us-005578-irn1004881
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date: 1987 May 19
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note: Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
scope and content: 17:16 Witness Holtfort continues his testimony, explaining that there is written documentation coming from the January 20, 1942 conference about the decision to use Jews for forced labor, forcing them to create roads toward the East. Those who survived the labor needed a 'special treatment' (i.e. extermination). 17:20 Discussion of a document from 1942 in which Dannecker, the Paris head of the BDS-SIPO-SD, communicates to the head of the transport division in France the plan to exterminate French Jews.This information was disseminated from Paris to the regional offices, and the head of the Gestapo in each location therefore, knew the destiny of Jews 17:26 The attorney asks the witnesses to describe the implementation of the Final Solution on the Eastern front; in 1941 and 1942, the Einsatzgruppen used the fight against the French Resistance as cover for carrying out the Final Solution. For example, if they reported 5,000 dead in battle, perhaps 1,000 of those reported were actually Jewish men, women, and children. 17:29 The attorney asks which section of the RSHA was responsible for the decision to deport particular people, and to which camp they would be deported; Streim replies that it was section 4 of the RSHA which chose the particular camp to which people would be deported. It was the same section that transmitted the deportation orders. The attorney compares this information to Barbie's testimony that deportation orders came from section 2, not 4 (of which he was the chief). Streim replies that section 4 was primarily responsible, but that section 2 intervened because it was charged with the organization of the operation 17:34 The attorney asks witness Streim to explain the division of deportees from Lyon into three groups; presents a document describing this division; Streim replies that this classification had nothing to do with the deportation of Jews; the attorney is unsatisfied and presents the document in its original German (rather than the French trans…
title: Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- The prosecution questions expert witnesses