Two Hundred and Fourteenth Day:
Thursday, 29th August, 1946 [Page 251] Page 254
For about 2,000 years a so far unsuccessful fight has been
carried on against Jewry. It was only in 1933 that we began
to seek ways and means which will make possible a complete
separation of Jewry from the body of the German people. The
measures hitherto carried out for a solution can essentially
be subdivided as follows:
2. The effort to expel the enemy completely from the
Reich territory.
In view of the only very limited living-space
(Lebensraum) available for the German people it was hoped
to solve this problem essentially by accelerating the
emigration of the Jews.
Therefore, the complete segregation and elimination of the
millions of Jews residing in the European economic sphere
remains a compelling necessity in the German people's
struggle for existence. Starting with the Reich territory
and then going over to the other European countries included
in the final solution, the Jews will in a steady flow be
shipped to the East into large camps, which partly exist and
which partly will have yet to be set up, from where they
will be either used for labour or sent still farther to the
East. Old Jews as well as Jews with high war decorations
(Iron Cross First Class, Golden Badge for Bravery, etc.)
will in a steady stream be resettled in the city of
Theresienstadt located in the Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia. It is in the nature of the matter that these partly
very difficult problems will in the interests of the final
protection of our people, only be solved with ruthless
severity."
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The only force that doth excuse is a force upon the person
and present fear of death, and this force and fear must
continue all the time the party remains with the rebels. It
is incumbent on every man, who makes force his defence, to
show an actual force and that he quitted the service as soon
as he could. (Lee, C. J.)." Page 264 Page 265
Held: C and D were guilty of murder as principals in the
first degree, and any apprehension that C and D had of
personal danger to themselves from A was no ground of
defence for continuing with him after he had so declared his
purpose." Page 270 Page 270 Page 272 Page 273 Page 274 Page 274 Page 276 Page 277 Page 277 Page 278
We dug up altogether 68,000 bodies. I know this because two
of the Jews in the pit with us were ordered by the Germans
to keep count of the bodies: that was their sole job. The
bodies were mixed - Jews, Polish priests, Russian prisoners
of war. Amongst those that I dug up I found my own brother.
I found his identification papers on him. He had been dead
two years when I dug him up, because I knew that he was in a
batch of 10,000 Jews from Vilna ghetto who were shot in
September, 1941.
The procedure for burning the bodies was absolutely
methodical. Parallel ditches 7 metres long were dug. Over
these a square platform of boards was laid. A layer of
bodies was put on top, the bodies had oil poured on them and
then branches were put on top and over the branches logs of
wood. Altogether fourteen such layers of bodies and fuel
were put on each pyre. Each pyre was shaped like a pyramid
with a wooden funnel sticking up through the top. Petrol and
oil were poured down the funnel and incendiary bombs put
round the edge of the pyre. All this work was done by us
Jews. When the pyre was ready the Sturmfuehrer himself or
his assistant Legal (also in the SA) personally lit the pyre
with a burning rag on the end of a pole.
The work of digging up the graves and building the pyres was
supervised and guarded by about 80 guards. Of these over 50
were SA men in brown uniforms, armed with pistols and
daggers and automatic guns (the guns being always cocked and
pointed at us). The other 30 guards consisted partly of
Lithuanians and partly of SD and SS. In the course of the
work the Lithuanian guards themselves were shot, presumably
so that they should not say what had been done. The
commander of the whole place was the SA officer Murer (the
expert on Jewish questions), but he only inspected the work
from time, to time. The SA officer Legal actually commanded
on the spot. At night our pit was guarded by 10 or 12 of
these guards." Page 282
SS Head Office 9,349
Racial and Settlement Head Office of the SS
2,689
SS Economic and Administrative Head Office (WVHA)
24,091
Personal Staff of the Reichsfuehrer SS 673
SS Personal Head Office 170
Head Office, SS Court of Justice 599
Bureau of SS Obergruppenfuehrer Reissmeyer (Education-
Ideology) 553
Reich Commissar for the Consolidation of German Folkdom
(Staff Head Office) 304
Reich Commissar for the Consolidation of German Folkdom
(Head Office of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle Central
Office for
Persons of German Race 987
TOTAL 39,415
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As many quarters express themselves against the transfer of
populations, on the grounds that it causes too much unrest
among the foreigners, thus disturbing production, the
following measures have been decided upon
1. Verbal propaganda will spread news about the
discontinuation of those transfers.
2. No authority will announce anything before the actual
moment when the transfer of populations is to be carried
out. Planning to be done secretly.
3. The time for immigration will be fixed for after the
spring tilling of the fields, so that the foreigners will
carry out the cultivation of the land and the new settlers
will be able to make use of the harvest. This has the
advantage that, under the above-mentioned presuppositions,
the foreigners will till their fields in all districts,
while the German settlers will not run the danger, in view
of the shortness of the time, of possibly being hindered in
their spring work.
4. The transfer of Poles should be carried out in such a
manner that the good elements are put, as much as possible
voluntarily, in districts cleared by the Security Police,
and the, transfer is entitled "The Establishment of Security
in the Partisan districts." The bad elements will be taken
away gradually, where they are not employed as auxiliary
workers.
