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| law as derived from the criminal laws of all civilized nations, the internal penal laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed, and Article II of Control Council Law No. 10. |
| COUNT THREE — MEMBERSHIP
IN CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS |
| 13. All the defendants herein are charged
with membership, subsequent to 1 September 1939, in organizations declared to
be criminal by the International Military Tribunal and paragraph 1 (d) of
Article II of Control Council Law No. 10. (A) All the defendants were members of the Schutzstaffeln der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the "SS"). (B) The defendants Ohlendorf, Jost, Naumann, Rasch, Six, Blobel, Blume, Sandberger, Seibert, Steimle, Biberstein, Braune, Haensch, Ott, Strauch, Haussmann, Klingelhoefer, Fendler, von Radetzky, Schubert, and Graf were members of offices (Aemter) III, VI, and VII of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt — RSHA) constituting the Reich Security Service of the Reich Leader SS (Reichssicherheitsdienst des Reichsfuehrer SS), commonly known as the "SD". (C) The defendants Rasch, Schulz, Blume, Braune, Biberstein, Nosske, and Ruehl were members of Amt IV of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt — RSHA constituting the Secret State Police (Geheime Staatspolizei), commonly known as the "Gestapo". Wherefore, this indictment is filed with the Secretary General of the Military Tribunals and the charges herein made against the above-named defendants are hereby presented to the Military Tribunals. |
| [Signed]
TELFORD TAYLOR Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Acting on behalf of the United States of America. |
| Nuernberg, 25 July 1947 |
