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"I suggest giving him a share in kind
(war equipment) in ratio to the man-hours contributed by his
prisoners. A 3 to 5 percent share is being discussed, the equipment
also being calculated according to man-hours. The Führer would
agree to such a solution.
"The Führer is prepared to order the additional allocation
of this equipment and weapons to the SS, upon submission of a list."
After a demand for concentration-camp labor had been created and after a
mechanism had been set up by the Defendant Speer for exploiting this
labor in armament factories, measures were evolved for increasing the
supply of victims for extermination through work. A steady flow was
assured by an agreement between Himmler and the Minister of Justice
mentioned above, which was implemented by such programs as the following
— and I refer to Document L-61, Exhibit Number USA-177; and I wish
to quote from Paragraph 3. That document, the Tribunal will recall, is
the Defendant Sauckel's letter, dated the 26th of November 1942, to the
presidents of the Under employment offices; and I wish to quote from
Paragraph 3 of that letter:
"The Poles who are to be evacuated as
a result of this measure will be put into concentration camps and put
to work insofar as they are criminal or asocial elements."
General measures were supplemented by special drives for persons who
would not otherwise have been sent to concentration camps.
THE PRESIDENT: Didn't you read that this morning?
MR. DODD: Yes, I did, Your Honor. I was reading it again with
particular reference to this feature of the proof. For example, for "reasons
of war necessity" Himmler ordered that at least 35,000 prisoners
qualified for work should be transferred to concentration camps. I now
offer in evidence Document Number 1063(d)-PS, which is Exhibit Number
USA-219. This document is a Himmler order dated the 17th of December
1942. The order provides, and I quote in part, beginning with the first
paragraph of that document:
"For reasons of war necessity not to
be discussed further here, the Reichsführer SS and Chief of the
German Police, on the 14th of December 1942, has ordered that by the
end of January 1943 at least 35,000 prisoners fit for work are to be
sent to the concentration camps. In order to reach this number, the
following measures are required:
"(1) As of now, to begin with, until 1 February 1943, all
Eastern Workers or foreign workers who have been fugitives