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murdered or sent to concentration camps the relatives of persons who had allegedly committed crimes. They ordered the murder of prisoners in SIPO and SD prisons to prevent their release by the Allied armies. They participated in the seizure and spoliation of public and private property. They were primary agencies for the persecution of the Jews and of the churches. In carrying out these crimes the GESTAPO operated as an organization, closely centralized and controlled from Berlin headquarters. Reports were submitted to Berlin, and all important decisions emanated from Berlin. The regional offices had only limited power to commit persons to concentration camps. All cases, other than those of short duration, had to be submitted to Berlin for approval. From 1943 to the end of the war the defendant Kaltenbrunner was the Chief of the Security Police and SD in Berlin. The GESTAPO was organized on a functional basis. Its principal divisions dealt with the groups and institutions against which it committed the worst crimes-Jews, churches, communists, and political liberals. Thus, in perpetrating these crimes, the GESTAPO acted as an entity, each section performing its part in the general criminal enterprises ordered by Berlin. It must be held responsible as an entity. The SD was at all times a department of the SS. Its criminality directly concerns and contributes to the criminality of the SS. As to the GESTAPO, it is submitted that: 1. The GESTAPO is an organization, in the sense in which that term is used in Article 9 of the Charter. 2. The defendants Goering and Kaltenbrunner committed the crimes defined in Article 6 of the Charter in their capacity as members and leaders of the GESTAPO. 3. The GESTAPO, as an organization, participated in and aided the conspiracy which contemplated and involved the commission of the crimes defined in Article 6 of the Charter. In 1941, on German Police Day, Heydrich, the former Chief of the Security Police and the SD, said: "Secret State Police, Criminal Police, and SD are still adorned with the furtive and whispered secrecy of a political detective story. In a mixture of fear and shuddering-and yet at home with a certain
of the Charter. In 1941, on German Police Day, Heydrich, the former Chief of the Security Police and the SD, said: "Secret State Police, Criminal Police, and SD are still adorned with the furtive and whispered secrecy of a political detective story. In a mixture of fear and shuddering-and yet at home with a certain feeling of security because of their presence,-brutality, inhumanity bordering on the sadistic, and ruthlessness are attributed abroad to the men of this profession." (Extract from a brochure on Reinhard Heydrich, published in December 1943.) The evidence as it is submitted, shows that brutality, inhumanity, sadism, and ruthlessness were characteristic of the GESTAPO and that it was and should be declared, a criminal organization, in accordance with article 9 of the Charter. LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE GEHEIME STAATSPOLIZEI (GESTAPO) AND SICHERHEITSDIENST (SD) Document Description Vol. Page Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Article 9......I 6 International Military Tribunal, Indictment Number 1, Section IV (H); Appendix B......I 29,70,71 Note: A single asterisk (*) before a document indicates that the document was received in evidence at the Nurnberg trial. A double asterisk (**) before a document number indicates that the document was referred to during the trial but was not formally received in evidence, for the reason given in parentheses following the description of the document. The USA series number, given in parentheses following the description of the document, is the official exhibit number assigned by the court. *071-PS Rosenberg letter to Bormann, 23 April 1941, replying to Bormann's letter of 19 April 1941 (Document 072-PS). (USA 371)......III 119 *498-PS Top Secret Fuehrer Order for killing of commandos, 18 October 1942. (USA 501).......III 416 *501-PS Collection of four documents on execution by gas, June 1942, one signed by Dr. Becker, SS Untersturmfuehrer at Kiev, 16 May 1942. (USA 288).....III 418 *502-PS Order, 17 July 1941, entitled "Regulations for the Commandos of the Chief of the SIPO and SD which are to be activated in Stalags". (USA 486).....422 *526-PS Top secret notice, 10 May 1943, concerning saboteurs captured and shot in Norway.
