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| Q. What would these people,
these Jews — 5,000 a day — be, as you called them "Chosen People"?
That is what you called them: "The Chosen People." A. Yes. They probably were Jews. Q. I say, you called them "The Chosen People." You meant the Jews, didn't you? A. I am not certain, but probably I meant the Jews by that. Q. Well, General, you answered a letter about Jews in which the letter calls them Jews. You come back and call them "The Chosen People." There is no quibbling about that. A. Yes. The Jews themselves proudly call themselves "The Chosen People." Q. I said but what you called them, and you meant the Jews when you said that, didn't you? A. Yes. Q. All right. Now, they were being sent, 5,000 a day, to Treblinka. Why were they being sent there? A. I don't know, but it was done by order of the Reich Leader. Q. Why didn't you find out? If you were thanking somebody for doing that, why didn't you find out why they were being taken there? A. With the innumerable orders which had to be taken care of during the day it was sufficient for me to know that the Reich Leader had given such and such an order; that the Reich Leader had ordered such a movement of transportation; and actually because it was purely a transportation matter and not an extermination measure, the State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Transportation had to furnish the necessary transportation and, therefore, it was one of my tasks which brought me to contact the proper agency, so that the necessary transportation could be furnished. I did this in good faith, and that is the way I worked on it. Q. Were you thanking them for yourself and in the name of the Reich Leader SS for carrying on this program? And you tell this Tribunal that you didn't know what this program was? A. Yes |
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| JUDGE MUSMANNO: General, I would like to put
one question, which, perhaps is only of academic interest, but which certainly
has aroused my curiosity, to say the least. Mr. Robbins indicated that at the
first trial you had offered to place yourself in the defendants' box to
represent Himmler. WITNESS KARL WOLFF: Yes. Q. Did you mean by that gesture that you would be willing to answer for the crimes which could be laid at his door, if any? |
