14 Dec.
45
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
MAJOR WALSH: " . . . with the Jewish mixtures, and everything that
goes with it, 3,500,000 Jews." Now this figure, if the Court
please, was as of 16 December 1941. I now wish to turn to 25 January
1944, 3 years and 1 month later, and make reference to another excerpt
from Frank's diary, 2233-PS, loose-leaf volume Exhibit USA-295. This
volume covers the period from 1 January 1944 to 28 February 1944, and
Page 5 of the original reads:
"At the present time we still have in
the Government General perhaps 100,000 Jews."
In
this period of 3 years, according to the records of the then Governor
General of Occupied Poland, between 2,400,000 and 3,400,000 Jews had
been eliminated.
The Prosecution could offer this Tribunal a wealth of evidence on the
total number of Jews who died by Nazi hands, but it is believed that
cumulative evidence would not vary the guilt of these defendants.
I do wish, however, to offer one document, a statement, to establish
the deaths of 4 million Jews in camps and deaths of 2 million Jews by
the State Police in the East, making a total of 6 million —
Document 2738-PS, Exhibit USA-296. This is a statement — of Adolf
Eichmann, Chief of the Jewish Section of the Gestapo, and the source of
the figures quoted — made by Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, Deputy Group
Leader of the foreign section of the Security Service, Amt VI of the
RSHA. Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, in affidavit form, made the following
statement; and I quote from Page 2:
"Approximately 4 million Jews had
been killed in the various concentration camps, while an additional 2
million met death in other ways, the major part of which were shot by
operational squads of the Security Police during the campaign against
Russia."
May I, in
conclusion, emphasize that the captured documents in evidence are,
almost without exception, from the official sources of the Nazi Party.
THE PRESIDENT: You only read that one statement, but where does the
person who made the affidavit get his information from?
MAJOR WALSH: I shall be pleased to read that in there, Sir. I made a
statement that Eichmann has been the source of the information given to
Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, one of his assistants, and on Page 1 it says:
"According to my knowledge Eichmann
was at that time a section leader in the Amt IV (Gestapo) of RSHA; and
in addition he had been ordered by Himmler to get hold of the