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| [imme…] diately with the
camp commanders in order to prepare taking charge of the camps in the "A" case.
Nuernberg, 3 July 1947 |
| [Signed] GERHARD MAURER |
| EXTRACT FROM TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT FRANK* |
| CROSS-EXAMINATION |
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| MR. ROBBINS: Can you tell us whether A IV had
anything to do with checking the income from the use of concentration camp
inmates, so-called wages? We discussed this subject the other day, but I don't
believe I got an answer to that question. DEFENDANT FRANK: Yes, that's right. We were interrupted. I mentioned before, that those amounts which were paid by the industry to the concentration camps as so-called wages were taken in by the Reich. In other words, they became an income to the Reich. Those incomes were contained in the cashbooks of the concentration camps just exactly as the expenses were. Due to the fact that every 3 months all these balance sheets were sent to Berlin there was a possibility, of course, of seeing on the basis of the balance how much money had become an income for the Reich. |
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| E. The Extermination
Program (''Final Solution of the Jewish Problem") |
| I. INTRODUCTION |
| The indictment alleged that "The defendants assisted in planning and carrying out plans for the subjugation and extermination of entire ‘races’ and nationalities considered inferior by the Nazi hierarchy" (par. 21). Under this charge the prosecution alleged, among other things, that the systematic persecution of the Jews culminated in the National Socialism policy of the wholesale extermination of Jews from all parts of German-occupied Europe. The evidence reproduced in this section is mainly concerned with this charge involving the Jews. The principal defense on this point was that the individual defendants were not knowingly involved in the program or in any specific criminal conduct. |
* Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 5, 6, 9, 10 June, 1947 ; pp. 2231-2487, 7410-7417.
