episodes of the SS brutalities on the territory temporarily occupied by the SS, but to road a quotation in which typical warning of responsibility for perjury is given prior to the interrogation by the investigating SS men.
It states:
"... I have been notified of the substance of the forthcoming interrogation It has been pointed out to me, that false evidence on my part will result in punishment and expulsion from the SS."
Upon entering the "General SS" the future member of this criminal organization took an oath, which included the following words:
"...I take an oath before you, Adolf Hitler, Fuehrer and Reichskanzler, to obey unto death you and all these whom you have appointed to command me."
And no matter where the SS man was in service, whether he was *---* people in Treblinka and Auschwitz or tortured them during the interrogations in the torture-chambers of the Gestapo, first of all he continued to be himself - a stupid, ruthless member of the "General SS" and know only two duties blind obedience to the "Fuehrer and Reichskanzler" and unconditional enforcement of any criminal order.
Hitler's body guard, and the division "Dead Head" which was active mostly in concentration camps. the so-called "Camp Commands" which carded out directly the external millions of people and the realization of the regime of exhaustion of the inm*t before extermination, as well as the police divisions and units. to their criminal character. Tribunal of the Fourth Ukranian Front and a port of the Extraordinary State Commission concerning the atrocities of the German Fascist invaders in Kharkoff and in the Kharkoff area, from which it is evident that the units of the SS-particularly the SS Division of Adolf Hitler under the leadership of the Obergrup penfuehrer Dietrich and the division "Dead Head" under the leadership the Obergruppenfuehrer SS Simen are responsible for the extermination of more than 20,000 peaceful citizens of Kharkoff, for shooting and burning alive of prisoners of war. 195,000 peaceful citizens tortured to death, shot and poisoned in the "dead vans" most of them being exterminated by the units of the SS; for which according to the reports of the Extraordinary State Commission, the former Chief of the SS Troop in Southern Russia, and in the Ukraine Major General Torenfield, SS Lieutenant General Juettner, and ither Commanders of the SS Troops are responsible. 102,000 persons. Among many others, a soldier of the Fourth squadron of the Sever teenth Cavalry Division of SS. Adolf Mitz testified, how the SS men carried out these crimes; on the order of his regiment Commander Adolf Mitzke, together with the other soldiers of his regiment, carried out the shooting of peaceful citizens (among them women), and set villages on fire.
In the official note of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UUSB, W.*. Molotoffm dated 27 April 1942 and presented to the Tribunal under USSR-51 a description of atrocities committed by the SS Cavalry Brigade in the Region of Yoropots is reported.
I read into the record; "In January 1942, when Red Army troops smashed the German SS Cavalry Brigade in the district of Toropets, among the captured documents was found the report of the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the above-mentioned brigade on the "pacification" of the Stary Binsk District in Byelorussia. The regimental commander reports thatin addition to the 259 war prisoners shot by a detachment of his regiment, 6,504 peaceful inhabitants were executed. The report states that the detachment operated in accordance with regimental Order No.42 of July, 1941. The commander of the 2nd Regiment of the and same brigade, von Magill, states in his "Report on the conduct of the Pacification Operations in the District of the Pripet Marshes from July 27 to August 11, 1941": We drove the women and children into a swamp, but this did not have the necessary effect as the swamp was not deep enough for them to drown. At a depth of 1 metre it was possible in most cases to reach firm ground (possibly sand)." In the sane headquarters, telegram No. 37 was found, sent by the Standartenfuehrer, commander of the SS Cavalry Brigade, to a horse detachment of the above mentioned 2nd Cavalry Brigade, dated August 2, 1941, which announces that the Reichsfuehrer of the SS and Police, Himmler, considers the number of peaceful inhabitants who are being exterminated "too negligible," points out that "it is necessary to act radically," that "the commanders of the formations are too lenient in their conduct of operations," and orders that the number of parsons shot be reported daily," Poland and other temporarily occupied, countries of eastern Europe followed the same pattern. sented to the Tribunal by the Soviet and British Prosecution, in which the crimes committed in the territory of Yugoslavia by the SS division "Prince Eugene" are illustrated.
In particular I wish to remind the Tribunal of the communication No. 9 of the Yugoslave State Commission concerning the atrocities committed by the aforesaid SS Division. This Communication describes how the SS soldiers, members of the Waffen SS who called themselves "the German Guard", have burned alive the population of entire villages, including women and children. I will remind you as well of the deposition given by the SS Major General August Schmidthuber describing how, on the order of the commander of the first Battalion SS Kaasarer, peaceful citizens were locked up in a church in Krivaya Reka, and then the church building was blown up.
