S.S. Report On Warsaw Ghetto

Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 13

S.S. Report On Warsaw Ghetto

(AX Frau Assoctatton—Cosvnght, JERUSALEM, May 4. A Nazi report on how troops and police wiped out desperate Jewish resistance groups in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 was submitted by the prosecution in the Eichmann trial todav.

The 7S-page report of SS. Major-General Juergen Stroops to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS.. started: “There are no more Jewish dwellings in Warsaw. “We were able to break the re.«»stance put up by the Jews only by the relentless and energetic use of our shock troops by day and night, I therefore decided to destroy the entire Jewish residential area by setting every block on fire. The Jews then emerged from their hiding places and dugouts Not infrequently the Jews stayed tn the burning buildings until finally through the heat and fear of being burned alive, they p-eferred to Jump down from the tinner stories after hawne thrown matresees and other upholstered articles into the stree*

“With their bones broken thev still tried to eraw! across the street into build ngs which were not yet alight. . . . the longer the resistance lasted.

the tougher the Waffen SS /fighting SS. formations), police and Wehrmacht (army) became. They fulfilled their duty indefatigably in faithful comradeship and stood together as models and examples of soldiers. . . . Only through the continuous and untiring efforts of all involved did we succeed in catching a total of 58,065 Jews, whose extermination can be proved. To these should be added those who lost their lives tn explosion* or fire, bin whose numbers cannot be ascertained * German losses, according to Strocp were 16 killed and 90 wounded. Stroop was sentenced to death by an American military tribunal at Dachau. West Germany. 1947. for shooting hostages in Greece. He was later extradited to Poland, tried again for war crimes, and executed in Warsaw on September 8, 1951. i