THE PRESIDENT: I call on the Counsel for the United States.
COL. STOREY: If the Tribunal please, when your Honors adjourned on 20 December we were presenting the Gestapo and had referred to the use of the death vans by the Einsatz Groups in the Eastern Occupied Territories, and had almost concluded that phase of the presentation. Your Honors will recall we had referred to the use of some death vans made by the Saurer Works, and the final reference that I want to make in that connection is to a telegram attached to Document 501-PS, which is not necessary to read, which establishes the fact that the same make of truck or vans was the death van used by the Einsatz Groups. Eastern Occupied Territories we desire to offer is Document 2992-PS, and I believe it is in the second volume of the document book. This is an affidavit made by Hermann Graebe. Hermann Graebe is at present employed by the United States Government in Frankfurt. The affidavit was made at Weisbaden, and I offer excerpts from affidavit 2992-PS, US Exhibit 494. some building in the Ukraine, and he was an eye-witness to the antiJewish actions at the town of Rowno, R-o-w-n-o, Ukraine, on 13 July 1942, and I refer to the part of the affidavit which is on page 5 of the English translation - 2992. Beginning at the first:
"From September 1941 until January 1944 I was manager and engineerin-charge of a branch office in SDOLBUNOW, Ukraine, of the Soligen building firm of Josef Jung. In this capacity it was my job to visit the building sites of the firm. The firm had, among others, a site in ROWNO, Ukraine.
"During the night of 13th July 1942 all inhabitants of the Rowno Ghetto, where there were still about 5000 Jews, were liquidated.
"I would describe the circumstances of my being a witness of the dissolution of the Ghetto, and the carrying out of the pogrom during the night and morning, as follows:
"I employed for the firm, in ROWNO, in addition to Poles, Germans, and Ukrainians about 100 Jews from Sdolbunow, Ostrog, and Mysotch. The men were quartered in a building, 5 Bahnhofstrasse, inside the Ghetto, and the women in a house at the corner of Deutsche Strasse,-98.
"On Saturday, 11 July 1942, my foreman, Fritz EINSPORN, told me of a rumor that on Monday all Jews in ROWNO were to be liquidated. Although the vast majority of the Jews employed by my firm in ROWNO were not natives of this town, I still feared that they might be included in this pogrom which had been reported. I therefore ordered EINSPORN at noon of the same day to march all the Jews employed by us - men as well as women - in the direction of SDOLBUNOW, about 12 km from ROWNO. This was done.
"The Senior Jew had learned of the departure of the Jewish workers of my firm. He went to see the Commanding Office of the Rowno SIPO and SD, SS Major (SS Sturmbannfuehror) Dr. PUTZ, as early as the Saturday afternoon to find out whether the rumor of a forthcoming Jewish pogrom which had gained further credence by reason of the departure of Jews of my firm - was true. Dr. PUTZ dismissed the rumor as a clumsy lie, and for the rest had the Polish personnel of my firm in Rowno arrested. Einsporn avoided arrest by escaping from Sdolbunow. When I learned of this incident I gave orders that all Jews who had left Rowno were to report back to work in Rowno on Monday, 13 July 1942, On Monday morning I myself went to see the Commanding Office, Dr. PUTZ, in order to learn, for one thing, the truth about the rumored Jewish pogrom and secondly to obtain information on the arrest of the Polish office personnel. SS Major PUTZ stated to me that no pogrom whatever was planned. Moreover, such a pogrom would be stupid because the firms and the Reichsbahn would lose valuable workers.
"An hour later I received a summons to appear before the Area Commissioner of ROWNO. His deputy, Stableiter and Cadet Office BECK, subject me to the same questions as I had undergone at the SD. My explanation that I had sent the Jews home for urgent delousing appeared plausible to him.
