. NMT05-T0577
Volume V · Page 577
| 18 May 1944 or March 1944? My
translation has a date of March 1944. A. March 1944. Q. And my translation says "Reich Leader SS orders the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands." A. It doesn't say so here. PRESIDING JUDGE TOMS: Let's see this book now. MR. McHANEY : Will you pass the German up? PRESIDING JUDGE TOMS: Well, if this German follows the original, it doesn't say what the English copy says at all. MR. McHANEY : Well, your Honor, I suggest we postpone the question until such time as we can have a photostatic copy of the German brought down. |
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| MR. McHANEY : We now have the photostatic
copy of NO-1278, Prosecution Exhibit 440, and I think it shows that the English
translation is correct. I will pass it to the witness, and he can verify it.
Defendant, what does it say in this letter signed by you under the date March
1944 ? DEFENDANT MUMMENTHEY: It says there, "RF SS has ordered that Jews must be deported from the Netherlands." |
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| D. Consignment of
concentration camp inmates to work for public and private enterprises |
| I. INTRODUCTION |
| The indictment alleged that "The WVHA
discharged the responsibility for the supply of the forced labor and services
of concentration camp inmates and the allotment of such supply to public and
private employers throughout Germany and the occupied countries and
territories," (par. 15). The defense argued that the assignment of inmates to
work did not constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity under Control
Council Law No. 10. In the selections from the record below, evidence of the
prosecution pages 579 to 592 is followed by evidence of the defense pages 593
to 607. The closing statement on behalf of the defendant Pohl contains extensive defense argument on the question of the work of concentration camp inmates. This closing statement is reproduced on pages 865 to 921. |
