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| project, at least it can be said
that he avoided all future experiences. At the time of his audit in Lublin,
Action Reinhardt had been in progress for nearly two years and was near the
point of conclusion. It was far too late to attempt to stop the launching of
the vicious program even if Vogt had had the power to do so. The harm had been
done, and he could not prevent it. He promptly reported his discoveries to his
superiors and severed whatever slight connection he may have had with the
project. He had inadvertently stumbled upon evidence of a crime which had
already been committed. Instead of trying to conceal it, he openly uncovered it
and had no further connection with it. Again, the Tribunal is impelled to ask,
what should he have done? Unless we are willing to resort to the principle of
group responsibility and to charge the whole German nation with these war
crimes and crimes against humanity, there is a line somewhere at which
indictable criminality must stop. In the opinion of the Tribunal, Vogt stands
beyond that line. The Tribunal therefore finds the defendant Vogt not guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as charged in the indictment. |
| COUNT FOUR |
| The Tribunal finds the defendant Vogt not guilty under count four of the indictment. |
| GEORG LOERNER |
| Defendant Georg Loerner joined the National
Socialist Party in November 1931 and became a member of the SS the following
year. His highest rank in the SS was Gruppenfuehrer, or major general. In May
1935 he was employed in the administrative office of the SS at Munich, and in
the fall of that year he was given the assignment of organizing a department
for clothing supply. In May 1939 he was transferred to Berlin, where he carried
on the same task of supplying clothing and personal equipment to the SS troops
upon requisition of the various units. Until April 1936, clothing for
concentration camp inmates was supplied by the several local governmental
units. After that date the task of supplying clothing for camp inmates as well
as the SS armed units was taken over by the SS Administrative Office, of which
the defendant Pohl was the head. This was Georg Loerner's initiation into
concentration camp administration. When the WVHA was organized in February 1942, Loerner became chief of Amtsgruppe B, which, among other duties, was charged with the supply of food and clothing to all stationary |
