Auditing. Paragraph 4. "The pre-auditing of accounts rendered by the administrative office will be made by the pre-auditing office of the SS-Economic Administrator.
"To secure a uniform auditing system, the SS-Economic Administrator will receive official instructions from the WVHA."
Paragraph 5 deals with the food supply. Paragraph C provides "It is the responsibility of the SS-Economic Administrators that rations and canteens goods are utilized in accordance with the present laws and regulations, as well as the order of the WVHA."
"Six, Clothing Economy.The establishment or re-starting of manufacturing plants will be planned and carried out exclusively by the WVHA. All independent processing of textile raw materials, skins, furs, or leather, prohibited.
"For the clothing factories and other manufacturing plants within the jurisdiction of a Senior SS-and Police leader, the SS-Economic Administrator receives technical instructions from the WVHA.
"The right to dispose of stocks of clothing stores is held only by the SS-Economic and Administrative Main Office" the WVHA., "In special cases of emergency the SS Economic Administrator can make a decision concerning a distribution on his own initiative. It is necessary to inform the SS-Economic and Administrative Main Office immediately and to apply for retrospective approval.
"Instructions issued up to date for administration of stores and reports on stocks will retain their validity. In principal the provision of the fighting troops with clothing equipment will be effected through the WVHA. This applies also to new field-units to be established. The provision of all locally established units, (replacements units, garrisons administration, etc.) is effected by the SS-Economic from their own clothing stores, whereby care should be taken to avoid the establishment of too extensive stocks." and so forth.
"e. The authority to write off losses of clothing and equipment up to 5000.- RM in individual cases will be transferred to the SS Economic Administrators."
The next paragraph 7 deals with the accommodation economy, which is explained as embracing the administration of buildings and real estate, the provision, administration, utilization and control of equipment and expendable materials for housing purposes. "Above all the provision of accommodation equipment within their own sphere is to be attempted. In so far as this is not possible, well founded applications are to be submitted to the WVHA."
Paragraph 8 deals with motor transportation. "The SS-Economic Administrator is responsible for the control and assignment of motor vehicles of all offices subordinate to him.
"Independent provision of motor vehicles and motor vehicle accessories is prohibited.
"Absolutely essential requirements are to be requested from the WVHA."
Paragraph 9 deals with raw materials economy and states that secured raw materials are to be stored appropriately and then reported to the WVHA.
On page 6 of this document, page 17 of the Document Book, the translator placed the certificate of translation in the middle of the document, but that may be ignored.
Page 7, page 18 of the Document Book, continues with the same letter by Pohl. Paragraph 10 deals with building matters. It provides that "when the executory regulations come into force the existing building inspectorates will be dissolved. The entire personnel of the Building Inspectorates will be transferred for duty with the Higher SS - and Police Chief and SS Economic Administrator.
"The present Central Administrations will remain in existence. The chiefs of the Central Building Administrations will be given the disciplinary powers of company commanders. The setting up of new Central Building Administrations requires the authority of the WVHA.
"c) The constructions tasks of the SS-Economic Administrator embrace 3 phases:
"Phase 1) Constructional Planning "Phase 2) Erection of Buildings
3) Maintenance of Buildings:
The construction units are for the purposes of utilization of labor subordinated to the Economic Administrator. Technical directives are issued by the WVHA.
"The Chief of the building department represents the authority of the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police" Himmler "in constructional matters. The SS Economic Administrator is the highest building police authority for building measures within the jurisdiction of the Higher SS and Police Chief."
Paragraph numbered 11 deals with concentration camps and provides that "The Economic Administrator is the competent authority in all matters concerning concentration camps.
"The concentration camp commandants will report by teletype all special occurrences, such as mass escapes, escapes of individual prisoners, executions, suicides, in the first instance to the SS Economic Administrator. The latter will at once submit the report to the Higher SS and Police Chief.
"This instruction does not affect the reports to be made to the WVHA (Department D,), to the Reich Security Main Office, Berlin, to the Personal Staff of Himmler and to the Assigning Office; reports to these authorities will continue to be made.
