[207] Highest court in Berlin.
[208] The enclosure is reproduced following this letter.
[209] Here follow the names, followed by initials, of 23 department chiefs and assistants, including the names of defendants Klemm and Mettgenberg.
[210] Both directives were taken from “Ordinances, Regulations, Announcements,” pages 377 and 378, issued by the Chancellery of the Nazi Party and published by the Central Publishing Office of the NSDAP, Frz. Eher Successor, G.m.b.H., Munich.
[211] Concerning the later establishment of special jurisdiction in criminal proceedings against members of the SS and members of police formations on special tasks, see the decree of 17 December 1939, (Klemm Doc. 29, Klemm Ex. 29), reproduced above in section IV B.
[212] Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet), an organization of German Veterans of World War I.
[213] Rudolf Hess, one of the defendants before the International Military Tribunal. See Trial of the Major War Criminals, op. cit., volumes I-XLII.
[214] Complete testimony is recorded in the mimeographed transcript, 30 April, 1 May 1947, pages 2884–2938.
[215] Otto Ohlendorf, defendant in the Einsatzgruppen Case, United States vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al., Case 9, volume IV, this series.
[216] “Decree concerning the administration of Penal Justice against Poles and Jews in the Incorporated Eastern Territories” of 4 December 1941. It is reproduced below as a part of NG-715, Prosecution Exhibit 112, page 632.