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| procurement of land for the purposes of the Wehrmacht and the pertinent executory decrees shall apply accordingly for the procurement of the necessary land. The duties of the Reich office for land procurement shall be discharged by the Reich Leader SS, the Reich Commissioner for Strengthening of Germanism, or the agencies designated by him. | |
| Article 2 | |
(1) This decree shall become effective on 7 October 1939. |
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| The
Plenipotentiary General for the Administration of the Reich H. HIMMLER |
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| Berlin, 23 March 1944 | |
| 3. COOPERATION OF THE OFFICE FOR REPATRIATION OF ETHNIC GERMANS (VoMi) WITH EINSATZGRUPPEN | |
| a. Introduction | |
| The prosecution charged all
defendants with having participated in the persecution and extermination of
Jews (indictment, count one, par. 2 i; count two, pars. 24 and 25). The
prosecution introduced evidence in an attempt to prove that the defendants who
had been officials of VoMi had indulged in criminal conduct resulting from
cooperation with the notorious Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD
*. A selection from the documentary evidence of the prosecution is set forth on pp. 851 to 853. A selection from the evidence of the defense follows on pages 854 to 855. |
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| b. Selections from the Evidence of the Prosecution | |
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-5095 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 741 |
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| LETTER FROM DR. BEHRENDS OF THE VoMi TO NAUMANN, CHIEF OF EINSATZGRUPPE B, 6 JULY 1942, CONCERNING COOPERATION WITH EINSATZKOMMANDOS | |
| 6 July 1942 | |
| To the Chief of Einsatzgruppe B SS Colonel [SS Oberfuehrer] Naumann Smolensk The Commanding General of Army Group Area Center [Befehls- (...haber) | |
* 23 leaders and high-ranking officers of the Einsatzgruppen were tried before Tribunal No. II in Case 9 on the charge of having participated in the extermination of groups of the local population of the occupied parts of the Soviet Union, especially Jews. U. S. A. vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al., Case 9, vol. IV, this series.
