. NMT05-T0202
Volume V · Page 202
| [Arbeit…] tei (commonly known as the
"SS") and each of its various purposes, functions, activities and enterprises.
b. To establish, maintain, operate, and administer throughout Germany and other countries concentration camps and labor camps in which thousands of persons, including prisoners of war, German civilians, and nationals of other countries, were unlawfully imprisoned, enslaved, tortured, and murdered. c. To formulate and carry out plans to supply the labor and services of the inmates of concentration camps to various industries, enterprises, and undertakings throughout Germany and other countries. d. To furnish human subjects for criminal medical, surgical, and biological experimentation and to assist in formulating and carrying out the plans for such unlawful experiments. e. To carry out the policies and purposes of the German Reich with reference to the extermination of the Jews. f. To carry out the policies and purposes of the German Reich with reference to the sterilization and castration of certain groups of peoples. g. To carry out the policies and purposes of the German Reich with reference to the unlawful treatment of prisoners of war. h. To carry out the so-called "euthanasia" program of the German Reich; and i. To deport the citizens of countries occupied by the armed forces of the German Reich, plundering their property and impressing their services and labor for the German Reich. 4. Throughout the period covered by this indictment all of the defendants herein were associated with the Economic and Administrative Main Department [Main Office] (Wirtschafts— and Verwaltungshauptamt, commonly known as the "WVHA") , which was one of the twelve main departments of the SS. 5. The defendant Oswald Pohl was the head of the WVHA and the defendants August Frank and Georg Loerner were his deputies. The WVHA was divided into Amtsgruppen (office groups or divisions), which were interrelated in their operations, purposes, and functions. 6. Amtsgruppe A, among other things, discharged the responsibility for financial matters of the SS, including those relating to its concentration camps. This Amtsgruppe was subdivided into five offices or Aemter, which were charged with responsibility for certain parts of the entire financial administration. The defendants August Frank and Heinz Karl Fanslau were, successively, heads of Amtsgruppe A. The defendants Hans Loerner, August Frank, Josef Vogt, and Heinz Karl Fanslau were heads of offices or Aemter within this Amtsgruppe A. |
