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collaboration. If not, no one can complain
about being judged and treated as a member of the Soviet system.
"The fear of the German counter measures must be stronger than
the threats of the wandering Bolshevistic remnants. Being far from all
political considerations of the future, the soldier has to fulfill two
tasks:
"1. Complete annihilation of the false Bolshevistic doctrine of
the Soviet State and its armed forces.
"2. The pitiless extermination of alien treachery and cruelty
and thus the protection of the lives of German military personnel in
Russia.
"This is the only way to fulfill our historic task to liberate
the German people once and forever from the Asiatic-Jewish danger.
Signed: Von Reichenau, Oberbefehlshaber."
The Tribunal will note the sheet immediately preceding Reichenau's
order. That is Sheet Number 4 of the translation, which is a memorandum
dated 28 October 1941. It shows that Reichenau's order met with Hitler's
approval and was thereafter circulated by order of the
Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
The Tribunal will also note from the first sheet, the very top sheet in
the several ensuing, that Reichenau's order was thereafter circulated
down to divisional level, and was received by the 12th German Infantry
Division on 27 November 1941.
These being the directives and policies prescribed by the German
military leaders, it is no wonder that the Wehrmacht joined in the
monstrous behavior and activities of the SS and SD on the Eastern Front.
Colonel Storey described to the Tribunal the formation of units known
as Einsatzgruppen by the Sipo and SD, which were sent out to operate in
and behind the operational areas on the Eastern Front, in order to
combat partisans and to cleanse and pacify the civilian population.
Major Farr and Colonel Storey both presented to the Tribunal a large
amount of evidence showing the manner in which these units operated.
I want to refer back briefly to a few of these documents in order to
trace the participation of the Armed Forces in those circumstances.
Colonel Storey read at length from 3012-PS, which is Exhibit USA-190,
dated 19 March 1943. It is a directive from the commanding officer of
one of these groups. This directive praised and justified such
activities as the shooting of Hungarian Jews, shooting of children, and
the total burning of villages and directed that in order not to obstruct
the procuring of slave labor for the German armament industry, "as
a rule no more children will be shot."
Major Farr read from R-102, which is Exhibit USA-470, a report covering
the work of the Einsatzgruppen in the German occupied