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have rather more clearly and slowly. You see, the
United States Exhibit number we do not have and I do not know whether it
would be better to state the United States Exhibit number first and then
give us the PS number; I am not sure it would. Anyhow, if you would go a
little more slowly and make certain we get the PS number, it would be
helpful.
MAJOR WALSH: Yes, Your Honor.
The Chief Editor of the official organ of the SS, the Schwarze
Korps, expressed similar sentiments on August 8, 1940.
I offer in evidence Document 2668-PS; this is Exhibit Number USA-269,
Page 2 of the original and the full excerpt before the Court in
translation, as follows:
"Just as the Jewish question will be
solved for Germany only when the last Jew has been deported, so the
rest of Europe should also realize that the German peace which awaits
it must be a peace without Jews."
These
were not the only officials of the Party and of the State to voice the
same views. The Defendant Rosenberg wrote for, the publication World
Struggle. I offer in evidence Document 2665-PS, Exhibit Number
USA-270. This publication, Volumes 1 and 2, April and September 1941,
Page 71 of the original, reads, "The Jewish question will be solved
only when the last Jew has left the European continent."
The Court will recall Mr. Justice Jackson's reference to the apologetic
note contained in the diary of Hans Frank when he wrote, and I quote
from Document 2233(c)-PS, Exhibit Number USA-271, bottom of Page 1 of
the translation:
"Of course, I could neither eliminate
all lice nor all Jews in only 1 year's time. But in the course of time
and, above all, if you will help me, this end will be attained."
THE
PRESIDENT: I forgot to say, Major Walsh, it would help us too, when you
do not begin at the beginning of a paragraph, if you would indicate
about where it is.
MAJOR WALSH: Yes, Sir; I shall do that.
While this presentation is not necessarily intended to be a
chronological narrative of events in the treatment of the Jewish people,
it would appear at this point that we should pause to examine the record
to date. We find that the Nazi Party and the Nazi-dominated State have,
by writings and by utterances, by decrees and by official acts, clearly
expressed their intent: the Jew must be eliminated.
How do they now progress to the accomplishment of this purpose? The
first requirement was a complete registration of all Jews; and inasmuch
as the policy relating to the Jews followed