He then told me - making me promise to keep it a secret - that a pogrom would in fact take place in the evening of Monday 13 July 1945. After lengthy negotiation I managed to persuade him to give me permission to take my Jewish workers to Sdolbunow - but only after the pogrom had been carried out. During the night it would be up to me to protect the house in the Ghetto against the entry of Ukrainian militia and SS. As confirmation of the discussion he gave me a document, which stated that the Jewish employees of Messrs. Jung were not affected by the pogrom." translator for reading. I call the attention of your Honors to the fact that it has the letterhead of Dr. Gebiets, Commissar in Rowno, and it is dated the 13th of July 1942, and it is signed by this area commissioner. I now read this document:
"The Area Commissioner" - which means Gebietskommissar - Rowno".
"Secret.
Addressed: "Messrs. JUNG, Rowno.
"The Jewish workers employed by" - I beg your pardon. This part is previous to that on page 4 of the English translation. It is just the page before. I continue reading:
"The Jewish workers employed by your firm are not affected by the pogrom" - in parentheses "Aktion". As I understand, that means action.
"You must transfer them to their new place of work by Wednesday, 15 July 1942, at the latest." Signed by the Area Commissioner Beck. And then, the stamp - the official stamp of the Area Commissioner at Rowno. believe it is, one more paragraph I would like to read after the reference "Original attached."
"On the evening of this day I drove to ROWNO and posted myself with Fritz workers of my firm slept.
Shortly after 22,00 the Ghetto was encircled Ukrainian militia.
Then the electric arclights which had been erected in and around the Ghetto were switched on.
SS and militia squads of 4 to 6 men entered or at least tried to enter the houses.
"Where the doors and bars and entered the houses.
The people living there were driven on to the SS and militia applied force.
They finally succeeded, with strokes of the whip, kicks and blows with rifle butts in clearing the houses.
The people had been left behind in several instances.
In the street women cried out for their children and children for their parents.
That did not prevent them, until they reached a waiting freight train.
Car after car was filled, rifle shots resounded unceasingly.
Since several families or groups had handgrenades.
Since the Ghetto was near the railroad tracks in Rowno, the away from the Ghetto area.
As this stretch of country was beyond the range of the electric lights, it was illuminated by signal rockets.
All through streets.
Women carried their dead children in their arms, children pulled the train.
Again and again the cries "Open the Door!" "Open the door!"
echoed through the Ghetto."
I will not read any more of this affidavit. It is a very long one.
THE PRESIDENT: Oughtn't you to read the rest of that page, Colonel Storey?
COL. STOREY: All right, sir. I really had eliminated that because "About 6 o'clock in the morning I went away for a moment, leaving meantime.
I thought the greatest danger was past and that I could risk it.
the Ghetto. On my return I was able to prevent further Jews from being taken out.
I went to the collecting point to save these 7 men. I saw along.
The doors of the houses stood open, windows were smashed. Pieces of clothing, shoes, stockings, jackets, caps, hats, coats, etc.
, were lying in the street.
At the corner of a house lay a baby, less than a year old with his skull crushed.
Blood and brains were spattered over the house dressed only in a little shirts.
The commander, SS Major Putz, was walking ground.
He had a heavy dog whip in his hand. I walked up to him, showed I recognized among those who were crouching on the ground.
Dr. Putz was furious about Beck's conclution and nothing could persuade him to re lease the seven men.
He made a motion with his hand encircling the square and said that anyone who was once here would not get away.
Although he was out of ROWNO by 8 o'clock at the latest.
When I left Dr. Putz. I noticed a Ukrainian farm cart, with two horses.
Dead people with stiff limbs were lying on the cart.
Legs and arms projected over the side boards. The cart was making for the freight train.
I took the remaining 74 Jews who had been locked in the house to Sdolbunow."
"Several days after the 13th of July 1942 the Area Commissioner of the firms etc.
, should prepare themselves for the "resettlement" of the Jews which was to take place almost immediately.
