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firmation of this. An Exchange
Telegraph report from Copen-
hagen said the report apparently
was case of mistaken identity
arising from the arrest at
Neumuenster of farmer who
somewhat resembled BormannJ
The Fuehrer's order - for the
slaughter of Commands and para
troopers-of which only IL copies
were made-was inspired by his fury
over the Dieppe raid and similar
operations, American prosecutors
told the court.
From now on" the order as
serted, "all enemies on so-called
Commando missions in Europe or
Africa challenged by German
troops, even if they are to all APP
pearances soldiers in uniform or
demolition troops, whether armed or
unarmed, in battle or in fight, are
to be slaughtered to the last man.
1T does not make any difference
whether they are landed from ships
and airplanes for their actions or
whether they are dropped by para
chute. Even if these individuals.
when found. should apparently be
prepared to give themselves up, no
pardon is to be granted them on
principle"
The order demanded that indi-
vidual Commando soldiers or para
troopers be handed over Immediate
ly to Heinrich Himmler's security
guard Apparently foreseeing objec-
tons among German soldiers to the
brutal murder of all such prisoners.
Hitler added:
Il will hold responsible under
military law, for failing to carry out
this order, all commanders and
officers who either have neglected
the duty of instructing troops about
this order or acting against the order
where it was to be executed
Tries to Justify Action.
In an effort to justify his action
Hitler charged that captured orders
showed that Commando units were
directed both to shackle prisoners
and also to kill defenseless prisoners
on the spot" when the prisoners
would prove hindrance.
The prosecution also read to the
tribunal a vivid witness account
of how Nazi SIS troops and security
police massacred 5000 Jews in one
night in the Ukrainian town of
Rowne.
The prosecution completed its case
against the Gestapo security police
and the S. D., branch of the S. S.
which functioned as another sort of
security police, during the morning
session
Col Robert G. Storey, assistant
American prosecutor, summed up
the case against the secret Nazi
police organizations by noting that
Hermann Goering created the Ges-
tapo in 1888 with the avowed pur-
pose of eliminating any real or
suspected enemies of Nazi con-
spirators.
Col. Storey declared that the
Gestapo and its kindred organiza-
lions were responsible for hundreds
of thousands of brutal murders.
Story of Slaughter Told.
The story of the slaughter of help
less men, women and children in
the Rowne ghetto-after an SIS COM
mander had given assurances that
no pogrom was planned-was given
in an affidavit by a German con-
tractor, Herman Friedrich Graebe.
| Graebe's affidavit, read by Col
Storey, told how the SIS men and
security police surrounded the
ghetto, switched on batteries of arc
lights and drove the victims from
their houses, many of them without
clothes.
1t went on to describe how the
streets of the ghetto were filled
with Jews, torn from their homes
with mothers and children crying
| frantically for each other.
That did not prevent the SIS
from driving the people along the
road at a running pace and hitting
them until they reached waiting
freight train" the affidavit said
Car after car was filled and the
screaming of women and children
and the cracking of whips and rife
shots resounded increasingly.
| Houses Blown Open.
Several families had barricaded
themselves in especially strong
buildings. and those houses were
blown open with hand grenades
"All through the night these
beaten, bounded and wounded PEG.
pie moved along the lighted streets
Women carried their dead children
in their arms, children pulled anc
dragged their dead parents by theil
arms and legs down the road TOWARD
the train
Il saw dozens of corpses of all
ages and both sexes in the streets
- 8. At the corner of one house
| lay baby less than year old with
its skull crushed. Blood and brains
were spattered over the house wall
THE commander. SIS Maj. Pritz
was walking up and down row
of 80 to 100 male Jews who were
crouching on the ground. He hae
a heavy whip in his hand"