Nazi Colonisation

Northern Advocate, 21 December 1945, Page 5

Nazi Colonisation

Brutal Plows Revealed At Trial (Rec. 1 p.m.) NUREMBERG, Dec. 20. The shooting of eight juveniles from a children’s home because they collected weapons and hid them in a wood was one of the crimes detailed by the assistant American prosecutor (Major Farr) when the trial of Nazi leaders was resumed today.’

He was quoting from an S.S. 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 reached 37,180.

“Ukraine: In Jitomir 3145 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 spe-. cial department to carry out Germany’s colonisation policy which was in two stages: EXTERMINATION Firstly, the destruction of conquered peoples by exteimination or deportation, and then confiscation of thenproperty. Secondly, the settlement of racial Germans in newly-acquired lands where they would live on the wealth of those they had eliminated. Major Farr quoted from an affidavit by S.S. Obergurppenfuehrer, Otto Hofman, who was chief of 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 the defendant Kaltenbrunner. The prosecutor said the ranks organisation included seven defendants as high-ranking officers, namely Ribbentrop, Hess, Kaltenbrunner, Sauckel, von Neurath, Seyss-Inquart and Martin Bormann (the missing defendant) . HUMAN EXPERIMENTS Captured documents read by Major Farr disclosed that on orders from Himmler, women prisoners were supplied for S.S. concentration camp tests in re-warming frozen men with the heat of their naked bodies.

The prosecutor’s evidence disclosed that Himmler notified the camp authorities that their supply of human beings for medical experiments should exclude bed-ridden prisoners, who should be drafted for suitable work which they could perform in bed.

He also revealed that S.S. surgeons fired poisoned bullets into the legs of five prisoners and noted the symptoms accompanying the slow deaths of three of them.

Opening the case against the Gestapo and security police, the assistant American prosecutors (Mr. 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.”

Gestapo membership was 40,000 to 50,000, while the S.S. (security police.) numbered 300,000. MASS MURDER “This unholy band carried out the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians in occupied countries aS part of the Nazi programme of exterminating political and racial undesirables,” said Mr. Storey. He submitted a report to Rosenberg from the German Commissioner-Gen-eral of White Ruthenia, complaining about the Gestapo’s extermination news in October, 1941. The report sai: “I must point out that this action bordered on sadism. To bury seriously wounded people alive and then have them work their way frorU their graves is such a base and filthy act that the incident should be reported to the Fuehrer.” The tribunal went into recess until January 2.