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camp inmates as possible, as the situation of air
warfare made the subterranean transfer of industry necessary.
In his reply Himmler advised Göring by teletype that a survey on
the employment of prisoners in the aviation industry showed that 36,000
were being employed for the purposes of the Air Forces and that an
increase to a total of 90,000 prisoners was being contemplated.
Evidence has been introduced as to medical experiments performed on
human beings at the concentration camp at Dachau and the part played by
Field Marshal Milch, State Secretary and deputy to the Defendant Göring
as Air Minister, for whose acts the latter must bear full
responsibility. It is abundantly clear from letters written by Milch to
General Wolff on 20 May 1942 and to Himmler in August 1942, both of
which have been read in evidence at Page 1850 of the record (Volume IV,
Page 204, 205), our Document 343-PS.
Finally, I turn to Göring's participation in and planning for
elimination of all members of the Jewish race from the economic life of
Germany and in the planned extermination of all Jews from the continent
of Europe.
In 1935 the Defendant Göring as President of the Reichstag, made a
speech urging that body to pass the infamous Nuremberg race laws. I
offer, as Exhibit Number USA-588, our Document 3458-PS, which is an
excerpt from Rühle, Das Dritte Reich, Page 257. Göring
said:
"God has created the races. He did
not want equality and therefore we energetically reject any attempt to
falsify the concept of race purity by making it equivalent with racial
equality. We have experienced what it means when a people has to live
in accordance with the laws of an equality that is alien to its kind
and contrary to nature. For this equality does not exist. We have
never acknowledged such an idea and therefore must reject it also, as
a matter of principle, in our laws, and we must acknowledge that
purity of race which nature and providence have destined."
Again, to show his official attitude, as revealed on 26 March. 1938 in a
speech in Vienna, I offer, as Exhibit Number USA-437, our Document
3460-PS, starting with Page 348. Göring said:
"I must address myself with a serious
word to the city of Vienna. The city of Vienna can no longer
rightfully be called a German city. So many Jews live in this city.
Where there are 300,000 Jews, you cannot speak of a German city. "Vienna
must once more become a German city, because it must perform important
tasks for Germany in Germany's