11 Dec.
45
THE PRESIDENT: Yes and you were telling us how you
showed that the Defendant Rosenberg was implicated.
MR. DODD: Yes. On the last page of that document, the original bears a
note in ink, and in the mimeographed copy it is typewritten:
"Obergruppenführer Berger has
received another memorandum on June 14, according to which the Reich
Minister now has approved the action."
One page back on that same document, from the first paragraph, four
sentences down, the sentence begins:
"The Minister has approved the
execution of the 'Hay Action' in the Army territories under the
conditions and provisions arrived at in talks with Army group center."
The purposes of the slave labor program which we have just been
describing, namely the strengthening of the Nazi war machine and the
destruction or the weakening of peoples deemed inferior by the Nazi
conspirators, were achieved, we repeat, by the impressment and the
deportation of millions of persons into Germany for forced labor. It
involved the separation of husbands from their wives, and children from
their parents, and the imposition of conditions unfit for human
existence, with the result that countless numbers were killed.
Poland was the first victim. The Defendant Frank, as Governor of the
Government General of Poland, announced that under his program 1 million
workers were to be sent to Germany; and he recommended that police
surround Polish villages and seize the inhabitants for deportation.
I wish to refer to Document Number 1375-PS, which is Exhibit USA-172.
This document is a letter from the Defendant Frank to the Defendant Göring
and it is dated the 25th day of January 1940; and I wish to quote from
the first page of the English text, starting with the first paragraph,
and in the German text, again, it appears at Page 1 of the first
paragraph. Quoting directly:
"I. In view of the present
requirements of the Reich for the defense industry, it is at present
fundamentally impossible to carry on a long-term economic policy in
the Government General. Rather, it is necessary so to steer the
economy of the Government General that it will, in the shortest
possible time, accomplish results representing the maximum that can be
secured out of the economic strength of the Government General for the
immediate strengthening of our capacity for defense.
"2. In particular the following performances are expected of the
total economy of the Government General . . . ."