| 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 | |
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| 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. | |||
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| *002-PS | Letters of Reichs Research Department regarding the budget of the SS. (USA 469) | III | 5 |
| *058-PS | Hitler Order of 30 September 1944 concerning reorganization of the concerns of prisoners of war. (USA 456) | III | 103 |
| *343-PS | Letter from Milch, Chief of the Personal Staff, to Himmler, 31 August 1942, and letter from Milch to Wolff, 20 May 1942. (USA 463) | III | 266 |
| *388-PS | File of papers on Case Green (the plan for the attack on Czechoslovakia), kept by Schmundt, Hitler’s adjutant, April-October 1938. (USA 26) | III | 305 |
| 447-PS | Top Secret Operational Order to Order No. 21, signed by Keitel, 13 March 1941, concerning Directives for special areas. (USA 135) | III | 409 |
| *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 |
| *641-PS | Report of Public Prosecutor General in Munich, 1 June 1933, concerning murder of Dr. Strauss in Dachau by an SS guard. (USA 450) | III | 453 |
| *642-PS | Report to Public Prosecutor General in Munich, 1 June 1933, concerning murder of Hausmann in Dachau by an SS guard. (USA 451) | III | 454 |
| *644-PS | Report to Public Prosecutor General in Munich, 1 June 1933, concerning murder of Schloss in Dachau by an SS guard. (USA 452) | III | 455 |
| *645-PS | Report to Public Prosecutor General in Munich, 1 June 1933, concerning murder of Nefzger in Dachau by an SS guard. (USA 453) | III | 457 |
| *647-PS | Secret Hitler Order, 17 August 1938, concerning organization and mobilization of SS. (USA 443) | III | 459 |
| *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 |
| 686-PS | Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor to strengthen German Folkdom, 7 October 1939, signed by Hitler, Goering, Lammers and Keitel. (USA 305) | III | 496 |
| *744-PS | Secret letter of Keitel, 8 July 1943, concerning manpower for coal mining. (USA 455) | III | 540 |
| *778-PS | Disciplinary and Penal Measures for Concentration Camp Dachau and Service Regulations for the Camp Personnel, signed Eicke, 1 October 1933. (USA 247) | III | 550 |
| 781-PS | Memorandum by Minister of Justice, Guertner, of conference with Himmler, 9 March 1936, concerning issuance of decree on use of arms by concentration camp officials. | III | 557 |
| *812-PS | Letter from Rainer to Seyss-Inquart, 22 August 1939 and report from Gauleiter Rainer to Reichskommissar Gauleiter Buerckel, 6 July 1939 on events in the NSDAP of Austria from 1933 to 11 March 1938. (USA 61) | III | 586 |
| *1061-PS | Official report of Stroop, SS and Police Leader of Warsaw, on destruction of Warsaw Ghetto, 1943. (USA 275) | III | 718 |
| *1063-D-PS | Mueller’s order, 17 December 1942, concerning prisoners qualified for work to be sent to concentration camps. (USA 219) | III | 778 |
| 1151-P-PS | Letter from WVHA, 28 March 1942, concerning “Action 14 F 13” from files of Gross Rosen Concentration camp. | III | 808 |
| 1166-PS | Interoffice memorandum of WVHA, 15 August 1944, concerning number of prisoners and survey of prisoners clothing. (USA 458) | III | 824 |
| *1352-PS | Reports concerning the confiscation of Polish agricultural properties, 16 and 29 May 1940, signed Kusche. (USA 176) | III | 916 |
| 1551-PS | Decree assigning functions in Office of Chief of German Police, 26 June 1936. 1936 Reichs Ministerialblatt, pp. 946-948. | IV | 106 |
| *1582-PS | Letter from SS Sturmbannfuehrer Brandt to Dr. Rascher, 22 May 1941, concerning use of prisoners for high-flight research. (USA 462) | IV | 114 |
| *1583-PS | Letter from Himmler, 16 November 1942, concerning feminine prisoners in concentration camps. (USA 465) | IV | 115 |
| *1584-I-PS | Teletype from Goering to Himmler, 14 February 1944, concerning formation of 7th Airforce Group squadron for special purposes. (USA 221) | IV | 117 |
| *1584-III-PS | Correspondence between Himmler and Goering, 9 March 1944, concerning use of concentration camp inmates in aircraft industry. (USA 457) | IV | 118 |
| *1602-PS | Letter from Dr. Rascher to Himmler, 15 May 1941, asking for use of prisoners for experiments in high-altitude flights. (USA 454) | IV | 132 |
| 1616-PS | Letter from Dr. Rascher to Himmler, 17 February 1943, concerning freezing experiments. | IV | 133 |
| 1617-PS | Letter from Himmler to General Field Marshal Milch, 13 November 1942, concerning transfer of Dr. Rascher to Waffen-SS. (USA 466) | IV | 133 |
| *1618-PS | Report of Freezing experiments in Dachau, 15 August 1942, signed by Dr. Rascher. (USA 464) | IV | 135 |
| 1637-PS | Order of Himmler, 23 June 1938, concerning acceptance of members of Security Police into the SS. 1938 Reichs Ministerialblatt, pp. 1089-1091. | IV | 138 |
