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| Jews who had been driven across the Dnester River by the Rumanians into territory occupied by the German forces, and whom he guided back across the river. When asked why these Jews had been expelled from Rumania, Nosske replied — |
"I have no idea. I assume that the Rumanians wanted to get rid of them and sent them into the German territory so that we would have to shoot them, and we would have the trouble of shooting them. We didn't want to do that. We didn't want to do the work for the Rumanians, and we never did, nor at all other places where something similar happened. We refused it and, therefore, we sent them back." |
| One or two defense counsel have asserted that the number of deaths resulting from acts of the organizations to which the defendants belonged did not reach the total of 1,000,000. As a matter of fact, it went far beyond 1,000,000. As already indicated, the International Military Tribunal, after a trial lasting 10 months, studying and analyzing figures and reports, declared — |
"The RSHA played a leading part in the ‘final solution’ of the Jewish question by the extermination of the Jews. A special section, under the Amt IV of the RSHA was established to supervise this program. Under its direction, approximately six million Jews were murdered of which two million were killed by Einsatzgruppen and other units of the security police." |
| Ohlendorf, in testifying before the
International Military Tribunal declared that, according to the reports, his
Einsatzgruppe killed 90,000 people. He also told of the methods he employed to
prevent the exaggeration of figures. He did say that other Einsatzgruppen were
not as careful as he was in presenting totals, but he presented no evidence to
attack numbers presented by other Einsatzgruppen. Reference must also be made
to the statement of the defendant Heinz Schubert who not only served as
adjutant to Ohlendorf in the field from October 1941 to June 1942, but who
continued in the same capacity of adjutant in the RSHA, office [Amt] III B, for
both Ohlendorf and Dr. Hans Emlich, until the end of 1944. If there was any
question about the correctness of the figures, this is where the question would
have been raised, but Schubert expressed no doubt nor did he say that these
individuals who were momently informed in the statistics entertained the
slightest doubt about them in any way. Schubert showed very specifically the care which was taken to prepare the reports and to avoid error. |
"The Einsatzgruppe reported in two ways to the Reich Security Head Office. Once through radio, then in writing. The radio reports were kept strictly secret and, apart from Ohlendorf, his deputy Standartenfuehrer Willy Seibert and the head |
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