This agreement, it will be noted, expanded the initial ideas of Engert and Thierack far beyond any more hastening of minor political court cases or exploitation of prison labor. The agreement introduced the ideas of exterminating the so-called “asocials,” i.e., persons who for either racial, political, or personality reasons were deemed unfit to live. Within a month after this agreement had been worked out and put into practice, it was expanded further to include not only those “asocial” elements who had finished their prison sentences, but also all Jews, gypsies, Russians, and Ukrainians who were detained under arrest or imprisonment in any Reich penitentiary or work house, as well as all Poles who were sentenced to more than 3 years. Now, since the intentional design was to literally work these people to death once they were transferred to concentration camps, this expanded illegal agreement actually rendered any court sentence for any crime tantamount to a death sentence. In some cases the death awaiting these unfortunates was not long in coming. For example, a situation report in 1942 from the Attorney General of the Court of Appeals in Berlin to the defendant Schlegelberger, while the latter was Acting Minister of Justice, revealed the following episode: “In this connection I think I ought to point out that only recently perpetrators have been repeatedly handed over to the Gestapo. Also, there was no sufficient cause therefore, to be found in my opinion, in the conduct of the justice authorities. I am referring to criminal procedures against Skibbe and others * * *.” Then follows the citation of the case in the German files: “ * * * in which 4 defendants--26, 22, 20, and 18 years of age, respectively--accused of committing 23, 19, 15, and 12 completed or attempted robberies, respectively, by taking advantage of air raid protection measures, were sentenced by the Special Court of Berlin to 7, 6, and 5½ years of penal servitude and loss of civil rights for 10 years’ each. Although 3 of the perpetrators had not been convicted previously and the fourth one only of 2 comparatively minor crimes, in addition to all of them still being comparatively young and, at least in my opinion, the pronounced penalties being not inadequate, these perpetrators were handed over to the Gestapo. They were shot, as could be seen from the newspaper reports ‘because they offered resistance.’ May I remark that it is hardly unknown to the public any longer that these shootings ‘because of resistance offered’ are actually caused by other considerations.” Still operating completely beyond any existing law, decree or regulation, this same cabal of justice officials, SS and Gestapo extended this policy of extermination through the Occupied Eastern Territories. As the SS and SD offices throughout those eastern countries were instructed in November 1942--