“We recommend persuading half-grown persons to disclose these
hiding places by promising to spare their lives. This method has
fully justified its application.”
This example of this police regiment, which I have just read into the
record, is typical of the methods applied for the extermination of Jews
who had been rounded up in the ghetto. But the German fascist invaders
did not always apply this method when proceeding to the extermination of
the peaceful Jewish population.
Another, similarly criminal device was the assembling of Jews in a given
spot under the pretext of transferring them to some other locality. The
assembled Jews would then be shot. I submit to the Tribunal an original
poster which had been put up in the town of Kislovodsk by Kommandantur
Number 12. Your Honors will find the text (Document Number USSR-434)
quoted on Page 180. I shall quote some extracts from this poster which
is a comparatively long one. I start with the first part:
“To all Jews! For the purpose of colonizing sparsely populated
districts of the Ukraine, all Jews residing in Kislovodsk and
all Jews who have no permanent abode are ordered to present
themselves on Wednesday, 9 September 1942, at 5 a. m. Berlin
time (6 a. m. Moscow time), at the goods’ station in Kislovodsk;
the transport will take off at 6 a. m. (7 a. m. Moscow time).
“Every Jew is to bring luggage not exceeding 20 kilograms in
weight, including food for a minimum of 2 days. Further food
will be supplied by the German authorities at the railway
stations.”