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COL. STOREY: I beg your pardon, Sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Are you sure that they were executed, the 136,000? —
because there is no coffin there.
COL. STOREY: No, Sir — the bottom statement — here are the
totals from the documents.
THE PRESIDENT: These photostatic copies are different from what you
have got there. In the area which is marked 136,421 there is no coffin.
COL. STOREY: Well, I am sorry. The one that I have is a true and
correct copy of theirs.
THE PRESIDENT: Mine has not got it and Mr. Biddle's has not got it.
COL. STOREY [Turning to an assistant.] Will you hand this to
the President, please?
THE PRESIDENT: I suppose the document itself will show it.
COL. STOREY: I will turn to the original and verify it. Let me have the
original, please. Apparently there is a typographical error. If Your
Honor pleases, here it is: 136,421, with the coffin.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Parker points out it is in the document itself, too.
COL. STOREY: Yes, Sir, it is in the document itself. There is an error
on that. The 128,000 at the bottom shows at that time there were 128,000
on hand, and the literal translation of the statement, as I understand,
means, "still on hand in the Minsk area."
I next refer to Document 1104-PS, Volume 2, Exhibit USA-483, which I
now offer in evidence.
THE PRESIDENT: Colonel Storey, did you tell us what the document was?
There is nothing on the translation, is there, to show what the document
is.
COL. STOREY: If Your Honor pleases, it is a report of the
special-purpose Group A, a top-secret report-or the Einsatz group in
other words-making a record of their activities in these areas, and this
chart was attached showing the areas covered.
THE PRESIDENT: Special group of the Gestapo?
COL. STOREY: The special group that was organized of the Gestapo and
the SD in that area. In other words, a Commando group. As I mentioned,
Your Honor, they organized these special Commando groups to work in and
behind the armies as they consolidated their gains in occupied
territories, and Your Honor