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no reasonable likelihood that we will be able to locate
him within any short time. We will make an effort.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
MR. ROBERTS: May it please the Tribunal, might I endeavor to assist? I
think I have now obtained the German order to which the Defense Counsel
referred, Paragraph 160. It is, My Lord, of course, in German. Perhaps I
might hand it up, and the court translators will no doubt deal with the
paragraph.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: I think one bit of additional information should
be furnished in view of the statements made here that we have
information that we are withholding. Kaltenbrunner has been
interrogated. At no time has he made such a claim, so I am advised by
our interrogators; and under the Charter our duty is to present the case
for the Prosecution. I do not, in any instance, serve two masters.
THE PRESIDENT: Now, I call upon Major Walsh. Major Walsh, did you give
a lettering to the document book with which you are dealing?
MAJOR WALSH: Yes. If Your Honor please, it is the letter "T."
May it please the Tribunal, during the last session the Prosecution
presented briefly the preliminary steps leading to the ultimate
objective of the Nazi Party and the Nazi-controlled State, that is, the
extermination of the Jews. Propaganda, decrees, the infamous Nuremberg
Laws, boycotts, registration, and "ghettoization" were the
initial measures in the program. I shall, with the Court's permission,
continue with a discussion of the methods utilized for the annihilation
of the Jewish people.
I would like first to discuss starvation. Policies were designed and
adopted to deprive the Jews of the most elemental necessities of life.
Again the Defendant Hans Frank, then Governor General of Poland, wrote
in his diary that hunger rations were introduced in the Warsaw ghetto;
and referring to the new food regulations in August 1942, he callously,
and perhaps casually, noted that by these food regulations he virtually
condemned more than 1 million Jews to death. I offer in evidence that
part of Document 2233(e)-PS, diary of Hans Frank, "Conference
Volume," 24 August 1942, Exhibit USA-283. And I quote:
"That we sentence 1,200,000 Jews to
die of hunger should be noted only marginally. It is a matter of
course that should the Jews not starve to death it would, we hope,
result in a speeding up of the anti-Jewish measures."
Frank's diary was not the only guide to the deliberate policy of
starvation of the Jews. They were prohibited from pursuing agricultural
activities in order to cut them off from access to the