Nazi Party Condoned Murdering Of Jews

Northern Advocate, 19 December 1945, Page 7

Nazi Party Condoned Murdering Of Jews

(Received 1 p.m.) NUREMBERG, December, 18.' npHE INDICTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE LEADERSHIP CORPS OF THE NAZI PARTY WAS CONTINUED AT THE WAR CRIMES TRIAL TODAY. The American prosecutor (Mr Storey) produced a report from Goering to the Supreme Nazi Party Court which passed judgment on robberies, murders, and rape perpetrated against Jews on October 9, 1938, by members of the S.A The court records showed that the official party directive issued before the pogrom stated: “The party should not appear outwardly as the originator of the demonstrations, but in reality, members should organise and execute demonstrations.” The Nazi. Court expelled several members of the S.A. found guilty of rape and one thief, but condoned murder of Jews on the ground that members concerned were loyally following the leader’s wishes.

ATTITUDE OF CHURCHES The hostile attitude of the Leadership Corps towards the Christian churches was exemplified by Mr. Storey when he read a gauleiter’s protest to Hess about a pamphlet published by a Major-General von Rabenau, advocating religious thinking among soldiers. The protest said: “The churches, with their Christianity, are a danger against which the struggle must always be carried on.” Rosenberg and Bormann were repeatedly implicated by the prosecutor's evidence, as spearheads of the Nazi attack against the churches. Turning to the looting of art treasures and plundering of cultural, institutions for the enrichment of Germany, Mr. Storey said the evidence ptoved the existence of a gigantic Nazi programme for cultural impoverishment of virtually every c.mii,unity in Europe. SEIZING ART TREASURES Mr Storey produced a document signed by Goering on December 13, 1943, ordering the seizure of Jewish art treasures in France and their allocation on the following lines: (1) Those which Hitler reserved for himself. (2) Those which were useful to higher institutes of learning in Germany. (3) Those suited for German museums. (4) Those suitable for French museums.

Cabinet and asked him what was the point of his argument. Mr Storey said he was trying to show that the Cabinet was part and parcel of the Nazi Party. Lord Justice Lawrence directed him to keep to the subject of criminality. The tribunal was adjourned. Kaltenbrunner was again absent from court today. It is officially .stated that he is suffering a recurrence ■of cranial haemorrhage and may have to return to hospital. Doctors state that his condition is due to internal weakness.

Orders were also produced dealing with the looting of art treasures and documents in Belgium and Luxembourg.

The prosecutor added that the great collection the Nazis amassed might be compared to the amalgamation of museums in London, New York, Paris and Moscow. Never in history had a collection been so great and amassed with so little scruple.

Mr Storey proceeded to deal with the second of the organisations which the prosecution seeks to prove criminal, namely, the Reich Cabinet. He said there was no plan, however vile or illegal in any sense of the word, that was not clothed with a resemblance of legality by the Nazi Cabinet.

17 BEFORE COURT Seventeen members of the Cabinet were before the court as defendants. Three others were believed to be dead. The Cabinet became a criminal instrument of the Nazi Party, condoning crimes and inhuman decrees carried out by the Nazi Party, S.S. formations and other Nazi affiliated organisations. , Lord Justice Lawrence several times 'interrupted Mr Storey when he was introducing documents dealing with the