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| but captured documents prove that it is true. The official chart drawn up in the WVHA describes one of the departments under Fanslau as follows: |
"Concentration camps: replacements, releases, promotions, assignments, transfers, training (attached to Amtsgruppe D)." |
| In addition, actual transfers of
concentration camp commanders, signed by Fanslau have been introduced as part
of the prosecution's rebuttal evidence. In this connection, the proof also
shows that personnel from the WVHA was transferred to the East and placed at
Globocnik's disposal for use in Action Reinhardt and the Osti operations.
Fanslau's denials in this respect are contradicted by these official
reports. A few remarks on the participation of Fanslau and Tschentscher in the campaign of frightfulness conducted by the SS Viking division in Poland and Russia will have to be interpolated parenthetically here. Franslau, as administrative officer of the Viking division, was one of its highest ranking officers. Tschentscher was his deputy. They were in command of the supply battalion of the Viking division. On direct examination, when Fanslau was asked about the mistreatment of Jews, he made the following statement: |
"I may say that during my whole time of service at the front with the Waffen SS, and also with the Police, I saw nothing which indicated in any sense of the word from a human soldier, or any international point of view anything that would have been illegal. Individual offenses which happen in all armies of the world after all, so far as I could see at the time, were prosecuted legally whereby justice was done." |
| We will refer to the testimony of Otto only
for the purpose of corroborating the testimony of other witnesses. The
testimony of Fanslau, Tschentscher, Sauer, Jollek, Goldstein, and Otto all
place the supply battalion at Tarnopol and Zloczow at the very time when
wholesale massacres of the Jewish population were taking place. These massacres
are proved by the Einsatzgruppen as well as by the testimony of Sauer,
Goldstein, Jollek, and Otto. That Jews were rounded up and forced to work in
the slaughter houses at Tarnopol by the men of the supply battalion is proved
by the testimony of Sauer, Goldstein, and Otto. That they were killed there was
known by Goldstein, who helped to bury them, and by Otto, who heard of it,
Sauer saw them mistreated there by members of the Supply Battalion. He
positively identified not only the trucks but also the personnel of that unit.
That the supply battalion participated in the killing of Jews at Zloczow was seen by Jollek and Otto. Jollek knew that the men from the Viking division, particularly the personnel which was |
