THE INTERPRETER: No, it is not contained in this document, and I am now reading the second document:
“Berlin, 27 February 1942. The Chief of the Security Police and the SD, IV A 1 ...”—and then several different file references—
“Top secret. Subject: Activity and situation report Number 9 of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD in the U.S.S.R. Attached hereto...”
COL. AMEN: Just a minute. He is reading the wrong document, Your Lordship. We will have it straight in a minute.
THE INTERPRETER: I am told I am reading the right document. It is the right document, I continue:
“Herewith attached, I submit to you the ninth comprehensive report regarding the activities of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and of the SD in the U.S.S.R. In future these reports will be sent to you currently as they appear. Signed, Heydrich.”
Then there is a stamp, “The Reich Defense Commissioner for the Wehrkreis XVII, received 5 March 1942;” and then follows the distribution, of which Number 13 reads, “To the Higher SS and Police Leader, SS Gruppenführer, Dr. Kaltenbrunner.”
COL. AMEN: His name is on the list, is it not? Now, if you will skip to “C” on that document.
THE INTERPRETER: I now read from Page 9 of the document, an extract under the heading “C. Jews:”
“The attitude of the Jews towards the Germans is still clearly hostile and criminal. It is our aim to cleanse the Eastern countries of Jews as completely as possible. Everywhere the executions are to be carried out in such a manner that they will hardly be noticed by the public. Among the population, and even among the remaining Jews, the conviction is widespread that the Jews have merely been resettled. Estonia has already been cleared of Jews. In Latvia the 29,500 Jews who remained in Riga have been reduced to 2,500. In Dünaburg there still live 962 Jews who are urgently needed for work.”