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I. INDICTMENT¹ 
 
 
The United States of America, by the undersigned Telford Taylor, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, duly appointed to represent said Government in the prosecution of war criminals, charges that the defendants herein committed crimes against humanity and war crimes, as defined in Control Council Law No. 10, duly enacted by the Allied Control Council on 20 December 1945. These crimes included murders, brutalities, cruelties, tortures, atrocities, deportation, enslavement, plunder of property, persecutions, and other inhumane acts, as set forth in counts one and two of this indictment. All but one of the defendants herein are further charged with membership in a criminal organization, as set forth in count three of this indictment.

The persons accused as guilty of these crimes and accordingly named as defendants in this case are —

ULRICH GREIFELT — Obergruppenfuehrer (Lieutenant General) in the "Schutzstaffeln der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei" (commonly known as the "SS") and General of Police; Chief of the Staff Main Office (Stabshauptamt) of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism (Reichskommissar fuer die Festigung des deutschen Volkstums, commonly known as the "RKFDV") ; and Chief of Amtsgruppe "B" of the Staff Main Office.

RUDOLF CREUTZ — Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the SS; Deputy to Greifelt; and Chief of Amtsgruppe "A" of the Staff Main Office of the RKFDV.

KONRAD MEYER-HETLING — Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the SS; Chief of Amtsgruppe "C" of the Staff Main Office of the RKFDV.

OTTO SCHWARZENBERGER — Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the SS; Chief of Amt [Office] V in Amtsgruppe "B" of the Staff Main Office of the RKFDV.

HERBERT HUEBNER — Standartenfuehrer (Colonel) in the SS; Chief of Branch Office Poznan of the Staff Main Office of the RKFDV and local representative of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (Rasse- and Siedlungshauptamt, commonly known as "RuSHA") for the Warthegau.²

WERNER LORENZ — Obergruppenfuehrer (Lt. General) in the
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¹ Tr. pp. 1-18, 1 July 1947.
² Part of western Poland incorporated into Germany proper after the occupation and made a province (Gau) of the Reich.

 
 
 
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