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| Viermetz are charged with special
responsibility for and participation in these crimes. 21. Persecution and extermination of Jews. The RKFDV Staff Main Office was responsible for the evacuation of large numbers of Jews from the occupied and incorporated territories. RuSHA also participated extensively in the persecution and extermination of Jews. The Genealogy Office (Ahnentafelamt) of RuSHA prepared and retained in its files the names of all Jewish families in the Reich and persons having any Jewish ancestry. This office also participated in preparing similar files in the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Danzig, and France where it worked together with the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office). These files were used for enforcing discriminatory measures against Jews and preparing transport lists of Jews to be taken from Germany and the occupied countries to the extermination camps in the East. The defendants Greifelt, Creutz, Meyer-Hetling, Schwarzenberger, Hofmann, Hildebrandt, Schwalm, and Huebner are charged with special responsibility for and participation in these crimes. 22. The defendant Hildebrandt is charged with special responsibility for and participation in the extermination of thousands of German nationals pursuant to the so-called "Euthanasia Program" of the Third Reich, from September 1939 to February 1940. 23. The acts and conduct of the defendants set forth in this count were 'committed unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly and constitute violations of international conventions, particularly of Articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 23, 43, 45, 46, 47, 52, and 56 of the Hague Regulations, 1907, and of Articles 2, 3, 4, 9, and 31 of the Prisoner of War Convention (Geneva, 1929), of the laws and customs of war, of the general principles of criminal law as derived from the criminal laws of all civilized nations, of the internal penal laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed, and of Article 11 of Control Council Law No. 10. |
| COUNT TWO-WAR CRIMES |
| 24. Between September 1939 and April 1945, all the defendants herein committed war crimes, as defined by Control Council Law No. 10, in that they were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, were connected with plans and enterprises involving, and were members of organizations or groups connected with atrocities and offenses against persons and property constituting violations of the laws or customs of |