I refer the Tribunal to the well-known statement of the Officers of that sane division concentration the mass shooting of hostages and murdering of prisoners of war.
A secret directive of Himmler's was read, before the Tribunal- by which it was shown that SS units were instructed to annihilate thousands of inhabited localities, towns and villages in the temporarily occupied regions of the Soviet Union. In this directive Himmler wrote as follows: "The aim to be achieved is that when areas in the Ukraine are evacuated, not a human being, not a single head of cattle, not a hundredweight of cereals and not a railway line remain behind; that not a house remain statnding, not a mine is available which is not destroyed for years to come. that there is not a well which is not poisoned. The enemy must really find completely burnt and destroyed land." In carrying out the criminal orders of the SS Reichsfuehrer (Himmler's order of 10 July 1943), the Waffen-SS deported for German slavery the populations of entire regions - driving the Ukranian and Russian children into special concentration camps. main of volunteers, as well as members of the General SS called upon to carry out the criminal plans of Hitler and his clique. clare the SS kind of "German Guard", having nothing to do with any kind of police function and whose hands are unstained with the blood if innocent people, are in full contradiction with the ruthless and irrefutable facts. Nevertheless, we do not deny that among the soldiers of the Waffen-SS were some who were compelled to serve. However, the question of the degree of responsibility of any particular person is a question of competence for the national Tribunals. Nevertheless, the SS troops as a whole are an essential part of the system and the SS organization is therefore undoubtedly criminal.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will adjourn.
(A recess was taken.)
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MR. DODD: Mr. President, I am prepared to make a report on the attitude of the Prosecution concerning the application of the Defendant Seyss-Inquart to submit an affidavit. We are all in agreement in opposing the affidavit of Seyss-Inquart. It is really argumentative as we read it. We have had it translated, and it doesn't raise anything new, and it does express the Defendant's attitude toward a number of documents that were in evidence as early as last January, have been in evidence as early as last January, various documents about evidence said so on. It seems improper that the defense would make such an offer. Counsel made his argument, and indeed, he will have another opportunity himself to address the Tribunal. None of these matters in our judgment, in our opinion, are proper, nor should they be admitted by the Tribunal at this time. There is one matter raised in this affidavit, the matter of two documents 3640 PS and 3645 PS in which the Defendant Seyss-Inquart says they were not introduced in evidence. They were referred to by the French Prosecutor, M. Champetier de Ribes, that's all. Of course, M. Champetier de Ribes and the other gentleman of the French Prosecution with us agree that it was inadvertent, and we would like to state before the court for the court to understand that these two documents were not actually admitted inevidence; and, of course, we should not have referred to them in our argument. Other than that one matter that was raised, we can see nothing that would be helpful to the Tribunal.
THE PRESIDENT: Is it in German?
MR. DODD: Yes, Your Honor, it is in German. Our translation is not complete. It was done by one of our people hurridly and is in outline form and for my own information. I can go through paragraph by paragraph if the Tribunal would care to have me.
TEE PRESIDENT: It is very long?
MR. DODD: No, it isn't. My outline is one page and a little more than a half. The affidavit itself is six pages. Our analysis of it is a page and a half.
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THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Dodd, if the only objection to the affidavit is that it is argumentative, is that really a very serious objection when there are so many documents?
MR. DODD: Well, no, sir, I expect It is not.
THE PRESIDENT: It is a case of difficulty, and we want to have the case after it is finished -
MR. DODD: Yes, I understand.
THE PRESIDENT: -- and the translation is the matter of difficulty in the circumstances.
MR. DODD: Yes. Well, our objection is just what I have stated, and no more than that. I don't want to press it too much. If the Tribunal feels it would be better to have it in and have it translated, there is nothing on the affidavit that we need make any reply to. I feel perfectly sure of that, and I don't think it is worth pressing, really.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the Tribunal thinks that in the circumstances, it will be better if you allow the affidavit to be offered in evidence. The Tribunal notes that 3640 PS nad 3645 PS have not been offered in evidence.
MR. DODD: Yes, Mr. President, 3640 and 3645 PS were not offered in evidence.
THE PRESIDENT: We will not regard any reference to them.
