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| partei (commonly known as the
"SS") and each of its various purposes, functions, activities, and enterprises.
2. To establish and maintain throughout Germany and other countries concentration and labor camps in which thousands of persons, including prisoners of war, German civilians, and nationals of other countries, were unlawfully imprisoned, enslaved, tortured, and murdered. 3. To supply the labor and services of the inmates of concentration camps to various industries and undertakings. 4. To furnish human subjects for criminal medical experimentation and to assist in carrying out the plans for such unlawful experiments. 5. To carry out the policy of the German Reich, to exterminate the Jewish race, to sterilize and castrate certain groups of peoples. 6. To carry out the so-called "euthanasia" program; and 7. To deport citizens of countries occupied by the armed forces of the German Reich, plundering their property, and impressing their services and labor for the German Reich. Throughout the period covered by this indictment all of the defendants herein were associated with the Economic and Administrative Main Office (Wirtschafts- and Verwaltungshauptamt, commonly known as the "WVHA"), which was one of the twelve main departments of the SS. The defendants participated as leaders, organizers, instigators, and accomplices in the formulation and execution of the said plans and enterprises, and accordingly are individually responsible for their own acts and for all acts performed by any person or persons in execution of the said plans and enterprises. |
| COUNT TWO — WAR CRIMES |
| Between September 1939 and April 1945 all of
the defendants herein unlawfully, wilfully, and knowingly committed war crimes,
as defined by Control Council Law No. 10, in that they were principals in,
accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and were connected
with plans and enterprises involving the commission of atrocities and offenses
against persons and property, including, but not limited to, plunder of public
and private property, murder, torture, illegal imprisonment, and enslavement
and deportation to slave labor of, and brutalities, atrocities, and other
inhumane and criminal acts against thousands of persons. The WVHA took over jurisdiction of the concentration camps in Germany and the occupied countries and territories in the spring of 1942, and was charged also with the establishment and operation of new concentration camps. |
