I skip now to the last paragraph of the report. Excuse me, the next to the last paragraph of the report. I quote:
"During attempts to save severely chilled persons, it was shown that rapid rewarming was in all cases preferable to slow rewarming, because after removal from the cold water, the body temperature continued to sink rapidly. I think that for this reason we can dispense with the attempt to save intensely chilled subjects by means of animal heat.
"Rewarming by animal warmth - animal bodies or women's bodies - would be too slow." by women's bodies would, be too slow, means for conducting such experiments were nevertheless placed at his disposal. refer to our Document 1583-PS, a photostatic copy of a letter from Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, addressed to Lieutenant General pohl, dated 16 November 1942. I offer it as US Exhibit 465. I can read just the first two paragraphs of that letter:
"Dear Pohl:
"The following struck me during my visit to Dachau on the 13th of November 1942, regarding the experiments conducted there for the saving of people whose lives are endangered through exposure in ice, snow or water, and who are to be saved by the employment of every method or means: had ordered that suitable women are to be set aside from the concentration camp for these experiments for the warming of those who were exposed. Four girls were set aside who were in the concentration camp due to loose living, and being prostitutes, they formulate a danger of contagion." paragraph, in which he expresses his dissatisfaction that a German prosti tute should be used for this purpose.
To insure the continuance of Rascher's experiments, Himmler arranged for his transfer to the Waffen SS. I offer in evidence a letter which appears as our Document 1617-PS. It is a letter from Reichsfuehrer SS addressed to "Dear Comrade Milch" -- General Field Marshal Milch -- dated November 1942. I offer it as US Exhibit 466. I will now read the first two paragraphs of that letter, our Document 1617-PS.
I quote:
"Dear Comrade Milch:
"You will recall that through General Wolff I particularly recommended to you for your consideration the work of a certain SS Fuehrer, Dr. Rascher, who is a physician of the air force on leave.
"These researches which deal with the behavior of the human organism at great heights, as well as with manifestations caused by the prolonged cooling of the human body in cold water, and similar problems which are of vital importance to the air force in particular, can be performed by us with particular efficiency because I personally assumed the responsibility for supplying asocial individuals and criminals who deserve only to die from concentration camps for these experiments." upon the difficulties of conducting such experiments, because Christian medical circles were opposed, and pass on to the last paragraph on the first page of the translation. That is the seventh paragraph of the letter:
"I beg you to release Dr. Rascher, Stabsarzt in reserve, from the air force and to transfer him to me to the Waffen SS. I would then assume the sole responsibility for having these experiments made in this field, and would put the results, of which we in the SS need only a part for the frost injuries in the East, entirely at the disposal of the air force. However, in this connection I suggest that with the liaison between you and Wolff a non-Christian physician should be charged, who should be at the same time honorable as a scientist and not prone to intellectual theft and who could be informed of the results. This physician should also have good contacts with the administrative authorities, so that the results would really obtain a hearing.
"I believe that this solution - to transfer Dr. Rascher to the SS, so that he could carry out the experiments under my responsibility and under my orders, is the best way. The experiments should not be stopped; we owe that to our men. If Dr. Rascher remained with the air force, there would certainly be much annoyance, because then I would have to bring a series of unpleasant details to you, because of the arrogance and assumption which Professor Dr. Holzlochner has displayed in the post of Dachau, who is under my command, about me in utterances delivered to SS Colonel sievers.
In order to save both of us this trouble, I suggest again that Dr. Rascher should be transferred to the Waffen SS as quickly as possible."
THE PRESIDENT: Is that letter from Himmler?
MAJOR FARR: That letter is from Himmler. Now Rascher's experiments were by no means the only experiments in which the SS was interested. Without attempting even to outline the whole extent of the experimental program, I shall give just one further illustration of this type of SS activity. I refer to our Document L-103, which is a report prepared by the Chief Hygienist in the office of the Reich Surgeon of the SS and Police, dated 12 September 1944. I offer it as US Exhibit 467. Parenthetically I might note that the office of the Reich Surgeon SS and Police will be found in the personal staff department, as indicated by the second box on the right-hand side of the line leading down from the personal staff.
