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the Reich. The following instructions are
given on how to treat these events:
"1) The Chiefs of the State Police or their deputies must get in
telephonic contact with the political leaders who have jurisdiction
over their districts and must arrange a joint meeting with the
appropriate inspector or commander of the Order Police to discuss the
organization of the demonstrations. At these discussions the political
leaders have to be informed that the German Police has received from
the Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police the following
instructions, in accordance with which the political leaders should
adjust their own measures.
"a) Only such measures should be taken which do not involve
danger to German life or property. (For instance synagogues are to be
burned down only when there is no danger of fire to the surroundings.)
"b) Business and private apartments of Jews may be destroyed but
not looted. The police is instructed to supervise the execution of
this order and to arrest looters."
To this point we have found a gradual and a mounting emphasis in the
campaign against the Jews, one of the basic tenets of the Nazi Party and
of the state. The flame of prejudice has now been lighted and fanned.
The German people have been to a large degree indoctrinated, and the
seeds of hatred have been sown. The German State is now armed and is
prepared for conquest and the force of world opinion. can now safely be
ignored. Already they have forced out of Germany 200,000 of its original
500,000 Jews. The Nazi-controlled German State is therefore emboldened;
and Hitler, in anticipation of the aggressive wars already planned,
casts about for a "whipping boy" upon whose shoulders can be
placed the blame for the world catastrophe yet to come. The speech
before the Reichstag on 30 January 1939 is set forth in Document Number
2663-PS, which I now offer in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-268. I
quote:
"If the international Jewish
financiers within and without Europe succeed in plunging the nations
once more into a world war, the result will not be the Bolshevization
of the world and the victory of Jewry, but the obliteration of the
Jewish race in Europe."
THE
PRESIDENT: We will adjourn for 10 minutes.
[A recess was taken.]
THE PRESIDENT: Major Walsh, it would, I think, assist
the Tribunal if you were careful to state the PS number which we