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"My competence for the execution of
the care for foreign labor is not prejudiced by the assignment of
these tasks to the German Labor Front and the Reich Food
Administration."
THE
PRESIDENT: Mr. Dodd, don't you think that that sort of passage is the
sort of passage which might be summarized and not read, because all that
it is really stating is that Sauckel, his department and commissioners,
were responsible and that is what he is saying.
MR. DODD: Yes, indeed, Your Honor, we spelled it out, thinking that
perhaps under the rule of getting it into the record it must be read
fully. I quite agree.
THE PRESIDENT: A summary will be quite sufficient, I think.
MR. DODD: In the same document, I should like to make reference to the
data on Page 3, Paragraph III, of the English text, which indicate,
under the title of "Composition and Operation of the Transports"
that this function is the obligation of the representatives of the
Defendant Sauckel; and in Paragraph "c," on Page 5 of the
English text, under the title of "Supply for the Transport,"
after setting out some responsibility for the Office of the German
Workers Front, the Defendant Sauckel states that for the rest his
offices effect the supply for the transport.
The Defendant Sauckel had an agreement with the head of the German
Labor Front, Dr. Robert Ley, and in this agreement the Defendant Sauckel
emphasized his ultimate responsibility by creating a central
inspectorate charged with examining the working and living conditions of
foreign workers. We refer to Document 1913-PS, Exhibit USA-227. This
agreement between the Defendant Sauckel and the then Chief of the German
Labor Front is published in the 1943 edition of the Reichsarbeitsblatt,
Part I, at Page 588. It is a rather lengthy agreement; and I shall not
read it all or any great part of it except such part as will indicate
the basic agreements between the Defendant Sauckel and Ley with respect
to the foreign workers and their living conditions and working
conditions.
On the first page of the English text:
"The Reichsleiter of the German Labor
Front, Dr. Ley, in collaboration with the Plenipotentiary General for
the Allocation of Labor, Gauleiter Sauckel, will establish a 'Central
Inspection' for the continuous supervision of all measures concerning
the care of the, foreign workers mentioned under 1. This will have the
designation: Central Inspection for Care of Foreign Workers."
Paragraph 4 marked with the Roman numeral IV, in the same text, states: