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Volume VI · Page 681
| VII. SLAVE LABOR - COUNT ONE | |
| A. Introduction | |
| All six defendants were charged
under count one with the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity
by criminal participation in the enslavement and deportation to slave labor of
civilians and in the use of prisoners of war in war operations and work having
a direct relation with war operations (pars. 1-7 of the indictment, sec. I,
above). The Tribunal, in its opinion and judgment (sec. XI), found the
defendants Flick and Weiss guilty under this count. In finding the other four
defendants not guilty, the Tribunal concluded: "In this case, in our opinion,
the testimony establishes a factual situation which makes clearly applicable
the defense of necessity as urged in behalf of the defendants Steinbrinck,
Burkart, Kaletsch, and Terberger." This section contains selections from the evidence submitted in connection with the slave labor charges — a selection from the contemporaneous documents (B below) is followed by extracts from the testimony of one prosecution witness, Brambusch (C below) ; the testimony of one defense witness, Speer (D below), and extracts from the testimony of two defendants, Flick and Weiss (E and F below). Evidence on charges of slave labor may be found in most of the volumes of this series. Apart from this volume on the Flick case, a number of volumes devoted to other cases contain one or more sections dealing mainly with slave labor charges: section IV A, Volume II, the Mitch case; sections IX and XV, Volume VIII, the Farben case; section VIII, Volume IX, the Krupp case; section VII E, Volume X, the High Command case; and section XI, Volume XIII, the Ministries case. Argument concerning the slave-labor charges in the Flick case are contained in the opening statements (sec. III) and in the selections from the closing statements (sec. IX). |
