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him laid down at the entrance to the
station. He was alive, but he was completely unconscious. I tried to
open his eyes. I could not recognize by his eyes that he was alive,
only by his breathing. I did not see the shot wounds, but a lot of
blood was smeared across his face. He was in civilian clothes.
"6. We seized the radio station as ordered, broadcast a speech
of 3 to 4 minutes over an emergency transmitter, fired some pistol
shots, and left."
And then "sworn
to and subscribed to before Lieutenant Martin".
The Gestapo and the SD carried out mass murders of hundreds of
thousands of civilians of occupied countries, as a part of the Nazi
program to exterminate political and racial undesirables, by the
so-called Einsatz Groups. Your Honors will recall evidence concerning
the activities of these Einsatz Groups or Einsatzkommandos. I now refer
to Document R-102.
If Your Honors please, I understand Major Farr introduced this document
this morning; but I want to refer to just one brief statement, which he
did not include, concerning the SD and the Einsatz Groups and Security
Police. It is on Page 4 of R-102. Quoting:
"During the period covered by this
report the stations of the Einsatz Groups of the Security Police and
SD have changed only in the northern sector."
THE PRESIDENT: What was the document?
COL. STOREY: R-102, which was already introduced in evidence by Major
Farr, and it is in Volume 2 toward the end of the book. There are two
reports submitted by the chief of the Einsatz Group A available. The
first report is Document L-180, which has already been received as
Exhibit USA-276.
THE PRESIDENT: Colonel Storey, would you not pass quite so quickly from
one document to another?
COL. STOREY: Yes, Sir, pardon me, Sir. L-180, and I want to quote from
Page 13. It is on Page 5 of the English translation. It is the beginning
of the first paragraph, near the bottom of the page. Quoting:
"In view of the extension of the area
of operations and of the great number of duties which had to be
performed by the Security Police, it was intended from the very
beginning to obtain the co-operation of the reliable population in the
fight against felons, that is, mainly the Jews and Communists."
And
also in that same document, Page 30 of the original, Page 8 of the
English translation, quoting: