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the 31st of October 1941. It is our Document R-102, and
will be found in Volume 2 of the document book. It is Exhibit Number
USA-470. The report shows that so-called "anti-partisan"
activity was actually nothing but a name for extermination of persons
believed politically undesirable and of Jews. The report is a very
carefully organized and detailed description of such extermination.
Section I describes the stations of the various task forces involved,
Section II their activities. The latter section is divided into parts,
each dealing with a different geographical region — the Baltic
area, White Ruthenia, and the Ukraine.
Under each area the report of activities is classified under three
headings: (a) Partisan activity and counteraction, (b) arrests and
execution of Communists and officials, and (c) Jews. I shall read only a
few typical paragraphs selected almost at random.
First, to show the units involved, I quote the second and third
paragraphs of Page 4 of the translation, which also appear on Page 1 of
the original:
"The present stations are:
"Task Force A, since 7 October 1941 Krasnowardeisk; Task Force
B, continues in Smolensk; Task Force C, since 27 September 1941 in
Kiev; Task Force D, since 27 September 1941 in Nikolaiev.
"The action and special commandos" — Einsatz- und
Sonderkommandos — " which are attached to the task force
continue on the march with the advancing troops into the sectors which
have been assigned to them."
I shall now read from the section headed "Baltic area" and
subsection labelled "Jews," beginning with the first paragraph
on Page 5 of the translation, Page 8 of the original, second paragraph:
"The male Jews over 16 were executed
with the exception of doctors and the elders. At the present time this
action is still in progress. After completion of this action there
will remain only 500 Jewesses and children in Ostland."
I skip now to the section headed "White Ruthenia," the
subsection headed, "Partisan activity and counteraction." The
paragraph I shall read begins on Page 6, Paragraph 5 of the translation,
found on Page 11, Paragraph 1 of the original. I quote:
"In Wultschina eight juveniles were
arrested as partisans and shot. They were inmates of a children's
home. They had collected weapons which they hid in the woods. Upon
search the following were found: 3 heavy machine guns, 15 rifles,
several thousand rounds of ammunition, several hand grenades, and
several packages of poison gas Ebrit.
"b) Arrests and executions of Communists, officials, and
criminals. A further large part of the activity of the Security