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to commit a Greek to the Concentration Camp Buchenwald
because he was drifting around without occupation and to the fourth
teletype dated 9 February 1945 in which the Gestapo at Darmstadt in
Bensheim was ordered to commit a French citizen to Buchenwald for
shirking work and insubordination. All of those orders are signed
Kaltenbrunner.
I offer Document 2580-PS as exhibit next in order, Exhibit Number
USA-524. This document contains three more of these red form orders for
protective custody, all signed Kaltenbrunner. The first one shows that a
citizen of the Netherlands was taken into protective custody for work
sabotage, and the second one shows that a French citizen was taken into
protective custody for work sabotage and insubordination, both under
date of 2 December 1944.
The sixth crime for which Kaltenbrunner is responsible as Chief of the
Security Police and SD is the executing of captured commandos and
paratroopers and the protecting of civilians who lynched Allied fliers.
The Tribunal will recall, I am sure, without referring to it, the
Hitler order of 18 October 1942 which was introduced this morning,
Document 498-PS, Exhibit Number USA-501, to the effect that commandos,
even in uniform, were to be exterminated to the last man and that
individual members captured by the police in occupied territory were to
be handed over to the SD.
I now offer Document 1276-PS as exhibit next in order, Exhibit Number
USA-525. This is an express top-secret letter from the Chief of the
Security Police and SD signed "Müller," by order, to the
Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, in which the Chief of the Security
Police and SD states — and I quote from the third paragraph of the
second page of the English translation:
"I have instructed the Befehlshaber
of the Security Police and the SD in Paris to treat such parachutists
in English uniform as members of the commando operations in accordance
with the Führer's order of 18 October 1942 and to inform the
military authorities in France that there must be corresponding
treatment at the hands of the Armed Forces."
This letter was dated 17 June 1944. That executions were carried out by
the SD pursuant to the said Hitler order of 18 October 1942 while
Kaltenbrunner was Chief of the Security Police and SD, is indicated by
Document 526-PS heretofore received as Exhibit Number USA-502. That was
the order introduced this morning; I am sure the Tribunal recalls it.
The policy of the police to protect civilians who lynched Allied fliers
was effective during the period that Kaltenbrunner served as Chief of
the Security Police and SD. I now offer Document 2990-PS