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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 8257-PS* PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 43 |
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| EXTRACTS FROM UNSIGNED MEMORANDUM ADDRESSED TO GENERAL THOMAS, CHIEF OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARMAMENT DEPARTMENT, 2 DECEMBER 1941 | |
| Vol. 226-3 Armament in the Ukraine |
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| Inspector In the field, 2 December 1941 | |
| Secret | |
| To General of the Infantry,
Thomas, Chief of the Industrial Armament Department [Wi Rue Amt] in the OKW Berlin W Kurfuerstenstr 63-67. 1 enclosure. |
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| The Jewish population remained
temporarily unmolested shortly after the fighting. Only weeks, sometimes months
later, specially detached formations of the police executed a planned shooting
of Jews. This action as a rule proceeded from east to west. It was done
entirely in public with the use of the Ukrainian militia and unfortunately in
many instances also with members of the armed forces taking part voluntarily.
The way these actions which included men and old men, women, and children of
all ages were carried out was horrible. The great masses executed make this
action more gigantic than any similar measure taken so far in the Soviet Union.
So far about 150,000 to 200,000 Jews may have been executed in the part of the
Ukraine belonging to the Reich Commissariat (RK); no consideration was given to
the interests of economy. Summarizing, it can be said that the kind of solution of the Jewish problem applied in the Ukraine which obviously was based on the ideological theories as a matter of principle had the following results: a. Elimination of a part of partly superfluous eaters in the cities. b. Elimination of a part of the population which hated us undoubtedly. |
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* For more complete translation of document, see Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. Vol. V, pp. 994-997, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1946.
