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the prison is located, for the duration of
the war to a concentration camp in compliance with directions issued
concerning protective custody.
"The same applies in the future to Poles being released from
prison after serving a term of imprisonment of more than 6 months.
"In answer to the request of the Reich Security Main Office I
ask that in the future: (a) All Jews about to be released and (b) all
Poles awaiting release who have served a sentence of more than 6
months, are to be listed to the directorate of the State Police
competent for the district for further confinement and, in due time
before the end of sentence, are to be placed at its disposal for
transfer."
And the last
paragraph states that this ruling replaces the hitherto ordered return
of all Polish prisoners undergoing imprisonment in the Old Reich
condemned in the annexed Eastern territory.
The next subject: The Gestapo and the SD participated in deportation of
citizens of occupied countries for forced labor and handled the
disciplining of forced labor.
With reference to the presentation heretofore made concerning forced
labor, I do not intend to repeat. However, there were several references
to important positions played by the Gestapo and the SD in rounding up
persons to be brought into the Reich for forced labor and references in
two or three documents that were introduced. I simply want to cite those
documents as showing the part that the Gestapo and SD played. Document
L-61, Exhibit Number USA-177. It is set out in this document book —
I am simply citing it — it is a letter of the 26th of November 1942
from Fritz Sauckel, in which he stated that he had been advised by the
Chief of the Security Police and SD under date of 26 October 1942 that
during the month of November the evacuation of Poles in the Lublin
district would begin in order to make room for the settlement of persons
of the German race. The Poles who were evacuated as a result of this
measure were to be put into concentration camps for labor as far as they
were criminal or antisocial.
The Tribunal will also recall the Christensen letter, which is our
Document 3012-PS, Exhibit Number USA-190. In that letter it is stated
that during the year 1943 the program of mass murders carried out by the
Einsatz groups in the East should be modified in order to round up
hundreds of thousands of persons for labor in the armament industry.
That was in Document 3012-PS, which has heretofore been introduced as
Exhibit Number USA-190. And that force was to be used when necessary.
Prisoners were to be released so that they could be used for forced
labor. When villages were