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"(a) Elimination of a part of partly
superfluous eaters in the cities;
"(b) Elimination of a part of the population which undoubtedly
hated us;
" (c) Elimination of badly needed tradesmen who were in many
instances indispensable even in the interests of the Armed Forces;
"(d) Consequences as to foreign policy propaganda which are
obvious;
"(e) Bad effects on the troops which in any case get indirect
contact with the execution;
"(f) Brutalizing effect on the formations which carry out the
execution — regular police."
Lest
the Court be persuaded to the belief that these conditions related,
existed only in the East, I invite attention to the official Netherlands
Government report by the Commissioner for Repatriation as indicative of
the treatment of the Jews in the West.
This document is a recital of the German measures taken in the
Netherlands against the Dutch Jews. The decrees, the anti-Semitic
demonstrations, the burning of synagogues, the purging of Jews from the
economic life of their country, the food restrictions against them,
forced labor, concentration camp confinement, deportation, and death —
all follow the same pattern that was effected throughout Nazi-occupied
Europe.
I now refer to Document 1726-PS, Exhibit USA-195, already in evidence.
It is not intended to read this document in evidence, but it is deemed
important to invite the Court's attention to that portion of the report
relating to the deportation of Dutch Jews shown on Page 5 of the
translation. There the Court will note that full Jews being liable to
deportation number 140,000. The Court will also note that the total
number of deportees was 117,000, representing more than 83 percent of
all the Jews in the Netherlands. Of these 115,000 were deported to
Poland for slave labor, according to the Netherlands report, and after
departure all trace of them was lost. Regardless of victory or defeat to
Germany, the Jew was doomed. It was the expressed intent of the Nazi
State that, whatever the German fate might be, the Jew would not
survive.
I offer in evidence Document L-53, stamped "top secret,"
Exhibit USA-291. This message is from the Commandant of the Sipo and SD
for the Radom District, addressed to SS Hauptsturmführer Thiel on
the subject, "Clearance of Prisons." I read the body of this
message:
"I again stress the fact that the
number of inmates of the Sipo and SD prisons must be kept as low as
possible. In the present