MR. DODD: I wish to inform the Tribunal that the letter of Dr. Laternser's, we have no objection to this letter. We are all in agreement about it.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Mr. Dodd said they had no objection to the letter. It will be -
DR. LATERNSER: Mr. President, there is a small paragraph in this letter that I should like very much to read into the record, two sentences of it.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, if the letter is in evidence, it is not necessary to take time by reading it into the record. The Prosecution have agreed that the letter may be treated as a part of the evidence of the record.
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DR. LATERNSER: But since the Witness Schreiber has made his testimony, I should attach value to it, and that one very brief paragraph consisting of two sentences should be read into the record if possible.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, wait a minute. No, Dr. Laternser, the letter will be admitted as part of the evidence of the record. We do not desire that further time should be taken up by the matter.
DR. LATERNSER: Mr. President, with reference to this subject I received another exhibit which may -- I received it during the recess -- but, of course, I don't know if the Tribunal is willing to receive it in evidence. In order to complete this subject of the evidence, may I beg the Tribunal, to allow me to present it. It is a document which would, if possible that I be permitted to show, that in the case of one of the Allied Nations, too, bacterial warfare of the defensive and offensive type has been prepared, and that four thousand people were occupied with it. I should merely like to present it for that one reason that I shall be able to submit a fact to the Tribunal which would be useful for the proper judgment of this particular subject.
THE PRESIDENT: No, that falls within the principle that we have decided over end over again, that such evidence is not admissible.
DR. LATERNSER: But since we are here concerned with a now subject, Mr. President -
THE PRESIDENT: We are well aware of the argument you have presented to us that any investigations which were taken in bacterial warfare was done solely for defensive purposes. That argument is perfectly clear and any other argument based upon allegations as to what Allied Nations may have done is irrelevant.
GENERAL RUDENKO: On 4 October 1943 in his speech addressed to the SS Gruppenfuehrers in Poznan, Himmler stated:
"We want a complete unity with the Party and all its organi zations.
It is very fortunate that we are completely united with the 'SA'. The new Chief of Staff Scheimann considers his most essential task that of creating peace and accord among the old Party groups."
heads of the SA Putsch -- in 1943 confirmed the full unity of the SS with the SA and emphasized the importance of this Hitlerite criminal organization for the general conspiracy. party and of the Hitlerite State, the "SA" was the criminal organization to which the ringleaders of German fascism attached special importance considering it one of the main weapons for terrorizing and feeling their own nation and for laying ground for aggression against other nations. about the part played by this criminal organization in the common plan of the Fascist Conspiracy. Boehm, was, generally speaking, devoid of any legal argumentation that would render it worthy of attention. This was a statement made from the view point of the convinced Nazi, repeating, in a number of cases, the worst instances of Hitlerite propaganda, which the Counsel for the Defense had carefully extracted from the Press of the SA.
DR. LOEFFLER (Counsel for the SA): Mr. President, will you permit me to briefly object to this very severe personal attack? Unfortunately Dr. Boehm is unable to appear in the session today, but I have been able to ascertain in the interval in which he was admitted to the defense, it has been proved that attorney Dr. Boehm has never been a member of the National-Socialist German Party. The accusation, therefore, before this court, that he had viewed National-Socialist propaganda with his press is with out my background. Insofar as the whole of Germany is concerned, there would not be a single normal person who, during the time of the Nazi regime, has refused to join the National-Socialist Party. This fact in this particular trial -
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THE PRESIDENT: But we are not considering whether defense counsel belonged to the Party or not, and this observation of the Soviet Prosecutor doesn't say that Dr. Boehm was a member of the Party. It may be rather strongly expressed, but what he says is Nazi. He doesn't think that Dr. Boehm was a Nazi.
DR. LOEFFLER: Mr. President, I have nothing to add to the statement except that I am asking the Tribunal to take cognizance of the very difficult position in which the defense find themselves and consider that it is impossible to represent the organizations of the Party without representing also the attitude, the point of view, of the Party. That is all I had to say but if the Russiar Prosecutor is not finding any legal argument in Dr. Boehm's final plea, then he must examine the memorandum of Dr. Klefitsch in great detail, and there it was said that there should be a reply to that statement, a reply which so far has not been made or received.
THE PRESIDENT: General Rudenko, the translation which we hare got of your statement is possibly ambiguous, and therefore the Tribunal would like to be assured that what I said about it was accurate and that you were not suggesting that -
GEN. RUDENKO: Quite right, Mr. President. You very precisely said that I am asserting here that the speech was simply made from the view point, from the position of a Nazi, but I have no confirmation of the fact that Boehm himself did belong to the party, and I think that such polemics are admissible.
