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camps. And with reference to the same subject there is
Document 1063(d)-PS, which has heretofore been offered as Exhibit Number
USA-219. Müller sent a directive to the commanders and inspectors
of the Security Police and SD and to the directors of the Gestapo
regional offices in which he stated that Himmler had ordered, on 14
December 1942, that at least 35,000 persons who were fit for work had to
be put into concentration camps not later than the end of January.
Now, in that same connection I offer Document L-41, Volume 1, as
Exhibit Number USA-496. This document contains a further directive from
Müller dated the 23rd of March 1943 and supplements the directive
of 17 December 1942, to which I referred and in which he states that the
measures are to be carried out until 30 April 1943. And I would like to
quote from the second paragraph on Page 3 of the exhibit:
"Care must be taken, however, that
only prisoners who are fit for work are transferred to concentration
camps, and adolescents only in accordance with the given directives;
otherwise, the concentration camps would become overcrowded, and this
would defeat the intended aim."
In that same connection I offer Document 701-PS, Exhibit Number USA-497.
This is a letter dated 21 April 1943 from the Minister of Justice to the
public prosecutors and also addressed to the Commissioner of the Reich
Minister of Justice for the penal camps in Emsland. Quoting:
"Subject: Poles and Jews who are
released from the penal institutions of the Department of Justice.
Copies for the independent penal institutions.
"l. With reference to the new guiding principles for the
application of Article 1, Section 2, of the decree of 11 June 1940,
Reichsgesetzblatt I, Page 877 — Attachment I of the
decree (RV) of 27 January 1943 — 9133/2 Enclosure I-III a 2/2629 —
the Reich Security Main Office has directed by the decree of 11 March
1943-11 A 2 Number 100/43 — 176:
"(a) Jews, who in accordance with Number VI of the directives
are released from prison, are to be committed for life in the
concentration camps Auschwitz or Lublin by the head office of the
State Police competent for the district in which the prison is
located, in compliance with directions issued about protective
custody.
"The same applies to Jews who in the future are released from
prison after serving a sentence of confinement.
"(b) Poles, who in accordance with Number VI of the directives
are released from prison, are to be taken, by the head office of the
State Police competent for the district in which