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"13. Farm workers of Polish
nationality should, if possible, be removed from the household; and
they can be quartered in stables et cetera. No consideration
whatever should restrict such action.
"14. Report to the authorities of all crimes committed by farm
workers of Polish nationality which sabotage industry or slow down
work — for instance, unwillingness to work, impertinent behavior —
is compulsory even in minor cases. An employer who loses a Pole
sentenced to a long prison sentence because of such a compulsory
report will upon request, have preference for the assignment of
another Pole from the competent labor office.
"15. In all other cases, only the State Police is still
competent. For the employer himself, severe punishment is provided if
it is established that the necessary distance has not been kept from
farm workers of Polish nationality. The same applies to women and
girls. Extra rations are strictly prohibited. Noncompliance with the
Reich tariffs for farm workers of Polish nationality will be punished
by the competent labor office by the taking away of the workers."
The women of the conquered territories were led away against their will
to serve as domestics, and the Defendant Sauckel described this program
in his own words, which appear in Document Number 016-PS, already
offered in evidence as Exhibit USA-168, 016-PS, and particularly Page 7,
fourth paragraph of the English text. In the German text it appears on
Page 10, Paragraph 1, and I quote directly:
"In order to relieve considerably the
German housewife, especially the mother with many children and the
extremely busy farmwoman, and in order to avoid any further danger to
their health, the Führer also has charged me with the procurement
of 400,000 to 500,000 selected, healthy, and strong girls from the
territories of the East for Germany."
Once
captured, once forced to become laborers in Germany, or workers in
Germany, these Eastern women, by order of the slavemaster, Defendant
Sauckel, were bound to the household to which they were assigned,
permitted at the most 3 hours of freedom a week, and denied the right to
return to their homes.
I now refer to Document Number 3044(b)-PS. That is Exhibit Number
USA-206. The document is a decree issued by the Defendant Sauckel
containing instructions for housewives concerning Eastern household
workers; and I ask that the Court take judicial notice of the original
decree which appears on Pages 592 and 593 of the second volume of a
publication of the Zentralverlag of the NSDAP, entitled Verfügungen,
Anordnungen und Bekanntgaben,