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with the allocation of prisoners should be settled by a concentration camp and at the beginning of June of this year, I, therefore, subordinated the detachment of female prisoners from Ravensbrueck to the official supervision of the concentration camp Flossenbuerg. ‘Bohemia’ is, therefore, being cared for, as desired, by Flossenbuerg only. The camp commanders, both camps, have been instructed accordingly and will receive a copy of this letter today." |
| On 28 [18] February 1943, the defendant,
Bobermin, W I [II] office chief and manager of the Golleschau Portland Cement
Company, which used concentration camp labor from Auschwitz, designated Volk as
Syndikus [in charge of legal matters] of this company. In January 1942 in
Stutthof, Volk participated in a conference having to do with the conversion of
the civilian internment camp at that place into a concentration camp. This camp
was to house 25,000 inmates including prisoners of war. On 12 January 1942 Volk
wrote a long memorandum on the Stutthof concentration camp project. In this
memorandum he analyzes in detail the various phases involved in the
concentration camp plan, dwelling at length on the lucrative brick works within
the area. Volk's inspection of the site, his conferences on the subject, his
reports and memorandum demonstrate convincingly his familiarity with
concentration camp policy. In February 1944, Volk accompanied Pohl to Lodz on the same kind of a mission which had engaged him at Stutthof. The fact that Himmler had, prior to Volk's visit to Lodz, ordered the transformation of the ghetto there into a concentration camp, and the later fact that the plan was abandoned does not take away from the charge of the prosecution that Volk was actually involved in concentration camp affairs; and the fact that Volk himself advised against taking over all the enterprises at Lodz adds to the logic of the prosecution's charge. In July 1942 Volk attended a conference which had to do with the Hermann Goering Works at Linz. A memorandum on this subject points out that inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp were to be used in erecting a factory which was to utilize the Clinker returns of the Linz foundry. The fact that a change in the plan dispensed with the use of prisoners here does not wipe out Volk's knowledge of how concentration camp inmates were being employed. On 12 December 1944, Volk asked that 79 guards be sent to a labor camp at Erzingen. This certainly would establish that he was aware of the use of prison labor. Volk denies all knowledge of the presence of prisoners of war in concentration camps. Yet on 10 March 1942, he countersigned |
