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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1943
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THREE RUSSIAN LIDICES
(By ALFRED GURELLA)
In a village north of Kursk I was shown records left
behind by a German police regiment which some time
before had been transferred from the deep hinterland j
to the rear of the German army on the Voronezh
Front. They were the usual mass of neatly filed
registered documents which every unit of this bureau
cratic murder machine carries about with it.
From this mass of dead documents one file stood
cnt. The title was inscribed with loving care in a
peat bold hand: “ ‘Triangle’ Operations” (“Dreiech
Untemehmen”). The ornamental initial letters seem
ed to say, “You must peruse me with special care.”
4 This file contained documents relating to a punitive
expedition sent last September against the guerrillas j
in the Brest Litovsk area. It gave an instructive pic
ture of the working of the German army murder ma
chine.
“The operation was carried out without friction
and without incident,” states the “operational report
on the annihilation of bandit-infested villages north
of Mokranv,” signed “Holling. Major and Battalion
Commander of the Third Battalion. 15th Police Regi
ment.” and addressed to the Commander of the Brest
Litovskpolice. “ Villages were burned down in pur
suance of orders.” it continues. “In all. 169 persons
in Borisovka. 705 persons in Borki and 289 persons in
Zablocie were shot. Cattle, effects grain, vehicles
and machines were, with the concurrence of the com
petent District Fuehrer, taken into safe custody. In
all, 1.470 head of cattle. 1.105 pigs. 148 horses and
1,225 sheep were driven to Diwin and Mokrany.”
One thousand, one hundred and sixtv-three mur
dered villagers, registered with bureaucratic precis
ion along with 3,948 animals.
Major Holling reports “defects” in the opration.
He was given too few soldiers.
“Even had the full dimensions of the villages been
known, complete encirclement would have b$en im
possible, as most of them lay in the forrests. Since
it is to be presumed that the bandits and their accom
plices (bandenhelfer) prefer to take refuge in out-of
the-way farmsteads, and take to flight at the least
sign, while persons with good consciences remain be
hind. the bandits and their accomplices must have
escaped.”
In other words, Major Holling knowingly and cold
bloodedly slaughtered 1,163 innocent villagers, “per
sons with good consciences,” old folks, women and
children.
Major Holling appends several complaints to his
“operational report.” During the official conference
on the proposed “triangle operation,” and S. S. Hauph
scharfeuhrer named Welsch, of the Sicherheitsdienst
(security police) — the most dreaded of Himmler’s
agents in the rear—appeared on the scene. He had
been sent by Hauptscharfuehrer Topf.
Major Holling reports:
“He adopted a truculent attitude, and behaved in
the must undisciplined fashion. As I ascertained
Welsch had consumed vodka plentifully just before.”
This Welsch insisted on taking a personal part in ;
the operation. It appeared, in response to Major;
Holling’s inquiry, that Welsch took erception to the j
methods of execution used by the Schutzpolizie on the J
grounds that they were too humane. Major Holing!
refused to allow the intoxicated S. S. swine to take ,
part in his operation, for he was confident that he'
could conduct it without laying himself open to the '
least blame on the score of excessive humaneness.
So that was that. But something else happened to
annoy the Major. On the first day of the operation
an Untersturmfeuhrer named Hellweig, of this same
Sicherheitsdienst in Brest, reported to him. with au
thority to take away on a mutor truck supplementary
provisions for S.D. herren from the villages which j
were to be burned down.
Major Hollings was “astounded, as the S. D. be
haved quite passively in this operation.” But he, like
everyone else, trempled before the S.D. and allowed
the surly rascal Hellweig “to take something away.” ;
The S.D. man took advantage of this permission to |
load a truck full. i
“Meanwhile, however”—continues Major Holling’s j
report—“another S.D. Hauptsturmfuerher, Wanges- j
mann, appeared on the scene, and together with Hell-1
weig began to make free with the assembled clothing,'
household furniture, et cetra, sorted them, and had
them loaded.” Holling did not hinder the S.D. hyenas, j
He only complained later: “One might get the impres
sion that the S.D. enjoys special privileges.”
All this happened from September 28 to 30, 1942: •
1,163 peaceable inhabitants of three Soviet villages!
were wiped out in three days. Their murderers, as far
as we know them, were Welsch, the S.D. marauders
from Brest, Wangesmann. Topf and Hellweig, Major I
Moiling of the Third Battalion of the 15th Police Regi-'
ment and S.D. Schbearbeiter Doctor Brandstetter.
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formed that the government was about to ask them to
start turning out civilian stuff again.
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orders plus Army orders would give them one of their
peak production years.
But paradoxically, the news of the impending or-;
ders that recentlv reached motor truck makers was j
serious news indeed, as it involved a tremendous new j
responsibilty in tooling and preparation.
This was particularly so because the contemplated |
output involves a greater proportion of heavy trucks
than the industry ever made, even in peacetime.
“What about recent let-ups in production of lighter
Army trucks? Isn’t it a simple matter to switch over
to heavy trucks for civilians?”
The reasoning sounds logical, but . . . Converting
quickly from lighter military vehicles to heavy trucks
might be compared to trying overnight to change the
style and form of a newspaper. Just as a publisher re
quires time to change his forms, adjust his presses,
and arrange for other changes of detail, so a motor
truck manufacturer needs time to reorganize for a
product which is different in type and purpose.
The proposed Government program calling for
heavy trucks for civilian uses come right on the heels
of Army orders for quantities of heavy trucks needed
to maintain invasion supply lines. These “big bruis
ers” must be prepared to do the work ofrailroads
bombed out of existence.
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