8 Jan. 46
Next we consider the Defendant Fritz Sauckel. The case
against Sauckel has been completely stated and supported by a wealth of
damning evidence by my learned colleague Mr. Dodd in his presentation of
the case on slave labor. We submit that it is unnecessary to add
anything further to the case against Sauckel to demonstrate how
completely he filled his place in the stream of the conspiracy.
The next defendant to be considered is Albert Speer. Like his
fellow-conspirator Sauckel, Speer is deeply implicated as a member of
the conspiracy and much of the case against him has been presented by
Mr. Dodd in the case on slave labor. But, unlike Sauckel,. Speer's
criminal activity went substantially beyond the realm of slave labor.
His was one of the master minds in the plan for the systematic robbery
and spoliation of the lands overrun by the German war machine.
Documentary proof of Speer's participation in the spoliation practices
in the countries of Western Europe, as well as in the Occupied Eastern
Territories, will be presented subsequently by our learned colleagues,
the Chief Prosecutor representing the Soviet Union and the Chief French
Prosecutor, under the remaining Counts of the Indictment. This is
essentially the case that proves Speer to have been a member of the
conspiracy.
There is, however, one additional exhibit that I would like to offer
into evidence at this time. It was received only a few days ago from the
Ministerial Document Center at Kassel and it is a dossier maintained on
the Defendant Speer in the offices of the Reichsführer SS. I offer
this file as Exhibit Number USA-575. It is our Document 3568-PS an&
I shall read from the dossier. I shall read from the letter dated the
25th of July 1942, from the second paragraph:
"Reich Minister Speer was enrolled as
an SS man on the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS under SS
Number 46104, with effect from the 20th of July 1942, by order of the
Reichsführer SS."
And I
think that is all I need to read from that letter. But I should like to
call the Tribunal's attention to the annexed document, which is a
questionnaire, and right at the beginning of the same it is related that
Albert Speer was in the SS since the autumn of 1932, and his membership
number in the Party was 474481.
I next mention the Defendant Ernst Kaltenbrunner, whose case has been
completely presented in connection with the presentation on the Gestapo
and the SD as criminal organizations. We submit that further proof is
not needed to prove how completely this enemy of his own fatherland,
Austria, had been carried along in the stream of the conspiracy.