendant Greifelt, reported to the Reichsfuehrer SS on the 12th of May 1943. In paragraphs 24 and 25 mention is made of matters concerning the Reich Gau of Danzig-West Prussia. Were you in any way involved in these incidents in an official capacity? A.No. At that time I ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,026,000 | 1,026,500 |
did not have any relations or contacts with the Race Office of RuSHA. I only learned about this document here in Nurnberg. Besides, the author of this document, Dr. Gross, could never have put down that nonsense if he had been in these territories even only once, with his eyes open. I mentioned sometime ago that the Ka... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,026,450 | 1,026,950 |
18 days long, Poland was completely conquered and occupied. The Polish troops, for the most part, were in Germany as prisoners of war, and a government which had power to act was no longer in existence. Ridz Smygli, who was the Marshal at that time, had become a refugee, and you may still remember how little joy Englan... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,026,900 | 1,027,400 |
had therewith belonged to Germany since 1817. For all these reasons I viewed the actual situation in the same way as the Hague Land Warfare Convention provides for the actual surrender of the enemy. I was absolutely convinced that the measures taken by the German Reich Government in the re-incorporated territories were... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,027,350 | 1,027,850 |
right in general that the more power, the more territory one has. However, Poland has much too many foreign ethnic groups and it would be better to waive the rights to certain territories in order to strengthen the national unity." Poland, therefore-- in order to conclude -- on the basis of the Versailles Treaty, which... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,027,800 | 1,028,300 |
countries which were there at that time -- and even people from the American press were there, who at that time could have an insight into these incidents in detail without hinderance and without having any influence exercised upon them--these neutral countries at that time agreed that these incidents in any case were ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,028,250 | 1,028,750 |
believe that such reservations existed. I believe, above all, that Hitler already at that time was convinced of it. He knew that for the duration, the dynamics of the Slav nations, and in particular the Soviet Union, would not adhere to the borders which it was entitled to by nature and on which it had a claim. We rath... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,028,700 | 1,029,200 |
that in such cases in world history the same thing was always applied, that the national rights--I do not want to say broke international law-but it had priority over it; or in order to put it quite simply, every person is nearer to his shirt than to his jacket. Therefore it was the will of Himmler to separate the ethn... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,029,150 | 1,029,650 |
as for example, it was done from 1945 on in the same territories. Until November of 1940, for example, and this becomes evident from one of the documents here, 31,000 Poles officially were sent to the Government General and were deported there by the Reich Security Main Office but in my time never became any higher, bu... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,029,600 | 1,030,100 |
the entire world in a speech which Churchill made before the House of Commons. Churchill stated the following at the time in regard to the problem in the East: "The resettlement of several millions of people from the East to the West, to the North, must be carried out just like the expulsion of the Germans, and that is... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,030,050 | 1,030,550 |
of command. As an old soldier in the World War and in this war also this was quite clear to me. In a military formation it is impossible to go over the head of COURT I CASE VIII the chief or the commander or to by-pass channels by going over the heads of subordinates. In the SS and in the Police unfortunately this beca... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,030,500 | 1,031,000 |
to help these people in some other form by way of some other contacts which I had. This was necessary in order to tell you what I had to say on deportations. Q.- Is it correct, witness, that in all questions of foreign nations, the Reich Security Main Office was competent? A.- Yes, quite. In all questions of foreign na... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,030,950 | 1,031,450 |
vacated as the result of the deportations, were turned over to the labor staffs. They saw to it that the new managers of the estate, that is to say, the resettlers which were appointed as custodians, were ready to occupy the estate whenever these estates were vacated. The labor staffs were subordinated to a district, s... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,031,400 | 1,031,900 |
a letter head, does not have a date, and apparently it comes from the very beginning of the establishment of the main staff office. The expulsion of Jews and leading Poles who were hostile to Germany is mentioned here. At the time when I arrived at Danzig it became evident as reported here that the Jews had already bee... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,031,850 | 1,032,350 |
