Document

D-183

*D-569

*D-762

Order of Gestapo Office, Darm-
stadt, 7 December 1938, concern-
ing treatment of articles secured
during protest action against Jews.. VI 1075
File of circulars from Reichsfueh-
rer SS, the OKW, Inspector of
Concentration Camps, Chief of
Security Police and SD, dating
from 29 October 1941 through 22
February 1944, relative to pro-
cedure in cases of unnatural death
of Soviet PW, execution of Soviet
PW, etc. (GB 277)..........
Order of Hitler, 30 July 1944, con-
cerning combatting of "terrorists"
and "saboteurs" in Occupied Ter-
ritories. (GB 298)...

VII

74

VII

221

*D-763

Circular of OKW, 18 August 1944,
regarding penal jurisdiction of non-
German civilians in Occupied Ter-
ritories. (GB 300)...

VII

222

*L-18

*L-37

*L-41

*L-51

Official report, Katzmann to Gen-
eral of Police Krueger, 30 June
1943, concerning "Solution of Jew-
ish Question in Galicia". (USA
277).

Letter from Illmer, Chief of the
SIPO and SD of Radom, to sub-
ordinates, 19 July 1944, concern-
ing collective responsibility of
members of families of assassins
and saboteurs. (USA 506)...
Orders of Mueller, Chief of the
Gestapo, 17 December 1942 and
23 March 1943, concerning trans-
fer of workers to concentration
camps. (USA 496). .

Affidavit of Adolf Zutter, 2 Au-
gust 1945. (USA 521).

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Affidavit A

Affidavit B

Affidavit C

Affidavit D

Headquarters, 22 April 1938 and

7 May 1938, relating to the plebis-
cite of 10 April 1938. (USA 481).. VIII
State Police Order, 28 May 1934,
at Duesseldorf, signed Schmid,
concerning sanction of denomina-
tional youth and professional asso-
ciations and distribution of publi-

243

cations in churches. (USA 745)... VIII 248
Affidavit of Erwin Lahousen, 21
January 1946, substantially the
same as his testimony on direct
examination before the Interna-
tional Military Tribunal at Nurn-
berg 30 November and 1 Decem-
ber 1945....

Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 20
November 1945, substantially the
same as his testimony on direct
examination before the Interna-
tional Military Tribunal at Nurn-
berg 3 January 1946...

Affidavit of Dieter Wisliceny, 29
November 1945, substantially the
same as his testimony on direct
examination before the Interna-
tional Military Tribunal at Nurn-
berg, 3 January 1946....

Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg,
23 January 1946, substantially the
same as his testimony on direct
examination before the Interna-
tional Military Tribunal at Nurn-
berg, 4 January 1946.....

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VIII 596

VIII

606

VIII

622

Statement IX

*Chart No. 1

My Relationship to Adolf Hitler
and to the Party, by Erich Raeder,
Moscow, fall 1945........
National Socialist German Work-
ers' Party. (2903-PS; USA 2)...

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*Chart No. 3 *Chart No. 4

*Chart No. 5

*Chart No. 16

*Chart No. 19

Organization of the SS. (USA 445). VIII 772
Report of Special Purpose Group
"A" regarding Jews killed in the
Baltic Countries, White Russia
and Lithuania. (2273-PS; USA
487)...

Position of Kaltenbrunner and the
Gestapo and SD in the German
Police System. (USA 493).....
The Structure of the German Po-
lice. (1852-PS; USA 449)..
Organization of the Security Police
(Gestapo and Kripo) and the SD
1943-1945. (USA 480)..

VIII

773

VIII 774

End of VIII

End of VIII

7. THE GENERAL STAFF AND HIGH COMMAND OF THE ARMED

FORCES

In one respect the General Staff and High Command of the German Armed Forces is to be distinguished from the other groups and organizations against which the prosecution seeks declaration of criminality. The Leadership Corps of the NSDAP, for example, was the instrument by which Hitlerism rose to full power in Germany. The SA and the SS were branches-large branches to be sure of the Nazi Party. The German police had certain roots and antecedents which antedated Hitlerism, but was almost entirely a creature of the party and the SS. The Reichs Cabinet was, in essence, merely a committee or set of committees of Reichs Ministers, and when the Nazis came to power these ministerial positions were filled for the most part by Nazis. All those groups and organizations, accordingly, either owe their origin and development to Naziism, or automatically became nazified when Hitler came to full power.

That is not true of this group, the General Staff and High Command of the German Armed Forces. It is common knowledge that German armed might and the German military tradition antedate Hitlerism by many decades. The war of 1914-18, the Kaiser, and the "scrap of paper" are modern witnesses to this fact.