at Kiev, 16 May 1942. (USA 288).....III 418 *502-PS Order, 17 July 1941, entitled "Regulations for the Commandos of the Chief of the SIPO and SD which are to be activated in Stalags". (USA 486).....422 *526-PS Top secret notice, 10 May 1943, concerning saboteurs captured and shot in Norway. (USA 502).....III 434 532-PS Telegram of WFSt, 24 June 1944, concerning treatment of Commandos.......III 437 *553-PS Order signed by Keitel, 4 August 1942, regulating treatment of paratroops. (USA 500)......III 441 *654-PS Thierack's notes, 18 September 1942, on discussion with Himmler concerning delivery of Jews to Himmler for extermination through work. (USA 218).......III 467 *668-PS Letter from Chief of the SIPO and SD and OKW letter, 24 June 1942, concerning prosecution of punishable offenses against the Reich or occupation forces in occupied territories. (USA 504)......III 476 *674-PS Secret letter from President of High District Court of Kattowitz re executions being carried out by Gestapo without judicial processes, 3 December 1941. (USA 505).....III 478 *701-PS Letter from Minister of Justice to Prosecutors, 1 April 1943, concerning Poles and Jews who are released from Penal institutions of Department of Justice. (USA 497)......III 510 *710-PS Letter from Goering to Heydrich, 31 July 1941, concerning solution of Jewish question. (USA 509) III 525 745-PS Letter from Chief of SD, Koblenz, 12 June 1944, concerning enemy aviators who have been shot down......III 543 775-PS Memorandum of Minister of the Interior concerning clarification of police matters, 1935......III 547 779-PS Directive by Frick, regulating "protective custody", 12 April 1934.......III 555 833-PS Instructions by Admiral Canaris, Head of the Abwehr, 2 February 1942, concerning prosecution of crimes against the Reich or occupying forces in the occupied territories......III 600 *1061-PS Official report of Stroop, SS and Police Leader of Warsaw, on destruction of Warsaw Ghetto, 1943. (USA 275)......III 718 *1063-A-PS Order of Chief of SIPO and SD, 2 January 1941, concerning classification of concentration camps. (USA 492).....III 775 *1063-B-PS Letter signed by Kaltenbrunner, 26 July 1943, concerning establishment of Labor Reformatory camps. (USA 492)......III 777 *1063-D-PS Mueller's order, 17 December 1942, concerning prisoners
Order of Chief of SIPO and SD, 2 January 1941, concerning classification of concentration camps. (USA 492).....III 775 *1063-B-PS Letter signed by Kaltenbrunner, 26 July 1943, concerning establishment of Labor Reformatory camps. (USA 492)......III 777 *1063-D-PS Mueller's order, 17 December 1942, concerning prisoners qualified for work to be sent to concentration camps. (USA 219).....III 778 1063-E-PS Copy of Mueller's order, 25 June 1942, concerning increased shipments to concentration camps......III 780 *1104-PS Memorandum, 21 November 1941, enclosing copies of report concerning anti-Jewish action in Minsk. (USA 483).......III 783 1113-PS Report of 6 November 1942 concerning action "Marshfever".......III 792 *1165-PS Letter from Commandant of concentration Camp Gross Rosen, 23 October 1941, and letter of Mueller to all Gestapo offices, 9 November 1941, concerning execution of Russian PW's (USA 244)......III 821 *1276-PS Top secret letter from Chief of SIPO and SD to OKW/WFST, 17 June 1944, concerning Commando operations. (USA 525).....III 855 1285-PS Extract from The German Police, 1943, pp. 81-82.......III 863 1437-PS Law concerning reuniting of Austria with German Reich, 18 March 1938. 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 262.....IV 17 1438-PS Fuehrer concerning administration of Sudeten-German territory, 22 October 1938. 