NINETEENTH DAY
Thursday, 13 December 1945
Morning Session
MR. DODD: May it please the Tribunal, at the close of
yesterday's session we were discussing and had just completed reading
the excerpts from the interrogation of 6 October 1945, wherein the
Defendant Alfred Rosenberg was questioned.
There have already been introduced Documents 017-PS and 019-PS and I
have read excerpts from them. The Tribunal will recall that they are
letters written by the Defendant Sauckel to the Defendant Rosenberg
requesting the assistance of the Defendant Rosenberg in the recruitment
of additional foreign laborers. I refer to them in passing, by way of
recapitulation, with respect to the Defendant Sauckel's participation in
this slave-labor program and also the assistance of the Defendant
Rosenberg. Also the Defendant Sauckel received help from the Defendant
Seyss-Inquart who was the Reich Commissioner for the occupied
Netherlands.
I refer again to the transcript of the interrogation under oath of the
Defendant Sauckel, which was read from yesterday; and I now refer to
another part of it. The transcript of this interrogation win be found in
the rear of the document book. It is the very last document and I wish
to quote particularly from it. It is the first question:
"Q: For a moment, I want to turn our
attention to Holland. It is my understanding that the quotas for the
workers from Holland were agreed upon, and then the numbers given to
the Reich Commissioner Seyss-Inquart to fulfill, is that correct?
"A: Yes, that is correct.
"Q: After the quota was given to Seyss-Inquart, it was his
mission to fulfill it with the aid of your representatives; was it
not?
"A: Yes. This was the only possible thing for me to do and the
same applied to other countries."
And the Defendant Hans Frank, who was the Governor General of the
Government General of Poland, also participated in the filling of
Defendant Sauckel's quota requirements.