He referred to the progra in ROWNO where all the Jews had been liquidated, i.e. had been shot near KOSTOLPOL."
THE PRESIDENT:..What nationality is Graebe?
COL. STOREY: He is a German. Graebe was a German, and is now in the attempt to read.
But it has to do with the execution of some people in another area, and is along the same line.
I am not reading it because it executing those who were screened out.
The program of mass murder of applied to prisoners of war who were captured on the Eastern Front.
In 1945.
Lahousen testified to a conference which took place in the summer of Union, which was attended by himself; and I want to emphasize this, because the Gestapo.
At this conference the command to kill Soviet functionaries and Communists among the Soviet prisoners of war was discussed.
The be murdered; but, according to Lahousen, the selection was left entirely to the commanders of these screening units.
I refer to page 633 of the Now I offer Document 502-PS as the next exhibit, US Exhibit 486.
This document is a Gestapo directive, 502-PS, in the first document book.
This to show that the Gestapo were the ones that took part in it.
From the beginning:
"The activation of commands will take place in accordance with the agreement of the Chief of the Security Police and Security Service and the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces as of 16 July 1914. Enclosure 1.
"The commands will work independently according to special authorization and in consequence of the general regulations given to them in the limits of the camp organizations. Naturally the commandos will keep close contact with the camp commander and the defense officer assigned to him.
"The mission of the commandos is the political investigating of all camp inmates, the elimination and further treatment -
"a. Of all political, criminal, or in same way other undesirable elements among them;
"b. Of those persons who could be used for the reconstruction of the occupied countries."
Now I skip to the beginning of the 4th paragraph:
"The commandos must use for their work as far as possible at present, and even later, the experiences of the camp commanders which the latter have collected; meanwhile, from observation of the prisoners and examination of the camp inmates. Further, the commandos must make efforts from the beginning to seek out among the prisoners elements which would appear reliable, regardless if there are communists concerned or not, in order to use them for intelligence purposes inside of the camp, and, if advisable, later in the occupied territories also.
"By using such informers, and by use of all other existing possibilities, the discovery of all elements to be eliminated among the prisoners must succeed step by step at once. The commandos must learn for themselves in every case by means of short questioning of the informer, and eventual questioning of other prisoners. The information of one informer is not sufficient to designate a camp inmate to be a suspect without further proof. It must be confirmed in some way, if possible. quoting:
"Executions are not to be held in the camp or in the immediate vicinity of the camp.
If the camps in the treatment, if possible, into the former Soviet territory."
And then the 5th paragraph:
"In regard to executions to be carried out, and to the possible the Einsatzgroup concerned in the occupied territories."
the Gestapo were executed, is to be found in Document 1165-PS, from which I did not intend to quote, and which has been previously introduced as U.S. Exhibit 244. Document 1165-PS shows that those that had been screened out were executed. the Camp Commandant of the concentration camp Gross Rosen to Mueller, who was the Chief of the Gestapo, dated the 23rd of October, 1941, referring to a previous oral conference with Mueller, and setting forth the names of 20 Soviet prisoners of war executed the previous day.
The second page -- I'm still referring to 1165 but not reading from it, because it has already been quoted from -- is a directive issued by Mueller on the 9th of November, 1941, to all Gestapo offices, in which he ordered that all diseased prisoners of war should be excluded from transports to concentration camps for execution, because five to ten percent of those destined for execution were arriving in the camps dead or halfdead.
I now offer Document 2542 -PS, U.S. Exhibit 489, 2542-PS is in the second volume. This is an affidavit of Kurt Lindow, a former Gestapo official, which was taken on the 30th of September, 1945, at Oberursel, Germany, in the course of an official military investigation by the United States Army, and I quote from that document from the beginning:
"I was Kriminaldirektor in Section IV of the RSHA" I call Your Honors' attention to the chart on the board that he was Director of Section IV and head of the Sub-section IV A 1 (continuing) "from the middle of 1942 until the middle of 1944.
