. NMT05-T1066
Volume V · Page 1066
| In Poland, Russia, and other
countries the defendants assisted in planning and carrying out the plunder,
spoliation, and confiscation of real and personal property of Jewish, Russian,
Polish, and other private owners; of churches, communities, towns, cities, and
states; the deportation to slave labor and other purposes of civilians there
resident, and the resettlement of such regions by peoples asserted by the Nazis
to be Aryans. The defendants systematically confiscated the personal property
of living and deceased inmates of concentration camps. Civilians and prisoners of war from all the countries of Europe were deported from their homelands and herded into the concentration camps, some of which were fitted with special installations, such as gas chambers and sealed buses, where they were exterminated. Experiments were carried out to determine how most efficiently to use the labor and services of the living members of undesired "races" and nationalities, and to insure that such persons would be unable to propagate their kind. Countless persons, including nationals of occupied territories, were murdered in the so-called "euthanasia" program of the German Reich. The defendants assisted in planning and carrying out medical, surgical, and biological experiments upon hundreds of involuntary human subjects, without regard to the lives of such subjects, resulting in the murder, torture, and ill-treatment of hundreds of persons. |
| COUNT THREE—CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY |
| Between September 1939 and April 1945 all of the defendants herein unlawfully, wilfully, and knowingly committed crimes against humanity 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, including but not limited to murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, illegal imprisonment, torture, persecution on political, racial, and religious grounds, and ill-treatment of, and other inhumane and criminal acts against German civilians and nationals of other countries. |
| COUNT FOUR — MEMBERSHIP
IN CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION |
| All of the defendants herein, except defendant Hohberg, are charged with membership, subsequent to 1 September 1939, in the Schutzstaffeln der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiter |
