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3) That Poles, Dutchmen, et cetera, should be
seized if necessary as PW's and employed as such, if work through free
contract cannot be obtained.
These facts, if Your Honors please, appear in our Document 1206-PS,
which was submitted in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-215.
In a secret letter from the Reich Minister of Labor to the presidents
of the regional labor exchange offices, already in evidence, it is
furthermore recorded that upon the personal order of the Reich Marshal,
the Defendant Göring 100,000 men are to be taken from among the
French PW's not yet employed in the armament industry and assigned to
the airplane armament industry and that gaps in manpower supply
resulting therefrom are to be filled by Soviet PW's.
Evidence has also been introduced showing the organized, systematic
program of the Nazi conspirators for the cultural impoverishment of
every country in Europe. The continuous connection of the Defendant Göring
with these activities has been substantiated.
In October 1939 the Defendant Göring requested Dr. Mühlmann
to undertake immediately the "securing" of all Polish art
treasures. In his affidavit, already offered, Dr. Mühlmann states
that he was the special deputy of the Governor General of Poland, the
Defendant Frank, for the safeguarding of art treasures in the Government
General from October 1939 to September 1943, and that the Defendant Göring
in his capacity as Chairman of the Reich Defense Council, had
commissioned him with this duty.
Mühlmann also confirms that it was the official policy of the
Defendant Frank to take into custody all important art treasures which
belonged to Polish public institutions, private collections, and the
Church, and that such art treasures were actually confiscated.
It appears also from a report made by Dr. Mühlmann on 16 July 1943
on his operations that at one time 31 valuable sketches by the artist
Albrecht Dürer were taken from the Polish collection and personally
handed to the Defendant Göring who took them to the Führer's
headquarters.
The part played by Göring in the looting of art by the Einsatzstab
Rosenberg has been shown. We refer to Exhibit Number USA-368, which is
our Document Number 141-PS, which is an order dated 5 November 1940,
already read in evidence, in which Göring directs the chief of the
Military Administration in Paris and the Einsatzstab Rosenberg to
dispose of the art objects brought to the Louvre in the following
priority:
"1) Those art objects as to the use
of which the Führer has reserved the decision for himself;