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 1453.....IV 17 *1472-PS Copy of telegram from Mueller to Himmler, 16 December 1942, concerning recruiting Jewish labor. (USA 279).....IV 49 *1481-PS Gestapo order, 20 January 1938, dissolving and confiscating property of Catholic Youth Womens Organization in Bavaria. (USA 737).....III 50 *1514-PS Order, 27 July 1944, from 6th Corps Area Command concerning delivery of prisoners of war to secret state police. (USA 491)......IV 53 *1521-PS Report from the Bavarian Political Police to the Gestapo, Berlin, 24 August 1934, concerning National mourning on occasion of death of von Hindenburg. (USA 740)......IV 75 1551-PS Decree assigning functions in Office of Chief of German Police, 26 June 1936. 1936 Reichs Ministerialblatt, pp. 946-948.....IV 106 *1573-PS Order signed Mueller, 18 June 1941, concerning measures to be taken against Emigrants and civilian workers from Russian areas and against Foreign workers. (USA
(USA 740)......IV 75 1551-PS Decree assigning functions in Office of Chief of German Police, 26 June 1936. 1936 Reichs Ministerialblatt, pp. 946-948.....IV 106 *1573-PS Order signed Mueller, 18 June 1941, concerning measures to be taken against Emigrants and civilian workers from Russian areas and against Foreign workers. (USA 498).....IV 112 1638-PS Circular of Minister of Interior, 11 November 1938, on cooperation of SD and other authorities. 1938 Reichs Ministerialblatt, p. 1906......IV 142 *1650-PS Directive to State Police Directorates from Chief of SIPO and SD by Mueller, 4 March 1944, concerning captured escaped PWs except British and American PWs. (USA 246)......IV 158 *1680-PS "Ten Years Security Police and SD" published in The German Police, 1 February 1943. (USA 477)......IV 191 *1723-PS Order concerning cooperation of Party offices with the Secret State Police, 25 January 1938, published in Decrees, Regulations, Announcements, 1937, Vol. II, pp. 430-439. (USA 206)......IV 219 *1815-PS Documents on RSHA meeting concerning the study and treatment of church politics. (USA 510)....IV 415 *1852-PS "Law" from The German Police, 1941, by Dr. Werner Best. (USA 499) (See Chart No. 16).....IV 490 1956-PS Meaning and Tasks of the Secret State Police, published in The Archives, January 1936, Vol. 22-24, p. 1942......IV 598 2073-PS Decree concerning the appointment of a Chief of German Police in the Ministry of the Interior, 17 June 1936. 1936 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 487......IV 703 2104-PS Law on organization of Secret State Police office, 26 April 1933. 1933 Preussische Gesetzsammlung, p. 122.....IV 730 2105-PS Law on Secret State Police of 30 November 1933. 1933 Preussische Gesetzsammlung, p. 413.....IV 731 2107-PS Law on Secret State Police of 10 February 1936. 1936 Preussische Gesetzsammlung, pp. 21-22.....IV 732 2108-PS Decree for execution of Law on Secret State Police of 10 February 1936. 1936 Preussische Gesetzsammlung, pp. 22-24.....IV 732 2113-PS Decree for application of law of 30 November 1933, concerning Secret State Police of 8 March 1934. 1934 Preussische Gesetzsammlung, p. 143.....IV 743 2232-PS Tasks and Means of a Political Police, from German Administrative Law by Hans Frank, pp. 420-430......IV 881 2243-PS
Gesetzsammlung, pp. 22-24.....IV 732 2113-PS Decree for application of law of 30 November 1933, concerning Secret State Police of 8 March 1934. 1934 Preussische Gesetzsammlung, p. 143.....IV 743 2232-PS Tasks and Means of a Political Police, from German Administrative Law by Hans Frank, pp. 420-430......IV 881 2243-PS Law relating to finance measures in connection with the police, 19 March 1937. 1937 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 325......IV 924 2245-PS Frick decree of 20 September 1936 concerning employment of Security Police Inspectors. 