Order of Gestapo Office, Darm- stadt, 7 December 1938, concern- ing treatment of articles secured during protest action against Jews.. VI 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).
Circular of OKW, 18 August 1944, regarding penal jurisdiction of non- German civilians in Occupied Ter- ritories. (GB 300). . . .
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)........
Order from Commandant of the SIPO and SD for the Radom Dis- trict to Branch Office in Tomas- chow, 21 July 1944, on clearance of prisons. (USA 291). Express letter from Sauckel to Presidents of Landes Employment Office, 26 November 1942, con- cerning employment of Jews and exchange of Jews in essential em- ployment against Polish labor. (USA 177)..
Top secret letter issued by the Commandant of the SIPO and SD, District Radom, 24 February 1944, concerning intensified inter- rogations. (USA 507). . . . . Fuehrer decree, February 1942, concerning prosecution of offenses in Occupied Territory; "First Or- dinance" signed by Keitel for exe- cution of the directive; memoran- dum of 12 December 1941, signed by Keitel. (USA 503).......
RSHA Order concerning fraterni- zation of Jews and Aryans, 3 No- vember 1941..
centration camps at various times. in 1944. (USA 243)..
Order of Secret State Police con- cerning camouflage of Jewish busi- nesses, 20 November 1936..... Organization plan of the RSHA as of 1 October 1943. (USA 479).... VII 1053 Law commissioning Secret State Police Bureau with supervision of duties of Political Police command- ers in provinces, 20 September 1936. 1936 Reichs Ministerial- blatt, p. 1343...... New ruling on protective custody, from The Archive, April 1934, p. 31.....
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-
cations in churches. (USA 745)... VIII 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.....
Organization of the SS. (USA 445). VIII 772
7. THE GENERAL STAFF AND HIGH COMMAND OF THE ARMED
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.
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