Note 201 — V. EVIDENCE CONCERNING PRINCIPAL ISSUES IN THE CASE

Concerning the relation of the extermination program to transfers of certain groups to the Reich Leader SS, two documents written by Thierack, Reich Minister of Justice, are especially enlightening—Thierack’s memorandum concerning his conference with Himmler and others on 18 September 1942, which mentions “special treatment” (654-PS, Pros. Ex. 39), reproduced below in section V C 3 a; Thierack’s letter of 13 October 1942 to Bormann, which mentions “the extermination of members of these nationalities,” referring to Poles, Russians, Jews, and gypsies (NG-558, Pros. Ex. 143), reproduced below in section V D 2.