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| for about 10 days. There was
chiefly bread, olives, and other dried foods, also water, and a few other
hygienic or sanitary means. Q. Did you furnish this railway transportation? A. Transports were furnished by the Wehrmacht. That means the cars and the locomotives. The foodstuffs were furnished by the military administration. |
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| Certified as true and correct copy.
Nuernberg, 19 June 1947 |
| [Signed] KARL HOFFMANN |
| F. Acquisition and Disposal of Property and Valuables of "Evacuated" Jews-— "Action Reinhardt" |
| I . INTRODUCTION |
| The indictment alleged that "The defendants systematically confiscated the personal property of living and deceased inmates of concentration camps" (par. 19) . The materials included in this section deal principally with the "Action Reinhardt", an "action" alleged to have involved the transport from Poland to Germany of property of victims of the extermination program, the delivery of some of this property to such Reich agencies as the Reich Bank and the Reich Ministry of Economy, and the use of funds derived from the confiscation of this property for financing various industrial activities of the WVHA. The principal defense argument was that the defendants did not know that the property had been obtained by criminal means. In the selections from the record below, evidence of the prosecution on pages 695 to 731 is followed by evidence of the defense on pages 732 to 763. Further defense material on this point is reproduced in the section on "Defense of mere organizational or administrative connection," page 786. Defense argument on this point is reproduced below in the closing statement on behalf of the defendant Pohl, page 865. |
