. NMT04-T1172
Volume IV · Page 1172
| A. The term "Special Treatment" apparently
refers to that case, yes. Q. Witness, didn't you know that one of the possible decisions in these cases was the death penalty, if it was decided that the man was not racially valuable? A. I told you already that the racial judgment was not the only component in that decision. Various other witnesses, and also myself, testified to that, that the Reich Leader quite personally reserved his own judgment, and that it never occurred that the judgment by the racial examiner was decisive; I can very well imagine that — just with this very delicate conception of illicit sexual intercourse — the way the matter had occurred was much more decisive than whether the man had a nose four or five centimeters long; whether it was rape, or whether there was violence, or whether it was — PRESIDING JUDGE WYATT: Mr. Witness, the question he asked you was whether or not you knew that one of the possible punishments was death. Not how the judgment was made up, but whether or not that was a possible punishment. That is the only question. WITNESS HILDEBRANDT: Yes. MR. SHILLER: Witness — WITNESS HILDEBRANDT: (Interrupting) It was one of the possibilities, as I heard, not officially but through other channels, that there were even posters put up concerning this. Officially I was in no way connected with the final decision. Q. Witness, if the man involved in these cases was not killed, or put in a concentration camp, he was re-Germanized, was he not ? A. That I do not know. There were various categories. Q. Witness, did you ever hear of any other alternative besides re-Germanization or concentration camp or hanging? A. There was also imprisonment. I don't mean imprisonment in concentration camps, I mean imprisonment in a prison. |
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| I. Membership in the SS |
| I . INTRODUCTION |
Under count three of the indictment all defendants, except the defendant Viermetz, were charged with membership in the Schutzstaffeln der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the SS), an organization of the Nazi Party |
