. NMT05-T0346
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| Oranienburg; and I returned to Berlin in the
evening, and did that approximately up to 23 August 1943. On that day I was
bombed out in Berlin, and I had to move to Oranienburg. Q. Would you give this Tribunal a sort of description of the organization or work of Amtsgruppe D? A. Amtsgruppe D was at the time Inspectorate of Concentration Camps, and in addition to that, or rather as an extension to that, had office D II, labor assignment of inmates. Amtsgruppe D consisted of office D I, the central office, which was always used as a liaison office for us between the RSHA and the concentration camps; office D II, labor assignment of inmates; office D III which, according to the table of organization, was called medical and camp hygiene which we, however, considered the chief physician of the concentration camps, and office D IV, administration of concentration camps which was deactivated towards August 1942, and which was then reestablished in the middle of 1943. Q. Would you tell the Tribunal a synopsis concerning the organization and the field of tasks of office D IT? A. The organization of office D II corresponds to the organizational chart introduced by the prosecution in NO-111, Exhibit 38, in book 2. Office D II, in May of 1942, consisted of the chief of office and three experts. The name of office D II was "Labor Assignment of inmates:" special Department D II/1 was, "Inmate Labor Assignment:" D II/2, "Training of Inmates:" and the department D II/3, "Accounting and Statistics." Office D II was Pohl's instrument, so to speak, for the guidance of labor assignment of all the concentration camp inmates within the Reich area; and later on also, in addition to that, of the concentration camp Herzogenbusch [Hertogenbosch]. When the concentration camps of the occupied Eastern territories were added the concentration camps in the "Eastland", that is to say, in Riga, Kaunas [Kovno], and Vaivara were directly subordinated to the SS Economist of the Higher SS and Police Leader. The conditions in the Government General were not very clear ever since the beginning, and they were only established slowly and subordinated to the SS Economist. There was no written order through the office D II. The duties of office D II, in detail, are approximately the following: The office had to deal with the wishes of the business managers of the SS enterprises concerning labor assignment by channeling it through the camp commandant, who at the same time was the business manager. Furthermore, they had to take care of the wishes of the SS construction agencies, and only at the beginning to a very small extent, they had to take care of private enterprises. The wishes had to be submitted to Pohl, and Pohl decided |
