sturmfuehrer Truehe on the subject of S-vans addressed to the Reich Security Main Office, Room 2-D-3-A, Berlin, marked "Top Secret." This letter establishes that the vans were used for the annihilation of the Jews. I read this "Top Secret" message, subject: S-vans.
"A transport of Jews, which has to be treated in a special way, arrives weekly at the office of the commandant of the Security Police and the Security Service of White Ruthenia.
"The three S-vans which are there are not sufficient for that purpose. I request assignment of another S-van (five tons). At the same time I request the shipment of twenty gas hoses for the three S-vans on hand (two Diamond, one Saurer), since the ones on hand are leaky already." Signed, the Commandant of the Security Police and the Security Service, Ostland." discord existed between the officials of the German Government as to the proper means and methods used in connection with the program of extermination. A secret report dated 18 June 1943, addressed to Defendant Rosenberg, complained that five thousand Jews killed by the police and SS might have been used for forced labor, and chided them for failing to bury the bodies of those liquidated. I offer in evidence this file, Document No. R-135, U.S. Exhibit 289-
THE PRESIDENT: Is it in these volumes, sir? MAJOR WALSH: I think, sir, that will be found in the assembly of the document books in our case that has been placed in front of R-124.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Major.
MAJOR WALSH: I quote from the letter referred to addressed to the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, the first paragraph of the translation.
"The fact that Jews receive special treatment requires no further discussion. However, it appears hardly believable that this is done in the way described in the report of the General Commissioner of 1 June 1943. What is Katyn against that? Imagine only that these occurrences would become known to the other side and exploited by them! Most likely such propaganda would have no effect only because people who hear and read about it simply would not be ready to believe it."
The last part of paragraph three on this page reads:
"To lock men, women, and children into barns and to set fire to them does not appear to be a suitable method of combatting bands, even if it is desired to exterminate the population. This method is not worthy of the German cause and hurts our reputation severely." addressed to the General Commissioner for White Ruthenia, subject: "Action Against Jews," was critical by implication. With the Courts permission I would like to read this entire letter, part of Document R-135, page five, subject: Action Against Jews.
"On 13 April 1943 the former German dentist Ernst Israel Tichauer and his wife, Elisa Sara Tichauer, nee Rosenthal, were committed to the court prison by the Security Service. Since that time all German and Russian Jews who were turned over to us had their golden bridgework, crowns, and fillings pulled or broken out. This happens always one to two hours before the respective action.
"Since 13 April 1943, 516 German and Russian Jews have been finished off. On the basis of a definite investigation gold was taken only in two actions,--on 14 April 1943 from 172, and on 27 April 1943 from 164 Jews. About fifty percent of the Jews had gold teeth, bridgwork, or fillings. Hauptscharfuehrer Rube of the Security Service was always personally present, and he took the gold along, too.
"Before 13 April 1943 this was not done. Signed Gunther, Prison Warden." the Occupied Eastern Territories on June 1943. I will read the covering letter, part of Document R-135, page four, to the Reich Minister of the Occupied Eastern Territories, Berlin, through the Reich Commissioner for the Eastland, Riga. Subject: Actions Against Jews in the Prison of Minsk.
"The enclosed official report from the warden of the prison in Minsk is submitted to the Reich Minister and the Reich Commissar for Information. Signed The General Commissar in Minsk.
THE PRESIDENT: Does "Respective Action", as indicated in letter dated the 31st of May, 1943, mean execution?
MAJOR WALSH: Yes, sir; we interpret it as such. The Court will recall that the ridding of the Jews via gas vans ties in very closely with the second letter of the transport of Jews arriving for that purpose.
THE PRESIDENT: Was this document found in Rosenberg's file?
MAJOR WALSH: I am so informed, sir. A further complaint is contained in a secret letter addressed to the General of the Infantry, Thomas, Chief of the Industrial Armament Department, dated 2 December 1941. It might be noted with interest that the apprehensive writer of this letter stated that he did not forward the communication through official channels. I offer in evidence captured document 3257-PS, and I quote from the first paragraph through--this is U.S. Exhibit 290.
"For the personal information of the Chief of the Industrial Armament Department I am forwarding a total account of the present situation in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine in which the difficulties and tensions encountered so fan and the problems which give rise to serious anxiety are stated with unmistakable clarity.
