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on the ground. Dr. Pütz was very
furious about Beek's concession and nothing could persuade him to
release the seven men. He made a motion with his hand encircling the
square and said that anyone who was once here would not get away.
Although he was very angry with Beek, he ordered me to take the people
from 5 Bahnhofstrasse out of Rovno by 8 o'clock at the latest. When I
left Dr. Pütz I noticed a Ukrainian farm cart with two horses.
Dead people with stiff limbs were lying on the cart. Legs and arms
projected over the side boards. The cart was making for the freight
train. I took the remaining 74 Jews who had been locked in the house
to Sdolbunov.
"Several days after the 13th of July 1942 the area commissioner
of Sdolbunov, Georg Marschall, called a meeting of all firm managers,
railroad superintendents, and leaders of the Organization Todt and
informed them that the firms, et cetera, should prepare themselves for
the resettlement of the Jews which was to take place almost
immediately. He referred to the pogrom in Rovno where all the Jews had
been liquidated, i.e. had been shot near Kostopol."
Finally, his signature is sworn to on the 10th of November 1945. THE
PRESIDENT: What nationality is Gräbbe?
COL. STOREY: He is German. Gräbbe was a German and is now in the
employ of the Military Government at Frankfurt — the United States
Military Government.
Your Honor, in that connection there is another separate affidavit
attached to this which is a part of the same document, which I will not
attempt to read. But it has to do with the execution of some people in
another area and is along the same line. I am not reading it because it
would be cumulative, but it is a part of this same document.
I now pass from that subject to the next subject. The Gestapo and SD
stationed special units in prisoner-of-war camps for the purpose of
screening out racial and political undesirables and executing those who
were screened out. The program of mass murder of political and racial
undesirables carried on against civilians was also applied to prisoners
of war who were captured on the Eastern Front. In this connection I call
attention of the Tribunal to the testimony of General Lahousen, which
Your Honors will recall, of the 30th of November 1945. Lahousen
testified to a conference which took place in the summer of 1941 shortly
after the beginning of the campaign against the Soviet Union, which was
attended by himself — and I want to emphasize this, because we will
later have a document that