| *1680-PS | “Ten Years Security Police and SD” published in The German Police, 1 February 1943. (USA 477) | IV | 191 |
| 1725-PS | Decree enforcing law for securing the unity of Party and State, 29 March 1935. 1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 502. | IV | 224 |
| *1751-PS | Letter to all concentration camp commanders, from Gluecks, 12 May 1944, concerning assignment of prisoners for experimental purposes. (USA 468) | IV | 279 |
| *1851-PS | The Security Squadron as an Anti-Bolshevist Battle Organization 1936 by Himmler from The New Germany Speaks Here, book 11. (USA 440) | IV | 488 |
| *1852-PS | “Law” from The German Police, 1941, by Dr. Werner Best. (USA 449) (See Chart No. 16.) | IV | 490 |
| *1857-PS | Announcement of creation of SS as independent formation of NSDAP. Voelkischer Beobachter, 26 July 1934, p. 1. (USA 412) | IV | 496 |
| 1918-PS | Speech by Himmler to SS officers on day of Metz. (USA 304) | IV | 553 |
| *1919-PS | Himmler’s speech to SS Gruppenfuehrers, 4 October 1943. (USA 170) | IV | 558 |
| 1932-PS | Letter from Office of Chief of Department D of WVHA, 7 June 1943, concerning handling of prisoners who fall under Night and Fog decree. | IV | 579 |
| *1933-PS | Letter to Commandant of Gross Rosen Camp from Department 10 of WVHA, 27 April 1943, providing that “Action 14 F 13” be applied only to insane. (USA 459) | IV | 581 |
| *1972-PS | Letter from Chief of SS Operations Headquarters to Himmler, 14 October 1941, reporting on executions of Czechs by Waffen SS. (USA 471) | IV | 604 |
| *1992-A-PS | Organization and Obligations of the SS and the Police from “National Political Education of the Army, January 1937”. (USA 439) | IV | 616 |
| 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 |
| *2163-PS | The SS during the War-Year 1939-40, published in National Socialist Yearbook, 1941. (USA 444) | IV | 762 |
| *2164-PS | The SS since the Reichparteitag 1938, published in National Socialist Yearbook, 1940. (USA 255) | IV | 768 |
| *2189-PS | Orders from Department D of Economic and Administrative Main Office, 11 August 1942, concerning punishment by beating. (USA 460) | IV | 842 |
| 2199-PS | Letter to Commanders of concentration camps, 12 September 1942, concerning return of urns of inmates deceased in concentration camps. (USA 461) | IV | 853 |
| *2284-PS | The Organizational Structure of the Third Reich—The SS—from Writings of the Hochschule for Politics. (USA 438) | IV | 973 |
| *2640-PS | Extracts from Organization Book of NSDAP, 1943. (USA 323) | V | 346 |
| *2668-PS | “And Don’t Forget the Jews”, from the Black Corps, 8 August 1940, No. 32, p. 2. (USA 269) | V | 367 |
| *2768-PS | Letter from Himmler to Kaltenbrunner, 24 April 1943. (USA 447) | V | 412 |
| *2769-PS | Order of Battle of the SS, 1 November 1944. (USA 442) | V | 413 |
| *2788-PS | Notes of conference in the Foreign Office between Ribbentrop, Konrad Henlein, K. H. Frank and others on program for Sudeten agitation, 29 March 1938. (USA 95) | V | 422 |
| *2825-PS | Soldier’s Friend—pocket diary for German Armed Forces with calendar for 1943. (USA 441) | V | 462 |
| 2946-PS | Decree relating to Special Jurisdiction in Penal Matters for members of SS and for members of Police Groups on Special Tasks of 17 October 1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 2107. | V | 625 |
| 2947-PS | Second decree for implementation of decrees relating to Special Jurisdiction in Penal Matters for members of SS and members of Police Groups on special tasks of 17 April 1940. 1940 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 659. | V | 627 |
| 2949-PS | Transcripts of telephone calls from Air Ministry, 11-14 March 1938. (USA 76) | V | 628 |
| *2950-PS | Affidavit of Frick, 19 November 1945. (USA 448) | V | 654 |
| *2968-PS | Memorandum from U. S. Army officer concerning plaque erected in Austrian Chancellery in memoriam to killers of Dollfuss. (USA 60) | V | 677 |
| *2997-PS | Supplementary report of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, Court of Inquiry, concerning shooting of Allied Prisoners of War in Normandy, France. (USA 472) | V | 716 |
| *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 |
| *3059-PS | German Foreign Office memorandum, 19 August 1938, on payments to Henlein’s Sudeten German Party between 1935 and 1938. (USA 96) | V | 855 |
| *3429-PS | Extract from The SS Calls You. (USA 446) | VI | 133 |
| 3815-PS | Report of the SS, 25 April 1942, concerning the activities of Hans Frank in Poland. | VI | 745 |
| *3839-PS | Statement of Josef Spacil, 9 November 1945, concerning the meaning of “resettlement” and “special treatment”. (USA 799) | VI | 774 |
| *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 |
