Note 274 — V. EVIDENCE CONCERNING PRINCIPAL ISSUES IN THE CASE (continued 5)

SS General Otto Ohlendorf was commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe D, one of the special task forces assigned to exterminate “undesirable elements” in the East. He was also chief of Office III of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) from 1939–1943. Ohlendorf and a number of his codefendants were sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen Case (United States vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al., Case 9, vol. IV, this series).