1936 Reichs Ministerialblatt, pp. 1343-1344.....IV 928 *2273-PS Extract from a top secret report of Einsatz Group A. (USA 487) (See Chart No. 4).....IV 944 *2285-PS Affidavit, 13 May 1945, by two French officers, about shooting of prisoners at Mauthausen. (USA 490).....IV 991 2344-PS Reconstruction of a Nation by Goering, 1934, p. 89.....IV 1065 2347-PS Court decisions from 1935 Reichsverwaltungsblatt, Vol. 56, pp. 577-578, 20 July 1935.......IV 1066 *2348-PS Affidavit of Rauff, Head of Amt II D, RSHA, 19 October 1945. (USA 485).....IV 1068 2371-PS Execution of ordinance for Security of people and state, 28 February 1933. 1933 Reichs Ministerialblatt, Part I, p. 543......IV 1102 2372-PS Unified Designation of offices of Secret State Police in Reich. 1936 Reichs Ministerial Gazette, Part V, pp. 1344-5.......IV 1105 2374-PS Affidavit of Rudolf Mildner, 27 June 1945, concerning treatment of English-American commando groups.......V 1 2375-PS Affidavit of Rudolf Mildner, 16 November 1945, concerning activities of SIPO and SD......V 2 2376-PS Affidavit of Rudolf Mildner, 16 November 1945, concerning treatment of Jews......V 3 *2460-PS Affidavit of Rudolf Diels. (USA 751)......V 205 *2477-PS Affidavit of Willy Litzenberg, 4 November 1945. (USA 518)......V 229 2478-PS Affidavit of Willy Litzenberg, 4 November 1945.....V 230 2479-PS Affidavit of Dr. Rudolf Mildner, 4 November 1945.......V 230 *2499-PS Original Protective Custody Order served on Dr. R. Kempner, 15 March 1935. (USA 232)......V 236 *2542-PS Affidavit of Kurt Lindow, 30 September 1945. (USA 489)......V 286 *2605-PS Affidavit of Dr. Rudolf Kastner, former President of the Hungarian Zionist Organization, 13 September 1945. (USA 242).....V 313
*2499-PS Original Protective Custody Order served on Dr. R. Kempner, 15 March 1935. (USA 232)......V 236 *2542-PS Affidavit of Kurt Lindow, 30 September 1945. (USA 489)......V 286 *2605-PS Affidavit of Dr. Rudolf Kastner, former President of the Hungarian Zionist Organization, 13 September 1945. (USA 242).....V 313 *2614-PS Affidavit of Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, 5 November 1945. (USA 918).....337 2615-PS Affidavit of Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, 5 November 1945.....V 338 *2620-PS Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 5 November 1945. (USA 919)......V 341 2622-PS Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 5 November 1945.......V 343 2644-PS Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 5 November 1945.....V 357 2645-PS Affidavit of Gottfried Boley, 14 November 1945.....V 357 *2751-PS Affidavit of Alfred Naujocks, 20 November 1945. (USA 482)......V 390 2752-PS Affidavit of Willy Litzenberg, 8 November 1945.....V 392 2846-PS Affidavit of Erwin Lahousen, 13 November 1945......V 507 2884-PS Affidavit of Walter Warlimont, 14 November 1945.....V 550 2890-PS Extracts from Befehlsblatt of the SIPO and SD.....V 557 *2990-PS Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 18 November 1945. (USA 526)......V 694 *2992-PS Affidavits of Hermann Graebe. (USA 494)....V 696 *3012-PS Order signed Christiansen, 19 March 1943, to all group leaders of Security Service, and record of telephone conversation signed by Stapj, 11 March 1943. (USA 190).......V 731 *3033-PS Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 21 November 1945. (USA 488).....V 741 *3051-PS Three teletype orders from Heydrich to all stations of State Police, 10 November 1938, on measures against Jews, and one order from Heydrich on termination of protest actions. (USA 240)......V 797 *3058-PS Letter from Heydrich to Goering, 11 November 1938, reporting action against the Jews. (USA 508)......V 854 3343-PS Speech delivered at labor-meeting of Prussian State Council on 18 June 1934, from Speeches and Essays of Hermann Goering......VI 78 3344-PS Extract from Befehlsblatt of the Chief of Security Police and SD, Berlin, 7 September 1942, No. 39, p. 249.....VI 78 *3360-PS Teletype, 12 February 1944, relating to recaptured escaped Eastern laborers. (USA 499).....VI 95 3363-PS Special delivery letter, 21 September 1939, from Chief of Security Police to