"From 1941 I until the middle of 1943, there was attached to subsection IV A 1 (which is not shown on this chart, but has previously been described in the beginning) a special department that was headed by the Regierungsoberinspektor, later Regierungsautmann, and SS-Hauptsturmbannfuehrer Franz Koenigshaus. In this department were handled matters concerning prisoners of war. I learned from this department that instructions and orders by Reichsfuehrer Himmler, dating from 1941 and. 1942, existed, according to which captured Soviet "Russian political Commissars and Jewish soldiers were to be executed.
As far as I know, proposals for execution of such PW's were received from various PW camps. Koenigshaus had to prepare the orders for execution, and submitted them to the chief of Section IV, Mueller, for signature (Mueller being the head of the Gestapo). These orders were made out so that one order was to be sent to the agency making the request, and a second one to the concentration camp designated to carry out the execution. The PW's in question were at first formally released from PW status, then transferred to a concentration camp for execution.
"The department chief, Koenigshaus, was under me in disciplinary questions from the middle of 1942 until about the beginning of 1943, and worked, in matters of his department, directly with the chief of Group IV A, Regierungsrat panzinger. Early in 1943, the department was dissolved, and absorbed into the departments in subsection IV B. The work concerning Russian PW's must then have been done by IV b 2a. Head of Department IV b 2a was Regierungsrat and Sturmbannfuehrer Hans Helmut Wolf.
"There existed in the PW camps on the Eastern front small screening teams (Einsatzkommandos), headed by lower ranking member of the Secret Police or Gestapo. These teams were assigned, to the camp commanders and had the job to segregate the PW's who were candidates for execution, according to the orders that had been given, and to report them to the Office of the Secret Police."
Passing from that phase of the case, the next subject is: The Gestapo and SS sent recaptured prisoners of war to concentration camps, where they were executed, that is, prisoners of war who had escaped and were recaptured. The Tribunal will recall that in a document heretofore introduced, 1650-PS, was an order which the Chief of the Security Police and SS instructed regional Gestapo Offices to make certain classes of recaptured officers from camps and to transport them to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, under the operation known as "Kugel". That, if your Honor recalls, means "Bullet". That is the famous "Bullet" Decree that has been previously introduced. On the journey, the prisoners of war were to be placed in irons.
The Gestapo officers were to make semi-annual reports, giving numbers only, of the sending of these prisoners of war to Mauthausen. On the 27th of July, 1944, an order was issued from the VI Corps Area Command on the treatment of prisoners of war. That is Document 1514-PS in the second volume, which I offer as U S. Exhibit 491. This document provided that prisoners of war were to be discharged from prisoner of war status and transferred to the Gestapo under certain circumstances, and I quote from the first page, beginning with the word "Subject", quoting: "Subject: Delivery of prisoners of war to the secret state police.
Enclosed is the decree 1) referred to.
delivery to the secret state police: "1.) a)According to the decrees 2) and 3), the commander of the camp has suffice to prescribe punishment for violations committed.
Report " b)Recaptured Soviet prisoners of war have to be delivered first to offenses have been committed during the escape.
The dismissal from (Section A 6 of the decree referred to in No. 4) regarding the " c)Recaptured Soviet officers who are prisoners of war, have to be de (Section C 1 of the decree referred to under 4) and under 5). " d)Soviet officer prisoners of war, who refuse to work and those who police office and to be dismissed from imprisonment of war.
(Section C 1 of the decree referred to under 4) and 5). " e) Soviet enlisted prisoners of war refusing to work who are ring (Section C 2 of the decree, referred to in 4). " f) Soviet prisoners of war (enlisted men and officers), who with special purpose command (Einsatzkommando) of the security police from imprisonment of war (Decree referred to in 6). " g) Polish prisoners of war have to be delivered if acts of sabotage are imprisonment of war.
The decision rests with the camp commander.