prepared by the Chief Hygienist in the office of the Reich Surgeon of SS and Police, and signed SS Oberfuehrer Dr. Murgowsky. It relates to experiments with poison bullets. Beginning with the first paragraph, I quote:
"On 11 September 1944, in the presence of SS Sturmbamfuehrer Dr. Ding, Dr. Widman and the undersigned, experiments with Akonotinnitrate bullets were carried out on five persons who had been sentenced to death. The calibre of the bullets used was 7.65 centimeters, and they were filled with poison in crystal form. Each subject of the experiments received one shot in the upper part of the left thigh, while in a horizontal position. In the case of two persons, the bullets passed clean through the upper part of the thigh. Even later no effect from the poison could be seen. These two subjects were therefore rejected." 2 of the report:
"The symptoms shown by the three condemned persons were surprisingly the same. At first, nothing special was noticeable. After 20 to 25 minutes, a disturbance of the motor nerves and a light flow of saliva began, but both stopped again. After 40 to 44 minutes, a strong flow of saliva appeared. The poisoned persons swallowed frequently, later the flow of saliva, is so strong that it can no longer be controlled by swallowing. Foamy saliva flows from the mouth. Then a sensation of choking, and vomiting start." the reactions of the dying persons. The description then continues, and I quote beginning with the last paragraph of the report, just before the conclusion to follow. I beg the Tribunal's pardon, I want to quote the two paragraphs before the conclusion.
It is the last paragraph on page 1 of the translation, the sixth paragraph of the report.
"At the same time there was pronounced nausea. One of the poisoned persons tried in vain to vomit. In order to succeed he put four fingers of his hand, up to the main joint, right into his mouth. In spite of this, no vomitting occurred. His face became quite red.
"The faces of the other two subjects were already pale at an early stage. Other symptoms were the same. Later on the disturbances of the motor nerves increased so much that the persons threw themselves up and down and rolled their eyes and made aimless movements with their hands and arms. At last the disturbance subsided, the pupils were enlarged to the maximum, the condemned lay still. Massetercramp and loss of urine was observed in one of them. Death occurred 121, 123 and 129 minutes after they were shot". It was consistent with an ideaology and racial philosophy which, to use Himmler's words, regarded human beings as lice and offal. But the most important factor was that the SS alone was in a position to supply necessary human material. And it did supply such material through WVHA. I refer to our Document 1751-PS, which is a letter from the Chief of Office Group D of WVHA, dated 12 May 1944. I offer it as US Exhibit 468, our Document 1751PS. I quote that letter. It appears in the original file on the last page I quote:
"There is cause to call attention to the fact that in every case permission for assignment has to be requested here before assignment of prisoners is made for experimental purposes.
"To be included in this request are number, kind of custody, and in case of aryan prisoners, exact personal data, file number in the Main Reich's Security Office and the reason for detainment into the concentration camp.
"Herewith, I explicitly forbid assignment of prisoners for experimental purposes without permission.
appears from the original that it is the signature of Gluck, since he was the department chief of Department D of WVHA. It was on the basis of being able to supply such material that the Reich Ministry of Finance was prepared to subsidize the SS experimental program. I offer in evidence a series of letters between the Ministry of Finance, the Reichs Research Department, and the Reich Surgeon of the SS and Police. They are our Document 002-PS, which I offer in evidence as US Exhibit 469. The first letter from which I quote appears on page 4 of our Document 002-PS, and is from the head of the Security Council of the Reichs Research Department, addressed to the Surgeon of SS and Police. It is dated 19 February 1943. I read the first three paragraphs of that letter:
"The Reichs Minister of Finance told me that you requested 53 leading positions for your office, partly for new research institute.
"After the Reichsmarshall of the great German Reich had, as President of the Reichs Research Department, entrusted himself with all German research, issued directives among other things, that in the execution of military important scientific tasks, the available institutions including equipment and personnel should be utilized to the utmost for reasons of necessary economisation of effort.
"The foundation of new institutes comes therefore only in question in as far as there areno outstanding institutes available for the furtherance of important war research tasks."
I omit the rest of the letter. 26th of February 1943. The reply will be found on page 2 of the English translation. It is a letter from the Reich Surgeon SS and Police to the head of the Security Council of the Reichs Research Department, dated 26 February, 1943. I quote the first three paragraphs of that letter. It begins: "My dear Bureau Chief:
"In acknowledgment of your correspondence of the 19th February 1943, I am able to reply the following to it today:
"The appropriation for the 53 key positions for my office which you made the basis of your memorandum was a veritable peace plan.
"The special institutes of the SS which are to be partly staffed through this appropriation are to serve the purpose to establish and make accessible for the entire realm of scientific research the particular possibilities of research only possessed by the SS."
