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farms already freed. The latter was done
in agreement with the Staff Main Office of the Reichsführer SS."
Other SS agencies were involved in the program for deportation. The
Tribunal has already received in evidence our Document 1352-PS, as
Exhibit Number USA-176. It is a report relating to the confiscation of
Polish agricultural enterprises, dated May 22, 1940, and signed "Kusche."
Portions of that document dealing with the confiscation of Polish
agricultural enterprises and the deportation of Polish owners of the
land to Germany were read into the record. I shall read only one further
paragraph showing SS personnel involved in this action. It appears on
Page 2 of the translation, the first full paragraph; and on Page 10 of
the original, Paragraph 2.
Referring to the deportation of Polish farmers, the report says; and I
quote:
"Means of transportation to the
railroad can be provided: 1. By the enterprise of the East German
Corporation of Agricultural Development; 2. By the SS noncommissioned
officers' school in Lublinitz and the concentration camp of Auschwitz.
"These two latter places will also detail the necessary SS men
for the day of the confiscation, and so forth."
The extent to which almost all departments of the Supreme Command of the
SS were concerned with the evacuation program is shown by the minutes of
a meeting on the 4th of August 1942 dealing with the deportation of
Alsatians. It is our Document R-114, and was received in evidence as
Exhibit Number USA-314. I shall read only the list of persons and
offices represented at that conference, since the body of the report has
been read in part into the record already.
I start at the beginning of the document, Page 1 of R-114:
"Memo on meeting of 4. 8. 42.
Subject: General directions for the treatment of deported Alsatians.
"Present: SS Hauptsturmführer Dr. Stier, SS Hauptsturmführer
Petri, R.R. Hoffmann, Dr. Scherler, SS Untersturmführer Förster;
" — there is a notation next to their names of "Staff
Main Office"; then — "SS Obersturmführer Dr.
Hinrichs, Chief of Estate Office and Settlement Staff, Strasbourg; SS
Sturmbannführer Brückner, Racial German Arbitration Bureau;"
— Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle "SS Hauptsturmführer
Hummitsch, Reich Security Main Office;" —
Reichssicherheitshauptamt — "SS Untersturmführer Dr.
Sieder, Main Office for Race and Settlement; " —
RUS-Hauptamt — "Dr. Labes, D.U.T."
The SS not only destroyed and deported conquered peoples and confiscated
their property, it also repopulated the conquered regions