Document 2709 will be Exhibit USA 265. At a meeting here in Nuremberg, before the representatives of the German Press, the defendant Streicher and Mayor Liebel of Nuremberg revealed in advance to the gathered members of the Press that the Nuremberg synagogue was to be destroyed. Document 1724-PS, Exhibit USA 266, which is the minutes of this meeting, dated 4th August, 1938. Gauleiter Julius Streicher will personally set into motion the crane with which the Jewish symbols, Star of David, etc., will be torn down. This should be arranged in a big way.
Closer details are still unknown.
The defendant Streicher himself supervised the demolition. These accounts of violence were not localised anti-Semitic demonstrations but were directed and ordered from a centralised headquarters in Berlin. I now refer to Document 3051-PS, previously offered in evidence as Exhibit USA 240. The Chiefs of the State Police, or their deputies, must get in telephonic contact with the political leaders who have jurisdiction over their districts and must arrange a joint meeting with the appropriate inspector or commander of the Order Police to discuss the organisation of the demonstrations. At these discussions the political leaders must be informed that the German Police have received from the Reichsfuehrer S.S. and Chief of the German Police the following instructions, in accordance with which the political leaders should adjust their own measures.