. NMT05-T1031
Volume V · Page 1031
| "Action Reinhardt," and the,
"Final Solution of the Jewish Problem," and that he knew that numberless
thousands of unfortunate Jews and nationals of occupied territories were
exterminated in the gas chambers and crematories erected and maintained under
the supervision of his office and other offices of the WVHA. His activities in
the SS, both before and after the organization of the WVHA, constituted a
material cog in the machinery necessary for the operation of the concentration
camps. The Tribunal does not find that he was a so-called, "trigger man" in the deaths and atrocities committed on unfortunate people in the concentration camps, but that he, with others, operated and maintained the gigantic enterprises which resulted in the unlawful deaths of millions of slave laborers from occupied territories and prisoners of war. The Tribunal finds and adjudges from the evidence, and beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant Eirenschmalz was a principal in, accessory to, ordered, abetted, tools a consenting part in, and was connected with plans and enterprises involving the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and finds him guilty as charged in counts two and three of the indictment. |
| COUNT FOUR |
| The Tribunal finds and adjudges from the evidence, and beyond a reasonable doubt, that defendant Eirenschmalz is guilty of belonging to the SS, an organization declared to be criminal by the International Military Tribunal, and as charged in count four of the indictment. |
| KARL SOMMER |
| This defendant was born 25 March 1915 in Cologne; he attended the elementary schools and four classes of high school; he belonged neither to the NSDAP, nor any other political party. He joined the Allgemeine SS in the last part of 1933 and became an SS private on 30 January 1934. His last rank in the Allgemeine SS was Obersturmfuehrer. In March 1941, Sommer was appointed to the Inmate Labor Assignment Office of the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke, an SS enterprise. In this office he had the task of supervising inmate labor assignments, together with the supervision of the general welfare of the inmates. In October 1941, he succeeded to the head of the Department for Inmate Labor Assignment. Amt D II of the WVHA was called, "Labor Allocation of Inmates", and it was the task of Amt D II to arrange the labor allocation of inmates who were confined in concentration |
