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| joined with Baier in requesting
a loan of 2,500,000 RM to OSTI. On 26 June 1943, he approved a memorandum
signed by Hohberg on the transferring of funds from the Reinhardt fund to the
German industrial firms. Volk's indefatigable and far-flung efforts in behalf of the SS enterprises exploiting concentration camp labor, his close collaboration with Pohl, his initiative and energies exerted for the W industries bring him inevitably within the purview of Control Council Law No. 10 defining war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Tribunal finds Leo Volk guilty under counts two and three of the indictment. |
| COUNT FOUR |
| It is not clear, however, that Volk is guilty under count four. The fact that he had a written contract with DWB would indicate that his connection with the Waffen SS was not as binding as military service implies. The fact also that he did not give up his position with the Deutsche Gemeindetag (German Community Day) * when he was drafted into the Waffen SS also attacks the exclusive authority of the SS over his movements. He continued to draw a salary from the civilian firm until May 1941. Volk's connection with the Waffen SS is not sufficiently free of ambiguity to justify the conclusion that it has been established beyond such reasonable doubt as to bring him within the provisions of the IMT decision on this point. The Tribunal, therefore, finds him not guilty under count four. |
| KARL MUMMENTHEY |
| Karl Mummenthey joined the Allgemeine SS in
1934. In 1938 he became a legal assistant in the administrative office of the
SS under Dr. Salpeter. In 1940, in order to avoid being drafted into the army
he arranged with Salpeter to be taken into the Waffen SS and placed on detached
service with the WVHA. In his direction and management of the German Earth and Stone Works, known as DEST, none of the defendants was more directly associated with concentration camp inmate labor than Karl Mummenthey. In January 1939, Mummenthey made an investigation of the company, and because of his recommendations, a separate legal department was set up under himself. In September 1939 he |
* German municipal league established by law as central organization under the Reich Ministry of Interior for promotion of common problems of municipal administration.
