Nazi Colonisation Methods

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

Nazi Colonisation Methods

The shooting of eight juveniles from a children’s homo because they _ collected weapons and hid them in a wood was one of the crimes detailed by the assistant American prosecutor, Major Farr. He was quoting from a report from White Ruthenia,. which also gave the following details of S.S.activities in two Soviet areas:— “ White Ruthenia liquidations for the period covered by this report have been 37,180. In the Ukraine 3,145 Jews had to be shot because, from experience, they have been regarded as carriers of Bolshevik propaganda and saboteurs.” Major Farr said the S.S. had a special department to carry out the German colonisation policy, which was in two stages: First, the destruction of the conquered peoples by extermination or deportation, and then the con-

fiscation of their property; secondly, 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 S.S. Obergruppenfuhrer Otto Hofman, who was chief in the main office for settlement in the S.S. supreme command until November, 1943. This stated that executive powers for carrying out these so-called settlement actions were in the hands of Heinrich Heydrich. and later in the hands of the defendant Kaltenbrunner. The prosecutor said the ranks of the organisation included seven of the defendants as high-ranking officers—namely, Ribbentrop, Hess, Kaltenbrunner, Sanckel, von Neurath, Seyss-Inquart, and Martin Bormann (the missing defendant) .