DOMINATION OF EUROPE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23387, 19 December 1945, Page 5

DOMINATION OF EUROPE

Hitler’s Plans Revealed Programme Of Mass Murder By Telegraph—N.Z Press Assn Copvrigh NUREMBERG, December 17. Special precautions have been taken against a possible suicide attempt by leading Nazis being tried at Nuremberg for war crimes. Defence counsel are now able to speak to their clients only through fine mesh wire screens. Previously the prisoners and counsel were free to pass papers between each other but now, to avoid possibility of razorblades being smuggled to prisoners, all papers are handed by the guard through a small wicket. Press interviews with the accused through counsel will not in future be permitted. The resumption of the trial today was delayed when Ernst Kaltenbrunner complained that he felt ill, and was removed from the dock. A member of the American prosecuting team, Mr Sam Harris, produced the minutes of a conference held in July, 1941, when Hitlei' outlined his plans for the domination of Europe. “We now have to face the task of cutting up the giant cake according to our needs,” said Hitler. Mr Harris told the court: “This document reveals a programme of mass murder to stagger the imagination.” He quoted Hitler as saying

that he wanted all the Baltic countries, Including his ally, Finland, incorporated in Germany. He then outlined the plan for completely wrecking Russian Industry and transforming the Ukraine into a land of peasant farmers feeding Germany. All food supplies for Moscow and Leningrad would be cut off, and almost all Russia except the Ukraine would be allowed to relapse into primitive state. Russians who did not starve would be sent to Siberia. Emulate British Policy Hitler said: “Never again must ft be possible to create a military power west of the Urals, even if we have to wage war for 100 years. The German administrators in Occupied Europe should emulate the British policy toward the native prices In India. The Englishman constantly pursues only one line and one aim. We ought to learn from him in that respect.” Mr Harris quoted a letter from a group of German industrialists to Himmler in 1943 expressing great joy at his appointment as Minister of the Interior, and placing at his disposal more than 1,000,000 Reichmarks “for special purposes.” Colonel Robert Storey, dealing with the leadership corps of the Nazi Party, named a succession of accused for responsibilities for German misdeeds. He said the evidence would show that Rosenberg worked out a vast programme for looting and plundering art treasures in Europe. Defendants at this stage were greatly interested in large diagramatic charts from which Colonel Storey illustrated the structure of the leadership corps—the “hierarchy of descending Caesars.” Colonel Storey said that Frick shared responsibility for injury done to the rule of law. The result of his efforts was to colour the law and legalise Nazi misdeeds irrespective of human rights. Colonel Storey gave examples of the way in which party leadership assembled the whole power of the State in their own hands. Under the leadership system, members of the corps were each severally responsible for such misdeeds, as attempts to undermine Christianity and a successful attempt to overthrow organised labour. The prosecutor claimed that members of the leadership corps shared responsibility for crimes against American airmen who landed in Germany and German-controlled territory.