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MR. DODD: No, I have not, if Your Honor pleases. We
have referred to that decree before, but we have not referred to this
portion of it.
I am passing to Paragraph II, 1-a on Page 2, and quoting again
directly:
"For the carrying out of recruitment
in allied, friendly, or neutral foreign countries, my commissioners
are solely responsible."
In
addition, the following defendants, who were informed by Sauckel of the
quotas of foreign laborers which he required, collaborated with Sauckel
and his agents in filling these quotas: The Defendant Keitel, Chief of
the OKW — which was the Supreme Command — who collaborated
with Sauckel.
We refer to Document Number 3012(l)-PS, which is Exhibit Number
USA-190. This document is the record of a telephone conversation of the
Chief of the Economic staff East of the German Army, and it is dated
March 11, 1943. 1 wish to quote from the first two paragraphs of the
document as follows:
"The Plenipotentiary General for
Allocation of Labor, Gauleiter Sauckel, points out to me in an urgent
teletype that the allocation of labor in German agriculture, as well
as all the most urgent armament programs ordered by the Führer
make the most rapid procurement of approximately 1 million women and
men from the newly occupied Eastern Territories within the next 4
months an imperative necessity. For this purpose, Gauleiter Sauckel
demands the shipment of 5,000 workers daily beginning 15 March; 10,000
workers, male and female, beginning 1 April, from the newly occupied
Eastern Territories."
I am
passing down to the next paragraph:
"In consideration of the
extraordinary losses of workers which occurred in German war industry
because of the developments of the past months, it is now necessary
that the recruiting of workers be taken up again everywhere with all
vigor. The tendency momentarily noticeable in that territory, to limit
and/or entirely stop the Reich recruiting program, is absolutely not
bearable in view of this state of affairs. Gauleiter Sauckel, who is
informed about these events, because of this applied directly to
General Field Marshal Keitel on 10 March 1943, in a teletype, and
emphasized on this occasion that, as in all other occupied
territories, where all other methods fail, a certain pressure must be
used, by order of the Führer."
At this point we were prepared to offer a transcript of an interrogation
under oath of the Defendant Sauckel. Only the English