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dated the 17th day of May 1943. And I refer to the
second and last paragraph:
"In addition to the labor allotted to
the total German economy by the Arbeitseinsatz since I took office,
the Organization Todt was supplied with new labor continually . . . .
Thus the Arbeitseinsatz has done everything to help make possible the
completion of the Atlantic Wall."
Similarly, Russian civilians were forced into labor battalions and
compelled to build fortifications to be used against their own
countrymen. In Document 031-PS, in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-171,
which is a memorandum of the Rosenberg Ministry, it is stated in
Paragraph 1 at Page 1 of that document:
"The men and women in the theaters of
operations have been and will be conscripted into labor battalions to
be used in the construction of fortifications."
In addition, the conspirators compelled prisoners of war to engage in
operations of war against their own country and its allies. At a meeting
of the Central Planning Board, again held on February 19, 1943, attended
by the Defendant Speer and the Defendant Sauckel and Field Marshal
Milch, the following conversation occurred and is recorded in our
Document R-124, at Page 32, Paragraph 5, of the English text. It is Page
20, the last paragraph, of the German text. And I quote it, the
Defendant Sauckel speaking:
"Sauckel: 'If any prisoners are
taken, they will be needed there.'
"Milch: 'We have made a request for an order that a certain
percentage of men in the antiaircraft artillery must be Russians.
Fifty thousand will be taken altogether, thirty thousand are already
employed as gunners. It is an amusing thing that Russians must work
the guns.'"
We refer now to
Documents Numbers 3027-PS and 3028-PS. They are, respectively, Exhibit
USA-211 for 3027 and USA-212 for 3028. They will be found at the very
back, I believe, of the document book, in a separate manila folder. They
are official German Army photographs; and, if Your Honors will examine
Document 3027-PS, the caption states that Russian prisoners of war are
acting as ammunition bearers during the attack upon Tschedowo. Document
3028-PS consists of a series of official German Army photographs taken
in July and August 1941 showing Russian prisoners of war in Latvia and
the Ukraine being compelled to load and unload ammunition trains and
trucks and being required to stack ammunition, all, we say, in flagrant
disregard of the rules of international law, particularly Article 6 of
the regulations annexed to the Hague Convention Number IV of 1907, which
provides that the