THE PRESIDENT: I think perhaps, General Rudenko. that it would be proper for you to withdraw any suggestion that Dr. Boehm himself was a convinced Nazi.
GEN. RUDENKO: But I never did affirm that Dr. Boehm was a convinced Nazi. I am simply assorting that, judging by his speech, he might possibly belong to the Nazi point of view.
THE PRESIDENT: What you mean is that Dr. Boehm was representing a certain point of view, and, of course, as counsel he doesn't represent his own point of view; he merely represents the point of view of the case which he is presenting. Is that what you meant?
GEN. RUDEKNO: Yes, of course, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Go on.
GEN. RUDENKO: The "Sturmabteilungen" or "SA" were the first striking force in the hands of the conspirators, the first mass, and military organization founded by them. Reichswohr, who was hoping for revenge.
The nucleus of the "SA was made up of men such as Streicher and Roehm, "zoological" anti-semites, chauvinists, supporters of the idea of the conquest of "living space", officers having left the army and soldiers of the defeated Kaiser's army. revenge, and to the "SA" entered adventurers, tempted by the decorative side of this criminal organization and seeing in it a possibility of participating in "pogroms" and plunder.
From the very beginning the "SA" was a strictly voluntary organization. This principle stayed in force during the whole process of development of the shock units. Hitlerites in 1933, the "SA" remained a legal weapon in the hands of the Hitlerite fascist clique, securing for it the "mastery of the streets" and the elimination of political opponents.
With the "SS", the shock units were an integral part of the Hitlerite party. This fact was officially declared in the ordinance of March 1935 (Reichsgesetzblatt, 1935, part I, page 502) and the same was to be found in the organizational charter of the Hitlerite party.
In his pamphlet "The SA", the SA-Sturmfuehrer Bauer wrote:
"The public opinion would never have learned of the stirring speeches and the propaganda of our small faction in the Reichstag or of the aspirations and aims of the party, if it had not have been hearing the steps of the marching SA units and their battle songs".
But the "steps of the marching SA and their battle songs" were not the only things heard by the German "public opinion". It perceived far mere, the blows of rubber bludgeons, the shots fired at political opponents and the pogroms in the working wards. For the chief fascist conspirators the basic value of the SA was precisely their function as a weapon for pogroms and terror. units were first of all a weapon of rough coercion, a means of elimination and extermination of political opponents. delivered by him in 1935, He then stated:
"The internal political opponents did not disappear by means of some unknown secret reasons. No, they disappeared because our movement had at its disposal the strongest weapon in the country, and this strongest weapon was the "SA" units". of the terror applied by the shock units in the streets of German towns, of the "pogrom-makers" in SA uniforms, who beat, killed, scoffed at human dignity and transformed the headquarters of the SA into houses of torture.
organization was practically formed which became the principal executor of their plan, and with the SA formed the reserve of that great police machinery which was set up by German fascism. These were the SS, and the brownshirt-men surrounding Hitler had to stand aside and give place to the head of the Hitlerite party organization to the "black corps" of the SS. as a reserve of the political police. He notes that when forming the Gestapo, Goering included into the personnel of this organization, one of the most dangerous criminal organization of German fascism, many members of the SA, "they being the most reliable, from the political point of view." the SS members of the SA, after the fascists came to power, formed detachments for the guard of concentration camps. fuehrer Schaefer states:
"The most tested and daring members of the SA were chosen for work in the camp, that is, they were the constant guards of the camp. In this way we formed a staff of experienced guards, who were always ready for action." in these camps and the line of conduct in the concentration camps of the men of one shock units in their role of executioners. pogroms. This is proved by the original reports of the commanders of units and detachments of the SA, contained in other documents submitted by the Prosecution. As the SS, the SA were formed in the same spirit of ferocious anti-semitism, which ended up by the establishment of Treblinka and Chelmno. another of its important functions in the execution of the general plan of development of the Hitlerite conspiracy must not be omitted. mass training of the military personnel for the Wehrmacht. This personnel was later on called upon to execute the plans of aggression of the Hitlerites.
the outer world.
