MORE NAZI CRIES

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 8

MORE NAZI CRIES

EVIDENCE AT TRIAL

LIQUIDATION BY THE SS

Rec;..1.10 p.m. NUREMBERG, Dec. 20. The shooting of eight juveniles from a children's nome Decause they collected weapons and hid them in a wood was one of the crimes detailed by Major Farr, assistant American prosecutor, when the, trial of Nazi leaders t was resumed today. He was quoting S from an SS report from White ißuthenia, which also gave the following details of SS activities in two Soviet areas:—

"White Ruthenia: Liquidation's for the period covered by.this report have reached 37,180.

Ukraine: In Zhitomir 3145 Jews had to be shot because from experience jthey have become regarded as carriers i,of Bolshevik propaganda and as saboteurs." ■ ~

Major Farr said that the SS had a special department to carry out Germany's colonisation policy, which was in two stages: (1) The destruction of conquered peoples by extermination or deportation, and then confiscation of ( their property; (2) the settlement of ;racial Germans in the newly acquired ■lands, where they would live on the .wealth of those they had eliminated. Major Farr quoted from an affidavit ,by SS Obergurppenfuhrer Otto Hofjanan, who was chief of the main office ffor settlement in the SS supreme comimand until November, 1943. This stated jthat the executive powers for carrying out these so-called settlement factions were in the hands of Heinrich Heydrich and later the defendant |Kaltenbrunner. The prosecutor said ithat. the ranks of the organisation in- ; eluded seven of the defendants as high'ranking officers, namely, Ribbentrop, Hess, Kaltenbrunher, Sauckel, yon 'Neurath, Seyss-Inquart, and Martin Bormann (the missing defendant). ' RE-WARMING OF FROZEN MEN. Captured documents read by Major Farr disclosed that on orders from Himmler women prisoners were supplied for SS concentration camp tests m re-warming frozen men with the heat of their naked bodies. Major ■Farr told the Court that Dr. Sigmund jAscher eventually reported that in all cases "re-warming by animals' bodies ■or women's bodies was inferior to the. rapid re-warming of severely chilled persons." The prosecutor's evidence disclosed that Himmler notified the 'camp authorities that their supply of 'human beings for medical experiments should exclude bedridden ".prisoners, .who' should be drafted for suitable' work which they could, perform in jljed. He also revealed that SS surgeons fired poisoned bullets into the (legs of five prisoners and noted the symptoms which accompanied the slow deaths of three of them.

Opening the case against the Gestapo, and the security police, Colonel Storey, assistant American prosecutor, said that Goering formed the Gestapo in Prussia in 1934 to, combat the Communists, but it soon became an instrument of terror throughout Germany. Hitler instructed the Gestapo to "watch over and eliminate all enemies of the Nazi Party." The membership of the Gestapo was 40,000 to 50,000, while the SS (security police) numbered 300,000. "This unholy band carried out the, mass murder of hundreds in the programme of exterminating political and racial undesirables," said. Colonel Storey. He submitted a report to Rosenberg from the German CommissionerGeneral of White Ruthenia complaining about the Gestapo's extermination news in October, 1941. The report said: "I must point out that this action bordered on sadism. To bury seriously wounded people alive and then have them work.their way out of their graves is such a base and filthy act that the incident should be reported to the Fuhrer." The Tribunal went into recess until January 2.