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| was longer than 14 days, then the events in
question occurred prior to 20 August when no one questions that Dr. Six was
present in Smolensk. The defendant denies having anything to do with Einsatzgruppe B, and specifically states that he never made any reports to Einsatzgruppe B. Report No. 34 declares, under the heading of Einsatzgruppe B — |
"Smolensk, according to the report by Standartenfuehrer Dr. Six, is as thoroughly destroyed as Minsk * * *. It was therefore not possible to have the entire Vorkommando follow to Smolensk." |
| Report No. 11, dated 23 July 1941 listed
Vorkommando Moscow as one of the units of Einsatzgruppe B. Furthermore, Six
admitted having supplied Einsatzgruppe B with some of his interpreters.
The defendant has described himself as a "pure" scientist. His duties were so scientific that in April 1944 he made a speech in Krummhuebel at a session of consultants on the Jewish question in which he was reported as follows: |
"Ambassador Six speaks then about the political structures of world jewry. The physical elimination of Eastern Jewry would deprive Jewry of its biological reserves * * *. The Jewish question must be solved not only in Germany but also internationally." |
| At this same session — |
"Embassy counsellor v. Thadden speaks about the Jewish political situation in Europe and about the state of the anti-Jewish executive measures * * *. (As the details of the state of the executive measures in the various countries, reputed by the consultant, are to be kept secret, it has been decided not to enter them in the protocol.)" |
| Six admitted having been present and having
addressed the meeting but denied making the remarks attributed to him.
Six claimed that office VII of the RSHA, over which he was chief, had no special section devoted to the Jewish situation, but it developed that the organizational chart of the RSHA very clearly described section VII-B-1 as dealing with Free Masonry and Jewry. Six declared that he opened and protected the churches of Smolensk so that the population could worship, and then later stated that he protected these churches mainly for the reason that "there were archives there and valuable treasures." When asked by prosecution counsel if he had been promoted because of exceptional service with the Einsatzgruppe, he denied that his promotion had anything to do with special merit, but the letter from Himmler specifically stated — |
