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business of their common master — Himmler. The Tribunal finds no reason to
retract or modify its statement on this subject in the original judgment
(Tr. p. 8096 et seq.). Defense counsel raises the point that "Fanslau is responsible within the framework of troop administration only * * * but which is not liable to punishment." He reminds the Tribunal that administrative office heads of the Reich Security Office, the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, and the navy have not been accused or convicted of crimes against international law. Let us repeat what has been so often said before. Fanslau has not been condemned because he was a military officer or because he ministered to the needs of the troops. His crime consists in using his position as an SS officer in WVHA to aid and abet a Nazi-sponsored system of slavery, spoliation, and looting. Field Marshal Milch, who was convicted by this Tribunal in Case No. 2, was not condemned because he was a field marshal and second in command of the Luftwaffe, but because in that capacity he participated in war crimes and crimes against humanity. Fanslau's claim that as chief of Amt A V, the personnel office, his only function was to "replace administration officers for the paymaster service for Amtsgruppe D to be employed in the concentration camps" and involved only 5 or 6 men, finds no credible support in the record in this case. The claim that in signing (not promulgating) orders for the transfer of camp commanders, Fanslau was merely certifying to the correctness of an order of the Personnel Main Office has been sufficiently discussed and disposed of in this judgment under Frank's case. It need not be reexamined here. The Tribunal cannot accept the conclusion that the chief of Amt A V and later the chief of Amtsgruppe A was merely a stenographer, and his high position and official acts belie such a menial classification. |
| HANS LOERNER |
| With reference to Loerner's budget duties and activities as head of Amt A I and A II (NO-2672, Pros. Ex. 36), the Tribunal in its original judgment (Tr. p. 8108) stated: |
"In connection with the concentration camps, Kaindl, and later Burger of Amt D IV, concentration camp administration, assembled the budget items for the concentration camps and passed them on as part of the entire budget of the Waffen SS to Loerner in Amtsgruppe A, who reviewed it and put it in shape to be transmitted to the Main Department of Finance in Berlin." |
| A careful review of the record convinces the Tribunal that this statement is accurate and true. Requests for money appropria- […tions] |