"Intentionally I have desisted from submitting such a report through official channels or to make it known to other departments interested in it because I do not expect any results that way, but to the contrary am apprehensive that the difficulties and tensions and also the divergent opinions might only be increased due to the peculiarity of the situation.
"Jewish problem (paragraph seven, page one).
"Regulation of the Jewish question in the Ukraine was a difficult problem because that the Jews constituted a large part of the urban population. We therefore have to deal--just as in the General Government--with a mass problem of policy concerning the population. Many cities had a percentage of Jews exceeding fifty percent. Only the rich Jews had fled from the German troops. The majority of Jews remained under German administration. The latter found the problem more complicated through the fact that these Jews represented almost the entire trade and even a part of the manpower in small and medium industries besides the business which had in part become superfluous as a direct or indirect result of the war.
The elimination therefore necessarily had far-reaching economic consequences and even direct consequences for the armament industry (production for supplying the troops)."Paragraph one on page two:
"The attitude of the Jewish population was anxious -- obliging from the beggining. They tried to avoid everything that might displease the German administration. That they hated the German administration and army inwardly goes without saying and cannot be surprising. However, there is no proof that Jewry as a whole or even to a greater part was implicated in acts of sabotage. Surely there were some terrorists or saboteurs among them just as among the Ukrainians. But it cannot be said that the Jews as such represented a danger to the German armed forces. The output produced by Jews who, of course, were prompted by nothing but the feeling of fear, was satisfactory to the troops and the German administration.
"The Jewish population remained temporarily unmolested shortly after the fighting. Only weeks, sometimes months later, specially detached formations of the police executed a planned shooting of Jews. This action as a rule proceeded from east to west. It was done entirely in public with the use of the Ukrainian militia, and unfortunately in many instances also with members of the armed forces taking part voluntarily. The way these actions, which included men and old men, women, and children of all ages were carried out was horrible. The great masses executed make this action more gigantic than any similar measure taken so far in the Soviet Union. So far about 150,000 to 200,000 Jews may have been executed in the part of the Ukraine belonging to the Reichskommissariat; no consideration was given to the interests of economy.
"Summarizing, it can be said that the kind of solution of the Jewish problem applied in the Ukraine which obviously was based on the ideological theories as a matter of principle had the following results:
"(a) Elimination of a part of partly superfluous eaters in the cities.
"(b) Elimination of a part of the population which hated us undoubtedly.
"(c) Elimination of badly needed tradesmen who were in many instances indispensable even in the interests of the armed forces.
"(d) Consequences as to foreign policy -- propaganda which are obvious, "(e) Bad effects on the troops which in any case get indirect contact "(f) Brutalizing effect on the formations which carry out the executions-regular police."
existed only in the East, I invite attention to the official Netherlands Government report by the Commissioner for Repatriation as indicative of the treatment of the Jews in the West. against the Dutch Jews. The decrees, the anti-semitic demonstrations, the burning of synagogues, the purging of Jews from the economic life of their country, the food restrictions against them, forced labor, concentration camp confinement, deportation, and death,-- all follow the same pattern that was effected throughout Nazi-occupied Europe.
I now refer to Document 1726-PS, U.S. Exhibit 195, already in evidence. It is not intended to read this document in evidence, but it is deemed important to invite the Court's attention to that portion of the report relating to the deportation of Dutch Jews, shown on page five of the translation. There the Court will note that full Jews being liable to deportation number 140,000. The Court will also note that the total number of deportees was 117,000, representing more than eighty-three per cent of all the Jews in the Netherlands. Of these 115,000 were deported to Poland for slave labor, according to the Netherlands report, and after departure all trace of them was lost. Regardless of victory or defeat, to Germany the Jew was doomed. It was the expressed intent of the Nazi state that whatever the German fate might be the Jew would hot survive.
I offer in evidence Document 1-53, stamped "Top Secret", U.S. Exhibit 291. This message is from the Commandant of the SIPO and SD for the Radom District, addressed to SS Kauptsturmfuehrer Thiel on the subject: "Clearance of Prisons." I read the body of this message.
"I again stress the fact that the number of inmates of the SIPO and SD prisons must be kept as low as possible. In the present situation, particularly those suspects handed over by the civil police, need only be subjected to a short, formal interrogation, provided there are no serious grounds for suspicion.
