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Center — 500 people;
Reichskommissariat, Ukraine — 3,000 people; Economic Inspection,
South — 1,000 people; total — 5,000 people.
"Starting I April 1943, the daily quota is to be doubled
corresponding to the doubling of the entire quota. I hope to visit
personally the Eastern Territories towards the end of the month, and
ask you once more for your kind support."
The Defendant Sauckel did travel to the East. He travelled to Kovno in
Lithuania to press his demands. We offer in evidence Document Number
204-PS, which bears Exhibit Number USA-182. This document is a synopsis
of a report of the City Commissioner of Kovno and minutes of a meeting
in which the Defendant Sauckel participated. I wish to read from the
second page of the English text, beginning with the first paragraph. The
same passage appears in the German text at Page 5, Paragraph 2. Quoting
directly as follows:
"In a lecture which the
Plenipotentiary General for the Allocation of Labor, Gauleiter
Sauckel, gave on 18 July 1943 in Kovno, and in an official conference
following it between Gauleiter Sauckel and the General Commissioner,
the precarious labor situation in the Reich was again urgently
presented for discussion. Gauleiter Sauckel again demanded that
Lithuanian labor be furnished in greater volume for the purposes of
the Reich."
THE PRESIDENT:
Who was the General Commissar? Rosenberg?
MR. DODD: The Plenipotentiary for the Arbeitseinsatz?
THE PRESIDENT: No, the General Commissar.
MR. DODD: His name is not known to us. He was apparently a local
functionary in the Party.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
MR. DODD: The Defendant Sauckel also visited Riga, in Latvia, to assert
his demands; and the purpose of this visit is described in Document
Number 2280-PS, bearing Exhibit Number USA-183. This document is a
letter from the Reich Commissar for the Ostland to the Commissioner
General in Riga, and it is dated the 3rd of May 1943. 1 wish to read
from Page I of the English text, beginning with the first paragraph:
"Following the basic statements of
the Plenipotentiary General for Allocation of Labor, Gauleiter
Sauckel, on the occasion of his visit to Riga on the 21st of April
1943, it was decided, in view of the critical situation and in
disregard of all adverse considerations, that a total of 183,000
workers would have to be supplied from the Ostland to the Reich