. NMT04-T1165
Volume IV · Page 1165
| EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENSE WITNESS PANCKE* |
| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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| DR. SCHWARZ (Counsel for defendant Hofmann) :
At your time, that is prior to 9 July 1940, was RuSHA already involved in
examinations concerning illicit sexual intercourse between Germans and Poles?
WITNESS PANCKE : I don't know that exactly. It depends upon the date of the corresponding order of the Reich Leader. Q. You don't remember that order, do you? A. No. I know of the order, but I don't know at what time this order was issued. Q. Therefore you don't know whether you received this order in your capacity as chief of RuSHA. A. No, but I believe I can remember that this order on sexual intercourse between Poles and German women first became known to me by a publication in a newspaper and, therefore, I assume that it only occurred after I had left RuSHA, but I can't say for sure. Q. Do you mean the time when racial examiners were appointed for racial examinations, is that what you mean, examination of Poles? A. Yes. Q. You don't mean the prohibition as such, that is the prohibition which, as you just explained, only became known to you by newspaper reports. A. Yes. Q. Can you remember what this newspaper report said? A. It said that pursuant to a decree of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, or the Reich Leader SS, as chief of the German Police — I don't remember exactly — sexual intercourse between Polish workers in the Reich area and German women and girls was prohibited and that violation of this decree could be subject to punishment by death. Q. Did you also read newspaper reports to the effect that due to violation of this prohibition executions had been carried out? A. Yes. Q. That was published? A. Yes. |
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* Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 29 October 1947, pp. 654-734.