value of a human being in my opinion is not in any way improved by the fact that he belonged to one race or another, least of all, if he adheres to the internal laws of the natural sovereign right which providence has already decided. The immigration legislation in the United States, which is the most interesting examp... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,032,300 | 1,032,800 |
hot quite in order." And the doctor had told him, "You can come but get your teeth in order first. It is better that you do it in Europe before coming over." Or, for example, people were turned down in stating they had to have some operation done by a German doctor and they could come back the following year, or someon... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,032,750 | 1,033,250 |
to prevent that the appearance of the German people should change to any considerable extent. Q.- Did you have anything to do with the EWZ? A.- No, I had nothing to do with the EWZ. Q.- Please take a look at exhibit 239. In this document it is stated that the German Government subsequently removed laws of the Polish au... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,033,200 | 1,033,700 |
insofar as he claimed that you took one of his counsins and put him in a concentration camp? ASeveral witnesses have already testified about the testimony of Bach-Zelewsky. In this connection I only want to say the following. I do not know any member of the clan of Herr Zelewsky. I have never seen any files about it. I... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,033,650 | 1,034,150 |
DVL, the German People's List. I now want to ask you did this decree originate as a result of your initiative, or did you participate in the bringing about of this decree? ANo, I didn't play any part in that. That is the strange part about it, that the experts -- and after all we happened to be the experts in these thi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,034,100 | 1,034,600 |
for example, were quite a desirable influx to the German population. That is what we meant by so-called valuable aliens. From this concept valuable aliens, however, it also becomes evidence that the term "valuable" was not limited alone to Germans but that the term "valuable" applied also to alien nations. The prosecut... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,034,550 | 1,035,050 |
the procedure because after all it was handled only on the lower levels in the offices of the Landrat and the Lord Mayor. Q.With that do you refute all participation in these procedures? A.No. Q.To what extent did you participate in them? A.As higher SS and police leader and as leader of the Main Sector insofar as the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,035,000 | 1,035,500 |
expert and this examiner was assigned to the Race and Settlement Leader. In cases of emergency the Race and Settlement Leader could also carry out racial examinations because he was trained in that. However, the population in Danzig-West Prussia amounted to seven to eight hundred thousand people, and it is easily imagi... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,035,450 | 1,035,950 |
fact that additional soldiers were to be furnished to the army by that measure was a decisive factor in bringing about the introduction of the DVL, this is wrong. It is not correct. Of course people who requested on a voluntary basis to become Germans, were subject to later on to military service in their capacity as G... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,035,900 | 1,036,400 |
there were very strong personal disagreements between Greiser and Forster, and part of these personal disagreements could probably be the cause for this letter. In any case, a forced re-Germanization cannot be mentioned in this connection. Q.Therewith, I have concluded Point 17 of the Indictment, and I am now turning t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,036,350 | 1,036,850 |
he did not bring up anything new. Q.Now, will you please look at Exhibit 153, also in Document Book IV-C? In this document, on page 10, technical assignments are transferred to the Higher SS and Police Leader within the framework of the treatment of members of Group III of the German People's List. Was this decree vali... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,036,800 | 1,037,300 |
who directed this, with the help of various other organizations. I was in no way involved in all these matters. QWitness, the Prosecution, obviously, bases this charge on a report which had been the subject of discussion several times. This is Exhibit 753, in Document Book XV. On page 7 of this document mention is made... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,037,250 | 1,037,750 |
report to him concerning all fundamental organizational matters in the Gau as far as they touched upon SS and Police matters. This function was contained in the expression, "Representative Deputy of the Reichsfuehrer". Therefore, when the Reichsfuehrer was in the Gau, he then, of course, contacted the member agencies a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,037,700 | 1,038,200 |
However, I had to report to him about them. Furthermore, I reported to him that this Sturmbann, which was also called Guard. Sturmbann, (Wachsturmbann) had to guard a transit camp for unreliable Poles who, later on, were sent to Central Poland, whom it was planned to evacuate to Central Poland; and this Sturmbann had t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,038,150 | 1,038,650 |
