NMT01-T757
Volume I · Page 757
Profession.
Last residence.
Reason for special treatment.
Day and place of special treatment (card file).
In regard to executions to be carried out and to the possible removal of reliable civilians and the removal of informers for the Einsatz group in the occupied territories, the leader of the Einsatzkommando must make an agreement with the nearest state police office, as well as with the commandant of the security police unit and security service and beyond these with the chief of the Einsatz group concerned in the occupied territories.
Reports of that kind are to be transmitted for information to the Reich Security Main Office, IV A 1. Excellent behavior during and after duty, the best cooperation with the camp commanders, and careful examinations are the duty of all leaders and members of the Einsatzkommando.
The members of the Einsatzkommando must be constantly aware of the special importance of the missions entrusted to them.
DIRECT EXAMINATION
Dr. Kauffmann: Witness, I now put to you documents concerning, among other things, procuring skulls of Jewish-Bolshevist Commissars. Please look at page 1 of Document NO-085, Prosecution Exhibit 175. This is a letter from the Ahnenerbe of 9 February 1942, addressed to you. It is a secret communication, and it bears Sievers' signature. There are two annexes to this document. One of them concerns research into microscopy, and the other one concerns the suggestion for procuring the afore-mentioned skeletons for the purpose of scientific research. Now, I ask you whether you received this document, whether you are familiar with the contents of this letter, and whether you still remember it today?
DEFENDANT Rudolf Brandt: I received the letter with the inclosures, but I recall as little about this as I recall about the other matters.
Q. Do you wish to say then that you did not read the two inclosures to this letter?
A. That is what I really should like to say because, as I have already said, reports which were destined for the Reich Leader were put with the mail that be was to read personally, and it would have been the
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*Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 24, 25, 26 March 1947, pp. 4869-4994.
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