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in evidence, Exhibit Number USA-277, we find the
clearly outlined nature of the forced labor situation for the Jews. On
Page 2 of the translation, starting with Paragraph 6, 1 read:
"The best remedy. consisted in the
formation of forced labor camps by the SS and Police Leader. The best
opportunity for labor was offered by the necessity to complete the
'Dg. 4' road which was extremely important and necessary for the whole
of the southern part of the front and which was in a catastrophically
bad condition. On October 15, 1941, the establishment of camps along
the road was commenced; and despite considerable difficulties there
existed, after a few weeks only, seven camps containing 4,000 Jews."
From Page 2, Paragraph 7, 1 read:
"Soon more camps followed these first
ones, so that after a very short time the completion of 15 camps of
this kind could be reported to the superior leader of SS and police.
In the course of time about 20,000 Jewish laborers passed through
these camps. Despite the hardly imaginable difficulties arising from
this problem I can report today that about 160 kilometers of the road
are completed."
And from
Page 2, Paragraph 8, 1 read:
"At the same time all other Jews fit
for work were registered and distributed for useful work by the labor
agencies."
And on Page 5,
last part of Paragraph 1 . . .
THE PRESIDENT: Don't you want the remainder of that paragraph on Page
2?
MAJOR WALSH: It is such a lengthy document, I hesitated to burden the
record with so much of it, and had extracted certain portions therefrom,
but I shall be very glad to read it into the record.
THE PRESIDENT: "Then, for instance, the Municipal Administration
at Lvov had no success in their attempts to house the Jews within a
closed district which would be inhabited only by Jews. This question,
too, was solved quickly by the SS and Police Leader through his
subordinate officials."
MAJOR WALSH: With the Court's permission, I add that to the record.
Reading the last paragraph of Page 2:
"When the Jews were marked by the
Star of David, as well as when they were registered by the labor
agencies, the first symptoms appeared in their attempts to dodge the
order of the authorities. The measures which were introduced thereupon
led to thousands of arrests. It became more and more apparent that the
civil administration was not in a position