say that Court No. I, Case No. VIII. in a rather normal way and so that it can be understood, cordons were made by the police so that the life of the head of the state would be safe. QWill you please continue now? What now was the suggestion that a certain authority in Danzig made to you at the time? ASometime after th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,038,600 | 1,039,100 |
Reich Security Main Office, but I would have to get there the approval of the Reich Health authorities and also the Governor-General, Dr. Frank. Later on then I went to Wiesbaden in order to effect the transfer and moving of my family. On my return to Berlin, I interrupted this journey and reported to Himmler. Himmler,... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,039,050 | 1,039,550 |
also participated, it finally was ceased. It was repugnant for me to deal with these matters altogether, but my official position as Higher SS and Police Leader forced me to do so. Ehbrecht has already testified to the effect that because of a conference he had with Eymann he was made a suggestion by Eymann, the conten... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,039,500 | 1,040,000 |
former channels of command, that is to say, these channels of command concerning the local agencies, especially the Reichsstatthalter. It can further be seen as was the Chief of the Main Office concerned, he himself was not clear about the channel of command. A subordination relationship under my order is not mentioned... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,039,950 | 1,040,450 |
done that on the occasion of his visit. I commended them insofar as the reports concerned the tasks which were delegated to no by him in the interests of the Reich; so only in such a way was I able to gain distance from the rest of the activities of this Sturmbann. In any case I would like to ascertain with all the cla... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,040,400 | 1,040,900 |
especially the Germanization of their names. Did you know anything about that decree?. AThis decree, exhibit 385, is not known to me. I have read it here for the. first time, nor do I remember it, just as I have said just a few minutes ago. Also, witness Vietz testified to this point extensively. QThen this Question do... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,040,850 | 1,041,350 |
letter. However, the distribution list appended to this letter shows that a copy was received by all Higher Police and SS leaders. Therefore, it is entirely possible that I have received that letter. However, this letter could not be of any interest to me for it deals with the local situation of the Gau Upper Danube as... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,041,300 | 1,041,800 |
only suggestions which were approved by Himmler. However, a regulation or a decree which would have been issued after these suggestions is not known to me, nor could the prosecution produce such a document up to now. Therefore it probably has not been issued at all. QDid you receive any reports about this? AThe fact th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,041,750 | 1,042,250 |
which is a decree of the Reichfuehrer-SS of 20 February 1942. It is a general prohibition. Did you know at the time of this decree? AVery probably. This decree I probably read because it has fundamental significance. However, I was only interested in a peripheral way because this was a decree that purely. dealt with po... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,042,200 | 1,042,700 |
the people involved. QYou are in agreement with the testimony given by the witnesses Vietz and Haessler. AYes, absolutely. Vietz was actually on the provincial level the competent man who had to make his decisions in these cases. Besides, I also agree with this because since this Criminal Inspector Haessler was a typic... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,042,650 | 1,043,150 |
I was on a vacation for health reasons and from then on I was not officially active anymore in my agency in West Prussia but after that I took over the leadership of the RuSHA. But, even if I had received this decree, it would not have had any significance for me. I am convinced, and I know from experience that the Hig... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,043,100 | 1,043,600 |
contained in this decree and from the provisions of other decrees, I know that the property of members of the former Polish State could be and was confiscated under the provisions contained in this decree and following decrees. I, myself, did not in any way collaborate in these measures. The tasks that were delegated t... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,043,550 | 1,044,050 |
within the territory of the State who were Nationals of enemy nations, and in this case were Polish, or to confiscate the property of such persons who had had an inimical attitude against the German state or the German people. Such a seizure of property was carried out by the nations opposed to us in the First World Wa... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,044,000 | 1,044,500 |
the former owners to resettlers. In view of all measures and the legal decrees which had been prepared in a perfectly conscientious manner, I, as representative of the Main Staff Office, as can be seen in exhibit 596, had no doubt to follow those decrees and measures and acted inaccord with them since every refusal wou... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,044,450 | 1,044,950 |