Omitting the next two paragraphs, I continue:
"I will gladly be at your disposal at any time to discuss the particular research aims in connection with the SS, which I would like to bring up upon the direction of the Reichs Director SS." the original letter, took place, and on the 25th of March, 1943, Mentzel wrote a letter to the Reich Minister of Finance, which is found on page 1 of the translation. It is a letter from the President of the Reichs Research Department Head of the Security Council to the Reich Minister of Finance, dated 25 March, 1943. The letter begins:
"In regard to your correspondence of the 19th December" -- and then follow the serial numbers of the letter -- "to which I gave you a preliminary communication on the 19th of February, I finally took the following position:
"The Surgeon General-SS and Police, in a personal discussion, told me that the budget claim which he looks after is used primarily in the pure military sector of the Waffen SS. Since it is established on a smaller scale for the enlarging of scientific research possibilities, they pertain therefore exclusively to such affairs that are carried out with the material (prisoners) which isonly accessible to the Waffen SS and are therefore not to be undertaken for any other experimental purposes.
"I cannot object therefore on the part of the Reichs Experimental Counsel against the budget claims of the Surgeon General, SS and Police." The letter is signed, "Mentzel, Bureau Chief." the program of experiments that it took the lead in that field of endeavor.
THE PRESIDENT: Does the letter on page 4 mean that the Defend Goering was President of the Reichs Research Department?
MAJOR FARR: Page 4 of the translation? That I understand to be the case. The point of the letter being that Goering had laid down the rule that during the war there was to be no duplication of experimental facilities. Therefore, the Reichs Research Department to whom the Minister of Finance had turned for an opinion asked the Reich Surgeon, "Why do you want to carry on this program of experiments?"
THE PRESIDENT: I was only asking whether the President of the Reichs Research Department was the Defendant Goering?
MAJOR FARR: That is what is stated in the letter. I understand, that to be the case.
THE PRESIDENT: Then what do the words, "President of the Reichs Research Department" on page 1 mean? Does that mean that the letter went to the Defendant Goering?
MAJOR FARR: No. The letterhead bears the notation "President of the Reichs Research Department," and the letter proceeds from an office of that department, Head of the Security Counsel. The letter is addressed to the Reich Minister of Finance.
THE PRESIDENT: I see.
MAJOR FARR: I have concluded the concentration camp phase.
THE PRESIDENT: We will recess now for ten minutes.
(A recess was taken from 1120-1135)
THE PRESIDENT: It will perhaps be convenient that I should announce that the Tribunal will adjourn today at four o'clock.
MAJOR FARR: Through its activities with respect to concentration camps, the SS performed part of its mission to safeguard the security of the Nazi regime. But another specialized aspect of that mission must not be forgotten. The Tribunal will recall Himmler's definition of that task -- a definition I referred to earlier -- the prevention of a JewishBolshevist revolution of subhumans. In plain words, participation in the Nazi program of Jewish persecution and extermination. evidence relating to that program which the Tribunal heard a day or so ago from Major Walsh. I want to call attention to just a few documents showing how the program involved every branch and component of the SS. outset, made that organization a natural agency for the execution of all types of anti-Semitic measures. The SS position on the Jewish question was publicly stated in the SS newspaper "Das Schwarze Corps", the issue of August 8, 1940, by its editor, Gunter d'Alquen, a statement that has already been read into evidence as U.S. Exhibit No.269. It was our Document 2668-PS. I shall not repeat that quotation in which d'Alquen says that the Jewish question will not be solved until the last Jew has been deported, and that the German peace which awaits Europe must be a peace without Jews. demonstrations in Germany following the murder of von Rath in November of 1938 has been presented to the Tribunal; In those demonstrations all branches of the SS were called on to play a part. I refer to the teletype message from SS Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich, Chief of the Security Police and SD, issued on the 10th of November 1938. It is our Document 3051-PS. Portions of that teletype have already been read into evidence as U.S. Exhibit 240, I wish to read one further paragraph, which has not been read. It appears on page two of the translation, the fourth paragraph.
