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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1946)
Elimmler Henchman Bares Commando Order To Bflurder All Jews In Russia Br JAMES F. KINO NUERNBERG. Germany, Jan 3 (P) A former aide of Gestapo Chief Helnrich Himmler told the international military tribunal today that special SS commandos were attachea to tne uerman army on the eastern front with orders to kill every Jew and Soviet political commissar ; in occupied Russian regions. Major General of Police Otto Ohlendorf. testifvinK in the trial of 22 nazi leaders, declared that the high command of the Ger man army naa iuh Knowieage 01 the commando order. The 38-year-old witness, who had been in the SS since his teens, said his own einsatzgrupp, operating with the German 11th army in the Ukraine, alone had liquidated 90,000 persons in the lirgt year oi me war wiw nu sia. , ; Outlining the inner workings of the security police system under questioning by Col. John Harlan Amen, an assistant U. S. prosecutor, Ohlendorf testified that Himmler personally gave liquidation orders to leaders of the special einsatzgrupps. . "He told us that the men had no responsibility for the acts and that the responsibility was his alone, as well as that of the fuehrer," the witness said. Mais Executions , Ohlendorf, who admitted giv ing orders himself for mass ex ecutions, testified that he con ferred frequently with army commanders on the execution of Himmler's orders. He said the victims included men, women and children, and explained how they were wiped out en masse after being lined up on the pretext that they would be relocated. . Standing erect, Ohlendorf spoke through the microphone without hesitation, frequently turning his eyes toward the de fendants sittin in the prisoners' box on the opposite side of the room.. Reichsmarsha Hermann Goe ring sucked in his lips and shook his head slightly. Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel gave the witness steely looks, but showed no emotion. Ohlendorf hedged when pressed for a direct statement as to . whether the army com manders condoned the plan to : liquidate Jews and Soviet poli tical commissars, but declared without qualification: "Since the liquidations took place in operations regions, the einsatzgrupps would not have been able to function in the sense I described without army sup port. . . v Pretext ' "I was present at the mass executions, he declared calmly under questioning. "A local einsatz commander would col' lect all the Jews in one area, They would be rounded up on the pretext that they were to be relocated. "After registration, the Jews were collected at certain places, then transported to the place of execution, which was usually an anti-tank ditch or a natural irullv. ' "The Jews were transported in trucks and executed immedi ately. The time during which the victims knew what was go ing to happen to them was Kept as short as possible." . Ohlendorf. said the victims "were shot standine or kneeling and that. unit leaders.had orders to administer the coup de grace in the event any of, the victims still lived after beme shot "They were executed in a mil itary fashion." he added. ' He said, however, that in some of the- massacres the .' leaders "simnlv killed their victims by shooting them in the back of the neck. . . . Intolerable "I was against ' that pro cedure," he continued, "because it resulted in unnecessary emotional disturbances . among the men who had to do the worK, It was intolerable to me that the individual men should have to form their own decisions and take their own responsibility in the executions. In the soring of 1942. he said the procedure was changed when Himmler ordered that "women and children should be killed only in gas vans.". 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