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Volume IV · Page IV
| Ohlendorf et al, Case No. 9), widely
discussed as the biggest murder trial in history. Ohlendorf and the other 23
defendants were commanders or subordinate officers of special SS units which
accompanied the German Army in its invasion of the Soviet Union, to perform
certain special "political" and "security" missions. These SS units were
alleged to have caused the death of approximately one million civilians and
prisoners of war in the German occupied area of Russia. The second part of Volume IV and the first part of Volume V deals with the "RuSHA Case" (United States of America vs. Ulrich Greifelt et al, Case No. 8), which takes its name from the "Race and Resettlement Office" (Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt) of the SS. The fourteen defendants were officials of this and other SS branches concerned with various aspects of the Nazi "racial" program. The remainder of Volume V contains material from the "Pohl Case" (United States of America vs. Oswald Pohl et al, Case No. 4). Pohl was the Chief of the Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA) of the SS, and the other 17 defendants were officials in this same SS agency. |
