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Insofar as we do not

need them, they may die.

[NARRATOR] Slavery was only

one aspect of Nazi exploitation.

Defendant Goering, in a talk

with German occupation

authorities in 1942,

discussed another - plunder.

[NARRATOR] God knows you

are not sent out to work

for the welfare of the

people in your charge

but to get the

utmost out of them

so that the German

people can live.

This everlasting concern

about foreign people

must cease now once and forever.

I have here before me reports

on what you are

expected to deliver.

It makes no difference

to me in this case

if you say that your

people will starve.

[NARRATOR] But Nazi

crimes against humanity

were not limited

to foreign peoples.

Defendant Frick, as

Minister of Interior,

directed a program

aimed at aged, insane

or incurable Germans - the

so-called useless eaters.

Thousands were committed

to special institutions.

Few ever returned.

Evidence proves they were murdered

because they were useless

to the plans of the

Nazi conspirators.

But perhaps the greatest

crime against humanity

the Nazis committed

against the Jews.

A campaign of hate and murder

that goes to the heart

of the Nazi movement.

(CROWD CHANTING)

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] German citizens

are only those of German

or related blood

willing to serve

the German Reich and people.

Marriages between Jews

and citizens of German

or related blood are prohibited.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[NARRATOR] SS

Brigadier General Stroop,

in charge of the

Warsaw Ghetto in 1943,

had learned his

Nazi lessons well.

In a secret report, he said:

[NARRATOR] The

Reichsfuehrer SS ordered

on the 23rd of April

1943, the cleaning out

of the ghetto with

utter ruthlessness.

(EXPLOSION BOOMING)

I, therefore, decided to destroy

and burn down the entire ghetto.

Jews frequently left the hideouts,

but occasionally remained

in the burning buildings

and jumped out the windows

only when the heat

became unbearable.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Life in the sewers was not

pleasant after the first week.

Tear gas bombs were

thrown into the manholes

and the Jews were

driven out and captured.

Countless numbers of Jews

were liquidated in sewers

and bunkers through blasting.

The longer the

resistance continued,

the tougher became the

members of the Waffen SS,

police and Wehrmacht who

always discharged their duties

in an exemplary manner.

[NARRATOR] Little by little,

the Nazis were reaching

what they called

The Final Solution

the total extermination

of the Jews of Europe.

Hess described the process well:

[NARRATOR] We had two SS

doctors on duty at Auschwitz

to examine the incoming

transports of prisoners.

The prisoners would be marched

past one of the doctors

who would make spot

decisions as they walked by.

Those who were fit for work

were sent into the camp.

Others were sent immediately

to the extermination plant.

Children of tender years

were invariably exterminated

since, by reasons of their

youth, they were unable to work.

We endeavored to fool

them into thinking

they were to go through

a delousing process.

It took from three to 15

minutes to kill the people

in the death chamber depending

upon climatic conditions.

We knew when the

people were dead

because their screaming stopped.

We usually waited

about one half-hour

before we opened the doors

and removed the bodies.

After the bodies were removed,

our special commandos

took off the rings

and extracted the gold from

the teeth of the corpses.

[NARRATOR] Much of this

loot was then transferred

to secret vaults of the

Reichsbank at Frankfurt am Main

the Reichsbank

of defendant Funk.

Labor Chief Robert Ley

knew that six million Jews

died in the Nazi's

Final Solution.

In his will, he said:

[NARRATOR] In

anti-Semitism, we violated

a basic commandment

of God's creation.

It is hard to admit mistakes

but the whole existence

of our people is in question.

We must have the courage to

rid ourselves of anti-Semitism.

God has taught me that

in my cell in Nuremberg.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[NARRATOR] And

defendant Frank himself

said before this Court:

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] We have

fought against Jewry

and we have allowed ourselves

to make utterances

which are terrible.

A thousand years will

pass and this guilt

of Germany will

still not be erased.

[NARRATOR] The

prosecution rests.

[NARRATOR] The defense begins.

They call 61 witnesses and

introduce 38,000 affidavits

on the defendants behalf.

They submit 136,000 more

affidavits on behalf of the S.S.,

10,000 on behalf of the S.A.,

7,000 on behalf of the S.D.,

3,000 on behalf of the

General Staff and the O.K.W.,

2,000 on behalf of the Gestapo.

These attorneys were personally

selected by the defendants.

Many are well known

German lawyers

and each now rises to plead

acquittal for his crimes.

Some make blanket

denials of all guilt.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] Some of

the defendants had,

without doubt, a great

influence in those spheres

which did not interest, Hitler.

They had no part whatsoever

in the great decisions

concerning war and

peace, armistice

and peace offers, et cetera.

[NARRATOR] Other

attorneys lead their clients

through a carefully

prepared defense.

Here Streicher is examined.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] I now continue.

It has also been stated

by the prosecution

that Himmler and Kaltenbrunner

would have had no one

to carry out their orders

to kill if you hadn't made

that propaganda and if

you hadn't conducted

the education of the German

people in that sense.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] I don't believe

that those who had been given

the order by the Fuehrer

to carry out the killings

or to pass an order to

kill, that those people

would have been made to

do this by my periodical.

Hitler's book, Mein Kampf,

existed and the contents

of that book were the

authority, the cause.

[NARRATOR] Next

comes Kaultenbrunner.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] You are accused

of establishing Mauthausen,

of inspecting and visiting

this camp regularly.

The witness Herriger testified

having seen you in this camp

and further testified

having seen you

at the inspection

of gas chambers

and while these gas

chambers were in operation.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] The

testimony is wrong.

Every concentration

camp in the Reich,

of which I know

anything, was established

by Himmler through Paul.

[NARRATOR] Later the

prosecution is allowed

to cross-examine the defendants.

Rosenberg is questioned.

[NARRATOR] Did your

ministry force people to leave

their homes, to go to Germany

to work for the German state?

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] It is true

that force was used

and it is not denied

that some terrible

encroachments occurred.

[NARRATOR] Now

Raeder takes the stand.

[NARRATOR] On the 23rd of

May, in the Reich Chancellery,

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