| Description: Following closely the German translation of the prosecution's opening statement are these seven
defendants of fourteen in the RuSHA Case VIII, commonly known as the "race and settlement" case. In the
front row are the defendants (left to right) Ulrich Greifelt formerly a Lt. General in the
SS, Lt. General of the Police, and Chief of the Main Staff Office for the strengthening of Germanism (RKFDV);
Rudolf Creutz formerly a Senior Colonel in the SS and Deputy to Greifelt; Konrad Meyer-Hetling formerly
a Senior Colonel in the SS; (back row left to right) Gregor Ebner formerly a Senior Colonel
in the Tesch formerly a Major in the SS and Chief of the Main Legal Department of Lebensborn; and Inge
Viermetz formerly Deputy Chief of the Main Department of Lebensborn. These defendants are charged by
the prosecution with having delibertly exterminated thousands of persons in occupied countries who did not
meet Hitler's standards of Germanising. [Original Descriptive Caption] |
| Date: n.d. |
| Provenance: From Public Relations Photo Section, Office Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nuernberg, Germany, APO 696-A, US Army. Photo No. OMT-VIII-D-25. |
| Citation: |
| Telford Taylor Papers, Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia University Law School, New York, N.Y. : TTP-CLS: 15-2-2-112. |