They are then to be sent by the quickest route to a concentration camp, should no court martial proceeding be necessary or should there be no question of discharge. Please keep the number of discharges very low. Should the situation at the front necessitate it, early preparations are to be made for the total clearance of prisons. Should the situation develop suddenly in such a way that it is impossible to evacuate the prisoners, the prison inmates are to be liquidated and their bodies disposed of as far as possible (burning, blowing up the building, etc). If necessary, Jews still employed in the armament industry or on other work are to be dealt with in the same way.
"The liberation of prisoners or Jews by the enemy, be it the WB or the Red Army, must be avoided under all circumstances, nor may they fall into their hands alive."
THE PRESIDENT: What is the WB?
MAJOR WALSH: I have inquired about the WB, your Honor, from several sources and have not found an understanding or a statement of it. Perhaps before the afternoon session I may be able to enlighten the Court. I have not yet been able to find out.
THE PRESIDENT: Where was the document found?
MAJOR WALSH: It is a captured document, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Does it relate to prisoners of war, did you say?
MAJOR WALSH: No, sir; including therein, of course, prisoners of war as well as all Jews. The history of the document, sir, I will try to gather for the Court's information.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Did you tell us what the SIPO were?
MAJOR WALSH: Yes, sir; I furnished the Court with that; that is the Security Police, sir. This presentation, if the Court please, will be incomplete without incorporating herein reference to concentration camps insofar as they relate to the hundreds of thousands -- millions -- of Jews who died by mass shooting, gas, poison, starvation, and other means. The subject of concentration camps and all its horrors was shown to this Tribunal not only in the motion pciture film, but by the most able presentation of Mr. Dodd yesterday, and it is not intended at this time to refer to the camps only insofar as they relate to the part they played, in the annihilation of the Jewish people.
For example, in the camp Auschwitz, during July 1944, Jews were killed at the rate of 12,000 daily. This information is contained in document L-161, U.S. Exhibit 292. The Document L-161 is an official Polish report on Auschwitz Concentration Camp. It is dated 31 May 1945. I have taken a short excerpt from this report on the original marked -
THE PRESIDENT: I think you made a mistake, didn't you? It is not a Polish report; it is a British report.
MAJOR WALSH: I understand, sir, it was compiled originally by the Polish Government, and perhaps distributed from London.
THE PRESIDENT: I see. Very well.
MAJOR WALSH: I quote:
"During July 1944, they were being liquidated at the rate of 12,000 Hungarian Jews daily, and as the crematory could not deal with such numbers, many bodies were thrown into large pits and covered with quick lime."
I offer in evidence Document 3311-PS, U. S. Exhibit 293. This is an official Polish Government Commission report on the investigation of German crimes in Poland. The document described the concentration camp at Treblinka, and from page 1, paragraph 3 and 4, I read as follows:
"In March 1942, the Germans began to erect another camp, Treblinka B, in the neighborhood of Treblinka A, intended to become a place of torment for Jews.
"The erection of this camp was closely connected with the German plans aiming at a complete destruction of the Jewish population in Poland which necessitated the creation of a machinery by means of which the Polish Jews could be killed in large numbers. Late in April 1942, the erection of the first three chambers was finished in which these general massacres were to be performed by means of steam. Somewhat later the erection of the real death building was finished, which contains ten death chambers. It was opened for wholesale murders early in autumn 1942."
the Polish Commission describes graphically the procedure for the extermination within the camp:
"The average number of Jews dealt with at the camp in summer 1942 was about two railway transports daily, but there were days of much higher efficiency. From autumn 1942 this number was falling.
"After unleading in the siding all victims were assembled in one place where men were separated from women and children. In the first days of the existence of the camp the victims were made to believe that after a short stay in the camp, necessary for bathing and disinfection, they would be sent farther east, for work. Explanations of this sort were given by SS men who assisted at the unloading of the transports and further explanations could be read in notices stuck up on the walls of the barracks. But later, when more transports had to be dealt with, the Germans dropped all pretenses and only tried to accelerate the procedure.
"All victims had to strip off their clothes and shoes, which were collected afterwards, whereupon all victims, women and children first, were driven into the death chambers. Those too slow or too weak to move quickly were driven on by rifle butts, by whipping and kicking, often by Sauer himself. Many slipped and fell, the next victims pressed forward and stumbled over them. Small children were simply thrown inside. After being filled up to capacity the chambers were hermetically closed and steam was let in. In a few minutes all was over. The Jewish menial workers had to remove the bodies from the platform and to bury them in mass graves. By and by, as new transports arrived, the cemetery grew, extending in eastern direction.