5. The announcement of the time of immigration will be made
only on the day of the transfer of population.
6. All villages will be occupied in advance by the
"Landwacht" (country guard) in all parts of the organization
formed by settlers who, having received previous training,
are to save the use of our own SS forces.
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Affidavits and Footnotes
1. The elimination of the Jews from the various walks of
life of the German people. Here the laws proclaimed by
the legislator are to constitute the foundation
guaranteeing to protect also the future generations
against a possible new overflowing by the enemy.
Since the beginning of the war in 1939 these opportunities
for emigration decreased steadily and, on the other hand,
apart from the German people's living-space, its economic
sphere increased steadily so that today in view of the great
number of Jews residing in these territories, their complete
elimination is no longer possible by emigration. Since even
our next generation will no longer regard this question as
so vital, and by virtue of the past experiences, will no
longer see it clearly enough, and because the matter, which
after all has been started, presses for a settlement, the
entire problem must yet be solved by this generation.
"SS Col. Lurker alleges that about 2,000 persons were
transferred to Serbia, 400 persons were put into
concentration camps .... As a retaliation measure for the
last occurrences about 30 persons were shot."
Extract from Minutes of Staff Conference, 29th July, 1942:
"In the County of Cilli 105 executions by shooting and 362
arrests were carried out . The commander of the Security
Police will evacuate the prison in Cilli in the course of
the next two weeks. The prisoners are in part to be
transferred to other prisons, in part to be shot. In this
way the necessary space will be created for the carrying out
of a new large-scale operation."
Extract from Minutes of Staff Conference, 13th July, 1942:
"It can be counted on that half of those arrested, or about
200 persons, will be rendered harmless through delivery to a
concentration camp or through shooting."
Extract from Minutes of Staff Conference, 15th March, 1943:
"On 10th March, 1943, 25 active bandits were shot in Marburg
by special procedure, including a Catholic priest. 160
relatives of the bandits were transferred.
(i) Through an oversight one family received two urns.
(ii) One notification of death indicated appendicitis as
the cause. But the appendix had already been removed ten
years previously.
(iii) Another cause of death quoted was a disease of the
spinal cord. Relatives of the family had visited the
patient, who was physically perfectly healthy, only eight
days before.
(iv) One family received a notification of death although
the woman still lives in the institution today and enjoys
perfect bodily health.""Prisoner, a lieutenant in the Duke of Perth's Regiment,
was charged with high treason for joining in the rebellion
and accepting a commission in the Pretender's service.
Prisoner contended that he was compelled to join the
rebellion through threats to burn his house and to lay waste
all that belonged to him. Held: Prisoner was guilty of
treason, the fear having houses burned or goods spoiled
being no excuse in the eye of the law for joining and
marching with rebels.
If a man be desperately assaulted and in peril of death and
cannot otherwise escape unless, to satisfy his assailant's
fury, he will kill an innocent person then present, the fear
and actual force will not acquit him of the crime and
punishment of murder, if he commit the act, for he ought
rather to die himself than kill an innocent; but, if he
cannot otherwise save his own life, the law permits him in
his own defence to kill the assailant, for by the violence
of the assault, and the offence committed upon him by the
assailant himself, the law of nature and necessity hath made
him his own protector cum debito moderamine inculpatae
tutelae." (Hales Pleas of the Crown, Vol. I, p. 51.)
"A, who was insane, collected a number of Persons together
who armed themselves, having a common purpose of resisting
the lawfully constituted authorities; A having declared that
he would cut down any constables who came against him. A, in
the presence of C and D, two of the persons of his party,
afterwards shot an assistant of a constable who came to
apprehend A under a warrant.
"The operational main office of the basis of the SA Sports
Badge must prepare the fighting training of the bodies of
all Germans capable of bearing arms, and as preparation
thereafter must organize the execution of corporal exercises
and sports purposes, so that the widest stratum of the
population is laid hold upon and will be kept in condition
of bearing arms both physically and spiritually as well as
ideologically in character up to the greatest old age."
The commandants of the concentration camps are complaining
that 5 to 10 per cent of the Soviet Russians destined for
execution are arriving in the camps dead or half dead.
Therefore the impression has arisen that the Stalags are
getting rid of such prisoners in this way. It was
particularly noted that, when marching, for example, from
the railway station to the camp, a rather large number of
prisoners of war collapsed on the way from exhaustion,
either dead or half dead, and had to be picked up by a truck
following the convoy. It cannot be prevented that the German
people take notice of these occurrences. Even if the
transportation to the camps is generally taken care of by
the Wehrmacht, the population will still attribute this
situation to the SS."
"Thereupon the SA men threw chains into the pit and the
Sturmfuehrer ordered the Jewish foreman (for we were a
working party) to fasten the chains on us. The chains were
fastened round both ankles and round the waist. They weighed
2 kilos each and we could only take small steps when wearing
them. We wore them permanently for six months. The SA said
that if any man removed the chains he would be hanged. The
four women (who worked in the kitchen) were not chained.