"The direction of the measures of the Security Police concerning the demonstrations against Jews is vested with the organs of the State Police (by which he means the Gestapo) inasmuch as the inspectors of the Security Police are not issuing their own orders. In order to carry out the measures of the Security Police, officials of the Criminal Police, as well as members of the SD, of the Verfuegungstruppe and the Allgemeine SS may be used." Europe, the SS participated in solving the Jewish question in other countries in Europe. The solution was nothing short of extermination. To a large degree these wholesale murders were disguised under the name of "antipartisan" or "anti-guerilla" actions, and as such included as victims not merely Jews but Soviets, Poles, and other Eastern peoples. With this anti-partisan activity I shall deal in a few moments. I want to refer now to a few actions confined essentially to Jews. To take one example -the mass annihilation of Jews in gas vans -- described in our Document 501-PS, which was read into the record by Major Walsh, as U.S. Exhibit No. 288. I don't think that that document appears in the document book, because I am not going to read from it. I simply want to point out that these gas vans, as appears from the letters, were operated by the Security Police and SD under the direction of RSHA. Or to take another example -- the report entitled "Solution of the Jewish Question in Galicia", our Document L-18, prepared by SS Gruppenfuehrer and Lt. General of the Police Katzmann and rendered to SS Obergruppenfuehrer and General of the Police Kreuger -that report has already been referred in evidence as Exhibit No.277. The Tribunal will recall that the solution consisted in evacuation and extermination of all the Jews in Galicia, and the confiscation of their property carried out under the energetic direction of the SS and Police Leaders with the assistance of SS police units. I wish to read three short items in the report, which has not already been read. The first is a text under a paragraph which appears on page 3 of the translation and on page 3(a) of the original report. It is the first item on page 3 of the translation. I quote:
"Great was the joy of the SS men when the Reichsfuehrer SS in person in 1942 visited some camps along the Rollbahn." translation, and page 17 of the report. I read item three on the balance sheet.
"3. Amount paid over to the SS cashier:
"a. Camps 6 876 251,00 zlotas "b. W & R Factories 6 556 513,69 zlotas "Total 13 423 764,69 zlotas "Further payments to the SS cashier are effected every month."
the report found on page twenty of the translation, and on page sixty-four of the original document. I read the last two paragraphs of the report.
"Despite the extraordinary burden heaped upon every single SS Police Officer during these actions, mood and spirit of the men were extraordinarly good and praiseworthy from the first to the last day. "Only thanks to the sense of duty of every singl leader and man have we succeeded to get rid of this plague in so short a time." The final example of SS participation in Jewish extermination to which I shall call the Tribunal's attention is the infamous report by SS Brigade-fuehrer and Major General of the Police, Stroop, of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, our Document 1061-PS. That report was introduced in evidence by Major Walsh as US Exhibit No. 257, end the Tribunal indicated that it would take the whole report as evidence without the necessity of reading it in full. I shall not, therefore, read any further passages, but I do want to point out specifically two sections dealing with the constitution of the forces participating in that fearful action. On page one of the translation is a table of the units used.
THE PRESIDENT: Is it here?
MAJOR FARR: Our Document 1061-PS. I am just going to call your attention to the table of units which were employed in this action, indicating the average number of officers and men from each unit employed per day. It will be observed that among the units involved were the staff of the SS and Police Leader, two battalions of the Waffen SS, two battalions of the 22nd SS Police Regiment, and members of the Security Police. The part played by the Waffen SS came in for high praise from the writer of the report. The Tribunal will recall the passage which was read by Major Walsh in which reference was made to the toughness of the men of the Waffen SS, the Police, and the and the Wehrmacht; and in which the writer said that, "considering that the greater part of the men of the Waffen SS had been trained for only three or four weeks before being assigned to this action, high credit should be given for the pluck, courage, and devotion to duty which they showed."
The Tribunal has already heard Himmler's proud boast of the part that the SS played in the extermination of the Jews. It occurs in his Posen Speech, our Document 1919-PS, and was read into the record in the presentation of the case dealing with concentration camps. The passage to which I refer appears on about the middle of page four of the translation and on page sixty-five of the original. Since that passage has already been read, it is unnecessary for me to quote it again; but I do want the Tribunal to note that Himmler stated that only the SS could have carried out this extermination program of the Jews, and that its participation in that program was a page of glory in its history which could never be fully appreciated. war program of the conspirators, and, too, its responsibility for the crimes against peace which were alleged in the indictment. From its very beginning, it made prime contributions to the conspirators' aggressive war aims. which the conspirators disguised their building up of an Army in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Second, through affiliated SS organizations in other countries and through some of the departments in its own Supreme Command, it fostered Fifth Column movements outside Germany and prepared the way for aggression. Third, through its militarized units, it participated in the aggressive actions which were eventually carried out. demonstrated that from 1933 to 1938 the SA were militarized and in fact were nothing but a comouflaged Army. Some of that evidence related to the SS as well. The paramilitary character of the Allgemeine SS is apparent. I have already described the military character of its structure the military discipline required of its members and the steps it took to enlist in its ranks young men of military age.