"In addition to my instructions... dated 11 July 1933, I find cause to ask all SA authorities to exercise the greatest caution with regard to any publicity given to the SA service not only in the press, but also in the information and news shoots of the individual Sa units. Only during the last few days, the Reich Ministry of the Interior, at the request of the Foreign Office, has given strict instructions to all Reich authorities according to which the most severe control is to be exercised on all publications which night give other countries an opening to construe German infringments of the terns of the Versailles Treaty." assertion of the defense relative to the "peaceful character" of the shock units and the "purely sport" character of their activities. and regiments had a purely military character. From the moment of their creation, under the guidance of the most reactionary officers of the Reich wehr, who joined the Hitlerites - the SA units began the preparation of the cadres for future war. weapon of mass military training, and officers of the Wehrmacht, in SA uniforms, carried out in these units a purely military training of the shock units men. in the realization of the Hitlerite plans of aggression, after the seizure of power. short excerpt of an article published in the organ of the shock units, "Der SA Mann" of the 6th of January 1934:
"... the SA man, following the will of the Fuehrer, stands as defender of the National Socialist revolution before the gates of power and will remain standing there for all times. For still gigantic missions await fulfilment which would not be thinkable without the presence and the active cooperation of the SA.
in the state and the ejection of those elements which are responsible for the pernicious developments of the post war years as bearers of marxism, liberalism and capitalism are only the preliminaries, the spring-board for the real aims of National Socialism." were a loyal weapon in the hands of the criminal Hitlerite clique. charged with the guarding of prisoners of war and of the "workers from the cast", not permitting any weakening of the brutal man-exterminating regime established for then. Members of the SA acted as guards in several "worker camps."
The criminal activity of its members, with the exception of the "union of veterans" and persons involved in the sport societies of the SA, is fully proved, by the court proceedings. greater part of the crimes of the Hitler regime, must undoubtedly be found by the Tribunal as a criminal organization. at the time when the latter was Prime Minister of Prussia, and during the early period of its existence itwas directed by him personally. all direction of the political police of the Reich territory in his own hands. The law of 10 February, 1936, declared Gestapo a "special police" organ, for the whole Reich. By his decree of 17 July, 1936, Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of the German Police, thus making legitimate the "personal unity" already achieved by the SS and the Police on the whole.
In harmony with this principle of "personal unity", i.e., unity of leadership, by his very first decree on the structure of the German Police, dated 25 June, 1936, Himmler appointed Reinhardt Heydrich the Chief of the SIPO (Security Police) which already embraced within the some system both the Gestapo and the Criminal police. Heydrich's successor, after the latter's death, was defendant Kaltenbrunner.
in the general security scheme of the Nazi State and for purposes of further unification of the police under single leadership, a reorganization of the central security organizations took place. This resulted in the fusion of "the Chief SS security Administration with the "Chief Administration of the Security Police" into a single SS semi-governmental semi-party organization - "Reich Security Head office" i.e., the RSHA.
Thus the Secret State Police, then briefly known as "Gestapo", and up to then existing as part of the "Chief Administration of the SIPO", became the IV Section of RSHA.
security organs of the Third Reich were clearly defined by the same Heydrich in an article published in the German periodical "The German Police." While defining the role of SD as that of political intelligence within both the Nazi Party and the Nazi State whose task included the study and analysis of the political atmosphere and of the political trends and tendencies both inside and outside the bounds of the Reich for purposes of informing the Nazi leadership, Heydrich saw the function of the Secret State Police as revealing and rendering harmless those politcial elements within the Nazi regime which were hostile and unreliable. tenciary and other special branches and formations, was geared to the accomplishment of this cardinal point of its program. dual selection of the Gestapo personnel. These were selected from among the most experienced cadres of the general police and of the administration, who were already proven to be the fanatical adherents of the Hitlerite regime, and also from among the regular employees of the SD. The latter were usually given supervisory postions in the Gestapo. of the RSHA, Walter Schellenberg, establishes that 75 % of Gestapo employees were also members of the SS. They had either been member of the SS prior to entering the Gestapo or else they became member as they began their careers in this punitive and terroristic organization. reached between 40 and 50 thousand. Such staff, to quote Fouche, allowed Gestapo "to have eyes to see everywhere and hands to seize anyone." merely to the territory of the Reich.
