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they helped local labor authorities to meet tile
quotas imposed by Sauckel. Gestapo offices
inside of Germany were given surveillance over
slave laborers and responsibility for
apprehending those who were absent from their
place of work. The Gestapo also had charge of
the so-called work training camps. Although both
German and foreign workers could be committed to
these camps, they played a significant role in
forcing foreign laborers to work for the German
war effort. In the latter stages of the war as
the SS embarked on a slave labor program of its
own, the Gestapo was used to arrest workers for
the purpose of insuring an adequate supply in
the concentration camps.
The local
offices of the Security Police and SD were also
involved in the commission of War Crimes
involving the mistreatment and murder of
prisoners of war. Soviet prisoners of war in
prisoner-of-war camps in Germany were screened
by Einsatz Kommandos acting under the directions
of the local Gestapo offices. Commissars, Jews,
members of the intelligentsia, "fanatical
Communists" and even those who were
considered incurably sick were classified as "intolerable",
and exterminated. The local offices of the
Security Police and SD were involved in the
enforcement of the "Bullet" decree put
into effect on 4 March 1944, under which certain
categories of prisoners of war, who were
recaptured, were not treated as prisoners of war
but taken to Mauthausen in secret and shot.
Members of the Security Police and SD were
charged with the enforcement of the decree for
the shooting of parachutists and commandos.
Conclusion
The Gestapo and SD were
used for purposes which were criminal under the
Charter involving the persecution and
extermination of the Jews, brutalities, and
killings in concentration camps, excesses in the
administration of occupied territories, the
administration or the slave labor program, and
the mistreatment and murder of prisoners of war.
The Defendant Kaltenbrunner, who was a member of
this organization, was among those who used it
for these purposes. In dealing with the Gestapo
the Tribunal includes all executive and
administrative officials of Amt IV of the RSHA
or concerned with Gestapo administration in
other departments of the RSHA and all local
Gestapo officials serving both inside and
outside of Germany, including the members of the
Frontier Police, but not including the members
of the Border and Customs Protection or the
Secret Field Police, except such members as have
been specified above. At the suggestion of the
Prosecution the Tribunal does not include
persons employed by the Gestapo for purely
clerical, stenographic. janitorial, or similar
unofficial routine tasks. In dealing with the SD
the Tribunal includes Ämter III, VI, and
VII of the RSHA and all other
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