At the trial, Ohlendorf also attempted to present the operations in the Soviet area not as a racist programme for the annihilation of all the Jews but as a general liquidation order primarily aimed at securing the newly won territory. These men, who were sober enough in all other respects, still believed that we had a sporting chance against the East.". During the Einsatzgruppen Trial, Ohlendorf was the chief defendant, and was also a key witness in the prosecution of other indicted war criminals. The Einsatzgruppen trial (officially, The United States of America vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al.) Otto Rasch: Rasch led Einsatzgruppe C. This unit perpetrated mass murder in Ukraine, including the shooting of more than 33,000 Jews of Kiev at. It is only now that at least one of them is admitting as much. BillionGraves FREE Dr. Phil Otto Ohlendorf, 1879 - 1913 was born in 1879. Another defendant, Rudolf Hss, the commandant at Auschwitz, used the same defense. Behind him is Paul Blobel whose Sonderkommando SS unit was involved in sixteen instances of mass murder, including the killing of 33,000 Jews in the Kiev massacre alone. Otto Ohlendorf Einsatzgruppen www.HolocaustResearchProject.org Facing History & Ourselves, "Obeying Orders," last updated August 11, 2017. 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272, Nazi War Crimes Interagency Working Group, Discussions held in Berlin in April 1945 between senior SS officials including Ohlendorf, SS-General Felix Steiner, and SS-General Richard Hildebrandt. Otto Ohlendorf joined the Nazi Party in 1925 and in 1926. Gaps, recalled Schubert, existed in what was transmitted. There is some new detail concerning Himmler's state of mind on May 6, 1945 after Hitler's Last Testament appointed Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz as the successor while expelling Himmler from the Nazi Party. I study his photograph, compare it with the man. He was the leader of the SS in Austria prior to the Anschluss and played a principal role in the betrayal of his native country to the Nazi conspirators. 2200: CIC2 agents come in from the town of Landsberg-on-the-Lech. Nineteen nations expressed their adherence to this agreement, and the trials were conducted by quadripartite tribunals at Nuremberg in 1946 and 1947. 1900: Arrive with Bickel in army staff car. I wonder what other arrangements are necessary at this point.