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| Top Secret | |
| To: SS Lieutenant Colonel Rauff
Berlin, Prinz-Albrecht-Str. 8 |
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| [Handwritten]
pers. R/29/5 Pradel n.R. b/R |
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| [Handwritten] Sinkkel [?] b.R.
p 16/6 |
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| The overhauling of vans by groups D and C is finished. | |
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| I ordered the vans of group D to
be camouflaged as house trailers by putting one set of window shutters on each
side of the small van and two on each side of the larger vans, such as one
often sees on farm houses in the country. The vans became so well known, that
not only the authorities, but also the civilian population called the van
"death van," as soon as one of these vehicles appeared. It is my opinion that
the van cannot be kept secret for any length of time, not even camouflaged.
The Saurer van which I transported from Simferopol to Taganrog suffered damage to the brakes on the way. The Sonderkommando in Mariupol found the collar of the combined oil-air brake broken at several points. By persuading and bribing the home motor pool we managed to have a form machined, on which the collars were cast. When I came to Stalino and Gorlovka a few days later, the drivers of the vans complained about the same faults. After having talked to the commandants of those commands I went once more to Mariupol to have some more collars made for those cars too. As agreed two collars will be made for each car, six collars will stay in Mariupol as replacements for group D and six collars will be sent to SS 2d Lieutenant Ernst in Kiev for the cars of group C. The collars for the groups B and A could be made available from Berlin, because transport from Mariupol to the north would be too complicated and would take too long. Smaller damage to the cars will be repaired by experts of the commands, that is of the groups in their own shops |
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| PARTIAL
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2992-PS* PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 33 |
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| AFFIDAVITS OF HERMANN FRIEDRICH GRAEBE, 10 NOVEMBER 1945, CONCERNING THE EXECUTION OF JEWS IN RUSSIA | |
| I, Hermann Friedrich Graebe, declare under oath — | |
*For more complete translation of document, see Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Vol. V, pp. 696-703, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1946.