78 3344-PS Extract from Befehlsblatt of the Chief of Security Police and SD, Berlin, 7 September 1942, No. 39, p. 249.....VI 78 *3360-PS Teletype, 12 February 1944, relating to recaptured escaped Eastern laborers. (USA 499).....VI 95 3363-PS Special delivery letter, 21 September 1939, from Chief of Security Police to Chiefs of all detail groups concerning Jewish problem in Occupied zone......VI 97 *3840-PS Statement of Karl Kaleske, 24 February 1946, concerning the elimination of the Warsaw Ghetto. (USA 803).......VI 775 *3841-PS Statement of SS and Polizeifuehrer Juergen Stroop, 24 February 1946, concerning elimination of the Warsaw Ghetto. (USA 804).....VI 776 *3868-PS Affidavit of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, 5 April 1946, concerning execution of 3,000,000 people at Auschwitz Extermination Center. (USA 819).....VI 787 D-46 Order designating Herzogenbosch as concentration camp, 18 January 1943......VI 1025 D-50 Order establishing concentration camps at Lublin, 9 April 1943......VI 1027 D-183 Order of Gestapo Office, Darmstadt, 7 December 1938, concerning treatment of articles secured during protest action against Jews......VI 1075 *D-569 File of circulars from Reichsfuehrer SS, the OKW, Inspector of Concentration Camps, Chief of Security Police and SD, dating from 29 October 1941 through 22 February 1944, relative to procedure in cases of unnatural death of Soviet PW, execution of Soviet PW, etc. (GB 277)......VII 74 *D-762 Order of Hitler, 30 July 1944, concerning combating of "terrorists" and "saboteurs" in Occupied Territories. (GB 298)....VII 221 *D-763 Circular of OKW, 18 August 1944, regarding penal jurisdiction of non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 300).....VII 222 *L-18 Official report, Katzmann to General of Police Krueger, 30 June 1943, concerning "Solution of Jewish Question in Galicia". (USA 277).....VII 755 *L-37 Letter from Illmer, Chief of the SIPO and SD of Radom, to subordinates, 19 July 1944, concerning collective responsibility of members of families of assassins and saboteurs. (USA 506)......VII 782 *L-41 Orders of Mueller, Chief of the Gestapo, 17 December 1942 and 23 March 1943, concerning transfer of workers to concentration camps. (USA 496)....VII 784 *L-51 Affidavit of Adolf Zutter, 2 August 1945. (USA 521).....VII
of members of families of assassins and saboteurs. (USA 506)......VII 782 *L-41 Orders of Mueller, Chief of the Gestapo, 17 December 1942 and 23 March 1943, concerning transfer of workers to concentration camps. (USA 496)....VII 784 *L-51 Affidavit of Adolf Zutter, 2 August 1945. (USA 521).....VII 798 *L-53 Order from Commandant of the SIPO and SD for the Radom District to Branch Office in Tomaschow, 21 July 1944, on clearance of prisons. (USA 291).....VII 814 *L-61 Express letter from Sauckel to Presidents of Landes Employment Office, 26 November of Jews and exchange of Jews in essential employment against Polish labor. (USA 177)....VII 816 *L-89 Top secret letter issued by the Commandant of the SIPO and SD, District Radom, 24 February 1944, concerning intensified interrogations. (USA 507)......VII 868 *L-90 Fuehrer decree, February 1942, concerning prosecution of offenses in Occupied Territory; "First Ordinance" signed by Keitel for execution of the directive; memorandum of 12 December 1941, signed by Keitel. (USA 503)....VII 871 L-152 RSHA Order concerning fraternization of Jews and Aryans, 3 November 1941......VII 903 L-167 Orders of the Reichsminister of the Interior, 24 March 1942, concerning use of public transportation by Jews, and covering letters....VII 917 *L-180 Report by SS Brigade Commander Stahlecker to Himmler, "Action Group A", 15 October 1941. (USA 276).....978 *l-185 Organization plan of the RSHA, 1 January 1941. (USA 484)......VII 996 *L-215 File of orders and dossiers of 25 Luxembourgers committed to concentration camps at various times in 1944. (USA 243).....VII 1045 L-217 Order of Secret State Police concerning camouflage of Jewish businesses, 20 November 1936.....VII 1052 *L-219 Organization plan of the RSHA as of 1 October 1943. (USA 479)...vii 1053 L-297 Law commissioning Secret State Police Bureau with supervision of duties of Political Police commanders in provinces, 20 September 1936. 