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Jews, and we're doing it, exterminating
them.' And then there come 80 million worthy Germans and each one has
his decent Jew. Of course, the others are vermin, but this one is an
A-1 Jew. Not one of all those who talk this way has witnessed it, not
one of them has been through it. Most of you must know what it means
when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500 or 1,000. To have
stuck it out and at the same time — apart from exceptions caused
by human weakness — to have remained decent fellows, that is what
has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history which has
never been written and is never to be written, for we know how
difficult we should have made it for ourselves, if — with bombing
raids, the burden and deprivations of war — we still had Jews
today in every town as secret saboteurs, agitators, and
troublemongers."
It is
clear, we say, from the foregoing that prior to the launching of the
aggression, the concentration camp had been one of the principal weapons
by which the conspirators achieved the social cohesion which was needed
for the execution of their plans for aggression. After they launched
their aggression and their armies swept over Europe, they brought the
concentration camp to occupied countries; and they also brought the
citizens of the occupied countries to Germany and subjected them to the
whole apparatus of Nazi brutality.
Document Number R-91 is Exhibit USA-241. This document consists of a
communication dated the 16th day of December 1942 sent by Müller to
Himmler, for the Chief of the Security Police and SD, and deals with the
seizure of Polish Jews for deportation to concentration camps in
Germany. I am beginning with the first paragraph. It says, quoting
directly:
"In connection with the increase in
the transfer of labor to the concentration camps ordered to be
completed by 30 January 1943, the following procedure may be applied
in the Jewish section:
"1. Total number: 45,000 Jews.
"2. Start of transportation: 11 January 1943. End of
transportation: 31 January 1943. (The Reich railroads are unable to
provide special trains for the evacuation during the period from 15
December 1942 to 10 January 1943 because of the increased traffic of
Armed Forces leave trains.)
"3. Composition: The 45,000 Jews are to consist of 30,000 Jews
from the district of Bialystok; 10,000 Jews from the Ghetto of
Theresienstadt, 5,000 of whom are Jews fit for work who heretofore had
been used for smaller jobs required for the ghetto and 5,000 Jews who
are generally incapable of working, also Jews over 60-years old."