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I offer in evidence Document 1028-PS, Exhibit Number
USA-273, and from the first sentence of the translation before the
Court, I read:
"After the customary removal of Jews
from all public offices, the Jewish question will have to be solved
conclusively through the institution of ghettos."
The policies expressed in the quoted Rosenberg memoranda were not
isolated instances nor the acts of one individual. It was the expressed
state policy. Defendant Von Schirach played his part in the program of "ghettoization."
I offer in evidence Document 3048-PS, Exhibit Number USA-274. Before the
Court is a full translation of that which I wish to quote. The Defendant
Von Schirach spoke before the European Youth Congress held in Vienna on
14 September 1942, and from Page 2, Column 2, of the Vienna edition of
the Völkischer Beobachter of 15 September, I quote:
"Every Jew who exerts influence in
Europe is a danger to European culture. If anyone reproaches me with
having driven from this city, which was once the European metropolis
of Jewry, tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of Jews into the
ghetto of the East, I feel myself compelled to reply, 'I see in this
an action contributing to European culture.' "
One
of the largest ghettos was within the City of Warsaw. The original
report made by SS Major General Stroop concerning this ghetto is
entitled, "The Warsaw Ghetto is no more." I now offer this in
evidence at this time, if the Court please, and request leave to refer
to it later on in this presentation-Exhibit Number USA-275, 1061-PS, top
of Page 3 of the translation, Document 1061-PS:
"The Ghetto thus established in
Warsaw was inhabited by about 400,000 Jews.
"It contained 27,000 apartments with an average of two and a
half rooms each. It was separated from the rest of the city by
partitions and other walls and by walling-up of thoroughfares,
windows, doors, open spaces, et cetera."
Some idea of the conditions within this ghetto can be gathered from the
fact that an average of six persons lived in every room. Himmler
received a report from the SS Brigadeführer Group A, dated 15
October 1941 which further illustrates the establishment and operation
of the ghettos. I offer Document L-180 in evidence as Exhibit Number
USA-276. The translation, if the Tribunal please, is from the second
paragraph from the bottom of Page 9:
"Apart from organizing and carrying
out measures of execution, the creation of ghettos was begun in the
larger towns at once during the first days of operations. This was
especially