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| EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
THE DEFENDANT HILDEBRANDT* |
| CROSS-EXAMINATION |
| MR. SHILLER: Witness, on direct examination,
in connection with the phrase "Special Treatment", you stated that the meaning
of this phrase was known in detail only to the members of the State Police.
Wasn't this term "Special Treatment" used as a matter of course in the agencies
of RuSHA and among the field leaders of RuS and the racial examiners of RuSHA.
DEFENDANT HILDEBRANDT: No. The expression was known, but there was no precise conception of what the expression signified. It was a collective term and only the Gestapo knew in detail what the consequences of the term "Special Treatment" were, and the consequences differed quite a bit. The judgments differed considerably and, therefore, it was impossible to describe the whole consequences in one word. This word was only a collective term which afterwards was split up into various consequences which in final effect remained unknown to the RuS leaders, because they only had to give expert opinion. Q. Witness, will you please look at Documents NO-5836 and NO-5837, which I am offering for identification as Prosecution Exhibits 845 and 846. These are two reports, Witness, by a racial examiner named Ratzeberg, in connection with two trips he made in August and in October, 1944. A. May I ask you what document you are referring to, Mr. Prosecutor? Q. Witness, if you will look at the first Document NO-5836, will you please look at paragraph number 3, headed "Secret State Police", with the subheading "(1) Special Treatment"? A. Yes. I see what you mean. Q. You see a number of cases listed under that, Witness, names and numbers meaning something in connection with the racial judgment. If you will look at the other document, Witness, NO-5837, paragraph II, Gestapo Branch Office-Mainz, with the subheading " (1) Special Treatment", there are some more cases given? A. Yes. I see that. Q. Now Witness, are there any cases that could be listed under such a heading except cases involving Poles or Eastern workers who were accused of having had forbidden sexual intercourse with German women? |
* Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 19-21 January 1948 ; 2 February 1948; pp. 3874-4120; 4771-4774.
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