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| "Reinhardt Prisoners Journal,"
but the order refers only to auditing procedure. There are other bits of proof
on this subject, but in the aggregate it is insufficient to justify a
determination beyond a reasonable doubt that Loerner took a consenting part in
or was actually connected with the action itself. On the grounds herein indicated and for the reasons specified, the Tribunal finds the defendant Georg Loerner guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as charged in counts two and three of the indictment. |
| COUNT FOUR |
| The Tribunal finds that the defendant Georg Loerner was a member of a criminal organization, that is, the SS, under the conditions defined by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal, and is therefore guilty under count four of the indictment. |
| ERWIN TSCHENTSCHER |
| Tschentscher was born in Berlin, 11 February
1903. He attended public and higher schools in Berlin and finished his
educational career in 1919. He was a professional soldier, having joined the
Allgemeine SS as a private 1 May 1930, with SS No. 2447. He joined the Waffen
SS at the beginning of the war 1 October 1939 with the rank of
Standartenfuehrer. He joined the NSDAP 1 December 1928 with Party No. 102547.
After completing a number of assignments with the SS on 30 November 1940, he
was transferred to the SS Viking division, which was then being activated. He
was placed in command of the economic battalion, consisting of the supply
office and the bakers and butchers companies, and was directly subordinate to
the defendant Fanslau. During the period of activation and training of this
unit it was a part of his duties to give lectures to the troops. Among other
topics discussed in these lectures, Tschentscher explained the ideology of the
SS on the Jewish question, racial theories, the SS marriage program, and other
military, and political subjects. He stated in these lectures that "the Jews
were a foreign body within the community of the German people and that the
solution of the Jewish question was to be that the Jews should disappear from
Germany, should permanently settle in other countries, or be placed in
concentration camps and places like that." Thus, it may be seen that he was
thoroughly familiar with the aims of the SS and was willingly participating in
planning and carrying out its program. About the middle of June 1941, the division having completed |
