(B) DEPORTATION FOR SLAVE LABOR AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATIONS OF AND IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
During the whole period of the occupation by
Germany of both the Western and the Eastern Countries it was the
policy of the German Government and of the German High Command to
deport able-bodied citizens from such occupied countries to Germany
and to other occupied countries for the purpose of slave labor upon
defense works, in factories, and in other tasks connected with the
German war effort.
In pursuance of such policy there were mass deportations from all
the Western and Eastern Countries for such purposes during the whole
period of the occupation.
Such deportations were contrary to international conventions, in
particular to Article 46 of the Hague Regulations, 1907, the laws and
customs of war, the general principles of criminal law as derived
from the criminal laws of all civilized nations, the internal penal
laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed, and to
Article 6 (b) of the Charter.
Particulars of deportations, by way of example only and without
prejudice to the production of evidence of other cases are as
follows:
1. From the Western Countries:
From France the following deportations of persons for political
and racial reasons took place--each of which consisted of from 1,500
to 2,500 deportees:
| 1940
|
3 Transports
|
| 1941
|
14 Transports
|
| 1942
|
104 Transports
|
| 1943
|
257 Transports
|
| 1944
|
326 Transports
|
Such deportees were subjected to the most
barbarous conditions of overcrowding; they were provided with wholly
insufficient clothing and were given little or no food for several
days.
The conditions of transport were such that many deportees died in
the course of the journey, for example:
In one of the wagons of the train which left Compiègne for
Buchenwald' on 17 September 1943, 80 men died out of 130;
On 4 June 1944, 484 bodies were taken out of the train at
Sarrebourg;
In a train which left Compiègne on 2 July 1944 for Dachau,
more than 600 dead were found on arrival, i.e. one-third of the total
number;