13 Dec.
45
"Regarding Hungarian Jews the
following general ruling was laid down in Auschwitz: Children up to
the age of 12 or 14, older people over 50, as well as the sick, or
people with criminal records (who were transported in specially marked
wagons) were taken immediately on their arrival to the gas chambers.
"The others passed before an SS doctor who, on sight, indicated
who was fit for work and who was not. Those unfit were sent to the gas
chambers, while the others were distributed in various labor camps."
In the so-called "Eastern Territories" these victims were
apprehended for extermination . . .
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Dodd, don't you want Page 5 for the numbers which
you have stated "up to the 27th of June 1944"? You haven't yet
given us any authority for the numbers that you have stated.
MR. DODD: Oh, yes. On Page 5 of that same document, 2605-PS, quoting: "Up
to the 27th of June 1944, 475,000 Jews were deported."
In the so-called "Eastern Territories" these victims were
apprehended for extermination in concentration camps without any charges
having been made against them. In the western occupied territories
charges seemed to have been made against some of the victims. Some of
the charges which the Nazi conspirators considered sufficient basis for
confinement to the concentration camps are shown by reference to
Document Number L-215, which bears Exhibit Number USA-243. This document
is the summary of the file, the dossier, of 25 persons arrested in
Luxembourg for commitment to various concentration camps and sets forth
the charges made against each person. Beginning with the paragraph after
the name "Henricy," at the bottom of the first page, and
quoting:
"Name: Henricy; charge: . . . by
associating with members of illegal resistance movements and making
money for them, violating legal foreign exchange rates, by harming the
interests of the Reich and being expected in the future to disobey
official administrative regulations and act as an enemy of the Reich;
place of confinement — Natzweiler."
Next comes the name of "Krier" and the charge:
" . . . by being responsible for
continuous sabotage of labor and causing fear because of his political
and criminal past — freedom would only further his anti-social
urge; place of confinement — Buchenwald."
Passing to the middle of Page 2, after the name "Monti":
"Charge: . . . by being strongly
suspected of aiding desertion; place of confinement —
Sachsenhausen."