. NMT04-T0200
Volume IV · Page 200
| At Wiesbaden, on 10 November 1945, I made two
statements describing as an eye-witness the execution of Jews on the former
airport near Dubno, Ukraine, and the herding together, ill-treatment and
killing of men, women, and children of the former ghetto at Rovno, Ukraine.
By way of corollary to these statements I depose as follows: (1) The SS-man acting as the executioner on the edge of the pit during the shooting of Jewish men, women, and children on the airport near Dubno wore an SS uniform with a grey armband about 3 cm. wide on the lower part of his sleeve with the letters "SD" in black on it, woven in or embroidered. (2) SS Major Dr. Puetz was in charge of the carrying out of the operation at Rovno, during the night of 13 July 1942. I knew Dr. Puetz personally as the "Kommandeur der SP u. SD" (Commander of the Security Police and Security Service) of Rovno, for I had had several discussions with him with a view to preventing a pogrom against the Jews at Sdolbunov, Mysoch, and Ostrog. Dr. Puetz was introduced to me by the Area Commissioner Georg Marschall. In addition I definitely remember that a nameplate was fixed on the outside of the door to his office bearing his name and rank. On the morning of 14 July I recognized three or four SS-men in the ghetto, whom I knew personally and who were all members of the security service in Rovno. These persons also wore the armband mentioned above. I cannot recall their names, but in my opinion, the foreman Fritz Einsporn must know their names as, to my knowledge, he corresponded with them. I made the foregoing statement in Wiesbaden, Germany, on 13 November 1945. I swear before God, that this is the absolute truth. |
| [Signed] Fr. Graebe
HERMANN FRIEDRICH GRAEBE |
| __________ |
| I, Hermann Friedrich Graebe, declare
under oath — From September 1941 until January 1944 I was manager and engineer-in-charge of a branch office in Sdolbunov, Ukraine, of the Solingen building firm of Josef Jung. In this capacity it was my job to visit the building sites of the firm. The firm had, among others, a site in Rovno, Ukraine. During the night of 13 July 1942, all inhabitants of the Rovno Ghetto, where there were still about 5,000 Jews, were liquidated. I would describe the circumstances of my being a witness of the dissolution of the ghetto, and the carrying out of the pogrom [Aktion] during the night and the morning, as follows: I employed for the firm, in Revue, in addition to Poles, Germans, and Ukrainians about 100 Jews from Sdolbunov, Ostrog, and My- [...soch] |