Report of the deed is not necessary (Decree referred to under 27). "2) A report on the delivery and dismissal from imprisonment of war in the cases mentioned under #1) of this decree, to the Mil.
District "3) Prisoners of war from all nations have to be delivered to the secret special order of the OKW or of the Mil.
District Command VI, dept. "4) Prisoners of War under suspicion of participating in illegal organ the Gestapo for the purpose of interrogation.
They remain prisoners of war and have to be treated as such.
The delivery to the Gestapo by order of the OKW or of the Mil.
District Command VI, dept of military personnel, approval of Mil.
District command VI, dept of before delivery to the Gestapo for the purposes of interrogation."
This decree was known as the "Bullet Decree." Prisoners of war, sent to Mauthausen Concentration camp under the decree, were executed.
I now offer in support of that statement Document 2285-PS, U.S. Exhibit 490. It is in the second volume. Document 2285-PS is an affidavit of Lt. Col. Guivante de Saint Gast, and Lt. Jean Veith, both of the French Army, which was taken on the 13th of May 1945, in the course of an official military investigation by the United States Army. The affidavit discloses that Lt. Col. Gast was confined at Mauthausen from 18 March 1944 to 22 April 1945, and that Lt. Veith was confined from 22 April 1943 until 22 April 1945. I quote from the affidavit, beginning with the third paragraph of page 1, quoting:
"In Mauthausen existed several treatments of prisoners, amongst them the "action K or Kugel" (Bullet action). Upon the arrival of transports, prisoners with the mention "K" were not registered, get no numbers and their names remained unknown except for the officials of the Politische Abteilung. (Lt. Veith had the opportunity of hearing upon the arrival of a transport the following conversation between the Untersturmfuehrer Streitwieser and chief of the convoy: 'How many prisoners? '15 but two K'. 'Well, that makes 13').
"The prisoners were taken directly to the prison where they were unclothed and "taken to the "Bathrooms". This bathroom in the cellars of the prison building near the crematory was specially designed for execution (shooting and gassing).
"The shooting took place by means of a measuring apparatus. The prisoners being backed towards a metrical measure with an automatic contraption releasing a bullet in his neck as soon as the moving plank determining his height touched the top of his head.
"If a transport consisted of too many "K" prisoners, instead of losing time for the measurement they were exterminated by gas, sent into the bathrooms instead of water."
I now pass to another subject, namely: "The Gestapo was responsible for establishing and classifying concentration camps for committing racial and political undesirables to concentration and annihilation camps for slave labor and mass murder." responsibility of the Gestapo for the administration of concentration camps, and the authority of the Gestapo for taking persons into protective custody to be carried out in the state concentration camps. The Gestapo also issued orders establishing concentration camps, transforming prisoner of war camps in the concentration camps as internment camps, changing labor camps into concentration camps, setting up special sections for female prisoners, and so forth. of concentration camps according to the seriousness of the accusation and the chances for reforming the prisoners, from the Nazi viewpoint. I now refer to Documents 1063A and B in the second volume, U.S. Exhibit 492. The concentration camps were classified as Class I, II or III. Class I was for the least serious prisoners, and Class III was for the most serious. Now, this Document 1063A is signed by Heydrich, and it is dated the 2nd of January 1941. I quote from the beginning, beginning with the word "Subject", quoting:
"Subject: Classification of the Concentration Camps.
"The Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police has given his approval to classify the concentration camps into various categories, which take into account the personality of the prisoner as well as the degree of his danger to the State. Accordingly, the concentration camps will be classified into the following categories: definitely qualified for correction; also for special cases and solitary confinement - Camps Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Auschwitz I. The latter also applies in part to Category II.
"Category Ia - for all old prisoners unconditionally qualified for work, who could still be used in the medicinal herb gardens - the Camp Dachau.
"Category II - for prisoners with heavy accusations but still qualified, for redemption, re-education and reduction - the Camps Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Auschwitz II.
