In a train which left Compiègne on 16 January
1944 for Buchenwald, more than 100 men were confined in each wagon,
the dead and the wounded being heaped in the last wagon during the
journey.
In April 1945, of 12,000 internees evacuated from Buchenwald
4,000 only were still alive when the marching column arrived near
Regensburg.
During the German occupation of Denmark, 5,200 Danish subjects
were deported to Germany and there imprisoned in concentration camps
and other places.
In 1942 and thereafter 6,000 nationals of Luxembourg were
deported from their country under deplorable conditions as a result
of which many of them perished.
From Belgium between 1940 and 1944 at least 190,000 civilians
were deported to Germany and used as slave labor. Such deportees were
subjected to ill-treatment and many of them were compelled to work in
armament factories.
From Holland, between 1940 and 1944, nearly half a million
civilians were deported to Germany and to other occupied countries.
2. From the Eastern Countries:
The German occupying authorities deported from the Soviet Union
to slavery about 4,978,000 Soviet citizens.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand Czechoslovakian citizens were
taken away from Czechoslovakia and forced to work in the German war
machine in the interior of Germany.
On 4 June 1941, in the city of Zagreb (Yugoslavia) a meeting of
German representatives was called with the Councillor Von Troll
presiding. The purpose was to set up the means of deporting the
Yugoslav population from Slovenia. Tens of thousands of persons were
deported in carrying out this plan.
(C) MURDER AND ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS
OF WAR, AND OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE COUNTRIES
WITH WHOM GERMANY WAS AT WAR, AND OF PERSONS ON THE HIGH SEAS
The defendants murdered and ill-treated prisoners
of war by denying them adequate food, shelter, clothing and medical
care and attention; by forcing them to labor in inhumane conditions;
by torturing them and subjecting them to inhuman indignities and by
killing them. The German Government and the German High Command
imprisoned prisoners of war in various concentration camps, where
they were killed and subjected to inhuman treatment by the various
methods set forth in paragraph VIII (A). Members of the armed forces
of the countries with whom Germany was at war were