2 Jan. 46
destroyed.' Therefore the figures given
will be considerably augmented.
"One hundred and ninety-one synagogues were set on fire and
another 76 completely destroyed. In addition, 11 parish halls,
cemetery chapels, and similar buildings were set on fire and three
more completely destroyed.
"Twenty thousand Jews were arrested, also seven Aryans and three
foreigners. The latter were arrested for their own safety.
"Thirty-six deaths were reported and those seriously injured
were also numbered at 36. Those killed and injured are Jews. One Jew
is still missing. The Jews killed include one Polish national, and
those injured include two Poles."
I want to call Your Honors' special attention to the paper appended to
that document:
"The General Field Marshal" —
that is Göring — "has been informed. No steps are to be
taken. By order."
It is
dated the 15th of November 1938 and signed. The signature is illegible.
Now in that same connection Heydrich was charged by the Defendant Göring
with this entire program; and we next offer in evidence the original of
that order, 710-PS, Exhibit Number USA-509. That is an order dated the
31st of July 1941. It is written on the stationery of the Reich Marshal
of the Greater German Reich, Commissioner for the Four Year Plan,
Chairman of the Ministerial Council for National Defense; and it is
dated at Berlin, the 31st of July 1941, and directed to the Chief of the
Security Police and the Security Service, SS Gruppenführer
Heydrich:
"Complementing the task that was
assigned to you on 24 January 1939, which dealt with arriving at —
through furtherance of emigration and evacuation — a solution of
the Jewish problem as favorable as possible, I hereby charge you with
making all necessary preparations in regard to organizational and
financial matters for bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish
question in the German sphere of influence in Europe.
"Wherever other Government agencies are involved, these are to
co-operate with you.
"I charge you furthermore, to send me before long an overall
plan concerning the organizational, factual, and material measures
necessary for the accomplishment of the desired final solution of the
Jewish question. " — signed — " Göring."