"All occurrences affecting the SS Guard Troop are to be reported to the SS Economic Administrator attached to the Higher SS and Police Chief. A duplicate of this report is, at the same time, to be submitted to the WVHA.
"Enquires into all disciplinary cases beyond the disciplinary authority of the camp commandant will be conducted by the Higher SS and Police Chief in his capacity as appointing authority.
"All state police tasks in connection with the concentration camps, such as assignments, discharges and furloughs of prisoners will be handled directly by the WVHA as previously.
The Higher SS and Police Chief is to be notified of important measures, such as the assignment of large numbers of prisoners."
"g" provides that, "allocation of labor from concentration camps is handled directly by the Higher SS and Police Chief and SS Economic Administrator. Construction orders of WVHA have priority.
"The Promotion and supervision of prisoners' training for specialized jobs is the responsibility of the SS-Economic Administrator who will receive appropriate instructions through the WVHA.
"Sanitary and hygienic measures in the concentration camps, prevention and combating of epidemics, and moreover the supervision of medical experiments, are the responsibility of the Medical Officer on the staff of the Higher SS and Police Chief."
Paragraph 12 deals with the economic enterprises. It provides that "The Economic Administrator has supervisory authority over the economic enterprises of the WVHA, within his jurisdiction. In particular he has to ensure that, first and foremost, the requirements of the Waffen-SS and the police are met according to the degree of urgency in precedence of all other requirements. All negotiations with the higher authorities are to be conducted by the economic enterprises only with the concurrence of the SS Economic Administrator.
"Intervention in the internal management and financial matters of installations affiliated to an enterprise possessing legal independence is only permitted at the express order of the WVHA.
The next paragraph 13 deals with personnel administration: "All SS officers, Unterfuehrers, men and civilian employees at present assigned by the WVHA to the subsidiary offices of the WVHA within the jurisdiction of a Higher SS and Police Chief will be transferred to the Higher SS and Police Chief -- SS Economic Administrator."
The following paragraph deals with promotions and appointments.
Paragraph 14 deals with judicial and disciplinary matters which are under the supervision of the WVHA. The letter is signed by the Defendant Pohl.
The second part of the last, the last part of the document is another letter b Pohl to Himmler dated 27 July 1942. This is still part of Document NO-2128. I will not read this letter. It simply makes recommendations to Himmler as to the appointment of certain economic administrators for the occupied countries.
The last part of the document is a letter from Himmler's Staff to the WVHA, and to Oswald Pohl reading as follows: "Dear Obergruppenfuehrer; Your letter of 27 July 1942 enclosing executive provisions has been submitted to the Reichsfuehrer SS. He has marked on them, in handwriting, the following: 1. Approved. 2. Suggestions for appointments approved."
At page 25 there is a Document No. NO-1505. I will not offer this, because it is identical with Document NO-1017, which has been offered at page 50 of Book 5, and gives the Exhibit No. 127. Document NO-1505 on page 25 is the same as the Document No. 1017, Exhibit No. 127. This is a letter dated 1 August 1942, from Gluecks to all the Reich Concentration Camp Commandants, referring to the saving of paper, and the work be not recorded as to the deaths of the Russians prisoners of war. It provides, "There will be no special treatment of each individual case. In order to save paper and labor, I, therefore, direct that neither the arrival of such a prisoner nor his transfer into another camp is to be announced individually; moreover, no camp indexcards are to be made out and sent to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) office IV C 2. Reports to this office are not to be made either."
At page 27 I offer Document No. NO-497 as Prosecution Exhibit 332. This is a cable from Gluecks of Amtsgruppen D to Grothman, who was an official of Amtsgruppen "regarding the transfer of 250 women from Ravensbrueck to Luebeck. It reads as follows: "I contacted the Mayor of Luebeck at once as to the transfer of 250 women from the concentration camp Ravensbrueck. He informed me that the camp is not quite ready yet to receive the prisonlabor. As soon as this will have been done the 250 women which I am selecting will be moved to Leubeck according to the order."
