. NMT04-T0526
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"I hereby promote you, effective 9 November 1941 to SS Oberfuehrer for outstanding service in Einsatz. [Emphasis supplied.] |
| [Signed] H. HIMMLER." |
| When asked about his succeeding promotion he said further that it was "quite unimaginable" that "special merits in the past should be mentioned" in the "promotion". Whereupon the prosecution introduced the following document: |
"Memorandum: The Reich Security Main Office requests the promotion of SS Oberfuehrer Dr. Six to Brigadefuehrer, effective 31 January 1945 * * * SIPO Einsatz; 22 June 1941-28 August 1941, East Einsatz * * *. On 9 November 1941, Six was promoted by the RF-SS to SS Oberfuehrer for outstanding service in Security Police Einsatz in the East." |
| Six testified that he tried to be discharged
from the SD and the SS prior to 1939, but it is incongruous to say the least
that one who joins the Nazi Party voluntarily because he believes it to be the
salvation of Germany, joins the SA voluntarily, becomes a brigadier general in
the SS, and joins the SD voluntarily, should seek to leave it when Germany was
riding the crest of the high wave running toward ever continuing and ever more
glorious victories and triumphs. Despite the finding that Vorkommando Moscow formed part of Einsatzgruppe B and despite the finding that Six was aware of the criminal purposes of Einsatzgruppe B, the Tribunal cannot conclude with scientific certitude that Six took an active part in the murder program of that organization. It is evident, however, that Six formed part of an organization engaged in atrocities, offenses, and inhumane acts against civilian populations. The Tribunal finds the defendant guilty under counts one and two of the indictment. The Tribunal also finds that the defendant was a member of the criminal organizations SS and SD under the conditions defined in the judgment of the International Military Tribunal and is, therefore, guilty under count three of the indictment. |
| PAUL BLOBEL |
| It was the contention of the prosecution that SS Colonel Paul Blobel commanded Sonderkommando 4a from June 1941 to January 1942, and in that capacity is responsible for the killing of 60,000 people. Defense counsel in his final plea, argued that the maximum number of persons executed by Sonderkommando 4a cannot have exceeded 10,000 to 15,000 which in itself, it must be admitted, would anywhere be regarded as a massacre of some |
