CONDITIONS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
A Series of Reports Issued by the United Nations Information Organization.
(Formerly the Inter-Allied Information Committee) London, Pages 14, 16.
Greek Jews are in a special category. ' Many have been deported. Four-fifths of the Jewish population of Salonika are estimated to have been deported to Poland, many of them dying as a result of inhuman treatment.
The conditions under which the conscripts work vary according to where they are and who are their masters. Moreover, accurate information on this subject is scanty, but the following two examples give a fairly good picture.
Out of 400 Greeks conscripted to guard the Athens-Salonika railway ten froze to death within fifteen days. Their dependents received no compensation.
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In a letter to his family a Greek conscript' in Germany wrote on August 20, 1942: "Please send me money and clothes. We are working fourteen hours a day. Our salary is insufficient to buy food, even from the peoples' kitchens". A few days later the German authorities informed the family that this worker had suddenly disappeared.
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According to the official statistics at the end of 1943, there were 380,000 Dutch workers in Germany and 40,000 in Belgium and Northern France. .
These figures do not include those workers who have not returned for one reason or another, or those who have failed to come back from leave. They also do not include the 120,000 Jews who have been deported. Dr. Stothfang, one of Sauckel's closest collaborators, estimated the number of workers who have not returned from leave at 150,000.
The Germans have recently imposed a special regulation on Dutch workers in Germany for the purpose of putting an end to this "leave-vanishing" trick. As part of the routine, before a Dutch worker in the Reich can go home on leave, he has to submit, together with his application form, the names of two or more coworkers who will vouch for his return. If the worker fails to return, reprisals are taken against those who have stood surety. But even this unfair method has not succeeded in putting a stop to the practice or even in reducing the number of defaulters.
As a punishment for refusing to sign the pledge of loyalty, 4,000 students were sent to work in Germany. Efforts to con-'script Dutch doctors for work in Germany failed as a result of the united stand which the whole medical profession took against such measures. Of the 120,000 Jews who were deported, tens of thousands are being employed in Labour Camps in the East.
Extracts from reports on the treatment of Greek Jews and other Greeks deported to Germany and Poland, and Dutch workers and Jews sent to Germany and the east
Date: Date Unknown
Literal Title: Conditions in Occupied Territories[.] A series of Reports Issued by the United Nations Information Organisation (Formerly the Inter-Allied Information Committee) London
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Total Pages: 3
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: L-26
HLSL Item No.: 450987
Notes:The text in English is followed by one in German. This document was apparently not entered as evidence in the trial.
Trial Issues
Forced labor and mistreatment of workers in war economy (IMT, NMT 2) Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…
Document Summary
L-26: Slave Labour and Departation - Number 8 in series of reports issued by United Nations Information Organization (formerly the inter-Allied Information Committee (24 printed pages)