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or weaken the peoples of the occupied territories. It
has been shown that millions of foreign workers were taken to Germany,
for the most part under pressure and generally by physical force; that
these workers were forced to labor under conditions of indescribable
brutality and degradation; and that often they were used in factories
and industries devoted exclusively to the production of munitions of
war.
Göring was at all times implicated in the slave labor program.
Recruitment and allocation of manpower and determination of working.
conditions were included in his jurisdiction as Plenipotentiary for the
Four Year Plan, and from its beginning a part of the Four Year Plan
Office was devoted to such work. I ask the Tribunal in this connection
to take judicial notice of our Document 1862-PS, Ordinance for the
Execution of the Four Year Plan, dated 10 October 1936, which appears in
1936 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part 1, Page 897, and with the
permission of the Tribunal I shall not read the same.
Soon after the fall of Poland Göring began the enslavement of
large numbers of Poles. On 25 January 1940 the Defendant Frank, the
Governor General of Poland, reported to Göring on his directive for
the:
"Supply and transportation of at
least 1 million male and female agricultural and industrial workers to
the Reichamong them at least 750,000 agricultural workers of which at
least 50 percent must be women in order to guarantee agricultural
production in the Reich and as a replacement for industrial workers
lacking in the Reich."
This
is taken from our Exhibit Number USA-172, our Document Number 1375-PS.
That orders for this enormous number of workers originated with the
Defendant Göring is clear from statements in the Defendant Frank's
diary for 10 May 1940, already introduced in evidence.
For the harsh treatment given those workers when they reached Germany
the Defendant Göring is also responsible. On 8 March 1940, as
Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan and as Chairman of the Cabinet
Council for the Defense of the Reich, he issued a directive entitled, "Treatment
of Male and Female Civilian Workers of Polish Nationality in the Reich."
I refer to our Document R-148 as proof of that fact. I shall not
introduce it at this time into evidence, with the permission of the
Tribunal, as it will be introduced by the Soviet prosecution at a later
date.
On 29 January 1942 the division for the employment of labor in the Four
Year Plan office issued a circular, signed by Dr. Mansfeld, the general
delegate for labor employed in the Four Year