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house lay a baby, less than a year old with his skull crushed. Blood and brains
were spattered over the house wall and covered the area immediately around the
child. The child was dressed only in a little skirt. The commander, SS Major
Puetz, was walking up and down a row of about 80-100 male Jews who were
crouching on the ground. He had a heavy dog whip in his hand. I walked up to
him, showed him the written permit of Stabsleiter Beck and demanded the seven
men whom I recognized among these who were crouching on the ground. Dr. Puetz
was very furious about Beck's concession and nothing could persuade him to
release the seven men. He made a motion with his hand encircling the square and
said that anyone who was once here would not get out. Although he was very
angry with Beck, he ordered me to take the people from 5 Bahnhofstrasse out of
Rovno by 8 o'clock at the latest. When I left Dr. Puetz, I noticed a Ukrainian
farm cart, with two horses. Dead people with stiff limbs were lying on the
cart. Legs and arms projected over the side boards. The cart was making for the
freight train. I took the remaining 74 Jews who had been locked in the house to
Sdolbunov. Several days after 13 July 1942, the area commissioner of Sdolbunov, Georg Marschall, called a meeting of all firm managers, railroad superintendents, and leaders of the Organization Todt and informed them that the firms, etc., should prepare themselves for the "resettlement" of the Jews which was to take place almost immediately. He referred to the pogrom in Rovno where all the Jews had been liquidated, i. e., had been shot near Kostopol. I make the above statement in Wiesbaden, Germany, on 10 November 1945. I swear by God that this is the absolute truth. |
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| [Signed] HERMANN FRIEDRICH GRAEBE | |
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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2993 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 67 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF ADOLF OTT, 24 APRIL 1947* | |
| I, Adolf Ott, swear, depose and
state — 1. I was born on 29 December 1904 in Waidhaus, Oberpfalz. I attended school in Lindau, Bodensee, from 1910 to 1922. From 1922 until October 1934 I worked for various firms in Lindau and was also employed by the German Labor Front [Deutsche Arbeitsfront] administrative office in Lindau. In October 1935 I left this last position and became a member of the security service. From 1935 to 1945 I held various positions within the security service. |
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* Defendant Ott testified in Court on 9, 10 and 11 December 1947 (Tr. pp. 3688-3798)
