[198] The initials indicate that Dr. Crohne, a department chief in the Reich Ministry of Justice, proposed this draft or, in any event saw it before it was shown to Reich Minister Guertner. Dr. Crohne was chief, first of Department III, and later of Department IV, in the Reich Ministry of Justice.
[199] Concerning this list, see footnote on preceding page.
[200] Otto Meissner was Chief of the Presidential Chancellery of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor. He was a defendant in Case 11, United States vs. Ernst von Weizsaecker et al. See volumes XII-XIV, this series.
[201] Concerning the relation of the extermination program to transfers of certain groups to the Reich Leader SS, two documents written by Thierack, Reich Minister of Justice, are especially enlightening—Thierack’s memorandum concerning his conference with Himmler and others on 18 September 1942, which mentions “special treatment” (654-PS, Pros. Ex. 39), reproduced below in section V C 3 a; Thierack’s letter of 13 October 1942 to Bormann, which mentions “the extermination of members of these nationalities,” referring to Poles, Russians, Jews, and gypsies (NG-558, Pros. Ex. 143), reproduced below in section V D 2.
[202] See related documents in section V D, below, concerning the treatment of Poles, Jews, and others.
[203] Other extracts from the testimony of defendant Schlegelberger are reproduced above in section IV E, and below in sections V C 2a, V D 2, V D 3, V E.
[204] Reproduced earlier in this section.
[205] Reproduced below in section VC2a.
[206] Article 340 of the Reich Criminal (Penal) Code provides as follows: “An Official who in the exercise of or in connection with the exercise of his office intentionally commits or causes to be committed a bodily injury shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than 3 months. If there are extenuating circumstances, the punishment may be reduced to 1 day imprisonment or to a fine.
“If the bodily injury is serious, confinement in a penitentiary for not less than 2 years shall be imposed. If there are extenuating circumstances, the punishment shall be imprisonment for not less than 3 months.” (Taken from Klemm Doc. 26, Klemm Ex. 26.)