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as exhibit next in order, Exhibit Number USA-526. This
is an affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, the former Chief of Amt VI of
the RSHA, and provides in Paragraph 7 this is all I'm going to
read from the affidavit:
"In 1944, on another occasion but
also in the course of an Amts-chef conference, I heard fragments of a
conversation between Kaltenbrunner and Müller. I remember
distinctly the following remarks of Kaltenbrunner:
" 'All offices of the SD and the Security Police are to be
informed that pogroms of the populace against English and American
terror fliers are not to be interfered with. On the contrary, this
hostile mood is to be fostered.' "
The seventh crime for which Kaltenbrunner is responsible as Chief of the
Security Police and SD is the taking of civilians of occupied countries
to Germany for secret trial and punishment, and the punishment of
civilians of occupied territories by summary methods. The fact that this
crime continued after 30 January 1943 is shown by Document 835-PS, which
is offered as exhibit next in order, Exhibit Number USA-527. This is a
letter from the High. Command of the Armed Forces to the German
Armistice Commission under date 2 September 1944. The document begins,
and I quote:
"Conforming to the decrees referred
to, all non-German civilians in occupied territories who have
endangered the security and readiness for action of the occupying
power by acts of terror and sabotage or in other ways are to be
surrendered to the Security Police and SD. Only those prisoners are
excepted who were legally sentenced to death or were serving a
sentence of confinement prior to the announcement of these decrees.
Included in the punishable acts which endanger the security or
readiness of action of the garrison power are those also of a
political nature." The
eighth crime for which Kaltenbrunner is responsible as Chief of the
Security Police and SD is the crime of executing and confining persons
in concentration camps for crimes allegedly committed by their
relatives. That this crime continued after 30 January 1943 is indicated
by Document L-37, heretofore received in evidence as Exhibit Number
USA-506. That was received this morning. It is the letter of the
Commander of Sipo and SD at Radom, dated 19 July 1944, in which it was
stated that the male relatives of assassins and saboteurs should be shot
and the female relatives over 16 years of age sent to concentration
camps. I refer again to Document L-215, which has heretofore been
received in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-243, and specifically to the
case of Junker,
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