In addition to this volunteer Arms the SS created as early as 1933 fully armed professional units. These were the SS Verfuegungstruppe and the Death Head Units with which I have dealt with yesterday.
conspirators also utilized it in other countries to lay the groundword for aggression. The evidence presented by Mr. Alderman of the preparations for the seizure of Austria show the part played by the SS Standarte 89 in the murder of Dolfuss and described the memorial plaque which was erected in Nurnberg as a tribute to the SS men who participated in that nurder. I refer to U.S. Exhibit No. 59 and 60, cur Document No's L-273 and 2968-PS, which were introduced by Mr. Alderman. The Tribunal will recall the subsequent story of the events of the night of March 11, 1938, when the SS marched into Vienna and occupied all government buildings and important posts in the city - a story unfolded in U.S. Exhibit 61, our Document No. 2949-PS, the report of Gauleiter Rainer to Reich Commissioner Duerckel, (which was read in evidence by Mr. Alderman) and in U.S. Exhibit 76, the record of the telephone conversation between the Defendant Goering and Dambrowski, which appears on page 575 of the transcript of the record.
The same pattern was repeated in Czechoslovakia. Henelin's Free Corps played in that country the part of fifth column which the Austrian SS had played in Austria, and it was rewarded by being placed under the jurisdiction of the Reichsfuehrer SS in September 1938. I refer to our Document 388-PS, which was read in evidence by Mr. Alderman as U.S. Exhibit No. 26 at page 598 of the record. The items touched in item 37 and 38 of the so-called Schmundt files. Moreover - as shown by item 36 of that file, which Mr. Alderman read into the record, the SS had its own armed units -- four battalions of Totenkopf Verbaende - actually operating in Czechoslovakia before the Munich Pact was signed. SS preparations for aggression were not confined to military forces. One of the departments of the SS Supreme Command - the Volkdeutsche Mittelstelle - which is represented on the chart by the third box from the top at the extreme right - was a center for fifth column activity. The Tribunal may recall the secret meeting between Hitler and Henlein in March 1938, described in the notes of the German Foreign Office, U.S. Exhibit No. 95, at which the line to be followed by the Sudetan German Party was determined.
The Volkdeutsche Mittelstelle was fuehrer Lorenz.
And when the Foreign Office in August 1938 awarded further subsidies to Henlein's Sudetan Party, the memorandum of that recommendation for further subsidies contained the significant footnote "Volkdeutoche Mittlestelle will be informed."
I refer to U.S. Exhibit 96, our Document 3059, which was read into the record by Mr. Alderman, at pages 789 and 790 When at last the time came to strike, the SS was ready.
I quote from the National Socialist Yearbook for 1940, our Document No. 2164-PS, US exhibit 255 on page 1, paragraph 2, of the translation; page 365 of the "When the march into the liberated provinces of the Sudetenland began on that memorable October 1, 1938, the emergency forces (Verfuegungstruppe) as well as the Death Head Units (Totenkopf Verbaende) were along with those in the lead."
I omit the balance of the paragraph and continue with the next paragraph:
"The 15th of March, 1939 brought a similar utilization of the SS when it served to establish order in collapsing Czechoslovakia. This action ended with the founding of the protectorate Bohemia-Moravia.
"Only a week later, on the 29th of March 1939, Meml also returned to the Reich upon basis of on agreement with Lithuania. Again it was the SS, here above all the Eastern Prussian SS, which played a prominent part in the liberation of this province". September 1939 -- the SS acted as a sort of stage manager. The Tribunal will recall the oral testimony of Erwin Lahousen with relation to the simulated attack on the radio station at Gleiwitz by Germans dressed in Polish uniforms -- what Lahousen referred to as one of the most mysterious actions which took place in the Abwehr office. Describing his task of getting the Polish uniforms and equipment together, he said at page 620 of the transcript:
"These articles of equipment had to be prepared, and one day some man from the SS or the SD - the name is on the official diary of the War Department -- fetched them". of the attacking forces. by the SS -- qualities not only of its combat force but of its other components as well. I turn now to a consideration of some of the tasks in which the SS was engaged during the war -- tasks embracing the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity described in the Indictment.