| *3842-PS | Statement of Fritz Mundhenke, 7 March 1946, concerning the activities of Kaltenbrunner and SS in preparation for occupation of Czechoslovakia. (USA 805) | VI | 778 |
| *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 |
| *3870-PS | Affidavit of Hans Marsalek, 8 April 1946, concerning Mauthausen Concentration Camp and dying statement of Franz Ziereis, the Commandant. (USA 797) | VI | 790 |
| *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-665 | Hitler’s license for the SS. (GB 280) | VII | 170 |
| *D-745-A | Deposition of Anton Kaindl, 8 March 1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 811) | VII | 208 |
| *D-745-B | Deposition of Anton Kaindl, 19 March 1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 812) | VII | 209 |
| *D-746-A | Deposition of Fritz Suhren, 8 March 1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 813) | VII | 209 |
| D-746-B | Deposition of Fritz Suhren, 19 March 1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 814) | VII | 210 |
| *D-748 | Affidavit of Karl Totzauer, 15 March 1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 816) | VII | 211 |
| *D-749-B | Statement of Rudolf Hoess, 20 March 1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 817) | VII | 212 |
| *D-750 | Deposition of August Harbaum, 19 March 1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 818) | VII | 213 |
| *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-49 | Affidavit of Otto Hoffman, Chief of SS Main Office for Race and Settlement, 4 August 1945. (USA 473) | VII | 795 |
| *L-103 | Letter, 12 September 1944, concerning experiments with Akonitin-nitrate-bullets. (USA 467) | VII | 877 |
| L-156 | Circular letter from Office of Commissioner for Four-Year Plan, 26 March 1943, concerning removal of Jews to labor camps. | VII | 905 |
| *L-180 | Report by SS Brigade Commander Stahlecker to Himmler, “Action Group A”, 15 October 1941. (USA 276) | VII | 978 |
| L-198 | State Department Dispatch by Consul General Messersmith, 14 March 1933, concerning molesting of American citizens in Berlin. | VII | 1026 |
| L-201 | Excerpts from Berlin newspapers, April 1933, concerning violence against Jews and discrimination against politically undesirable professors. | VII | 1035 |
| L-273 | Report of American Consul General in Vienna to Secretary of State, 26 July 1938, concerning anniversary of assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss. (USA 59) | VII | 1094 |
| *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-112 | Orders issued by Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German nationhood, 16 February 1942, 1 July 1942, 28 July 1942. (USA 309) | VIII | 108 |
| *R-114 | Memoranda of conferences, 4 and 18 August 1942, concerning directions for treatment of deported Alsatians. (USA 314) | VIII | 122 |
| *R-124 | Speer’s conference minutes of Central Planning Board, 1942-44, concerning labor supply. (USA 179) | VIII | 146 |
| *R-129 | Letter and enclosure from Pohl to Himmler, 30 April 1942, concerning concentration camps. (USA 217) | VIII | 198 |
| *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-143 | Himmler decree, 1 December 1939, concerning procedure for confiscation of works of art, archives, and documents. | VIII | 246 |
| 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 F | Affidavit of Josef Dietrich, 20-21 November 1945. | VIII | 631 |
| Affidavit G | Affidavit of Fritz Ernst Fischer, 21 November 1945. | VIII | 635 |
| 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. 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. (2346-PS; USA 480) | End of VIII | |
6. THE GEHEIME STAATSPOLIZEI (GESTAPO) AND SICHERHEITSDIENST (SD)
This section on the Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) includes evidence on the criminality of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) of the Schutzstaffel (SS). In the Indictment the SD is included by special references as a part of the SS, since it originated as a part of the SS and always retained its character as a party organization, as distinguished from the GESTAPO, which was a State organization. As will be shown in this section, however, the GESTAPO and the SD were brought into close working relationship, the SD serving primarily as the information-gathering agency and the GESTAPO as the executive agency of the police system established by the Nazis for the purpose of combatting the political and ideological enemies of the Nazi regime. This close working relationship between the GESTAPO and the SD was accomplished by the appointment of Himmler, the Reichsfuehrer of the SS, to the position of Chief of the German Police. What is proved in this section with respect to the criminality of the SD applies directly to the case against the SS. The relationship between the SS and the GESTAPO is considered in section 5 on the SS.