1936 Reichs Ministerialblatt, p. 1343.....VII 1099 L-301 New ruling on protective custody, from the Archive, April 1934, p. 31......vii 1099 *L-316 HSHA Order of 5 November 1942, signed by Steckenbach, concerning jurisdiction over Poles and Eastern Nationals. (USA 346).....VII 1104 *L-358 Extract from register of arrests by Gestapo in Poland, 1943. (USA 495).....VII 1107 *L-361 Three documents
protective custody, from the Archive, April 1934, p. 31......vii 1099 *L-316 HSHA Order of 5 November 1942, signed by Steckenbach, concerning jurisdiction over Poles and Eastern Nationals. (USA 346).....VII 1104 *L-358 Extract from register of arrests by Gestapo in Poland, 1943. (USA 495).....VII 1107 *L-361 Three documents concerning the formation of the RSHA, Himmler, 27 September 1939; Heydrich, 23 and 27 September 1939. (USA 478)....VII 1109 *R-102 Report on activities of The Task Forces of SIPO and SD in USSR, 1-31 October 1941. (USA 470).....VIII 96 *R-110 Himmler order of 10 August 1943 to all Senior Executive SS and Police officers. (USA 333).....VIII 107 *R-135 Letter to Rosenberg enclosing secret reports from Kube on German atrocities in the East, 18 June 1943, found in Himmler's personal files. (USA 289)......VIII 205 *R-142 Memoranda to Koblenz District Headquarters, 22 April 1938 and 7 May 1938, relating to the plebiscite of 10 April 1938. (USA 481).....VIII 243 *R-145 State Police Order, 28 May 1934, at Düsseldorf, signed Schmid, concerning sanction of denominational youth and professional associations and distribution of publications in churches. (USA 745)....VIII 248 Affidavit A Affidavit of Erwin Lahousen, 21 January 1946, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 30 November and 1 December 1945......VIII 587 Affidavit B Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 20 November 1945, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 3 January 1946......VIII 596 Affidavit C Affidavit of Dieter Wisplike, 29 November 1945, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg, 3 January 1946.....VIII 606 Affidavit D Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 23 January 1946, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg, 4 January 1946......VIII 622 Statement IX My Relationship to Adolf Hitler and to the Party, by Erich Raeder, Moscow, fall 1945......VIII 707 *Chart No. 1 National Socialist German Workers' Party. (2903-PS; USA 2).....VIII 770 *Chart No. 3 Organization of the SS. (USA
Military Tribunal at Nurnberg, 4 January 1946......VIII 622 Statement IX My Relationship to Adolf Hitler and to the Party, by Erich Raeder, Moscow, fall 1945......VIII 707 *Chart No. 1 National Socialist German Workers' Party. (2903-PS; USA 2).....VIII 770 *Chart No. 3 Organization of the SS. (USA 445)....VIII 772 *Chart No. 4 Report of Special Purpose Group "A" regarding Jews killed in the Baltic Countries, White Russia and Lithuania. (2273-PS; USA 487).....VIII 773 *Chart No. 5 Position of Kaltenbrunner and the Gestapo and SD in the German Police System. (USA 493)....VIII 774 *Chart No. 16 The Structure of the German Police. (1852-PS; USA 449)...End of VIII *Chart No. 19 Organization of the Security Police (Gestapo and Kripo) and the SD (1943-1945. (USA 480)......End of VIII Chapter XV Part 5 Contents Chapter XV Part 7