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Now, out of the 3,500 names that are shown in that
book, Your Honors will notice a number of red marks. Those apparently
meant the ones that were shot. Of these, 325 were shot. Only 35 of that
325 had first been tried. Nine hundred and fifty out of this list were
sent to concentration camps; and 155 were sent to the Reich for forced
labor. According to this register, similar treatment was accorded
persons who were arrested on other grounds, for instance, Communists,
Jews, hostages, and persons taken in reprisal. A large number are shown
to have been arrested during raids, no further grounds being stated.
I particularly refer Your Honors to entries 286, 287, and 288, that is,
the numbers in the first column of the register, where the crime charged
to the person arrested was "als Juden"; in other words, he was
a Jew. And by that you will find a red cross mark; and the punishment
given was death.
I now pass from this document and simply call attention to Document
L-215, which was heretofore introduced as Exhibit Number USA-243. I
don't intend to read from it unless Your Honors want to turn to L-215.
This is a file of original dossiers on 25 Luxembourgers taken into
protective custody for commitment to concentration camps. I will just
refer to a sentence of the language in the document. Quoting:
"According to the finding of the
State Police, he endangers by his attitude the existence and security
of the people and the State."
And in each case, with reference to those dossiers, that appears as
being the reason for the execution of these 25 Luxembourgers. And in
connection ...
THE PRESIDENT: Colonel Storey, you said execution, did you not?
COL. STOREY: I beg your pardon — sending to concentration camps.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. There is no evidence they were executed?
COL. STOREY: No, Sir; they were committed to concentration camps. And
also in connection with that same document there is a form provided by
which the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin were notified when the persons
were received by the concentration camps.
Another document — which has heretofore been received as Exhibit
Number USA-279, Document 1472-PS, in the second volume — I am
simply going to refer to as a predicate for another. That was a telegram
of 16 December 1942 in which Müller reported that the Gestapo could
round up some 45,000 Jews in connection with the program of obtaining
additional labor in concentration