seeb from the distribution list. I had actually nothing to do with this subject matter. The carrying out of the whole procedure was up to the Reich Security Main Office. QIn concluding this whole group of questions, I would like to show you some documents for identification purposes and I would like to ask you to do it... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,044,900 | 1,045,400 |
possible to him, the wounded and dependents of the Waffen-SS. For this reason he showed me a letter, that is this veryExhibit 628, and he asked the Reichsfuehrer, who was the only man competent for this very matter for permission to use part of the stock of the WVHA which was in the camp Oranienburg, that is, of course... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,045,350 | 1,045,850 |
I was transferred and detached to Southern Russia and during the Christmas holidays I was snowed in on a Russian airfield. QWitness, before, coming to the next group of questions I would like to refer to three exhibits, 84,85 and 86, found in document book 3. These three documents still pertain to this whole complex of... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,045,800 | 1,046,300 |
point which contains the charge that you have participated and collaborated in the elimination and liquidation of the Jews. I am handing you the documents that pertain to these points and I would like to ask you, in contrast to my usual practice, to testify in connection with this point, not only in connection with you... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,046,250 | 1,046,750 |
Ossiander was a very eager person, and with these instructions on my part he went around and looked for everything that had anything to do with genealogy at all. One could compare that to a bloodhound who had smelled the scent of a partridge. He was very eager; I might even say too eager, because he knew justifiably th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,046,700 | 1,047,200 |
in Berlin, and as far as possible he functioned as such because afterwards this office was transferred to Kyffuaeuser. Q.And do you know, witness, that the genealogical records office was formed with the purpose of liquidating the Jews? The defendant Schwalm, if I am not mistaken, already testified when he was in the w... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,047,150 | 1,047,650 |
of them. These two concepts fought to the blood in Germany before that time. This fact, this new knowledge, I would say, this new experience and the incomparably cruel and humiliating Treaty of Versailles, those two were the basis and the prerequisites for the National Socialist movement. In 1923 I read in Munich, wher... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,047,600 | 1,048,100 |
about the over-increasing anti-Semitism, and who tried to find out the real reasons for that fact. They seriously engaged without prejudice, in ascertaining the reasons for this increase in anti-Semitism. In this connection, it is not an accident that, after the first World War, Dr. Rathenau, a German of Jewish descent... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,048,050 | 1,048,550 |
enlarge upon with many other names from the towns of Worms and Frankfurt on the Main where, as it is well know, many jews lived. On the other hand, the fact was that, particularly after the first World War, the Jews in Germany had gained a very great influence over public life and public opinion, an influence which was... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,048,500 | 1,049,000 |
also very much different. During the whole period when I was a. National Socialist and a member of the General SS, from 1931 on, I was never personally approached with any Jewish problem; I didn't even have contact with any Jewish problems. For the very reason of my personal conception of that question, I had a very se... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,048,950 | 1,049,450 |
Europe, General Eisenhower issued a very severe order to prevent fraternization in German areas, as a soldier, I cannot critize that in any manner, and in this particular case I cannot critize it as a human being either. From the viewpoint of a soldier, an officer is responsible for the defensive and fighting morale of... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,049,400 | 1,049,900 |
problem before such a large circle, where quite clear orders had been given to him, most probably, not to speak about these matters at all. The fact of the liquidations at Auschwitz--as I can and will provecame to my knowledge only in April of 1945, by the Judge I was faced with at the time, that is, Dr. Morgan. It cam... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,049,850 | 1,050,350 |
it could never be too late: "That is your moral duty, if you even have the slightest shade of a semblance of the situation at all." But he didn't do so, and his end was as miserable as his actions were. To come back to the Poznan speech, if at the time this fact about the extermination had become known, then Himmler co... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,050,300 | 1,050,800 |
of our opponents and of the Treaty of Versailles was too great and too large for a mail who had been a participant in that World War--a World War for which two million German people had died in good faith--for a man to be indifferent to the misery and to the bad situation in which his people were. If only as a human be... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,050,750 | 1,051,250 |
