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It is a long document, and that is the only portion I
quote. I don't have the reference to it.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): What page?
COL. STOREY: I am sorry, Sir, I don't have the reference book.
THE PRESIDENT: On Page 1. As you say you don't have the document before
you, there isn't much use referring you to it.
COL. STOREY: I gave the German text over there, Sir.
"When all the synagogues burned down
in me night it must have been organized in some way, and can only have
been organized by the Party."
The first paragraph, Page 7.
Now I turn to illustrate the crimes against the Allied airmen. The
members of the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party participated in and
shared the responsibility for the murder, beating, and ill-treatment of
Allied airmen who landed in German or German-controlled territory. Many
Allied airmen who bailed out of disabled planes over Germany were not
treated as prisoners of war but were beaten and murdered by German
civilians with the active condonation, indeed at the instigation, of
some of the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, Such a course of conduct
by the Leadership Corps represented a flagrant and deliberate violation
by the German Government of its obligations under the Geneva Convention
to protect prisoners of war against acts of violence and ill-treatment.
As shown by Document 2473-PS — it is necessary to turn to that —
which is a list of the Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party appearing in the
National Socialist Yearbook of 1943 and by Document 2903-PS,
which is this large chart, Heinrich Himmler was a Reichsleiter of the
Nazi Party and thus a top official in the Leadership Corps by virtue of
his positions as Reichsführer of the SS and Delegate for German
Folkdom. I now offer in evidence an original order signed by Himmler,
Document R-110 as Exhibit Number USA-333. It is dated 10 August 1943,
and I quote:
"It is not the task of the police to
interfere in clashes between Germans and English and American terror
fliers who have bailed out."
This order was transmitted in writing to all senior executive SS and
Police officers, and orally to their subordinate officers and to all
Gauleiter. As shown in, Document 2473-PS and by the chart, Joseph
Goebbels ...
THE PRESIDENT: I was only thinking that the police are not part of the
Leadership Corps are they?
COL. STOREY: But Himmler, if Your Honor pleases, combined the offices
himself of the Reichsführer of the SS and head of the