. NMT05-T1024
Volume V · Page 1024
| superior in the
administration office of the SS in 1934 was the defendant Pohl. From July 1934
until approximately the autumn of 1939, he was in the office, "Budget and
Construction [Buildings]". In 1939, he was transferred to the Main Department
[SS Operational Main Office] for the construction management of the Waffen SS
and administration, as chief of Amt V/5. His immediate superior in this office
was the defendant Frank. On 1 February, 1943, the Main Office, budget and
buildings, was incorporated within the WVHA, and the defendant joined this
organization as chief of Amt C VI of Amtsgruppe C. He was subordinate to
Kammler, chief of Amtsgruppe C. Sometime between 1 February, 1942 and February
1943, he was appointed deputy chief of Amtsgruppe C, or Kammler's deputy. In
May 1943, owing to illness, he entered a hospital and did not return to work
with the WVHA until January 1944, and upon his return he was no longer deputy
for Kammler. At all times between 1 February, 1942 and May 1945, he was chief
of Amt C VI of Amtsgruppe C of the WVHA. In order for the Tribunal to arrive at the truth in this case, a close scrutiny of the evidence was required. Witnesses made affidavits and later repudiated their contents by other affidavits, or while testifying as a witness. The defendant Eirenschmalz took the stand and testified in his own defense. He has utterly failed to impress the Tribunal with the truthfulness of his testimony. On the contrary, his answers to direct and simple questions were most evasive and indefinite. After much insistence, when a direct answer was finally obtained from him by either the Tribunal or counsel, he would later repudiate such an answer. In his testimony may be seen so many contradictions and evasive answers that the Tribunal was unable to determine the facts from his testimony. After a careful review of all of the evidence, the Tribunal arrived at its own conclusions as to the true facts of this case. Amt C VI of Amtsgruppe C of the WVHA was subdivided into the following divisions: |
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| Amt C
VI/1, Building Material and Maintenance
(Construction
Maintenance) [of Waffen and Allgemeine SS real estate]. |
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| Amt C VI/2, Plant economy. | |
| Amt C
VI/3, Auditing and price control (after 1943, Price Control). |
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| The prosecution offered in evidence Document NO-2616, Prosecution Exhibit 523, which was an affidavit made by the defendant Pohl, and the Tribunal deems it expedient to here incorporate certain portions of this affidavit: | |
