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| apparently did not consider
resettlement as such, indeed not even the evacuation because this is what was
intended by the Potsdam Agreement — as a violation of international law,
nor, without doubt, as a violation of the principles of humanity — they
only made the reservation that the resettlement should be effected by orderly
and humane procedure. Consequently, it might be quite justified to argue that resettlement can be objected to only if the limits of orderly conduct and humanity have been surpassed. |
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| C. Plunder of Public and Private Property | |
| I. INTRODUCTION | |
| The defendants Greifelt, Creutz, Meyer-Hetling, Schwarzenberger, Huebner, Lorenz, Brueckner, Hofmann, Hildebrandt, Schwalm, Sollmann, Ebner, Tesch, and Viermetz were charged with special responsibility for and participation in criminal conduct involving plunder of public and private property in the occupied countries (indictment, count one, par. 20; count two, pars. 24 and 25). On this charge only the defendants Greifelt, Creutz, and Lorenz were convicted. Selections from the documentary evidence of the prosecution concerning plunder of Polish property have been set forth on pp. 954 to 976. An extract from the closing statement for the defendant Greifelt concerning the same point appears on pp. 977 to 982. This is followed by selections from the evidence of the defense on pp. 982 to 989. Evidence and arguments, concerning the plunder of public and private property in countries other than Poland have been omitted. | |
| 2. SELECTIONS
FROM THE EVIDENCE OF THE PROSECUTION |
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| PARTIAL
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-4672 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 589 |
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| EXTRACTS FROM
DECREE CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE CITIZENS OF THE FORMER POLISH STATE OF 17 SEPTEMBER 1940 |
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| [Handwritten] Confiscation | |
| DECREE | |
| Concerning the Treatment of Property Belonging to the Citizens of the former Polish state 17 September 1940 (Reich Law Gazette I No. 170 p. 3 S) [sic] | |
