TWENTY-FIFTH DAY
Wednesday, 2 January 1946
Morning Session
THE PRESIDENT: I call on the counsel for the United
States.
COL. STOREY: If the Tribunal please, when Your Honors adjourned on 20
December we were presenting the Gestapo and had referred to the use of
the death vans by the Einsatz groups in the eastern occupied countries
and had almost concluded that phase of the presentation. Your Honors
will recall we had referred to the use of some death vans made by the
Saurer works, and the final reference that I want to make in that
connection is to a telegram attached to Document 501-PS, which it is not
necessary to read, which establishes the fact that the same make of
truck or vans were the death vans used by the Einsatz groups.
The final document in connection with the Einsatz groups in the Eastern
Occupied Territories which we desire to offer is Document 2992-PS, and I
believe it is in the second volume of the document book. This is an
affidavit made by Hermann Gräbe. Hermann Gräbe is at present
employed by the United States Government at Frankfurt. The affidavit was
made at Wiesbaden; and I offer excerpts from the affidavit, 2992-PS,
Exhibit Number USA-494.
This witness was at the head of a construction firm that was doing some
building in the Ukraine and he was an eyewitness to the anti-Jewish
actions at the town of Rovno, Ukraine, on 13 July 1942, and I refer to
the part of the affidavit which is on Page 5 of the English translation.
Beginning at the first:
"From September 1941 until January
1944 1 was manager and engineer-in-charge of a branch office in
Sdolbunov, Ukraine, of the Solingen building firm of Josef Jung. In
this capacity it was my job to visit the building sites of the firm.
The firm had, among others, a site in Rovno, Ukraine.
"During the night of 13 July 1942, all inhabitants of the Rovno
ghetto, where there were still about 5,000 Jews, were liquidated.
"I should describe the circumstances of my being a witness of
the dissolution of the ghetto and the carrying out of the pogrom
during the night and morning, as follows:
"I employed for the firm in Rovno, in addition to Poles,
Germans, and Ukrainians, about 100 Jews from Sdolbunov,