Thank you Jonathan.
I can't help thinking that if Hildebrandt could have been a bit more explicit if he had attended the Poznan speech. It featured heavily in the RuSHA trial. Also I can't help thinking had he given some explicit testimony in this trial, then the Judgement in the Ministries Trial would have quoted this explicit testimony. Surely Hildebrandt was questioned on it? The phrase - " After this Poznan speech nothing could surprise me any more.", the 'this' could be reference to a more contemporaneous reaction.
For example in the Pohl trial the prosecution did ask and receive explicit answers (presumably not available for the Ministries Trial judgement)
http://www.mazal.org/archive/nmt/05/NMT05-T0762.htm
MR. ROBINS : Witness, after you heard Himmler’s speech in Poznan, you had no doubt that the policy of the Reich and the policy of the SS were committed to the extermination of the Jews, did you?
DEFENDANT FRANK: Yes, quite.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Was that in '42 or '43 ?
MR. ROBBINS: October '43, your Honor. You say you did not have any doubt?
DEFENDANT FRANK: It was in October 1943 when I heard Himmler's speech at Poznan and I heard it as chief of the administration of the police.
Q. And at that time it became clear to you that the policy of the Reich was the extermination of the Jews? I did not quite get your answer?
A. No doubt could be possible anymore after that. As a man of thinking faculties I had to deduce from Himmler's speech what he wanted to say.
Q. Is that the first time you heard about this, his policy?
A. Yes.
Q. Is that the first time that you heard that Jews had been killed in concentration camps?
A. I heard for the first time there, that the German Reich had proclaimed an extermination program against the whole of Jewry, who had associated against Hitler.
And Oswald Pohl himself:
Q. And then with reference to the clearing out of the Jews, did you hear Himmler say, "I want to talk to you about clearing out of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish race. It's one of those things that's easy to talk about — the Jewish race is being exterminated," and so forth.
A. He personally did not discuss that with me. I only heard that in his speech.
Q. You heard it in his speech?
A. The speech at Poznan, yes.
http://www.mazal.org/archive/nmt/05/NMT05-T0675.htm
Just on the subject of Richard Hildebrandt, he gave an affidavit reconstructing a conversation he claimed he had with Himmler on 2 May 1945, just prior to his trial
Ich: Ich bin leider davon ueberzeugt, dass Sie fuer Eisenhower kein Verhandlungspartner mehr sind. Ihre Belastung durch gewisse Konzentrations-Lager und die Art der Judenbehandlung im Osten ist zu gross und schwer.
Himmler: Glauben Sie das ja nicht. Ich habe die ungarischen Juden sehr anstaendig behandelt. Das ist auch auf der Gegenseite bekannt.
Ich: Wer ist eigentlich hauptverantworlich fuer die Bestialitaeten in Auschwitz, von denen ich im uebrigen erst in April 1945 durch SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Dr. Morgen ganz zufaellig erfahren habe?
Ich habe von Innen auch ueber die Judenverfolgungen nie eine praecise Erklaerung bekommen koennen.
Nach dem, was ich jetzt erst von Dr Morgen ueber Auschwitz erfahren habe, kann ich mich heute mit Ihren frueher ueblichen Antworten auf diese Frage: "Kuemmern Sie sich nicht um Dinge, die Sie nichts angehen" nich mehr zufrieden geben.
Himmler:
Alle diese Dinge sind persoenlich von Fuehrer angeordnet. Ich selber habe verschiedene Fuehrerbefehle dieser Art weitgehend abgeschwaecht oder unterbunden.
Ich:
Ich kann nicht glauben, dass Hitler die Vernichtung von Menschen in Gaskammern befohlen hat. Das widerspricht meinen Vorsetllungen, die ich von ihm hatte, ganz und gar.
Himmler:
Was reden wir noch davon? Wenn man mir nicht glaubt, dass der Fuehrer dies alles angeordnet hat. Was soll es denn schon heissen, wenn ich Briefe faelschen lasse mit den Untersschriften von Goebbels und Bormann, dass alle diese Dinge auf persoenlich Befehle Hitlers zurueckgeben?
Goebbels und Bormann leben wahrscheinlich nicht mehr, obwohl ich mir bei Goebbels vorstellin koennte, dass er sich in Berlin Verbergen haelt, um spaeter Mal auf der Gegenseite wieder aufzutauchen
And so on.
Anyway, good. Any more accounts? Legal settings and interviews or memoirs?