Text: English     International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 4, p. 342
		3 Jan. 46 DR. NELTE: Do you know which signatures were on this document which you visualize? OHLENDORF: I cannot remember, I am sorry. DR. NELTE: One of the judges already put the question that orders would naturally result from an agreement of this kind. Is the name of the OKW, or the signature perhaps, included in any one such order? OHLENDORF: Now I do not understand what kind of orders you mean. DR. NELTE: When an agreement is made between two different organizations such as the RSHA on the one hand and, shall we say, the OKH on the other, then the office entrusted with the execution of that which has been agreed upon must be informed thereof in a form known as an "order" in military parlance. Is such an order known to you as originating from the OKW? OHLENDORF: Please understand that no such orders from the War Office or the OKW were received by me. I should have had only orders or wishes expressed by the Army. DR. NELTE: By the Army or by your superior command? OHLENDORF: No. I am speaking now ... If I think of the Armed Forces ... DR. NELTE: Therefore, there was no connection of any kind between you, as leader of the Einsatzgruppe, and the OKW as such? OHLENDORF: No immediate connection. I know very well that individual reports reached the OKW through official channels. DR. NELTE: If you know that, can you tell me to which office? Because, after all, OKW covered a great many. OHLENDORF: I should assume they eventually reached Canaris. DR. NELTE: I thank you. DR. EGON KUBUSCHOK (Counsel for the Reich Cabinet): Witness, in your position as Chief of the SD, you will probably have some idea about the trustworthiness of the members of the Reich Cabinet and about the secrecy in which very important matters were kept. Please answer this question: whether the order which has been discussed today regarding the liquidations, in your opinion, originated in the Reich Cabinet and whether this order, in your opinion, was made known to the individual members of the Reich Cabinet? OHLENDORF: I am convinced that both questions are to be answered in the negative. DR. KUBUSCHOK: I should like to ask the witness a few more questions on behalf of the Defendant Speer, since counsel for the 342
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