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the former Polish State within the territory of the
Greater German Reich including the incorporated Eastern territories."
I ask the Court to take judicial notice of our Document 1665-PS, which
is an "Order concerning Treatment of Property of Nationals of the
Former Polish State," cited in 1940 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part
I, Page 1270. 1 shall read from this document:
"Article I.
"1) Property of nationals of the former Polish State within the
area of the Greater German Reich, including annexed Eastern
territories, is subject to confiscation, administration by
commissioner and sequestration in accordance with the following
regulations."
I now skip to
Article II
"1) Confiscation will be applied in
case of property belonging to: a) Jews; b) persons who have fled or
who have absented themselves for longer than a temporary period.
"2) Confiscation may be applied: a) If the property is needed
for the public good, especially for purposes of national defense or
the strengthening -of German folkdom; b) if the owners or other
persons entitled to it immigrated into the area of the German Reich
after 1 October 1918."
I
skip now to Article IX, the first part:
"1) Sequestered property can be
confiscated in favor of the Reich by the competent office ... if the
public weal, particularly the defense of the Reich or the
consolidation of the German nationality, requires it."
Evidence has also been introduced by the United States showing the
extent to which the spoliation of Soviet territory and resources and the
barbarous treatment inflicted on Soviet citizens were the result of
plans long made and carefully drawn up by the Nazis before they launched
their aggressive war on the Soviet Union. The Nazis planned to destroy
the industrial potential of the northern regions occupied by their
armies and so to administer the production of food in the south and
southeast, which normally produced a surplus of food, that the
population of the northern region would inevitably be reduced to
starvation because of diversion of such surplus food to the German
Reich. It has been shown also that the Nazis planned to incorporate
Galicia and all of the Baltic countries into Germany and to convert the
Crimea, an area north of the Crimea, the Volga territory, and the
district around Baku into German colonies.
By 29 April 1941, almost 2 months prior to the invasion of the Soviet
Union, it appears that Hitler had entrusted the Defendant Göring
with the over-all direction of the economic administration