The following series of documents concern the agreement which was made between Himmler and the Reichministry of Justice providing that certain people would be transferred to the Reichs Ministry of Justice to be worked -- to be transferred to the SS to be worked to death.
The first Document is No. 654-PS, page 28 of the Document Book 12, and I offer this as Prosecution's Exhibit No. 333. It refers to a conference on 18 September 1942, and has been a basic memorandum, according to the agreement between Himmler and Thierack, wherein Thierack would deliver anti-social elements from the execution of their sentence to the Reich Fuehrer of SS to be worked to death. I refer to the second paragraph: "The delivery of anti-social elements from the execution of their sentence to the Reich Fuehrer of SS to be worked to death. Persons under protective arrest, Jews, Gypsies, Russians and Ukrainians. Poles with more than 3 year sentences, Czechs and Germans with more than 8 year sentences, according to the decision of the Reich Minister for Justice. First of all the worst anti-social elements amongst these just mentioned are to be handed over. I shall inform the Fuehrer of this through Reichsleiter Bormann." And the memorandum is initialed by Theirack.
At page 31 I offer Document NG-059. The index is incorrect, which refers to document NO-059. The document is actually NG059. This is Prosecution's Exhibit No. 334. It is a filememorandum dated 19 September 1942, stating that the Minister of Justice conferred with Himmler for five and one-half hours.
DR. SEIDL: Dr. Seidl for the defendant Oswald Pohl. May it please Your Honor, I would like to draw Your Honors' attention to the fact that this document here is not in our Document Book. I would like to ask the Prosecution to at least submit photostatic copies of this document later on.
MR. ROBBINS: I shall merely offer this conditionally at this time then. I should like to read it, as it is quite short. It is as follows: "On 18 September 1942 following an invitation by the Reichsfuehrer SS, Dr. Thierack, Reich Minister of Justice, and Dr. Rothenberger, State Secretary met at the Reichsfuehrer's field command post.
They had a discussion, lasting 5½ hours, with the Reichsfuehrer, in which also participated on the side of the Reichsfuehrer SS-Gruppenfuehrer Streeckenback (Security Police) and SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Bender (SS-Judge with the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police). The results of the discussion, about which State Secretary Dr. Rothenberger expressed greatest satisfaction, are to be summarized in the minutes. (Annex in ink) Afterward the Reich Minister of Justice, and the Reichsfuehrer SS had a private conversation alone."
On page 32 I offer the Document NO --- again this is Document NG-558, which is Prosecution's Exhibit No. 335. It is a letter from the Minister of Justice to Bormann informing him to use Poles, Jews, Russians and Gypsies which will be turned over to the SS to be exterminated. I should like to read part of it. It is initialed by Thierack, dated 13 October 1942:
"With a view to freeing the German people of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies and with a view to making the Eastern territories which have been incorporated into the Reich available for settlements for German nationals, I intend to turn over criminal proceedings against Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies to the Reichsfuehrer SS. In so doing I base myself on the principle that the administration of Justice can only make a small contribution to the extermination of members of these people. The Justice Administration undoubtedly pronounces very severe sentences on such persons, but that is not enough to constitute any material contribution towards the realization of the above-mentioned aim. Nor is any useful purpose served by keeping such persons in German prisons and penitentiaries for years, even if they are utilized as labor for war purposes, as is done every day on a large scale.
"I am, on the other hand, of the opinion that considerably better results can be accomplished by surrendering such persons to the police, who can then take the necessary measures unhampered by any legal criminal evidence.
I start from the principle that such measures seem entirely justified in war-time and that certain conditions which I consider essential are fulfilled. These conditions consist in the prosecution of Poles and Russians by the police only if they resided until 1 September 1939 in the former sectors of Poland or the Soviet Union; and, secondly that Poles who were registered as being of German descent will continue to be subjected to prosecution by the administration of justice as before.
"On the other hand the police may prosecute Jews and Gypsies irrespective of these conditions.
"But no changes whatsoever are to be made in regard to the prosecution of other foreign nationals by the administration of justice.
"The Reichsfuehrer SS, with whom I discussed these views, agrees with them. I also informed Herr Dr. Lammers.