447-PS, as U.S.A. Exhibit 135. It is a directive issued by the Defendant Keitel on the 12 of March, 1941, covering some of the preparations made three months in advance for the attack on Russia. Paragraph 2b of that directive, which was read into the record, provided that in the area of operations the Reichsfuehrer SS was entrusted with special tasks for the preparation of the political administration, tasks which would result from the struggle about to commence between two opposing political systems.
One of the steps taken by the Reichsfuehrer SS to carry out those "special" tasks" was the formation and use of so-called "anti-partisan" units. They were discussed by Himmler in his Posen speech, cur Document No. 1919-PS, at page 3 of the translation, paragraph 5, page 57 of the original, last paragraph. I read these two paragraphs in which he discusses the anti-partisan units:
"In the meantime I have also set up the Chief of the anti-partisan units. Our comrade SS Obergruppenfuehrer von dem Bach is Chief of the anti-partisan units. I considered it necessary for the Reichsfuehrer SS to be in authoritative command in all these battles, for I am convinced that we are best in position to take action against this enemy struggle, which is decidedly a political one. Except where units which had been supplied and which we had formed for this purpose were taken from us to fill in gaps at the front, we have been very successful.
"It is notable that by setting up this department, we have gained for the SS in turn, a division, a corps, an army and the next step -- which is the High Command of on army or area of a group -- if you wish to call it that". anti-partisan units were formed, is illustrated in the reports rendered as to the activities of such units. I offer in evidence activity and situation report No.6 of the Task Forces of the Security Police and SD in the U.S.S.R. covering the period from the 1st to the 31st of October 1941. It is our Document No. R-102, and will be found in Volume 2 of the Document Book. It is the US Exhibit No. 470. The report shows that so-called "anti-partisan" activity was actually nothing but a name for extermination of persons believed politically undesirable and of Jews.
The report is a very carefully organized and detailed description of such extermination. Section I describes the stations of the various Task Forces involved; Section II their activities. The latter section is divided into parts, each dealing with a different geographical region -- the Baltic area, White Ruthenia, and the Ukraine. headings:
(a) Partisan activity and counteraction; (b) arrests and execution of communists and officials; and (c) Jews. I shall read only a few typical paragraphs, selected at random. paragraphs, of page 4 of the translation and which also appears on page one of the original.
"The present stations are:
"Task Force A: since 7 October 1941 Krasnowardeisk.
"Task Force B: continues in Smolensk "Task Force C: since 27 September 1941 in Kiev "Task Force D: since 27 September 1941 in Nikolajew.
"The Action and Special Commandos (Einsatz und Sender Commandos) which are attached to the Task Force continue on the march with the advancing troops into the sectors which have been assigned to them."
I shall now read from the section headed, "Baltic area" and subsection labelled "Jews", beginning with the first paragraph on page 5 of the translation, page 8 of the original, second paragraph.
"The male Jews over 16 were executed with the exception of doctors and the elders. At the present time this action is still in progress. After completion of this action there will remain only 500 Jewesses and children in the Eastern territory" I skip now to the section headed "White Ruthenia", the subsection headed,"Partisan activity and counteraction."
The paragraph I shall read begins on page 6, paragraph 5 of the translation, found on page 11, paragraph 1 of the original. I quote:
"In Wultschina 8 juveniles were arrested as partisans and shot. They were inmates of a children's home. They had collected weapons which they hid in the woods. Upon search the following were found; 3 heavy machine guns, 15 rifles, several thousand rounds of ammunition, several hand grenades, and several packages of poison gas Ebrit.
"b) Arrests and executions of Communists, Officials and "A further large part of the activity of the Security Police was devoted to the combatting of Communists and criminals.
A special Commando in the period covered by this report executed 63 officials, NKVD agents and agitators." The subsection on arrests and executions of Communists, officials and criminals in White Ruthenia, ends as follows and I read from page 6 of the translation, paragraph 14, page 12 of the original, paragraph 5:
"The liquidation for the period covered by this report have reached a total of 37,180 persons."
The final item I shall quote is the Section headed "Ukraine" under the subsection,"Jews". It will be found on page 8 of the translation, paragraph 10, page 18 of the original, next to the last paragraph: