11 Dec.
45
Pursuant to the directions of the Defendant Sauckel,
his agents and the SS men deported Polish men to Germany without their
families, thereby accomplishing one of the basic purposes of the
program, the supplying of labor for the German war effort, and at the
same time, weakening the reproductive potential of the Polish people.
I wish to refer directly to Document L-61, which bears Exhibit Number
USA-177. This document is a letter from the Defendant Sauckel to the
presidents of the land labor offices. It is dated the 26th day of
November 1942, and I want to read from the first paragraph of that
letter which states as follows:
"In agreement with the Chief of the
Security Police and the SD, these Jews who are still in employment are
also, from now on, to be evacuated from the territory of the Reich and
are to be replaced by Poles, who are being evacuated from the
Government General."
And
passing to the third paragraph of that same letter, we find this
statement. Quoting:
"The Poles who are to be evacuated as
a result of this measure will be put into concentration camps and put
to work, insofar as they are criminal or asocial elements. The
remaining Poles, so far as they are suitable for labor, will be
transported — without family — into the Reich, particularly
to Berlin, where they will be put at the disposal of the labor
allocation offices to work in armament factories instead of the Jews
who are to be replaced."
THE
PRESIDENT: Who is the Chief of the Security Police, mentioned in the
second paragraph?
MR. DODD: The Chief of the Security Police was Heinrich Himmler. He was
also the Reichsführer of the SS.
DR. SERVATIUS: May I say something with regard to this document. The
Defendant Sauckel denies knowledge of it and says that the place of
dispatch, not mentioned during the reading of this document, is of
importance. The document, according to its letterhead, was written at 96
Saarland Strasse, which was not the office of the Defendant Sauckel. The
second point is that this document, contrary to the statement in the
document list classifying it as an original letter of Sauckel, was not
signed by him. Moreover the certification of the signature, customary on
all documents, is missing. May I ask the prosecutor to read this into
the record, so that I can come back to it later.
THE PRESIDENT: If the procedure which the Tribunal has laid down has
been carried out, either the original document or a photostat copy will
be in your Information Center; and you can