"I submit this matter to you, requesting you to let me know whether the Fuehrer approves this view. If so, I would make my official recommendations through Reich Minister Dr. Lammers."
Then comes Document No. NO-1285, which shows Pohl's connection with this nefarious plan, and shows the success that the WVHA had accomplished in working the prisoners to death. This document has already been presented in a previous book, and had been given the exhibit No. 164, in Book 6, at page 30, and of this Document NO-1285 I should like to read a part of it, since it is not referred to in detail at that time. Pohl writes to Himmler on 15 March 1943: "According to concurring reports received from all camps occupied by prisoners in protective custody, the state of health and thus the working capacity of the prisoners sent in by the administration of Justice is catastrophic. In all the camps a loss of between at least 25 -- 30% is to be reckoned with, and then this number is only reached if the prisoners are treated with consideration for a greater length of time.
The camp Mauthausen/ Gusen constitutes an exception. Here the working in capacity and also the mortality of prisoners in protective custody is on a considerably higher level. One can definitely assume that Mauthausen received the worst material. In the subordinate concentration camps according to the census of 1 March 1943 till now there were 10,191 prisoners in protective custody of which 7,587 were assigned to the concentration camp Mauthausen/Gusen. From these the deaths totaled 3,853; 3,306 of them in Mauthausen/Gusen. The reason for the increased incapacity for work, and mortality must presumably be that the many prisoners in protective custody who have been in prisons for years are suffering from physical debility owing to the transfer to a different milieu, so that in spite of all efforts death during labor assignment and sojourn in the open air can not be retarded. The consequences are especially unfavorable as a great number of tuberculosis patients were also delivered."
Then the letter on page 36 is also interesting. It is a letter signed by Pohl and addressed to Thierack. It reads as follows - I beg your pardon. This is a draft of a letter which was submitted to Himmler by Pohl to be sent on to Thierack.
"I have had the camp commandants submit reports to me concerning the state of health of prisoners in protective custody taken over by concentration camps.
"The following picture is derived from the census dated 1 April 1943:
"1) 12,658 prisoners in protective custoday were transferred to concentration camps.
"2) 5,935 of these died.
"3) 6,723 present strength on 1 April 1943.
"The shockingly high mortality figure is due to the fact that the prisons transferring them have literally released inmates who are in the worst possible physical condition and who are afflicted with every possible disease.
"The observations and reports of the camp doctors show unequivocally that in spite of all medical efforts the physical debility and death of the prisoners cannot be retarded. A hearty active labor assignment as is expected from the concentration camp prisoners in the munition works is impossible with a sapped weak body.
"I do not wish to support a quarantine station in the concentration camps because I need every space for healthy workers. The armament work assigned to the concentration camps by the Fuehrer can only be executed by laborers who are in perfect health.
"I beg you, Herr Reich Minister, to support me in this matter and to order that only healthy protective custody prisoners who are completely capable of work be sent to the concentration camps."
Apparently it was not enough for the SS to work diseased prisoners to death or prisoners who were in bad health. It had to be that they were working healthy prisoners to death.
At page 39 appears Document 054-PS, which I will not offer into evi dence.
At page 45 I offer Document NO 2106 as Exhibit 336. This is a memorandum dated 13 October 1942, the memorandum of the labor officer of the concentration camp Neuengamme, referring to the transfer of inmates to the Reich Works Hermann Goering, Brunswick.
DR. SEIDL (For the defendant Oswald Pohl): I am sorry, this document is missing also in our document book and the following is also not contained in the book. I shall appreciate it if the prosecution would possibly send us the necessary photostatic copy afterwards.
MR. ROBBINS: We'll do that, Your Honor, and I'll offer Exhibit 336 only provisionally at this time.
The next document is not in the English book either. It is Document NO 491. I'll assign the number 337. I think the clerk has a copy of it so I don't know why it is not in the book, but at any rate it is not.
I next offer Document--- Well, the following document is not in the book either. It is NO 1002. I'll assign Exhibit No. 338 to it but will not offer it at the present time.
