“Neighboring houses occupied by Aryans are not to be damaged. The action is to be carried out in civilian clothes. Rioting and plundering are to be prevented. Report of execution of orders to reach the brigade Führer or office by 8:30.
“I immediately alerted the Standartenführer and gave them the most exact instructions; the execution of the order began at once. I hereby report that the following were destroyed in the area of. . . .”
Then there follows a list of 35 synagogues that were destroyed. I just refer to a few of them:
“1) The synagogue at Darmstadt, Bleichstrasse, destroyed by fire. . . . 4) The synagogue at Gräfenhausen, interior and furnishings wrecked.”—And then under “Standarte 145”—“The synagogue at Bensheim, destroyed by fire.”
And then the next four items are synagogues destroyed by fire. In Standarte 168 eight synagogues are shown to have been destroyed by fire. In Standarte 86 the synagogue in Beerfelden was blown up; and then follow several others where the furnishings were wrecked. In Standarte 221 the synagogue and chapel in Gross-Gerau was destroyed by fire, and the next one torn down and the furnishings destroyed. And then it is signed by the Führer of Brigade 50, by the signature which is illegible, “Brigadeführer.”
In connection with the persecution of the Jews, we again find the SA performing its function of propaganda agency for the Nazis. In this connection it was the function of the SA to create and foster among the people an anti-Jewish spirit and sentiment without which the terrifying Crimes against Humanity perpetrated against the Jewish race certainly would not have been tolerated by any civilized peoples. Substantial and convincing evidence of this function is to be found in these bound volumes of Der SA-Mann. Throughout the period covered by these volumes, there appeared in this publication article after article consisting of the most cruel and vicious sort of anti-religious propaganda designed to engender and foster hatred and hostility toward the Jewish race.
I will simply refer to a few of the titles appearing. On 27 July 1935, at Page 4, the title is “Finish up with the Jew.” That is shown, if Your Honor pleases, in Document 3050-PS, Pages 16 to 18 there listed. In the issue of 2 February 1935, Page 5, “The Jewish World Danger”; on 20 July 1935, Page 4, “Jewish Worries”; on 1 June 1935, Page 1, “Jews Are Not Wanted Here.” And then follows a statement:
“Then, also, outside of the last German village the sign will stand, ‘Jews Are Not Wanted Here’; and then, finally, no German citizen will again cross the threshold of a Jewish store. To achieve this goal is, among others, the mission of the SA man as the political soldier of the Führer. Next to his word and his explanations shall stand his example.”
Then further on, 17 August 1935, Page 1, “God Save the Jews.” Then another, of 5 October 1935, Page 6, the title “The Face of the Jew” (with a portrait of a Jew holding the hammer and sickle).