and Police Leader, and they continued to function
after he had become Chief of the RSHA.
The murder of approximately 4 million Jews in concentration camps
has heretofore been described. This part of the program was also
under the supervision of the RSHA when Kaltenbrunner was head of that
organization, and special missions of the RSHA scoured the occupied
territories and the various Axis satellites arranging for the
deportation of Jews to these extermination institutions.
Kaltenbrunner was informed of these activities. A letter which he
wrote on 30 June 1944 described the shipment to Vienna of 12,000 Jews
for that purpose, and directed that all who could not work would have
to be kept in readiness for "special action," which meant
murder. Kaltenbrunner denied his signature to this letter, as he did
on a very large number of orders on which his name was stamped or
typed, and, in a few instances, written. It is inconceivable that in
matters of such importance his signature could have appeared so many
times without his authority.
Kaltenbrunner has claimed that when he took office as Chief of
the Security Police and SD and as Head of the RSHA he did so pursuant
to an understanding with Himmler under which he was to confine his
activities to matters involving foreign intelligence, and not to
assume over-all control over the activities of the RSHA. He claims
that the criminal program had been started before his assumption of
office; that he seldom knew what was going on; and that when he was
informed he did what he could to stop them. It is true that he showed
a special interest in matters involving foreign intelligence. But he
exercised control over the activities of the RSHA, was aware of the
crimes it was committing, and was an active participant in many of
them.
Conclusion.
The Tribunal finds that Kaltenbrunner is not
guilty on Count One. He is guilty under Counts Three and Four.
ROSENBERG
Rosenberg is indicted on all four Counts. He
joined the Nazi Party in 1919, participated in the Munich Putsch of 9
November 1923, and tried to keep the illegal Nazi Party together
while Hitler was in jail. Recognized as the Party's ideologist, he
developed and spread Nazi doctrines in the newspapers
Völkischer Beobachter and NS Monatshefte, which he
edited, and in the numerous books he wrote. His book, Myth of the
Twentieth Century, had a circulation of over a million copies. In
1930 Rosenberg was elected to the Reichstag and he became the Party's
representative for Foreign Affairs. In April 1933 he