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all his offices should be put at my disposal as
evidence. The General Secretary of the Tribunal informed me of this on
the 4th of December, but unfortunately I have not so far received copies
of these speeches. I should be very grateful, therefore, if the Tribunal
will ensure that its decisions are carried out arid that the documents
are submitted to me without delay.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will look into these matters with the
General Secretary of the Tribunal, and doubtless it will be able to
arrange that you should have these documents submitted to you in the
defendants' counsel Information Center.
DR. SEIDL: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Mr. Dodd.
MR. DODD: May I refer briefly to the discussion that we were engaged in
yesterday in order to take up the train of thought.
I wish to remind the Tribunal that we were discussing or had just
completed a discussion of Document L-61, which had to do with a letter
written by the Defendant Sauckel to the presidents of the "Länder"
labor offices. I had read two excerpts from that letter.
Referring to the letter, we say that the Nazi campaign of force and
terror and abduction was described in another letter to the Defendant
Frank, which we wish to refer to as Document Number 1526-PS.
THE PRESIDENT: Before you pass from that, Mr. Dodd, has either the
original or the photostatic copy been shown to Sauckel's counsel?
MR. DODD: Oh, yes, Sir. A photostatic copy was in the defendants'
Information Center, and after adjournment yesterday we got the original
and handed it to him here in this room.
THE PRESIDENT: And he saw it?
MR. DODD: Yes, Sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
MR. DODD: This document, Number 1526-PS, USA-178, is a letter written
by the chairman of the Ukrainian Main Committee at Krakow in February
1943. 1 wish to read from the third page of the English text, beginning
with the second paragraph; the same passage in the German 'text at Page
2, Paragraph 5. 1 quote:
"The general nervousness is still
further increased by the wrong methods of labor mobilization which
have been used more and more frequently in recent months.
"The wild and ruthless manhunt as practiced everywhere in towns
and country, in streets, squares, stations, even in