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"From the beginning it was expected that the
Jewish problem in Ostland could not be solved by pogroms alone."
THE PRESIDENT: I am told that this has been read already.
COL. STOREY: I had it checked, and we did not catch that, Your Honor. I
will pass on then. Now, if Your Honor pleases, we will pass to Document
2273-PS next. I offer in evidence now just portions of Document 2273-PS,
which is Exhibit USA-487. This document was captured by the U.S.S.R. and
will be offered in detail by our Soviet colleagues later. But, with
their consent, I want to introduce in evidence a chart which is
identified by that document; and we have an enlargement which we would
like to put on the board, passing to the Tribunal, photostatic copies.
If Your Honor pleases, this chart is identified by the photostatic copy
attached to the original report which will be dealt with in detail
later. I want to quote just one statement from Page 2 of the English
translation of that document. It is the third paragraph from the bottom
on Page 2 of the English translation:
"The Estonian self-protection
movement, formed as the Germans advanced, did begin to arrest Jews;
but there were no spontaneous pogroms. Only by the Security Police and
the SD were the Jews gradually executed as they became no longer
required for work. Today there are no longer any Jews in Estonia."
That document is a top-secret document by Einsatz Group A, which was a
special projects group. This chart, of which the photostatic copy is
attached to the original in the German translation. on the wall, shows
the progress of the extermination of the Jews in the area in which this
Einsatzkommando group operated.
If Your Honors will refer to the top, next to Petersburg — or
Leningrad as we know it — and down below, you will see the picture
of a coffin; and that is described in the report as 3,600 having been
killed.
Next, over at the left, is another coffin in one of the small Baltic
states showing 963 in that area have been put in the coffin.
Then next, down near the capital of Riga, you will note that 35,238
were put away in the coffins; and it refers to the ghetto there as still
having 2,500.
You come down to the next square or the next state showing 136,421 were
put in their coffins; and then in the next area, near Minsk and just
above Minsk, there were 41,828 put in their coffins.
THE PRESIDENT: Are you sure they were put in their coffins, the
136,000?