At page 46 of Document Book 12 I offer NO 1515 as Prosecution Exhibit 339. This is a letter by Liebehenschel. The stencil indicates that the signature is illegible but I have determined that it was signed by Liebehenschel, Chief of Amtsgruppe D I.
THE PRESIDENT: Is this the one which is on page 46 theoretically?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, sir. Is that 1515 in your book, Your Honor?
THE PRESIDENT: All right. Yes. I was confused by the German figures here.
MR. ROBBINS: This is a letter by Liebehenschel to the camp commanders of the concentration camps Dachau, Sachsenheusen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenheim, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Natzweiler, as listed there. It is dated 6 November 1942 and reads as follows:
"Subject: Supply of civilian clothes for prisoners.
"With reference to the letter quoted above, which Department B of the WVHA has sent directly to the administration departments of concentration camps, I wish especially to emphasize that prisoners who have been supplied with civilian clothes are only to be employed in places from which escape is highly improbable.
"Prisoners working in outside gangs must, without exception, wear the blue and white striped prisoners' clothing."
The following document on page 47, 1063-D-PS, I offer as Exhibit 340. This is a circular letter by the Chief of the Security Police and Security Service, dated 17 December 1942. A copy went to Pohl for his information and to the Inspectors of the concentration camps. It is signed by Heilmuth. I should like to read the first paragraph:
"For reasons of war necessity, not to be discussed further here, the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police on 14 December 1942 has ordered that until the end of January 1943 at least 35,000 prisoners qualified for work are to be sent to the concentration camps."
It is seen here that merely an order for a certain number of prisoners is given and the SS is to get these people as best they can.
"In order to reach this number the following measures are required:
"1) As of now (so far until 1 February 1943) all eastern workers or such foreign workers who have been fugitives or who have broken contracts and who do not belong to allied, friendly, or neutral states are to be brought by the quickest means to the nearest concentration camps."
On the following page it states, "Every single laborer counts!"
"The checking must be taken up at once. All withholding of prisoners qualified for work is prohibited. My approval is required for exceptions.
"3) The prisoners who are committed to concentration camps till 1 February 1943 will be seized under reference to this decree, solely according to a list (present number, first and second name, place of birth and date, residence, reason for arrest with a short commentary). One list will be sent to the Reich Security headquarters as a collective request for both protective custody as well as for commitment to a concentration camp, for which the confirmation can be assumed.
"In regards to eastern workers, that is to say, for such workers who have to wear the insignia 'East', it is sufficient to give the total number of the arrested.
"One copy goes with the transport to the commander of the concentration camp and another copy remains with the authorities who are making the commitment.
"In order to facilitate the necessary exploitation, the lists are to be made up on single pages and in such a way that enough space is left between the date of the individual prisoners, so that the lists can be cut out."
I do not intend to offer the document on page 49, which is 018 PS.
The following document on page 53 has already been offered as Exhibit 152. That is Document 3680 PS. It has already been offered as Exhibit 152 in Book 5 at page 159 of that book. It was the letter, the Court will remember, from the WVHA to various concentration camps containing instructions to collect hair from inmates and to deliver it to a felt manufacturer near Nuernberg for payment, and a similar letter requests the collection of string for the manufacture of rush mats at the concentration camp Ravensbruck.
The following document on page 55, NO 2031, I offer as Exhibit 341. It is a letter dated 6 January 1943. The index is incorrect in that respect. It is January rather than June. It is a letter, an order, from Himmler to remove to concentration camps families suspected of pro-partisan sympathies. I should like to read part of it:
"In operations ---"
I should state that it is addressed to - one copy went to the WVHA.
"In operations against guerilla troops, men, women, and children suspected of guerilla activities will be rounded up and shipped to the camps in Lublin or Auschwitz.
"The Higher SS and Police chiefs will arrange the shipments with the Chief of the Security Police, the Chief of the SS-Main Economic and Administrative Office," which was the defendant Pohl, "and the Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps," which was under the defendant Pohl. "The Chief of the WVHA, in agreement with the Chief of the Security Police and SD, suggests the establishment of collective camps for children and adolescents in Lublin.
