The Nuremberg Trials have been held by way of the 4 triumphant Allied forces of significant Britain, the us, France and the USSR within the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg from November 1945 to October 1946. recognized for prosecuting the most important German battle criminals, additionally they attempted some of the teams and organizations that have been on the center of Nazi Germany. This attention-grabbing quantity is worried with the trial of the Gestapo and contains all of the testimony from the Nuremberg Trials concerning this agency, together with the unique indictment, the felony case recommend for the Gestapo, the final speeches via the prosecution and defence and the ultimate judgment. The ebook additionally contains facts in regards to the S.D. and the defendant Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who used to be Obergruppenführer and common der Polizei und Waffen-SS. The witnesses known as for the trial of the Gestapo and the SD contain between others, Karl Hoffmann who used to be head of the Gestapo in Denmark; Dr. Werner most sensible, head of division 1 of the Gestapo, who was once depended on by means of Himmler and Heydrich to advance the legalities in their activities opposed to the enemies of the kingdom and the Jewish challenge; Rolf-Heinz Hoeppner, who was once accountable for the deportation of Jews and Poles and the cost of ethnic Germans in Wartheland; and Dieter Wisliceny who participated within the ghettoisation and liquidation of many Jewish groups in Greece, Hungary and Slovakia
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A. The order was once that the Jewish inhabitants could be liquidated in its entirety. Q. together with the youngsters? A. convinced. Q. have been all of the Jewish young children murdered? A. convinced. Q. however the childrens of these whom you thought about as belonging to the class of commissars, have been in addition they destroyed? A. i'm have no idea that the households of Soviet commissars have been ever inquired after. Q. have been you sending at any place the stories of these executions which the gang performed? A. The reviews at the executions have been frequently submitted to the R. S. H. A.. Q. No; did you individually ship any experiences just about the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of individuals effected by means of you? You, in my opinion, did you put up any file? A. sure, the stories got here from the Einsatzkommandos who conducted the activities, to the Einsatzgruppe, and the Einsatzgruppe knowledgeable the R. S. H. A. Q. the place to? A. They went to the executive of the Sipo in my view. Q. individually. A. convinced, in my view. Q. What used to be the identify of this police officer? are you able to supply his identify? A. on the time, Heydrich. Q. After Heydrich? A. i didn't point out any time, yet that was once the status order. Q. i'm asking of you no matter if you endured to post stories after Heydrich left or now not? A. After Heydrich’s demise i used to be now not within the Einsatz, however the order, after all, persevered in impression. Q. have you ever any info even if the experiences have been persevered after Heydrich left or have been discontinued? A. certain, they have been persevered. Q. was once the order in regards to the annihilation of the Soviet humans in conformity with the coverage of the German executive or the Nazi occasion or was once it opposed to it? Do you realize the query? A. convinced. One needs to distinguish. The order for the liquidation got here from the Fuehrer of the Reich and it used to be to be conducted by means of the Reichsfuehrer S. S. Himmler. Q. yet used to be it in conformity with the coverage which used to be carried out by means of the Nazi get together and the German executive, or was once it opposite to it? A. Politics expresses itself in task, in to this point it was once therefore a coverage that was resolute by means of the Fuehrer. when you ask even if this job used to be in conformity with the belief of nationwide Socialism, then I may still deny that. Q. i'm conversing in regards to the perform. by way of THE PRESIDENT: Q. I understood you to claim that items of price have been taken from the Jewish sufferers via the Jewish Council of Elders. A. definite. Q. Did the Jewish Council of Elders settle who have been to be killed? A. No. Q. How did they understand who used to be to be killed? A. The Jewish Council of Elders decided who have been Jews and registered them separately. Q. And once they registered them did they take their valuables from them? A. That used to be performed in a number of methods. so far as I be mindful, the Council of Elders used to be given the order to gather valuables even as. Q. in order that the Jewish Council of Elders wouldn't comprehend whether they have been to be killed? A. that's actual. THE PRESIDENT: we are going to adjourn now till 5 mins earlier . (A recess was once taken till 1405 hours. ) CROSS-EXAMINATION by way of DR. KAUFFMANN: because whilst have you ever recognized Kaltenbrunner? A. may perhaps I tackle a request to the Tribunal?