Session no. 78 / 23/06/1961
Incomplete (opening of session)
The continuation of the testimony of the accused and simultaneous presentation of documents by the defense.
1. Denies giving the orders to supply the gas trucks and describes whose responsibility it was.
Incomplete (testimony of witness).
2. T/219, a letter dealing with the solution to the Jewish problem containing various proposals which the accused denies receiving.
3. The first time he heard about the physical extermination of the Jews was from the head of security police and the SD, Heydrich.
-the attorney general explains to the court how this particular document was authenticated.
Incomplete (examination of the accused on the marking of the Jews).
4. T/685 letter from Heydrich to von Ribbentrop regarding foreign Jews within the borders of Germany and its conquered lands.
5. T/865 letter was drafted by the accused but signed by Heydrich.
Recess
Incomplete (testimony of witness).
6. T/220 cable sent to Himmler by the local head of government which complains about the conduct of the accused, who feels it was justified and explains that it was because he disobeyed orders.
7. Traveled east by order of the chief of his bureau where he saw the preparations for the physical extermination. He claims to have disobeyed orders and sent the Jews to Lodz to stop them traveling east because he knew they would be exterminated there.
8. Denies share in the implementation of the transport and evacuation in question in the letter marked t/714, but insists that he tried to change the timetables and confuse those in charge-Himmler ordered these deportations.
9. T/294 a memorandum referring to a meeting chaired by Heydrich on 10/10/1941.
The agenda being: the solution of the Jewish problem in the protectorate of bohemia and Moravia who were destined to meet their death in Riga and Minsk, he and his department ivb-4 deny all knowledge and insists his name in connection with this meeting was with regard to train timetables. Points the blame to the SS commander in Riga, obergruppenfuehrer Jeckeln.
Incomplete (testimony of witness).
10. T/677 letter sent by Eichmann to the foreign ministry turning down an application for money remittance, met twice weekly with the head of the office when these matters were clarified and directives given.
Incomplete (examination of the accused on the petition submitted to him).
11. Denies involvement in the question of defining or determining the concept Jew thereby deciding individual fates with regard to property and other matters.
12. Prepared Heydrich's speech for the Wannsee conference to include a general survey of operations that had been carried out in the last years in the realm of the emigration of the Jews. Mentions details of the speech.