In these camps a racial and political examination will take place. Racially worthless adolescents, male and female, will be assigned as apprentices to the economic enterprises of the concentration camps.
"Children will have to be brought up. This will be done by teaching them obedience, diligence, unconditional subordination and honesty toward their German masters. They will do sums to one hundred, learn to recognize traffic signs, and be prepared for their special occupations as farm workers, locksmiths, stone masons, joiners, etc. The girls will be trained as farm workers, weavers, spinners, knitters, and for similar jobs."
The following document on page 56 I offer as Exhibit 342. This is Document NO 1523. It is in two parts. The first is a letter dated 20 January 1943 from Gluecks, head of Department D, to various concentration camps. It is an order stating that they must attempt to cut down the death rate. He said:
"The attached copy is sent for your information. As I have already pointed out, every means must be used to lower the death rate in the camp.
"Full utilization and tasty preparation of the rations at hand, as well as the increased reception of parcels, make this perfectly possible."
I should point out that this came at a time when complaints were reaching the WVHA that because of the high death rate in the camps the supply of labor was being seriously diminished. He says:
"I hold the camp commandant and the chief of the camp administration personally responsible for exhausting of every possibility of maintaining the physical strength of the prisoners. In connection with opinions on personnel qualifications to be given by me, I shall in future examine whether the responsible SS leaders have satisfactorily fulfilled their duty in this matter too."
The following letter is from the Chief of the SIPO and SD to the Defendant Pohl stating that despite an increase in prisoners that had increased and an increase in profit was impossible. Since this is dated prior to the letter which I just read I assume that the first letter has some reference to the one that I would like to refer to now.
THE PRESIDENT: What about the dates, Exhibit 342, 20th of January of what year?
MR. ROBBINS: '43, your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: And the next one, 31st of December?
MR. ROBBINS: '42.
THE PRESIDENT: '42?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, sir. The letter reads in part as follows:
"In answer to the letter addressed to the Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of the German Police, a copy of which was sent to me by the Adjutant's Office of the Reichsfuehrer-SS, I have to inform you that in the meantime measures have been taken to increase the total number of prisoners in the concentration camps."
Here again we see reference to the fact that efforts were made to increase the number of prisoners in the concentration for labor, irrespective of the inmate's guilt or innocence. I think that this is further proof of the fact that concentration camps were not used simply as a penal institution but were used as a source for labor, as the I.M.T. found in its decision.
The last paragraph states:
"As soon as these measures are completed I shall give further instructions. But I should like, however, to point out in this connection that because of the great number of deaths in the concentration camp, it was impossible to increase the total number of prisoners, in spite of the increased numbers sent to them recently, and that with a constant or oven increasing death rate, it is unlikely that an improvement can be effected, even by sending an increased number of prisoners."
The next document at page 58 is NI-325. The next document which is on the index is missing from both the English and the German, I believe. That is NI-458, and I should like to reserve 343 for that document. The following document I should like to omit. It will not be offered by the Prosecution. This is the one at Page 58, NI-235.
The following document on page 59 I offer as Prosecution Exhibit 344. This is Document NO-2141 and is a letter from Mueller regarding the treatment of fugitive Russian Soviet PW's. It is dated 30 March 1943. It provides in the second full paragraph:
"Upon motion of the regional headquarters of the Secret State Police, Soviet-Russian prisoners of war who on their flight committed criminal delicts or who were put at disposal by Stalag-commanders because of criminal delicts, were up to date assigned to a concentration camp from here for labor or for execution.
"Assignment for labor in concentration camps originally effected for minor offenses, while for more serious offenses, repeated flight and all cases where criminal disposition was found to exist, order for execution was issued. Due to the increasing requirements on the labor market, Soviet-Russian prisoners of war were assigned for labor in a camp also if they had committed serious delicts.
"To simplify the office work, I authorize the regional headquarters of the Secret State Police and/or the Commanding officers to assign Soviet-Russian prisoners of war to concentration camps in the following cases:
"(1) Escaped Soviet-Russian prisoners of war who on their flight committed criminal deeds (for example) theft of food-also at night), and against whom Special Treatment is not suitable.
