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NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNAL
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Baier not only was aware that inmates were unpaid, but he knew which industries employed them. Pohl testified as follows in this connection:

"Q. As a matter of fact you told Baier, did you not, to compile a list of all of the industries in Amtsgruppe W which used concentration camp inmates for the purpose of discussing the question as to how much the inmates should receive, or, rather, how much the industries should pay for the use of inmate labor. You did that, didn't you?

"A. Yes. We discussed that.

"Q. You talked about the use of inmate labor when you discussed that, didn't you?

"A. Yes, certainly, of course.

"Q. There is no doubt in your mind that Baier knew which of the industries used inmate labor?

"A. That he knew very well." (Tr. p. 1821.)

Baier as chief of staff W could also not fail to know of the cruel principle underlying the entire program of the utilization of concentration camp labor. Document NO-1016, Pros. Ex. 46, dated 13 July 1944, concerning W Contribution to Lectures, and addressed to SS Oberfuehrer Fanslau, contains some highly illuminating passages:

"Office group W comprises all economic enterprises under SS control. In studying the W enterprises first of all the urgent question arises: Why does the SS engage in business? * * *.

"The Reich Leader SS in his capacity as chief of the German Police was confronted with the task of solving problems, which the Reich as such was not able to solve, viz to get hold of all antisocial elements which no longer had a right to live within the National Socialist State, and to turn their working strength to the benefit of the whole nation. This was effected in the concentration camps. The Reich Leader SS, therefore, delegated SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl to set up concentration camp enterprises. In addition he gave orders to establish companies on a private economy basis for the purpose of employing the prisoners." (11/105-107.)

Defense counsel says that Baier once visited the Dachau concentration camp, but he could find nothing which would have permitted the conclusion that the detainees were treated inhumanely.

The concentration camp at Dachau was one of the most notorious in all of Germany. In fact its reputation was so well known to the German people that Dachau became a symbol for all concentration camps and the mere mention of the world "Dachau" conjured up human suffering in its most miserable forms. If

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