A. Development of the Gestapo and the SD.
(1) Development of the GESTAPO. The Geheime Staatspolizei, or GESTAPO, was first established in Prussia on 26 April 1933 by Goering, with the mission of carrying out the duties of political police with or in place of the ordinary police authorities. The GESTAPO chief was given the rank of a higher police authority and was subordinated only to the Minister of the Interior, to whom was delegated the responsibility of determining its functional and territorial jurisdiction (2104-PS). Pursuant to this law, and on the same date, the Minister of the Interior issued a decree on the reorganization of the police which established a State Police Bureau in each government district of Prussia subordinate to the Secret State Police Bureau in Berlin. (2371-PS)
On 30 November 1933 Goering issued a decree for the Prussian State Ministry and for the Reichs Chancellor which acknowledged the valuable services which the GESTAPO was able to render to the State and which placed the GESTAPO under his direct supervision as Chief. The GESTAPO was thereby established as an independent branch of the Administration of the Interior, responsible directly to Goering as Prussian Prime Minister. This decree gave the GESTAPO jurisdiction over the political police matters of the general and interior administration and provided that the district, county, and local police authorities were subject to the directives of the GESTAPO (2105-PS). By a decree of 8 March 1934 the regional State Police offices were separated from their organizational connection with the district government and established as independent authorities of the GESTAPO. (2113-PS)
Parallel to the development of the GESTAPO in Prussia, the Reichsfuehrer SS, Heinrich Himmler, created in Bavaria the Bavarian Political Police and also directed the formation of political police forces in the other federal states outside of Prussia. The unification of the political police of the various states took place in the spring of 1934 when Hermann Goering appointed Himmler the Deputy Chief of the Prussian GESTAPO in place of the former Deputy Chief, Diels. Himmler thereby obtained unified control over the political police forces throughout the Reich. (1680-PS)
On 10 February 1936 the basic law for the GESTAPO was promulgated by Goering as Prussian Prime Minister. This law provided that the Secret State Police had the duty to investigate and to combat in the entire territory of the State all tendencies inimical to the State, and declared that orders in matters of the Secret State Police were not subject to the review of the administrative courts (2107-PS). On the same date, 10 February 1936, a decree for the execution of said law was issued by Goering as Prussian Prime Minister and by Frick as Minister of the Interior. This decree provided that the GESTAPO had authority to enact measures valid in the entire area of the State and measures affecting that area, that it was the centralized agency for collecting political intelligence in the field of political police, and that it administered the concentration camps. The GESTAPO was given authority to make police investigations in cases of criminal attacks upon Party as well as upon State. (2108-PS)
On 28 August 1936 a circular of the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police provided that as of 1 October 1936 the political police forces of the German provinces were to be called the “Geheime Staatspolizei” (Secret State Police). The regional offices were still to be described as State Police (2372-PS). On 20 September 1936 a circular of the Minister of the Interior commissioned the GESTAPO Bureau in Berlin with the supervision of the duties of the political police commanders in all the States of Germany. (L-297)
The law relating to financial measures in connection with the police of 19 March 1937 provided that officials of the GESTAPO were to be considered direct officials of the Reich and their salaries, in addition to the operational expenses of the whole State Police, were to be borne from 1 April 1937 on by the Reich. (2243-PS)