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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) . . . . . . . . . . . ... VII
Order of Hitler, 30 July 1944, con-
cerning combatting of "terrorists"
and "saboteurs" in Occupied Ter-
ritories. (GB 298)....

74

VII 221

cerning camouflage of Jewish busi-
nesses, 20 November 1936......... VII 1052
Organization plan of the RSHA as

*L-219

L-297

of 1 October 1943. (USA 479).... VII
Law commissioning Secret State
Police Bureau with supervision of

1053

duties of Political Police command-
ers in provinces, 20 September
1936. 1936 Reichs Ministerial-
blatt, p. 1343.....

VII 1099

Himmler order of 10 August 1943
to all Senior Executive SS and
Police officers. (USA 333).......
Letter to Rosenberg enclosing se-
cret reports from Kube on German
atrocities in the East, 18 June 1943,
found in Himmler's personal files.
(USA 289)..

Memoranda to Koblenz District |

VIII 107

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Affidavit A

Affidavit B

Affidavit C

Affidavit D

Statement IX

Headquarters, 22 April 1938 and
7 May 1938, relating to the plebis-
cite of 10 April 1938. (USA 481).. VIII 243
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 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...
My Relationship to Adolf Hitler

VIII 587

VIII 596

VIII 606

VIII

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*Chart No. 3

*Chart No. 4

Organization of the SS. (USA 445). VIII 772

Report of Special Purpose Group

"A" regarding Jews killed in the

Baltic Countries, White Russia

Police System. (USA 493)........| VIII 774

*Chart No. 16

The Structure of the German Po

*Chart No. 19

lice. (1852-PS; USA 449) ........ End of VIII Organization of the Security Police

(Gestapo and Kripo) and the SD

1943-1945. (USA 480) 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.