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Hostages in large numbers were demanded and killed. Mass
punishments were inflicted, so savage that whole communities were
extinguished. Rosenberg was advised of the annihilation of three
unidentified villages in Slovakia. (970-PS) In May of 1943 another
village of about 40 farms and 220 inhabitants was ordered wiped out.
The entire population was ordered shot, the cattle and property
impounded, and the order required that "the village will be
destroyed totally by fire." (163-PS) A secret report from
Rosenberg's Reich Ministry of Eastern Territory reveals that:
"Food rations allowed the
Russian population are so low that they fail to secure their
existence and provide only for minimum subsistence of limited
duration. The population does not know if they will still live
tomorrow. They are faced with death by starvation....
"The roads are clogged by hundreds of thousands of people,
sometimes as many as one million according to the estimate of
experts, who wander around in search of nourishment ....
"Sauckel's action has caused unrest among the civilians.....
Russian girls were deloused by men, nude photos in forced positions
were taken, women doctors were locked into freight cars for the
pleasure of the transport commanders, women in night shirts were
fettered and forced through the Russian towns to the railroad
station, etc. All this material has been sent to the OKH."
(1381-PS)
Perhaps the deportation to slave labor was the
most horrible and extensive slaving operation in history. On few
other subjects is our evidence so abundant or so damaging. In a
speech made on January 25, 1944 the Defendant Frank, Governor General
of Poland, boasted, "I have sent 1,300,000 Polish workers into
the Reich" (059-PS, P. 2). The Defendant Sauckel reported that
"out of the 5 million foreign workers who arrived in Germany not
even 200,000 came voluntarily." This fact was reported to the
Führer and Defendants Speer, Göring, and Keitel. (R-24)
Children of 10 to 14 years were impressed into service by telegraphic
order of Rosenberg's Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories:
"The Command is further charged with
the transferring of worthwhile Russian youth between 10-14 years of
age, to the Reich. The authority is not affected by the changes
connected with the evacuation and transportation to the reception
camps of Bialystok, Krajewo, and Olitei. The Führer wishes that
this activity be increased even more." (200-PS)
When enough labor was not forthcoming, prisoners
of war were forced into war work in flagrant violation of
international conventions (016-PS). Slave labor came from France,
Belgium Holland,