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Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 7


FIFTY-NINTH DAY

Thursday, 14 February 1946
Morning Session


For the education of adolescents, the German fascists created a special organization, the so-called Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend). The Defendant Baldur von Schirach was for quite a long time the head of this organization.
What kind of methods were used for the education of German youth by the fascist criminals is described by a French subject, Ida Vasso, the directress of a hostel for aged Frenchmen in Lvov. During the German occupation of Lvov, she had an opportunity of visiting the Lvov ghetto. In her statement to the Extraordinary State Commission, Vasso described the local system for the extermination of human beings.
From Vasso's statement it is obvious that the Germans educated the Hitler Youth by training these young fascists to shoot at living targets-at children specially handed over to the Hitler Youth to serve as targets.


I now quote from Vasso's statement in this connection. It is included in the text of the report as a certified document, on Page 6-c of the document book. The Tribunal win find Vasso's statement on the reverse side of Page 59, Paragraph 5, beginning from Line 14 from the beginning of the paragraph:
". . . the little children were martyrs. They were handed over to the Hitler Youth who used them as living targets while learning how to shoot. No mercy for others, all for themselves- this was the motto of the Germans. The whole world must learn of their methods. We, who were the helpless witnesses of these revolting scenes, must speak of those horrors in order that everybody should know of them and, what is more important, should never forget them since no vengeance will ever bring the minions of dead back to life again."

The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 7

I also remember watching a documentary where a British tank commander shot Three Hitler Youth members who were shooting people in the genital area because they were running to greet their liberators.