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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT POHL 16 POHL DEFENSE EXHIBIT 15 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF GERHARD MAURER, OF WVHA, 3 JULY 1947, CONCERNING ASSIGNMENT OF CONCENTRATION CAMP PRISONERS TO OUTSIDE ENTERPRISES | |
| AFFIDAVIT | |
| I, Gerhard Maurer, born 9
December 1907 in Halle on Saale, and last Standartenfuehrer in the Waffen SS,
at present in the prison in Nuernberg, have been informed that I am liable for
punishment if I submit a false statement under oath. Having been informed that
my statement is to be introduced as evidence before the Military Tribunal in
Nuernberg, Germany, I declare the following under oath 1. After having been section chief of office A III, Main Office Administration and Economy, and in this capacity chief of the bookkeeping department and co-manager of the DEST (Deutsche Erdand Steinwerke G.m.b.H.), I became office chief III C and manager of the DAW (Deutsche Ausruestungswerke G.m.b.H.). I held this job until approximately July 1941. From July 1941 until March 1942 I was plant inspector of the W-works, a member of the staff of Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl. Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl assigned to me the job of inspecting the economic plants and to report about the result of my inspections. The reason for being given this task was, that Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl, who was overburdened with work could not, as he used to do, inspect these plants himself anymore. 2. By order of the Reich Leader SS, dated 3 March 1942, which went into effect, as far as I remember, on 1 May 1942, the Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps was attached as group D to the Main Office Economy and Administration. The Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps was up to this time part of the SS Operational Main Office. The reason for this reorganization was the intention to direct the work of the inmates from one ministerial authority. This task was given to the chief of the WVHA by the Reich Leader SS. I was therefore put in charge of office D II by Pohl and became expert for labor problems in the Amtsgruppe D (Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps). By order of Reich Leader SS Himmler, and because of the development on the labor market, the prisoners in the course of time were also employed in the W-plants, construction works, and finally in private industry. 3. In my capacity as chief of the office D II, I was in charge of incoming applications for the assignment of workers and I had to report to the Inspector for the Concentration Camps (Amtsgrup- […penchef D] |
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