Gestapo that received the task, jointly with the SD, to organize one of the first operational groups, the Einsatzgruppen, meant to function on the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic. already prepared and approved plan, Gestapo put at the disposal of the Armed forces a certain percentage of its experienced workers to organize the so-called "Secret Field Police" - GFP. The GFP units in the army had the functions of both the Gestapo and the SIPO in the Reich and were also empowered with wide, police and punitive rights directed against the civilian population and the guerilla fighters in theatres of military operations. powers in connection with extra-legal reprisal measures directed against elements "threatening" the Nazi State or the Nazi Party. was the utilization of the right of "preventive arrest" and "preventive imprisonment" which the Gestapo used widely both on the territory of the Reich and in the areas later annexed or occupied by Germany. notoriously dismal German concentration camps. Confinement to a concentration camp could take place through a simple written directive on the part of the Security police and the SD Chief Heydrich, whose place was later taken by Kaltenbrunner, or at the order of the Chief of the IV Section of the RSHA-Mueller. Frequently the order of confinement to a concentration camp was issued personally by the Reichsfuehrer of the SS and simultaneous ly Chief of the German Police - Heinrich Himmler. long a period of torture and suffering he was being confined, the length of confinement depended entirely on the arbitrary wild of the Gestapo. Even when Gestapo knew the length of time that it planned to keep the man in prison, it still was strictly forbidden to disclose this either to the prisoner or to his kin.
tion camps which materialized in the subsequent period of aggressive operations and which generations to come are bound to remember with tremor, namely the Maidanek, the Auschwitz, the Treblinka, and many others. Gestapo had close connections with the Nazi Party. sian Cabinet Minister dated 20 September, 1936, it states without any ambiguity that "the special functions of the Security Police demand the clossest and fullest mutual understanding and collaboration... also with the Gauleiter of the NSDAP..." In studying the decree of 14 December, 1938 concerning the collaboration of the party organs with the Gestapo it is easy to see that there existed the closest contact among the various organizations of the Fascist consprators, specifically between the Gestapo and the party leadership. Defendants Hess and Hermann were always careful to maintain close contact between the party and the Gestapo. organizations, Gestapo participated actively in preparing plans for the seizure of territory belonging to other states.
The list of 4.000 Yugoslav citizens, compiled in 1938 an seized in May 1945 in the Gestapo quarters in Maribor, testifies beyond doubt to the effect that the Gestapo participated in plans for the invasion of Yugoslavia in its own special way. We also see from the testimony of Dragomir Jovanovich, one of Yugoslav quislings, who was chief of the Serbian Police during the German occupation, that the Gestapo organizations for Yugoslavia were Planned beforehand. In accordance with a pro--conceived plan the police posts were distributed among the German residents of Yugoslavia.
USSR Exhibit No. 509, submitted to the Tribunal by the Soviet Prosecution, likewise shows that also for Czechoslovakia, the chief Reich security branches, planned the functions of the SD and the Gestapo, long before the actual occupation of the country another type of participation of the Gestapo in planned aggression. The Administrative Headquarters of Reich Security also planted in Czechoslovakia agents for assassination or for lidnapping and whishing away to Germany of the known anti-fascists. The facts of the Gestapo participation in Germany's aggressive plans are also confirmed by a series of documents dealing with lists of persons, personnel files, and other data regarding important officials of the government organs and the community leaders of the Soviet Union who were to be annihilated -- long before the actual perpetration of the treacherous attack on Russia by these Hitlerite blackguards. For instance, together with the SD and the Criminal Police, the Gestapo prepared, the "Special Intelligence Guide for the USSR," "The German Intelligence Guide" "Lists of Persons Whose Residence Must Be Determined," and other similar intelligence Reference books and lists of persons.
The criminal activity of the Gestapo connected with plans for aggression, both within the Reich itself and in the West, has already been dealt with by my respected colleagues. For that reason I shall pass on to the subject of the Gestapo crimes in the to temporarily occupied territories of the USSR, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
THE PRESIDENT: General Rudenko, what is the reference to "The German Intelligence Guide," "Lists of Persons Whose Residence Must Be Determined", and other similar intelligence reference books and lists of persons? USSR-3 is what I've got. Is that the right document?
GENERAL RUDENKO: Yes, USSR-3, quite right Mr. President, USSR-3
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
GENERAL RUDENKO: the police organization in the temporarily occupied territories of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland are of the same pattern served to realize most of these crimes. ligentzia, the so-called "Operation AB" was conceived by Frank, approved by Hitler, and perpetrated by the Gestapo. It was the a agents of the Gestapo, who with the aid of several SS units and under the direction of the SS and Police Chief for Poland, Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger as well as Brigadefuehrer Strechenbach managed to exterminate several thousand Polish intellectuals, carrying out this atrocious mass operation.
In accordance with Frank's decree of 9 October, 1943, the notorious "Standgerichte", created "to suppress attacks on German construction in the Government-General", also consisted of Gestapo agents.