"From reports received, it may be assumed that several hundred thousands of Jews have been exterminated in Treblinka."
I now offer in evidence the document identified by No. L-22, U. S. Exhibit 294. This is an official United States Government report issued by the Executive Office of the President of the United States, War Refugee Board, on the German camp at Auschwitz and Birkenau, dated 1944.
On page 33 of this report is set forth the number of Jews gassed in Birkenau in the two-year period between April 1942 and April 1944. I have been assured that the figure printed in this report is not a typographical error. The number shown is 1,765,000. for enlightenment on the extermination of Jews in Poland. Referring again to the diary of Hans Frank, already in evidence, Document 2233-D-PS, U.S.A. Exhibit 281, I read briefly from the beginning of the fourth paragraph on page 1:
"The Jews for us also represent extraordinarily malignant gluttons.
"We have now approximately 2,500,000 of them in the general government"
THE PRESIDENT (Interposing): Major Walsh, you have read this already yourself.
MAJOR WALSH: Yes, sir, that is true. I just want to make reference to it again, sir, for comparison with other figures.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
MAJOR WALSH: " - perhaps with the Jewish mixtures, and everything that goes with it, 3,500,000 Jews."
Now this figure, if the Court please, was as of 16 December 1941. I now wish to turn to 25 January 1944, three years and one month later, and make reference to another excerpt from Frank's diary, 2233-F-PS, looseleaf volume U.S.A. Exhibit 295. This volume covers the period from 1 January 1944 to 28 February 1944, and page 5 of the original reads:
"At the present time we still have in the General Government perhaps 100,000 Jews." Governor General of Occupied Poland, between 2,400,000 and 3,400,000 Jews had been eliminated.
total number of Jews who died by Nazi hands, but it is believed that cumulative evidence would not vary the guilt of these defendants. the deaths of 4 million Jews in camps, and deaths of 2 million Jews by the State Police in the East, making a total of 6 million, Document 2738-PS. This is a statement -- Adolph Eichmann, Chief of the Jewish Section of the Gestapo is the source of the figures quoted - made by Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, Deputy Group Leader of the Foreign Section of the Security Section, AMT IV, of the RSHA. Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, in affidavit form, made the following statement, and I quote from page 2:
"Approximately 4 million Jews had been killed in the various concentration camps, while an additional 2 million met death in other ways, the major part of which were shot by operational squads of the Security Police during the campaign against Russia." are, almost without exception, from the official sources of the
THE PRESIDENT (Interposing): Major Walsh.
MAJOR WALSH: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: You only read that one statement, but where does the person who made the affidavit got his information from?
MAJOR WALSH: I shall be pleased to read that in there, sir. I made the statement that Eichmann was the source of the information given to Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, one of his assistants, and on page 1 it says:
"According to my knowledge, Eichmann was at that time the leader of the Jewish Section of the Gestapo, and in addition to that he had been ordered by Himmler to get a hold of the Jews in all the European countries and to transport then to Germany. Eichmann was then very much impressed with the fact that Rumania had withdrawn from the war in those days. Moreover, he had come to me to got information about the military situation which I received daily from the Hungarian Ministry of War and from the Commander of the Waffen-SS in Hungary. He expressed his conviction that Germany had now lost the war and that he personally had no further chance. He knew that he would be considered one of the main war criminals by the United Nations, since he had millions of Jewish lives on his conscience.
I asked him how many that was, to which he answered that although the number was a great Reich secret, he would tell me since I, as a historian, would be interested, and that he would probably not return anyhow from his command in Rumania. He had, shortly before that, made a report to Himmler, as the latter wanted to know the exact number of Jews who had been killed." ing quotation:
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will adjourn now.
(Whereupon at 1245 hours the hearing of the tribunal adjourned to reconvene at 1400 hours).
Military Tribunal, in the matter of: The
THE PRESIDENT: The motion that was made this morning on behalf of the Defendant Kaltenbrunner is denied and the affidavit is admitted and will not be stricken from the record. But the Tribunal wished me to say that it is open to the Defendants' counsel, in accordance with the Charter and the Rules, to make a motion, in writing, if they wish to do so, for the attendance of Pfaffenberger for cross-examination and to state in that motion the reasons therefore.