"(2) Soviet-Russian prisoners of war who were put at disposal by Stalag-commanders on account of criminal delicts or other offenses because of unsufficient disciplinary authority, and against who Special Treatment is not suitable.
"Only Soviet-Russian prisoners of war who committed crimes by physical force (for example, murder, arson, physical force against employers, guards or criminal dealing with women sexual intercourse and so on) or dangerous political delicts (inviting sabotage, strikes and so on) are to be reported for execution to the Reich Security Main Office."
I can't make out the next word there.
THE PRESIDENT: It is IV A 1c by PS.
MR. ROBBINS: "On assignment to the camps for labor detail, the transport commander has to be given a letter containing, aside of the reason for the arrest, only the information that the prisoners of war are detailed for work. No routing action as to identification or protective custody measures are to be taken."
A copy of this was sent to the WVHA and to Amtsgruppe D, also to the Oranienburg concentration camp.
THE PRESIDENT: Mueller was Chief of the Security Police?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, sir. The following document on page 61 I offer as Exhibit 345. That is Document NO-2114. It is a list of inmates detailed to work on railroad construction at the concentration camp Buchenwald and states that 1579 inmates and 259 guards were used altogether. I am not able to make out the signature on this document.
The following document at page 63 I offer as Prosecution's Exhibit 346. This is NO-1736. This is a letter from Keitel to Himmler. The index is erroneous in that respect. It is addressed to various people including Himmler - it is not addressed to the WVHA - regarding manpower for coal mining. It states that, "The Fuehrer demands that the following measures be taken with all possible speed with the object of making an additional 300,000 men available for coal mining."
THE PRESIDENT: Who were the parties to this letter, whom is it from and to?
MR. ROBBINS: This is from Keitel, and the distribution is shown on page 63, copies to the General Staff of the Army, etc., and also copies to Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of German Police Himmler. The measures referred to are:
"1. From the Soviet prisoners of war in our hands - with the exception of those prisoners of war in Finland and Norway and on unit establishments, -- Plenipotentiary for the Employment and Distribution of Labor with the agreement of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces (General Army Directorate Chief of Prisoners of War Division) will transfer to the coal mines, by 1 September 1943, beginning immediately and maintaining a continuous flow a first installment of 200,000 prisoners of war, fit for work in the coal mines.
"Any necessary replacements are to be provided by the Plenipotentiary for the Employment and Distribution of Labor."
The following document on Page 66, NO-482 has already been offered in evidence and is Exhibit 79 found in Book IV at Page 6 of that book. The Court will recall this is a circular letter from Himmler to the WVHA and others. The distribution is shown on Page 66, concerning the concentration camp Sobibor, S-o-b-i-b-o-r. The second part of the document is a letter dated 15 July 1943 from the Defendant Pohl to Himmler opposing the change of Sobibor. Rather, that is the third part of the letter as it is assembled here. Then the letter on Page 67 dated 24 July 1943 from Rudolf Brandt, I believe, that is from the personal staff of Himmler, states that Himmler agrees to leave the camp unchanged pursuant to Defendant Pohl's suggestion.
On Page 70 I offer Document NO-485 as Prosecution's Exhibit 347. This is a letter from Globocnick to Brandt, who is on Himmler's personal staff, reporting on work camps set up by him for the utilization of Jewish labor. The letter states that 45,000 people have already been used. Globocnick writes:
"I have prepared a report about the work camps for the utilization of Jewish manpower, which is to be organized according to the wishes of the Reichsfuehrer-SS, and am sending it to you as an enclosure. From this you can see, that 45,000 people are already put to work, and that this work level will be raised considerably in the next few months. But in the giving of orders, we have not been considered, - I do not want to use another expression - and therefore the danger is existing that we are only little utilized at times.
I am convinced that the reasons are as follows:
1. The antagonistic attitude of some offices towards the SS.
2. The greediness of private societies, who to-day, in the 4th year of the war, cannot make up their minds to close their doors.