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LT. COMDR. HARRIS: Yes.
The third crime for which Kaltenbrunner is responsible as Chief of the
Security Police and SD was the taking of recaptured prisoners of war to
concentration camps where they were executed. I invite the attention of
the Tribunal to Document 1650-PS which has heretofore been received as
Exhibit Number USA-246. This is the secret Gestapo order, the Kugel
Erlass, or Bullet Decree, under which escaped prisoners of war were sent
to concentration camps by the Security Police and SD for execution.
This order, dated 4 March 1944, was signed — and I quote: "Chief
of the Security Police and of the Security Service, for the Chief,"
— signed - "Müller."
I now offer Document L-158 as exhibit next in order. This is Exhibit
Number USA-514. I am not going to read this document since it is similar
to the previous document offered, but I do wish to refer to the marked
passages. First: "On 2 March 1944 the Chief of the Security Police
and SD, Berlin, forwarded the following OKW order." Then follows
the statement that upon recapture certain escaped prisoners of war
should be turned over to the Chief of the Security Police and SD. The
document goes on to say-and I quote, "In this connection the Chief
of the Security Police and SD has issued the following instructions."
Detailed instructions follow concerning the turning over of such
prisoners to the commandant of Mauthausen under the operation Bullet.
Further, this order states, and I quote — this is at the very end
of the order:
"The list of the recaptured officers
and non-working noncommissioned officer prisoners of war will be kept
here by IV A 1. To enable a report to be made punctually to the Chief
of the Sipo and SD, Berlin, statements of the numbers involved must
reach Radom by 20 June 1944."
I recall the attention of the Tribunal to Document 2285-PS, which was
received this morning as Exhibit Number USA-490.
THE PRESIDENT: Has that Document L-158 already been put in evidence?
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: No, Sir, I have just put in those portions. I have
just put the document in evidence at this time, Sir. The document has
not been read in its entirety for the reason that the contents, other
than the quoted portions, are substantially the same as Document 1650-PS
which has been read at length.
THE PRESIDENT: You say it is the same as Document 1650-PS?
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: It is, Sir, substantially the same. It relates to
the same subject. It was, however, addressed to a