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but has been read into the record by Mr. Alderman,
Pages 1202 and 1203 (Volume III, Page 357). This document is entitled, "Instructions
for a Reich Commissar in Ostland."
THE PRESIDENT: Where are you quoting from?
CAPT. HARRIS: Sir, it is not included in our document book, but it is
in the record. In the German text, the original of which we have here,
it is at Pages number 2 and 3:
"The aim of a Reich Commissar for
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and White Ruthenia" — last two
words added in pencil — "must be to strive to achieve the
form of a German protectorate and then transform the region into part
of the Greater German Reich by germanizing racially possible elements,
colonizing Germanic races, and banishing undesirable elements. The
Baltic Sea must become a Germanic inland sea under the guardianship of
Greater Germany."
I now
offer in evidence Document Number EC-3, which is Exhibit Number USA-318,
which was likewise found among the captured OKW files at Fechenheim.
This document, Your Honors, is offered as direct proof of the fact, to
which we have previously referred, that even in the food-surplus areas
of the occupied regions of the Ukraine the conspirators planned to
allocate food on a basis which left virtually nothing for those persons
who were not engaged in the compulsory production of commodities for the
German war machine. This document, as well as Document Number EC-126,
which was introduced a few moments ago, and others we offer should, it
is submitted, be read in the light of the explicit provision in Article
52 of the Hague Regulations of 1907, that requisitions in kind and
services shall not be demanded from municipalities or inhabitants except
for the needs of the army of occupation.
I first quote from our Page 3, lines 21 to 23 of the English text of
EC-3. In the German text it is Page 13, lines 1 to 3. The particular
document from which I am about to quote is a top-secret memorandum,
dated 16 September 1941, concerning a meeting of German military
officials presided over by Defendant Göring This is our Page 3,
Sir, lines 21 to 23 of EC-3. The memorandum was signed by General Nagel,
liaison officer between Defendant Göring Four Year Plan office and
the OKW. I now quote:
"At this conference which was
concerned with the better exploitation of the occupied territories for
the German food economy, the Reich Marshal" — Göring —
" called attention to the following:"
I next quote from the first two paragraphs of Page 4 of the English
text. The German text is at Page 13, the third and fourth paragraphs: