EXTERMINATION OF JEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 15, 15 December 1945, Page 7

EXTERMINATION OF JEWS

MILLIONS STARVE TO DEATH' NAZIS’ COLD-BLOODED PLAN 4 * (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright). (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) NUREMBERG, Dec. 14. A series of German documents and directives which clearly indicated a calculated, plan to starve millions of Jews to death by shutting them on from supplies and stopping them from working on the land from which they might get food was introduced at the war crimes trial today. The documents showed th at Frank, after promulgating new food laws for Poland in August, 1942, noted an is diary: “We have now sentenced 1,200,000 Jews to die from hunger. Anti-Jewish measures will be speeded up if they do not starve to death.” Another document showed that the S.S. prescribed the death penalty for Jews who talked while marching and working.

WHOLESALE MURDER. The American prosecutor produced a letter from a German official in Riga complaining that the numbers of Jews coming in for execution would overtax the existing three gas vans and asking for another van to improve the situation. Quoting from a German official report on the/destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in April and May, 1943, the prosecutor said the S.S. chief decided to destroy the entire residential area by setting fire to every block of houses. The report complimented the troops for carrying out the task “with indefatigable devotion to duty.” The prosecutor then screened a number of still photographs showing Germans using smoke to drive the Jews from their hiding places. A group of smiling S.S. chiefs watched a Jew jumping from an upper burning storey house. An official Polish Government report described the conditions in concentration camps where 4,000,000 Jews were killed in addition to 2,000,000 shot by the security police. POLES AS SLAVES. Hitler cancelled the plans for rebuilding AVarsaw and reconstructing Polish industry, said the American prosecutor, Captain S. Harris. The German resettlement plan envisaged a large-scale reshuffling of the Polish population in order to create space for Germans. The document stated that the resettlement of several million Jews, perhaps in Aladagascar, could also create space. The plan envisaged 7,000,000 slaves, mostly Poles, remaining in the “liberated east.” The report showed that the Germans intended to reduce Poland to colonial status as a testing ground for policies for Occupied Russia. Himmler’s predilection for stealing children from the “inferior races” and rearing them as Germans was revealed in a speech he made in October, 19-13, said Captain Harris. Himmler, referring to the conquered peoples, said: “Obviously in such a mixture there must be some racially good tvpes. It is our duty to remove such children from their environment; The end of the war will mean the incorporation of 30,000,000 human beings of our blood so that we shall be a nation of 120,000,000 Germanic souls —a decisive power in Europe.”

WILL BROOK NO DELAY. Judge Jackson, the chief United States ' prosecutor, opposing a request from Kaltenbrunner’s counsel that the Court should .refuse to admit affidavits from the prosecution if witnesses could be summoned to testify in person, said: “We want to get this trial finished within the lifetime of living men.”

The request was refused. The prosecution then submitted an affidavit from Sturmband Fuehrer Wilhelm Hoettl stating that lie helped to compile a report from Himmler estimating that the Germans killed 6,000,000 Jews in Eastern Europe. Himmler was not satisfied with the report, considering the number was over 6,000,000.

MURDERER SENTENCED

(Rec. noon) LONDON, Dec. 14. A military tribunal sentenced to death Adolf Weger, chief Gestapo officer at Hanau, near Frankfurt, for participating in the murder of three Allied airmen.