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"This is to be carried out step by
step ... as soon as possible ... I shall rouse the Party particularly
to co-operate in this scheme by an article in the 'Hoheitsträger.'
"
And Your Honors have
already seen copies of that publication. I now skip Paragraphs 16 and
17.
A letter from RSHA (which is the Reich Security Main Office) to police
chiefs, dated 5 November 1942, which is Document L-316, Exhibit Number
USA-346 — this was addressed to all police chiefs — recites an
agreement between the Reich Führer SS and the Reich Minister of
Justice, approved by Hitler — I call the attention of Your Honors
to the red border around this original, and then having the Party seal
on it — provides that the ordinary criminal procedure was no longer
to be applied to Poles and members of the Eastern populations. The
agreement provided that such people, including Jews and Gypsies, should
henceforth be turned over to the police. The principles applicable to a
determination of the punishment of German offenders, including appraisal
of the motives of the offender, were not to be applied to foreign
offenders. I quote from. Page 2 of the document:
"The offense committed by a person of
foreign extraction is not to be regarded from the view of legal
retribution by way of justice but from the point of view of preventing
dangers through police action.
"From this it follows that the criminal procedure against
persons of foreign extraction must be transferred from justice to the
police.
"The preceding statements serve for personal information. There
are no objections if the Gauleiter are informed in the proper form,
should the need arise."
I
now skip Paragraphs 19 and 20 of the text. I next refer to Document
1058-PS, previously introduced in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-147.
In a speech to a gathering of persons intimately concerned with the
Eastern problem, on 20 June 1941, Reichsleiter Rosenberg stated that the
southern Russian territories and the northern Caucasus would have to
provide food for the German people. I quote Rosenberg's words:
"We see absolutely no obligation on
our part to feed the Russian people, also, with the products of that
surplus territory. We know that this is a harsh necessity, bare of any
feelings. "
THE PRESIDENT:
We have already had that read to us twice.
COL. STOREY: I am sorry, Sir. I did not hear it. Strike it from the
record.