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| to permit large-scale
experiments. Continuing, Pohl stated that he had informed Dr. Koch that he
would attempt to obtain permission to build a large hot house for cultivation
of the plant. Pohl arranged to put Dr. Lolling, whom he refers to as "chief of
my office D III," in touch with a Vienna biologist for further study, looking
toward the large-scale production of Schweigrohr. Rudolf Brandt sent to Dr.
Clauberg Himmler's order to first confer with Pohl and then go to Ravensbrueck
to pursue the sterilization program on Jewesses in that camp. Brandt inquires
how long it would take to sterilize a thousand Jewesses by X-ray without their
knowing it. Further proof could be accumulated, but it is unnecessary. Pohl's
participation in the medical experiments was intimate and direct, and he must
share the responsibility for their criminality. The Tribunal finds that the food experiments in which Pohl was greatly interested did not involve the use of poisons but were simply legitimate experiments in the nutritional values of food. As such, of course, they had no element of criminality. |
| ACTION REINHARDT |
| This action, as has been indicated, involved
a plan for draining the Eastern occupied countries of their last vestige of
wealth. It had the two-fold purpose of reducing the East to abject poverty so
that starvation would be the inevitable result to the population and, at the
same time, filling the Reich Treasury. It was a program of deliberate wholesale
brigandage which was, at the same time, an added aspect of the extermination
program. In the execution of this program, Pohl's WVHA played a major role. His organization was the clearing house for all the booty. All of the stolen property was routed through WVHA, where it was inventoried, appraised, and distributed. That Pohl knew of the criminal source of this property is evidenced by his letter of 9 February 1944, to Maurer, directing that valuables found in clothing were to be delivered in sealed boxes to Amtsgruppe D, and directing further, that nothing in the shipment should reveal its origin. The money which was stolen was secreted in the Reich Bank under the assumed name of Max Heiliger. On 4 July 1944, Pohl, in a communication to the Main Office chiefs, announced the names of officers responsible for the property seized in several areas, and stated: "As a matter of principle, it has to be kept in mind that the entire Jewish property is to be incorporated into the Reich property." Property from the Action Reinhardt which had been delivered to the Reich Main Treasury was kept in a separate account, appropriately called, "Department Booty." Moved by the Christian spirit of Christmas, Pohl on 6 November |