DR. KURT KAUFFMANN (Counsel for Defendant Kaltenbrunner): I am here on a similar question, This question deals with the case of Pfaffenberger, and I beg for two reasons that the evidence of Dr. Hoettl be crossed off, that which was incorporated into the record this morning -- to have it stricken from the record, in other words.
Dr. Hoettl, as far as I know, is in Nurnberg.
THE PRESIDENT: One minute. Do you understand that the Tribunal has just denied the motion that you made this morning?
DR. KAUFFMANN: I cannot hear, your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: I asked you whether you understood that the motion you made this morning had been denied by the Tribunal?
DR. KAUFFMANN: Yes, I understood that correctly.
THE PRESIDENT: What is your motion now?
DR. KAUFFMANN: I would like to ask to have the evidence given by Dr. Hoettl stricken from the record for this reason, and which depends on several other reasons than given to me this morning in the Pfaffenberger case.
As we can see, or as follows from the affidavit, Dr. Hoettl was interrogated on the 26th of November, that is about three weeks ago and, as I further heard, Dr. Hoettl is under arrest here in Nurnberg. There is no delay to be expected if we ask this witness be brought before the Court.
writing, I asked to have him brought in as a witness. I am convinced that he has a wealth of important evidence and material which he can reveal to the Court, The declaration of Dr. Hoettl is infinitely important. The death of millions of people is involved. His evidence is based on certain results. These things were shown to us according to hearsay and I am of the opinion that the case will look entirely different and that the Tribunal will not direct me later on, after weeks or months, to bring this witness into Court.
MAJOR WALSH: If the Court please: Dr. Hoettl's affidavit, Document 2738-PS, was in part read into the record this morning for the sole purpose of showing the approximate number of Jews, according to his estimates, that had met death at the hands of the German State, No other portion of his testimony was referred to and the evidence offered was only for the sole purpose of establishing his estimate of the number. His position in the Party and in the State, as well as the position of Adolf Eichmann, the source of his information, was also stated for the record.
I believe that Dr. Hoettl, if he is desired for any other purpose by the Defense, may be called by the Defense, but the Prosecution had no other purpose in utilizing his evidence.
THE PRESIDENT: Do you wish to add anything more?
MAJOR WALSH: That is all I have, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal makes the same ruling in this case as in the case of Pfaffenberger, namely that the affidavit is admitted in evidence but that it is open to Defendants' counsel to make a motion, in writing, for the attendance of the witness for cross-examination and to state in that motion the reasons for it.
MAJOR WALSH: During the morning session, the Court requested certain information concerning documents that had been offered and accepted in evidence. I refer to Document 1061, the report, "The Warsaw Ghetto Is No More." This report, I am told, was prepared for presentation at a meeting of the SS Police Leaders, to be held on 18 May, 1943. This is indicated on page 45 of the translation before the Court.
delivered by them to the G-2 of the United States Forces in the European Theater. In turn, they were delivered to Colonel Storey of the United States Prosecutors Staff some months ago.
THE PRESIDENT: Major Walsh, I think the Tribunal also wished to know whether you could tell us to whom the report had been made?
MAJOR WALSH: The report, sir, according to the teletypes, the daily teletypes sir, were addressed to the higher SS and Police Fuehrer, SS Obergruppenfuehrer and General of the Police Kruger or his deputy.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
MAJOR WALSH: The Court further inquired about Document L-53 and I have obtained some information concerning this document. This document was captured by T-Force of the Counter-Intelligence Corps Detachment No. 220, found among the German records at Weimar, Germany, sometime prior to 10 May, 1945.
THE PRESIDENT:L-53 you said, didn't you?
MAJOR WALSH:L-53, yes, sir. letters "W.B." I regret that I have been unable to obtain definite information as to the meaning of "W.B.", but it has been suggested to me that it might mean West-Bund or Western Ally, because it is used in connection with the capture, the destruction of all prisoners before capture by either the W.B. or the Red Armies, and I presume that it may mean West-Bund. alone; for the impact of this slaughter is even more tragic to the future of the Jewish people and mankind. Ancient Jewish communities with their own rich, spiritual, cultural and economic life, bound up for centuries with the life of the nations in which they flourished, have been completely obliterated. The contribution of the Jewish people to civilization, the arts, the sciences, industry and culture, need not, I am sure, be elaborated upon before this Tribunal. Their destruction, carried out continuously, deliberately, intentionally and methodically by the Nazis, represents a loss to civilization of special qualities and abilities that cannot possibly be recouped. committed against the Jewish people by the State which these Defendants ruled, because, with sober regard for contemporary and historical truth, a detailed description of some of these crimes would transcend the utmost reaches of the human faculty of expression.
