NMT01-T759
Volume I · Page 759
1943. The letter was apparently sent by Sievers with copies June for two other persons and also with a copy to be sent to you. This letter says that altogether 115 persons would be affected and that the selected persons should be sent to the concentration camp at Natzweiler. How would such a letter be handled by you in your registry office — I refer now to the copy which was sent to you? Did you again submit it to Himmler, and did you or someone else lay the letter aside?
A. I do not remember ever having seen this letter. The file note on it bears an initial that is not mine, but that of my collaborator Berg. He also initialed for filing several of the documents that are in the document book.
Q. Now, please look at the file note of Berg. (NO-091, Pros. Ex. 183.) Would you say that that is the same Berg who initialed the foregoing document?
A. Yes. That is the same Berg.
Q. Now, please look at Document NO-091. Here it says, "Note — for SS Standartenfuehrer Dr. Brandt", and it is signed by Berg. This reproduces a talk that Berg had with Sievers; do you remember seeing this notation?
A. I do not remember having seen it.
Q. Let me point out the date, 26 October 1944.
A. That was the last day of our stay at our Fast Prussian quarters. The Russians were only about 30 to 40 kilometers away. Berg would have made the note so that I could get a final report to Himmler. As, however, we had to clear out by that evening, there were more important things to do than to submit such a memorandum, so that possibly he did not show it to me at all.
The defendants Blome and Rudolf Brandt were charged with participation in and responsibility for the murder and mistreatment of tens of thousands of Polish Nationals allegedly infected with incurable tuberculosis (par. 8 of the indictment). On this charge both defendants were acquitted.
The prosecution's summation of the evidence and argumentation on this charge is contained in its closing brief against the defendant Blome. An extract, from this brief is set, forth below on pages 760 to 763. A corresponding summation of the evidence by the defense has been selected from the final plea for the defendant Blome. It appears below on pages 763 to 768. This argumentation is followed by selections from the evidence on pages 769 to 794.
