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Affidavit concerning the organization of the Einsatzgruppen, the mandate from Himmler to exterminate Jews and communist officials, the killing of 90,000 persons by Gruppe D, specific methods of shooting, the gas vans, and similar actions by other groups
IMT
Authors
Otto Ohlendorf (commander of Einstazgruppe D; Chief of the Security Service (SD); SS)
Otto Ohlendorf
German SS-General
- Born: 1907-02-04 (Hoheneggelsen) (country: German Empire)
- Died: 1951-06-07 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: economist; jurist
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sicherheitsdienst (since: 1936-01-01); Sturmabteilung (since: 1925-01-01)
- Participant in: Einsatzgruppen Trial (role: defendant); Judges' Trial (date: 1947-03-23; role: affiant); Pohl Trial (date: 1945-11-05, 1946-01-03; role: affiant, witness)
- Significant person: Günther Joël
Date: 05 November 1945
Literal Title: Affi[d]avit
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2620
Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and SD
HLSL Item No.: 451625
Notes:A copy of PS 2620 was introduced as US exhibit 919.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Einsatzgruppen operations (IMT, NMT 9) Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-2620: Statement re extermination of Jews and communist functionaries in the East
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-2620: Affidavit by Otto Ohlendorf, chief of the security service: description of the planned mass murders of Jews and communist functionaries carried out by Einsatz groups from 1941 onwards on Russian territory conquered by the Germans
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-2620: Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf re extermination of Jews by Einsatzgruppen.
OHLEHDORF Affidavit dated 5 November 1945
Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, dated 5 November 1945, which states that his Einstazgruppen D liquidated about 90,000 men, women and children in the course of a year.