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building,¹ has gotten a rather bad odor with the public. When you
inspected the Ahnenerbe at that time did you notice that something might be
going on there which was not in the nature of serious and honest research work?
A. I think I can remember fairly accurately things which I experienced and saw during these years when they interested me and when they made a certain impression on me. I must say frankly that of this visit to the Ahnenerbe in Berlin, I remember practically nothing. I have a vague recollection that we were led through rooms where on the walls there were charts concerned with the Germanic race and pictures of excavations of burial mounds, and similar things. I believe I also remember that with a certain amount of irony I asked myself, "What is all this?" Q. I can't hear what you said last — with the noise. Would you be so kind as to repeat that last sentence? A. I believe that I remember in looking at all these things, I asked myself, "What is all this stuff ?" Q. But no suspicion that something wrong was going on here arose in your mind? A. No, certainly not. PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: Did the whole Circle go to visit the Ahnenerbe? WITNESS LINDEMANN: As I said yesterday, it was an invitation from Himmler himself to inspect the Police Institute in Berlin where police officers were trained, and so on. And as Himmler himself had issued this invitation, I imagine that most of the members of the Circle were there. |
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| DR. FLAECHSNER: Witness, may I ask you a question now? This morning a document was submitted which was a letter by Kranefuss in which he asks that Ohlendorf may deliver a lecture in the Circle of Friends on the subject of the Security Police and SD.² A memorandum was submitted by Kranefuss³ from which it becomes evident that the Reich Leader [Himmler] did not want any lectures of any significance, but he suggested that the subject should only be touched; for instance, about partisan fights, about the activities of the SS General Ohlendorf in the Crimea, and such matters. I do not know whether Ohlendorf had the opportunity to speak about these events before the Circle of Friends. Can you tell us something about that? |
¹ Reference is to The Medical case, United States vs. Karl Brandt, et al., Volumes I and II, this series.
² Document NI-8108, Prosecution Exhibit 738, reproduced in C above.
³ Document NI-8123, Prosecution Exhibit 749, reproduced in C above
