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attention. It is a fitting climax to our presentation
on this defendant. The reason why it was addressed to the notorious
Heydrich, the predecessor of the Defendant Kaltenbrunner, need not
strain our imagination. This document is our Document Number 710-PS,
which has already been admitted as Exhibit Number USA-509, in connection
with the case on the Gestapo. While it has already been read into
evidence, with permission of the Court; I would like to close my
presentation with the reading of that letter. Göring writes to
Heydrich:
"Complementing the task that was
assigned to you on 24 January 1939, which dealt with arriving at
thorough furtherance of emigration and evacuation solution of the
Jewish problem, as advantageous as possible, I hereby charge you to
make all necessary organizational and practical preparations for
bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question in the
German sphere of influence in Europe.
"Wherever other governmental agencies are involved, these are to
co-operate with you.
"I charge you furthermore to send me, before long, an over-all
plan concerning the organizational, factual, and material measures
necessary for the accomplishment of the desired final solution of the
Jewish question."
The
presentation made to the Tribunal on the individual responsibility of
the Defendant Göring has been intended to be merely illustrative of
the mass of documentary evidence which reveals the leading part played
by this conspirator in every phase of the Nazi conspiracy. Thus, we
submit that the responsibility of Göring for the crimes With which
he has been charged under Count One and Count Two of the Indictment has
been established.
May it please the Tribunal, this completes the presentation on the
individual responsibility of the Defendant Göring We will now
proceed with the arrangement made with the British Delegation on the
presentation showing the individual responsibility of the Defendant Von
Ribbentrop by Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: May it please the Tribunal, if the Tribunal
would be good enough to look at Appendix A of the Indictment on Page 28
of the English text (Volume 1, Page 69) they will find the particulars
relating to this defendant, and they will find that the allegations
regarding him fall into three divisions.
After reciting the offices which he held, the appendix of the
Indictment goes on to say that the Defendant Ribbentrop used the
foregoing positions, his personal influence, and his intimate connection
with the Führer in such a manner that he promoted the accession to
power of the Nazi conspirators as set forth in Count One of