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Police was devoted to the combatting of
Communists and criminals. A special Commando in the period covered by
this report executed 63 officials, NKGB agents, and agitators."
The subsection on arrests and executions of Communists, officials, and
criminals in White Ruthenia ends as follows; and I read from Page 6 of
the translation, Paragraph 14, Page 12 of the original, Paragraph 5:
"The liquidations for the period
covered by this report have reached a total of 37,180 persons."
The final item I shall quote is from the section headed "Ukraine",
under the subsection, "Jews." It will be found on Page 8 of
the translation, Paragraph 10, Page 18 of the original, next to the last
paragraph:
"In Zhitomir 3,145 Jews had to be
shot, because from experience they have to be regarded as bearers of
Bolshevik propaganda and saboteurs."
This report, the Tribunal will recall, deals with the activities of four
task forces: A, B, C, and D. The more detailed report of Task Force A up
to 15 October 1941 is our Document L-180. It has already been introduced
in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-276 and some paragraphs were read from
it. It will be referred to again in the case against the Gestapo. I
desire to read only two paragraphs, which show the great variety of SS
components in such a task force.
I might point out to the Court that this elaborately bound report,
which the Court has already seen, has a sort of pocket-part supplement
in which appears a breakdown of the personnel engaged in this action, in
graphic form. I shall read the component parts which appear on this
chart in a moment. First, I will quote from Page 5 of the translation,
fourth paragraph ...
THE PRESIDENT: Does that book you just put in refer to the
extermination of the Jews in Galicia?
MAJOR FARR: This is the report of Action Group A, an antipartisan task
force which operated in the Baltic States in 1941.
The passage I will read appears on Page 5 of the translation, Paragraph
4 and on Page 12 of the original, first paragraph; I quote:
"This description of the over-all
situation shows that the members of the Gestapo " — the
Secret State Police — " Kripo" — that is the
Criminal Police — "and the SD" - Security Service —
"who are attached to the task-force group, are active mainly in
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, White Ruthenia, and to a lesser extent, in
front of Leningrad. It shows further that the forces of the uniformed
police and the Waffen-SS are active mainly in front of Leningrad, in
order to take measures under their