. NMT05-T0866
Volume V · Page 866
| And finally, |
No. 12, the limitations of the legal responsibility of the defendant Oswald Pohl in his capacity as chief of the Economic and Administrative Main Office. |
| Your Honors, in paragraph 1, I have a short
legal argument which is in connection with Control Council Law No. 10 and that
particularly refers to the crime against humanity. I did that in order to
prevent the other defense counsel from repeating these points. I would
appreciate it if the Tribunal would take judicial notice of these articles and
I believe I will not read it into the record. Number 2, which deals with the development of the SS Administration from 1 February 1934 until 3 March 1942 I shall not read. The defendant Pohl while on the witness stand described this development in great detail to the Tribunal and I direct your attention to his testimony. I would like to turn to paragraph 3. I am reading that. That is on page 24 of this draft. |
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| 3. Development and Position
of the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps |
| The creation of further concentration camps
in the years 1933 to 1936, beside the Dachau concentration camp, resulted in
the commander of the Dachau camp, the later SS Obergruppenfuehrer Eicke, being
commissioned with the personal leadership and administration of all existing
concentration camps, acting as their highest authority. The office which was appointed for this purpose as supreme governing and supervising organ was called, "Inspectorate of Concentration Camps". Eicke himself was appointed "Inspector of concentration camps." His official residence was first in Berlin, later in Oranienburg. The Inspectorate of Concentration Camps was the highest supervising authority for these camps. The camp commanders were exclusively and directly subordinated to and responsible to the inspector. They received all the orders and directions which referred to administrative matters of the concentration camps from the inspector alone and via him personally. As far as police measures and executive measures were concerned, the inspector was bound by the directions and decrees of the Reich Security Main Office and, above all, of the Secret State Police Office (office IV of the Reich Security Main Office). The inspector had only to receive these directions, decrees, and |
