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| opinion, plead superior orders. The answer to
this question can be found in his own testimony. On 17 October 1947, he was asked on the witness stand if he saw anything morally wrong about the Fuehrer Order, and he replied in the negative. He was asked again the same question, and he replied specifically — |
"I considered the decree to be right because it was part of our aim of the war and, therefore, it was necessary." |
| So that there should be no doubt about his
position, the Tribunal inquired if Naumann intended by his answer to say that
he "saw nothing wrong with the order, even though it did involve the killing of
defenseless human beings", and he replied "yes". The Tribunal finds from all the evidence in the case that the defendant is guilty under counts one and two of the indictment. The Tribunal finds also that the defendant was a member of the criminal organizations SS and SD under the conditions defined by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal and is, therefore, guilty under count three of the indictment. |
| ERWIN SCHULZ |
| SS Brigadier General Erwin Schulz entered
the army in 1918. After the First World War, he successively studied law at the
University of Berlin, was employed on the staff of the Dresden Bank and joined
the security police. In 1940 he became commissioner inspector of the security
police and SD. He was serving as Commandant of the Fuehrerschule of the
Security Police in Berlin-Charlottenburg when he was assigned to the command of
Einsatzkommando 5 which formed part of Einsatzgruppe C. He left Pretzsch with
his Kommando on 23 June 1941 and arrived in Lemberg [Lvov] in the early part of
July. Here he was told that, prior to the evacuation of Lemberg [Lvov] by the
Russians, 5,000 of the inhabitants had been murdered, and reprisals were in
order, 2,500 to 3,000 people were arrested and within several days executions
began. Schulz's Kommando was ordered to participate in the executions and,
under his direction, shot from 90 to 100 people. Schulz states that each executee who fell under the rifles of his Kommando had been thoroughly investigated and found guilty of participation in the massacre which preceded his arrival. He stated further that after the execution, he observed that Wehrmacht members were abusing the other 2,000 detainees being held in a stadium, and that he opened the gate and allowed these detainees to escape. These Lemberg [Lvov] shootings, despite the defendant's explanation, still remain unexplained. Schulz states that 5,000 Ukrainians and Poles had been massacred by the Russians and |
