. NMT04-T0713
Volume IV · Page 713
| V. EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENTS ON IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE CASE |
| A. Forced Germanization of Enemy Nationals |
| I. INTRODUCTION |
| The defendants Greifelt, Creutz,
Meyer-Hetling, Schwarzenberger, Huebner, Lorenz, Brueckner, Hofmann,
Hildebrandt, and Schwalm were charged with special responsibility for and
participation in criminal conduct involving forced Germanization of enemy
nationals and using them as slave laborers (indictment, count one, pars. 18
and 19; count two, pars. 24 and 2.5). On this charge the defendants
Greifelt, Creutz, Lorenz, Brueckner, Hofmann, Hildebrandt, and Schwalm were
convicted, and the defendants Meyer-Hetling, Schwarzenberger, and Huebner were
acquitted. The selection of arguments and evidence of prosecution and defense concerning forced Germanization is here presented under two headings: German People's List (DVL), and re-Germanization procedure (WED). Argument of the prosecution on these two subjects has been set forth in the opening statement in pp. 639 to 645. Concerning the German People's List, the prosecution alleged that if there was some proof of partial German ancestry, compulsion to register with this list was exerted on foreign nationals (especially on citizens of Poland and the former Free City of Danzig). A selection from the evidence of the prosecution on the German People's List appears in pp. 714 to 741. This is followed by a selection from the evidence of the defense as set forth in pp. 741 to 762. Concerning the re-Germanization procedure, the prosecution alleged that such procedure was applied forcibly to foreign nationals whose physiological and psychological characteristics were considered as making them "eligible for Germanization", even where there was no proof of German ancestry. A selection from the evidence of the prosecution concerning the re-Germanization procedure appears in pp. 762 to 790. This is followed by the selection from the evidence of the defense on this subject as set forth in pp. 790 to 816. |