The mind already recoils and shrinks from the acceptance of the incredible facts already related. Rather, it is my purpose to elucidate the pattern, the successful and successive stages, the sequence and concurrence of the crimes committed, the predetermined means to a preordained end.
the Defendants' own sources, and submitted, in evidence before this Tribunal, defy rebuttal. gloating declarations of Himmler and the Defendant Frank in 1943 and 1944 the annihilation of the Jewish people in Europe was man-nade - made by the very men sitting in the Defendants' box, brought to judgment before this Tribunal. services of that group of the Staff of the United States Prosecution, through whose painstaking search, analysis and study, this presentation of evidence was made possible: Captain Seymour Krieger, Lt. Brady Bryson, Lt. Frederick Felton, Sgt. Isaac Stone and Mr. Hans Nathan.
COLONEL STOREY: If the Tribunal please: occupied countries, will be presented by Captain Sam Harris.
CAPTAIN SAM HARRIS: May the Tribunal please: have been assembled in a document book bearing the letter "U". These document books are now being distributed for the use of the members of the Tribunal. I ask your Honors to note that the tabs on the side of the document book are numbered 1 to 30. The index sheet at the front of the book keys these numbers to the Ec and PS number of our exhibits.
For your Honor's convenience, we have also numbered the pages in each exhibit in pencil at the upper right hand corner of each exhibit.
The documents which we shall introduce were collected by Lt. Kenyon, who sits at my right, and by Doctors Darenberg and Jacoby. Without their untiring efforts, the presentation would not have been possible.
Evidence has already been introduced by Mr. Alderman, to prove that the Defendants conspired to wage aggressive war. It has also been proved that the desire for "Lebensraum" was one of the chief forces motivating the conspirators to plan, launch and wage their wars of aggression.
We propose, at this time, to present evidence disclosing what the conspirators intended to do with conquered territories, called by them "Lebensraum", after they had succeeded in overpower the victims of their aggressions.
We have broadly divided this subject into two categories:
Germanisation and spoliation. When we speak of plans to Germanise, we mean plans to assimilate conquered territories politically, culturally, socially and economically into the German Reich. Germanisation, we shall demonstrate, meant the obliteration of the former national character of the conquered territories and the extermination of all elements which could not be reconciled, with the Nazi ideology. By spoliation, we mean the plunder of public and private property, and in general, the exploitation of the people and natural resources of occupied countries. 30 documents. These documents lay bare some of the secret plans of the conspirators to Germanize, to plunder, to despoil, and to destroy. They do not, of course, tell the whole story of all the conspirators' plans in this field. In some instances, proof of the plan is derived from the acts committed by the conspirators, but these few documents are particularly illuminating with respect to the conspirators' plans for Poland, Czeche-Slovakia and Russia, and they indicate the outlines of carefully conceived plans for the rest of Europe. Others who follow will fill in this outline by showing a series of outrages committed on so vast a scale that no doubts will exist that they were committed according to plan.
Poland was, in a sense, the testing ground for the conspirators' theories upon "lebensraum" and I turn to that country first. into Germany by an order of 8 October 1939. This order, which was signed by Hitler, Lammers and Defendants GOERING, FRICK and HESS, is set forth in "Reichsgesetzblatt", 1939, Part I, p. 2042, and we ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice thereof. These areas of Poland are frequently referred to in correspondence between the conspirators as "incorporated Eastern territories". The 1939.
By that same order, defendant Hans FRANK was named Governor General name Deputy Governor General.
This order is set forth in "Reichs gesetzblatt", 1939, Part I, p. 2077, and we ask the Tribunal also to take show the following:
First: The conspirators specifically planned to exploit the people to reduce it to a vassal state.
At a later stage, plans were formulated for Second:
The incorporated area of Poland which was deemed to be a part of the German Reich, was to be ruthlessly Germanised.
To that end, the conspirators planned:
(a) To permit the retention of the productive facilities in the (b) They planned to deport to the Government General many hundreds compliant elements.
We shall show that the Jews who were deported to the Government General were doomed to speedy annihilation.
Moreover, since be Germanized and might serve as a center of resistance against their new order, they too were to be eliminated.