Lieutenant Commander Harris began Kaltenbrunner's case. Kaltenbrunner became Chief of Security Police and SD on January 30, 1943. Alois Hollriegl testified Kaltenbrunner visited Mauthausen gas chamber in fall 1942 while prisoners were being killed.

950 sent to concentration camps, 155 to Reich for forced labor, three entries listed being Jewish as the sole crime, marked for death.

Document 502-PS detailed Gestapo screening of POW camps to discover and eliminate political undesirables, specifying executions must not occur in or near the camps. The original Haftbuch from Gestapo Tomaszow showed 3,500 arrests June 1943-December 1944: 325 shot (only 35 after trial), ...

German construction manager Grabe described SS and Ukrainian militia forces breaking windows and forcing doors with beams and crowbars, driving 5,000 Jews toward freight trains at running pace amid screaming, whip cracks, and rifle shots.

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The Tribunal adjourned for Christmas recess, resuming January 2, 1946.

... "Jewish affairs, matters of evacuation, means of suppressing enemies of the people and State."

Document 1956-PS described Gestapo's mission as "preventive combatting of all dangers threatening the State" through "protective custody" not subject to judicial review.

Colonel Storey began the Gestapo case, presenting the RSHA organizational chart. Created September 27, 1939, the RSHA centralized Gestapo (Amt IV), Criminal Police (Amt V), and SD intelligence (Amt III and VI) under Heydrich, later Kaltenbrunner. Eichmann headed Section B-4 handling...

Document L-103 detailed poison bullet experiments on September 11, 1944 where SS Chief Hygienist Dr. Mrugowsky shot five condemned prisoners, recording death times of 121 to 129 minutes. WVHA required formal permission before "assignment of prisoners for experimental purposes."

Himmler transferred Rascher to the Waffen-SS to continue experiments under his direct orders, personally assuming "responsibility for supplying asocial individuals and criminals, who only deserve to die."

General Field Marshal Milch thanked the SS for "extensive co-operation" in Dachau altitude experiments. Document 1618-PS described freezing experiments where prisoners in flying uniform were submerged in 2.5° centigrade water until death.

Document 2640-PS states SS mission: "fulfillment of these missions a homogeneous, firmly welded fighting force... whose fighters are selected out of the best Aryan humanity."

Gross-Gerau.

Prosecutors begin SS case with Major Warren F. Farr. Evidence shows organization created as Nazi elite based on "Nordic blood" principle. Himmler's 1943 Posen speech reveals SS growth from 25,000-28,000 men in 1939 to major military force.