upperSilesian fighters who were active after the first World War. The method of work in this Oberland Association was quite different from that of the Nazi Party. The Nazi Party tried to conquer the bread messes by political propaganda, while the activity of the Oberland Association was more oriented towards educationa... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,051,200 | 1,051,700 |
which the Party had to do away with, was Bolshevism and its dangerous international ideology. Even today I consider that the spiritual side of this Bolshevism is at least as dangerous or even more dangerous than the armored cars backing up this idea. For us Germans particularly, Bolshevism was especially dangerous, on ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,051,650 | 1,052,150 |
state idea can act on the conditions and on the relationship with the people. After all, the state ought to serve the people and not the people the state. The so-called revolution of January 1933 may well be considered the least bloody revolution of world history. It did in no way bring me into conflicts with my consci... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,052,100 | 1,052,600 |
consistent line and of bringing a consistent line into the policy of that state without wavering-and therefore you speak of a type of man produced, for instance, by British diplomacy and by the Catholic church. Above all the development of such an attack needs time and National Socialism always committed the basic erro... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,052,550 | 1,053,050 |
pattern in accordance with the law that the pattern is always forced upon you by your opponent. If this opponent develops collective force which can be a threat to your very existence, then you have to consider what forms you have to develop yourself to counteract that danger. Therefore, these were forcible development... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,053,000 | 1,053,500 |
far-seeing man did not succeed in creating this link between the two countries to the disadvantage of those two countries as can be seen today more and more clearly. These facts and these consideration's at the time caused me in spite of many personal things I disapproved of to adhere to Hitler's political ideas and to... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,053,450 | 1,053,950 |
Part and State attempted, therefore, to influence Hitler more and more precisely. They had the aim in doing this of bringing the war to a supportable end by negotiations. I myself belonged to this faction. At that time it was not really an opposition group or a resistance group although this is rather fashionable now a... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,053,900 | 1,054,400 |
to discuss with you the general points that would be of interest for the RUSHA but I would like to limit myself to the period of time in which you were the Chief of the RuSHA, It may perhaps be of some significance if you would make some detailed comments about the significance and position of the RuSHA during your tim... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,054,350 | 1,054,850 |
have found clear situations and clear channels of command. It takes a lot of nervous energy if you never know, during the course of your life, for what you are responsible and for what you ore not responsible any longer, inasmuch as one takes one's profession rather seriously, and I always attempted to do just that. At... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,054,800 | 1,055,300 |
which already ousted under the term of office of my comrade, Hofmann, the independence especially of the marriage office, the race office, was not hindered by me. Of course, there was no special reason for doing that. I gave them complete freedom of decision, especially with regard to their own work and to that of the ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,055,250 | 1,055,750 |
knowledge that the most important thing now was to end this war with all means at our disposal. I did not think it a decisive factor whether or not marriage applications were taken care of, whether any sort of examinations by marriage examiners were made, whether or not genealogical research and examinations concerning... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,055,700 | 1,056,200 |
the agency of the Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of Germanism, the race and settlement office by way of the racial examiners was delegated various national tasks, via this agency of the Reich Commissar. This activity has been described in points 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18 of the indictment. The settlement off... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,056,150 | 1,056,650 |
in. On the training ground there I saw young officer candidates who were training with the troops there. I was amazed about the wonderful physical human specimens and especially about the fact that the outward picture of these officer candidates corresponded exactly to the picture of the Elite Guard of Northern Germany... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,056,600 | 1,057,100 |
