2 Jan. 46
COL. STOREY: If the Tribunal please, I next offer in
evidence Document 3360-PS, Exhibit Number USA-499, the second volume.
Before I hand this document to the translator, I should like to exhibit
it to Your Honors. It is an original telegram that was sent to the
Gestapo office at Nuremberg. It was discovered by the C.I.C., by
Lieutenant Stevens, near Hersbruck, Germany; and Your Honors will notice
that parts of it have been burned. It was in connection with some
documents that had been buried and they were partially burned when they
were buried. This is one of the telegrams. It is from the Secret State
Police, the State Police station at Nuremberg and Fürth and it is
dated the 12th of February 1944. I quote from the telegram:
"RSHA IV F 1-45/44; the Border
Inspector General; urgent, submit immediately.
"Treatment of recaptured escaped Eastern laborers." —
Ostarbeiter.
"On the basis of an order of the RFSS, all recaptured escaped
Eastern laborers without exception are, from now on, to be sent to
concentration camps. For the purpose of reporting to RFSS, I ask for
one single report by teletype to Section IV D (foreign laborers) on 10
March 1944 as to how many of such male or female Eastern laborers were
turned over to a concentration camp between today and 10 March 1944."
By these methods the Gestapo and SD maintained control over forced labor
brought into the Reich.
The next subject I go into is that the Gestapo and SD executed captured
commandos and paratroopers and protected civilians who lynched Allied
fliers. On 4 August 1942 Keitel issued an order which provided that the
Gestapo and SD were responsible for taking counter measures against
single parachutists or small groups of them with special missions. In
substantiation I offer Document Number 553-PS as the exhibit next in
order, Exhibit Number USA-500. I quote from the first page of the
translation, the first part of Paragraph 3:
"Insofar as single parachutists are
captured by members of the Armed Forces, they are to be delivered,
after report to the competent Abwehr office, to the nearest agency of
the Chief of the Security Police and SD without delay."
Now, if the Tribunal please, to divert from the text: Colonel Taylor
will present the Nazi High Command and a few of their orders. This is
one and there is another one with which he is going to deal extensively.
My purpose in introducing these orders now is to show the part that the
Gestapo and SD played in connection with those orders.