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be informed that they will be treated
decently when conducting themselves with discipline and accomplishing
good work. In serious cases, that is, in such cases where the measures
at the disposal of the leader of the guard do not suffice, the state
police is to step in. In such instances, as a rule, severe measures
will be taken, that is, transfer to a concentration camp or special
treatment. The transfer to a concentration camp is made in the usual
manner. In especially serious cases special treatment is to be
recommended at the Reich Security Main Office; personal data and the
exact facts must be given. Special treatment is hanging. It should not
take place in the immediate vicinity of the camp. A certain number of
laborers from the original Soviet Russian territory should attend the
special treatment; at that time they are to be advised of the
circumstances which lead to this special treatment. Should special
treatment be required within the camp for exceptional reasons of camp
discipline, this must be applied for."
And I turn now to Page 4 of the text, Paragraph VI; in the German text
it appears at Section 2-A, III, f, on Page 20:
"VI. Sexual intercourse. Sexual
intercourse is forbidden to laborers of the original Soviet Russian
territory. Owing to their closely confined quarters they have no
opportunity for it . . . For every case of sexual intercourse with
German men or women application for special treatment is to be made
for male labor from the original Soviet Russian territory, transfer to
a concentration camp for female labor."
And finally from Page 5 of the same document, Paragraph VIII; and in the
German text it appears at Section 2-A, III, f, at Page 21:
"VIII. Search. Fugitive workers from
the original Soviet Russian territory are to be announced on principle
in the German search book. Furthermore, search measures are to be
decreed locally. When caught the fugitive must in principle be
proposed for special treatment."
We have said to this Tribunal more than once that the primary purpose of
the entire slave labor program was, of course, to compel the people of
the occupied countries to work for the German war economy. The decree by
which Defendant Sauckel was appointed Plenipotentiary General for the
Allocation of Labor reveals that the purpose of the appointment was to
facilitate acquisition of the manpower required for German war
industries, and in particular the armaments industry, by centralizing
under Sauckel responsibility for the recruitment and allocation of
foreign labor and prisoners of war in these industries. I refer to the
document bearing our Number 1666-PS — Exhibit USA-208. This
document is a decree