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the recruiting itself even if done with
the best will, remains extremely difficult unless police
reinforcements are at hand."
Deportation and enslavement of civilians reached unprecedented levels in
the so-called Eastern Occupied Territories. These wholesale deportations
resulted directly from labor demands made by the Defendant Sauckel on
the Defendant Rosenberg, who was the Reich Minister for the Eastern
Occupied Territories, and his subordinates, and also on the Armed Forces
— a demand made directly on the Armed Forces by the Defendant
Sauckel.
On the 5th of October 1942, for example, the Defendant Sauckel wrote to
the Defendant Rosenberg, stating that 2 million foreign laborers were
required and that the majority of these would have to be drafted from
the recently occupied Eastern territories and especially from the
Ukraine. I
wish to refer at this point to Document 017-PS, which bears Exhibit
Number USA-180. This letter from the Defendant Sauckel to the Defendant
Rosenberg I wish to quote in full. It begins by saying:
"The Führer has worked out new
and most urgent plans for armament which require the quick
mobilization of two million more foreign workers. The Führer
therefore has granted me, for the execution of his decree of 21 March
1942, new powers for my new duties, and has especially authorized me
to take whatever measures I think are necessary in the Reich, the
Protectorate, the Government General, as well as in the occupied
territories, in order to assure, at all costs, an orderly mobilization
of labor for the German armament industry.
"The additional required labor forces will have to be drafted,
for the most part, from the recently occupied Eastern Territories,
especially from the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Therefore, the
Reichskommissariat Ukraine must furnish 225,000 workers by 31 December
1942 and 225,000 more by 1 May 1942. "I ask you to inform Reich
Commissioner, Gauleiter, Party Member Koch at once about the new
situation and requirements and especially to see that he supports
personally in every possible way the execution of this new order.
"I intend to visit Party Member Koch shortly and I would be
grateful if he could inform me as to where and when I could meet him
for a personal discussion. Just now though, I ask that the recruiting
be taken up at once with all energy and the use of every factor,
especially the experts of the, labor offices. All directives which
temporarily limited the procurement of Eastern Workers are annulled.
The Reich procurement for the next months must be given priority over
all other measures . . . .