UNHOLY BAND

Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 5

UNHOLY BAND

(Rec. 12.20 p.m.) NUREMBERG, December 20. Opening the case against the Gestapo and Security Police, when the trial of the Nazi leaders was resumed to-day, the American prosecutor, Colonel Storey, said Goering formed the Gestapo, in Prussia in 1934 to combat the Communists,, but it soon became a terror instrument throughout Germany. Hitler instructed the Gestapo to “ watch over and eliminate all enemies of the Nazi Party.” The Gestapo membership was 40,000 to pO,000, while the S.S. (Security Police) numbered 300,000. “ This unholy band carried out the mass murder of hundreds and

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thousands of civilians in occupied countries as part of the Nazi programme of exterminating political and racial undesirables,” said Colonel Storey. He submitted a report to Rosenberg from the German Commissioner-Gene-ral of White Ruthenia, complaining abbut the Gestapo’s extermination of Jews in October, 1941. The report said: “ I must point out that this action bordered on sadism. To bury seri-ously-wounded people alive and then have them work their way from 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.