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answer from Sauckel should have arrived by
then. The question of recruitment for the armaments industry will be
solved together with Weger."
Kehrl speaking:
"I wish to urge that the allotments
to the mines should not be made dependent on the possibility of
recruitment of men abroad. We were completely frustrated these last 3
months because this principle had been applied. We ended December with
a deficit of 25,000 and we never get replacements. The number must be
made up by men from Germany.
"Speer: 'No, nothing doing.'"
We say also that the Defendant Speer is guilty of advocating terror and
brutality as a means of maximizing production by slave laborers. And
again I refer to this Document R-124. At Page 42 there is a discussion
concerning the supply and exploitation of labor. That excerpt has been
read to the Tribunal before, and I simply refer to it in passing. It is
the excerpt wherein Speer said it would be a good thing; the effect of
it was that nothing could be said against the SS and the police taking a
hand and making these men work and produce more.
We say he is also guilty of compelling allied nationals and prisoners
of war to engage in the production of armaments and munitions and in
direct military operations against their own country.
We say that as Chief of the Organization Todt he is accountable for its
policies, which were in direct conflict with the laws of war; for the
Organization Todt, in violation of the laws of war, impressed allied
nationals into its service.
Document L-191, Exhibit USA-231, is an International Labor Office study
of the exploitation of foreign labor by Germany. We have only one copy
of this document, this International Labor Office study, printed at
Montreal, Canada, in 1945. We ask that the Tribunal take judicial notice
of it as an official publication of the International Labor Office.
I might say to the Tribunal, with some apology, that this arrived at a
time when we were not able even to have the excerpt mimeographed and
printed to place in your document book, so this is the one document
which is missing from the document book which is in your hands. However,
I should like to quote from Page 73, Paragraph 2, of this study by the
International Labor Office. It is not long; it is very brief. I am
quoting directly. It says:
"The methods used for the recruitment
of foreign workers who were destined for employment in the
Organization did not greatly differ from the methods used for the
recruitment of foreigners for deportation to Germany."