English is not necessary at this points. It can be seen then that all peoples of the World have developed a similar regulation without being reproached for having a superiority complex as far as their race is concerned. Q.Witness, have you now finished your statement concerning race, as such? A.Yes, I think I have fini... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,057,050 | 1,057,550 |
by the Reich Commissar in the Reich Security Main Office; most of then were already in effect. The independence of the race office besides, of course, included conferences with other main offices; for instance, with the Reich Commissar for the strengthening of Germanism; the main office for the consummation of German f... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,057,500 | 1,058,000 |
hundred to three hundred applications a month in this way, and I examined them and forwarded them to a superior office. The genealogical records office was established as far as I know only in the course of the War. In 1943, in the summer, it was re-established when Sturmbannfuehrer Ossiander, its head at the time, cam... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,057,950 | 1,058,450 |
three offices. That was the welfare office, the pension office, and the office welfare abroad. Very soon, in order to simplify and decentralize matters, I made it possible that the four welfare offices which had existed up to that time in Berlin, Poznan, Duesseldorf and Munich, were dissolved, in order to establish in ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,058,400 | 1,058,900 |
you during this time? AYes, all the time, but just in connection with this chapter of members of the SS abroad, I would like to say something that might be worth while. All members of the Waffen SS, no matter of what ethnic groups they were, received the same care for themselves and their families in the currency of th... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,058,850 | 1,059,350 |
As I have already stated, the Settlement Office did not carry its name justifiadly any longer, for it neither settled nor owned real estate. With the establishment of the agency of the Reich Commissar in October, 1939, the settlement, as such, was finally delegated to this agency of the Reich Commissar. Of course, they... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,059,300 | 1,059,800 |
document? Is this the document that you were just talking about? AYes, that is the document I just mentioned. QWitness, did you conduct personal negotiations with other main offices, and what were the reasons for your doing that? AI conducted negotiations with this heads of the main offices, of course, as far as possib... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,059,750 | 1,060,250 |
I found this extremely important. Q.My last question in this connection: Were there any personal contacts between the Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of Germanism and the RUSHA? Witness, did you understand my question? A.Will you please state it once again? Q.I wanted to ask whether the Reich Commissar for the St... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,060,200 | 1,060,700 |
had an insight in the matter, was not very close; on the contrary, Brigadier General Hoffmeyer at that time stated at various times to me that his boss was Reichsfuehrer Himmler and that he had no more official contact with the VOMI because he said he could get his decisions verbally and directly from the Reichsfuehrer... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,060,650 | 1,061,150 |
methods to bring these questions to a fair and noble solution. The assertions made today against the Lebensborn in the newspapers by lay man are wrong. I have read part of them here. In part, they are even of such a nature that you could speak of an unhealthy imagination, particularly in as far as immoral aims or purpo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,061,100 | 1,061,600 |
am personally fully in favor of what the Lebensborn stood for and attempted. QNow what about your personal relationship to the Main Staff Office? AAs representative of the Reich Commissar at Danzig, I was officially under the authority of directives issued by the Main Staff Office as the agency of the Reich Commissar. ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,061,550 | 1,062,050 |
in the denazification laws. Put nobody would assert that that would mean bodily extermination of the person involved, and nobody would assert that it would be moral or professional extermination. QDuring your office term, were decisions or decrees issued by higher agencies? AThe fundamental decrees had been issued befo... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,062,000 | 1,062,500 |
will you then take Exhibit 399 in Document Book VIII-A. According to this document, children of Czechoslovakian executed persons should be examined as to whether they suitable for re-Germanization by the field agency Bohemia and Moravia. Did this decree come to your attention? ANo, this decree did not come to my attent... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,062,450 | 1,062,950 |
this incurs considerably milder punishment than if it were murder, Up to now nobody had the idea to see in this interruption of pregnancy a crime against humanity. From Exhibit 470 it becomes apparent that the first fundamental decree, 443, of 11 March 1943, was issued by Reich Health Leader Conti. My defense counsel, ... | Harvard: RuSHA Case | 1,062,900 | 1,063,400 |
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