"Category III - for the heavily accused prisoners, at the same time, also for those who have been previously convicted for criminal offenses; for asocial prisoners, that is to say, those who can hardly be corrected the Camp Mauthausen."
I call your Honor's attention to the fact that we have been talking about Mauthausen, where the "K" action took place. length of the period of custody. During the war, it was the policy not to permit the prisoners to know the period of custody and merely to announce the term as "Until further notice." That was established by Document 1531-PS, which has previously been introduced as U.S. Exhibit 248, and the only reason for referring to it is to show that they had the right to fix the length of period ofcustody. register called the Haftbuch, and as I understand, "Haftbuch" simply means a block or police register. In this register, the names of all persons arrested were listed, together with personal data, grounds of arrest and disposition. When orders were received from the Gestapo Headquarters in Berlin to commit persons who had been arrested to concentration camps, an entry was made in the Haftbuch to that effect. L-358, U.S. Exhibit 495. This book was collected by the 3rd Army when it ovverran an area, and it was captured by the T Force on April 22, 1945, near Bad Sulze, Germany. This book is the original register used by the Gestapo at Tomassow, Poland, to record the names of the persons arrested, the grounds for arrest and disposition made of cases during the period from 1 June 1943 to 20 December 1944.
In the register are approximately 3,500 names of persons. Approximately 2,200 were arrested for membership in the resistance movements and partisan units. This is a very large book, and I am going to ask the clerk to pass it to your Honors so that you might get a look at it. It is too big to photograph. And if your Honors will just turn to one of the pages, I will read what the different columns provide--just any one of the pages. There is a double column. It starts on the left and goes over to the other side. In the first column, that heading is simply a number of the man when he comes in. The next column is his name. The third column is the family-a brief family history and his religion. The fourth is the domicile. The next shows the date he was arrested, and by whom,--that is the fifth column. The next column, the place of arrest. And then the next column the reason for arrest. And then the next is another number which is apparently a serial number for delivery. And next to the last column is the disposition. And the final column, remarks. will notice a number of red marks. Those apparently meant the ones that were shot. Of these, 325 were shot. Only thirty-five of that 325 had first been tried. 950 out of this list were sent to concentration camps and 155 sent to the Reich for forced labor. According to this register, similar treatment was accorded persons who were arrested on other grounds, for instance, Communists, Jews, hostages, and persons taken in reprisal. A large number are shown to have been arrested during, raids; no further grounds being stated. the numbers in the first column of the register were the crime charged to the person arrested was "als Judens to other words, he was a Jew. And by that you will find a red cross means, and the punishment given was death. L-215, which was heretofore introduced as U.S Exhibit 243. I don't intend to read from it, unless your Honors want to turn to L-215. This is a file of original dossiers on twenty-five Luxemboargers taken into protective custody for commitment to concentration camps. I will just refer to a sentence of the language in that document. Quoting:
"According to the finding of the State Police he endangers by his attitude the existence and security of the people and the state. being the reason for the execution of these twenty-five Luxembourgers. Document L-215. And in connection-
THE PRESIDENT: Colonel Storey, you said execution, did you not?
COLONEL STOREY: I beg your pardon--to concentration camps.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. There is no evidence they were executed?
COLONEL STOREY: No, sir; they were committed to concentration camps. And also in connection with that same document there is a form provided by which the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin were notified when the persons were received by the concentration camps.
