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informed
of the Hitler Jugend's participation in the plan
put into effect in the fall of 1944 under which
50,000 young people between the ages of 10 and
20 were evacuated into Germany from areas
recaptured by the Soviet forces and used as
apprentices in German industry and as
auxiliaries in units of the German Armed Forces.
In the summer of 1942 Von Schirach telegraphed
Bormann urging that a bombing attack on an
English cultural town be carried out in
retaliation for the assassination of Heydrich
which, he claimed, had been planned by the
British.
Conclusion
The Tribunal finds that
Von Schirach is not guilty on Count One. He is
guilty under Count Four.
SAUCKEL
Sauckel is indicted under
all four Counts. Sauckel joined the Nazi Party
in 1923, and became Gauleiter of Thuringia in
1927. He was a member of the Thuringian
legislature from 1927 to 1933, was appointed
Reichsstatthalter for Thuringia in 1932, and
Thuringian Minister of the Interior and head of
the Thuringian State Ministry in May 1933. He
became a member of the Reichstag in 1933. He
held the formal rank of Obergruppenführer
in both the SA and the SS.
Crimes
against Peace
The
evidence has not satisfied the Tribunal that
Sauckel was sufficiently connected with the
common plan to wage aggressive war or
sufficiently involved in the planning or waging
of the aggressive wars to allow the Tribunal to
convict him on Counts One or Two.
War
Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
On 21 March 1942 Hitler
appointed Sauckel Plenipotentiary General for
the Utilization of Labor, with authority to put
under uniform control "the utilization of
all available manpower, including that of
workers recruited abroad and of prisoners of war".
Sauckel was instructed to operate within the
fabric of the Four Year Plan, and on 27 March
1942 Göring issued a decree as Commissioner
for the Four Year Plan transferring his manpower
sections to Sauckel. On 30 September 1942 Hitler
gave Sauckel authority to appoint Commissioners
in the various occupied territories, and "to
take all necessary measures for the enforcement"
of the Decree of 21 March 1942.
Under
the authority which he obtained by these
decrees, Sauckel set up a program for the
mobilization of the labor resources available to
the Reich. One of the important parts of this
mobilization was the systematic exploitation, by
force, of the labor resources of the
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