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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-5222 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 126 |
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| COPY OF LETTER FROM THE REGIONAL LABOR OFFICE OF WESTPHALIA, 3 FEBRUARY 1942, INITIALED BY DEFENDANTS WEISS AND BURKART, CONCERNING PRISONERS OF WAR AVAILABLE FOR ASSIGNMENT TO LABOR IN GERMANY AND IN WESTPHALIA PARTICULARLY; MORTALITY BECAUSE OF TYPHUS, HEALTH CONDITIONS, AND RELATED MATTERS | |
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| [Initials] B [Burkart] W [Weiss] |
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| The President of the
Regional Labor Office, Westphalia File number 5135/42 g |
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| Dortmund, 3 February 1942 | |
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| To the District Group
Soft Coal Mining Ruhr of the Economic Group Mining. Essen |
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| Subject: Allocation
of Soviet prisoners of war. The Reich Minister of Labor has set up a commission for the utilization of the labor of Soviet prisoners of war of which your representative is supposed to be a member. I have so far refrained from calling this commission together, because it would seem inappropriate to me to divert the members from their own business even for a day if the conference were likely to result in lesser numbers of prisoners becoming available than there are members in the commission. For this reason I am giving you the following information on the situation with regard to the Soviet prisoners of war, asking you at the same time to treat these figures confidentially. According to a decree of the Reich Minister of Labor [RAM], the number of Soviet prisoners of war still held in November 1941 totaled according to the military authorities, 1,581,000. Therefore, it would be quite wrong to start from a figure of 3.8 millions when contemplating the question of the allocation of the Soviet prisoners of war. Until recently typhus caused a daily death toll of 15,000. At a camp in Westphalia more than 900 prisoners of war died in December. Of the 1,580,000 of prisoners of war, about 225,000 were employed in the Reich territory, others, approximately 490,000, were |
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