Another document which has heretofore been received as U.S. Exhibit 279, Document 1472-PS, in the second volume,--I am simply going to refer to it as a predicate for another. That was a telegram of 16 December 1942 in which Mueller reported that the Gestapo could round up some 45,000 Jews in connection with the program of obtaining additional labor in concentration camps. And with reference to the same subject, Document 1063-D-PS, which has heretofore been offered as Exhibit 219, Mueller sent a directive to the commanders and inspectors of the Security Police and SD and to the directors of the Gestapo regional offices in which he stated that Himmler had ordered on 14 December 1942 that at least 35,000 persons, who were fit for work, had to be put into concentration camps not later than the end of January. U.S. Exhibit 496. This document contains a further directive from Mueller dated the 23rd of March 1943, and supplements the directive of 17 December 1942, to which I refer and in which he states that the measures are to be carried out until 30 April 1943. And I would like to quote from the second paragraph on page three of the exhibit; page three of the English translation of L-41, quoting:
"Care must, however, be taken that only prisoners who are fit for work are transferred to concentration camps, and adolescents only in accordance with the given directives; otherwise, the concentration camps would become overcrowded, and this would defeat the intended aim."
In that same connection I offer Document 701-PS, U.S, Exhibit 497. This is a letter dated 1 April 1943 from the Minister of Justice to the Public Prosecutors, and also addressed to the Commissioner of the Reich Minister of Justice for the penal camps in Emsland. Quoting:
"Regarding Poles and Jews who are released from the penal institutions of the Department of Justice. Instructions for the independent penal institutions.
"1. With reference to the new guiding principles for the application of Article 1, Section 2, of the decree of 11 June 1940 Reich Legal Gazette I S. 877 - Attachment I of the decree (RV) of 27 January 1943 - 9133/2 enclosure I-III a 2 2629 - the Reich Chief Security Office has directed by the decree of 11 March 1943 - II A 2 number 100/43 - 176:
"(a) Jews, who In accordance with number VI of the guiding principles are released from penal institution, are to be taken by the State Police (Chief) Office competent for the district in which the penal institution is located for the rest of their lives to the concentration camps Auschwitz or Lublin in accordance with the regulations for protective custody that have been issued.
"The same applies of Jews who in the future are released from a penal institution after serving sentence of confinement.
"(b) Poles, who in accordance with number VI of the guiding principles are released from a penal institution, are to be taken by the State Police (Chief) Office competent for the district in which the penal institution is located for the duration of the war to a concentration camp in accordance with the regulations on protective custody that have been issued.
"The same applies in the future to Poles who, after serving a term of imprisonment of more than six months, are to be discharged by a penal institution.
"Conforming to the request of the Chief Office for Reich Security, I ask that in the future:
"(a) All Jews to be discharged;
"(b) All Poles to be discharged;
further confinement to the State Police (Chief) Office competent for end of sentence for conveyance."
ordered return of all Polish prisoners undergoing imprisonment in the Old Reich condemned in the annexed Eastern territory.
The next subject: The Gestapo and the SD Participated in Deportation of Citizens of Occupied Countries for Forced Labor and Handled the Disciplining of Forced Labor. labor, I do not intend to repeat. However, there were several references to important positions played by the Gestapo and the SD in rounding up persons to be brought into the Reich for forced labor, and references in two or three documents that were introduced. I simply want to cite those documents as showing the part that the Gestapo and SD played. Document L-61, U.S. Exhibit 177. It is set out in this document book--I am simply citing it--it is a letter of the 26th of November 1942 from Fritz Sauckel in which he stated that he had been advised by the Chief of the Security Police and SD under date of 26 October 1942 that during the month of November the evacuation of Poles in the Lublin district would begin in order to make room for the settlement of persons of the German race. The Poles who were evacuated as a result of this measure were to be put into concentration camps for Labor so far as they were criminal or anti-social. The Tribunal will also recall the Christiansen letter, which is our Document 3012-PS, U.S. Exhibit 190. In that letter it is stated that during the year 1943 the program of mass murder carried out by the Einsatz groups in the East should be modified in order to round up hundreds of thousands of persons for Labor in the armament industry. That was in 3012-PS, which has heretofore been introduced as U.S. Exhibit 190. And that force was to be used when necessary. Prisoners were to be released so that they could be used for forced Labor. When villages were burned down the whole population was to be.