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Then they left, saying, 'We are not yet
finished,' and just as they departed, one of them said to Mrs.
Klauber, 'Why did you marry a Jew? I hate them,' and struck her on the
jaw with his police club ... "
That is the end of the affidavit. Now continuing, the next paragraph is
the statement of the U.S. Consul:
"I personally can verify that the
police had been instructed not to interfere; and that is, that there
was official sanction for these activities. Affidavits taken from
numerous victims attest this fact. I had become acquainted with the
two police officers stationed at the corner of Bellevuestrasse and
Tiegartenstrasse near where the Consulate General was located; these
officers told me that they and all the other police officers had
received definite instructions not to interfere with the SA, the SS,
or the Hitler Youth."
In
addition, SA members served as guards at concentration camps during this
consolidating period and participated in the persecution and
mistreatment of persons imprisoned therein. I now refer to Document
2824-PS, which is a book entitled, Concentration Camp at Oranienburg.
It is Exhibit Number USA-423. This was by an SA-Sturmbannführer
named Schäfer, who was the commander of the concentration camp at
Oranienburg. I quote the excerpt on the first page of the English
translation, reading:
"The most trusted SA men of long
service were selected in order to give them homes in the camp, since
they were the permanent camp guards, and in such a manner we created a
cadre of experienced guardsmen who were constantly prepared to be
employed."
Further evidence
concerning the operation of the concentration camps by the SA is found
in Document 787-PS, Exhibit Number USA-421. This is a report to Hitler
from the public prosecutor of Dresden concerning the nolle-prossing of
one Vogel, who was accused of mistreatment of persons imprisoned in the
concentration camp. I quote from that report:
"On 14 March 1935 the prosecuting
authority in Dresden has indicted ... Oberregierungsrat Erich Vogel in
Dresden on account of inflicting bodily injury while in office. The
following subject matter is the basis of the process:
"Vogel belongs to the Gestapo office of the state of Saxony
since its foundation and is chief of Main Section II, which formerly
bore the title ZUB (central section for combatting subversive
movements). In the process of combatting efforts inimical to the
State, Vogel carried out several so-called 'borderland actions' in the
year 1933 in which a large number