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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-5207 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 158 |
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| LETTER FROM BUSKUEHL, HARPEN MANAGING BOARD CHAIRMAN, TO DEFENDANT FLICK, 16 FEBRUARY 1942, TRANSMITTING A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ON EMPLOYMENT OF RUSSIAN PRISONERS OF WAR, NOTING FAILURE OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT AT THE FRIEDRICH HEINRICH MINE BECAUSE OF TYPHUS, AND CONTRASTING THIS TO FAVORABLE RESULTS WITH RUSSIAN CIVILIAN WORKERS FROM THE UKRAINE | |
| [Handwritten] 3
copies. Complied with 18 February 1942 [Initial Illegible] |
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Received 18 February 1942 J. No. 14796 |
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| 16 February 1942 | |
| Ernst Buskuehl
Harpener Bergbau A.G. Dortmund, Goldstrasse 14 |
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| [Initials] K [Kaletsch] W [Weiss] T [Tillmanns] B [Burkart] K [Kurre] |
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| Dr. Fr. Flick,
Berlin W9 Bellevuestrasse 12a |
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| Confidential | |
| Dear Mr. Flick:
Enclosed I transmit to you a copy of a secret directive* from the president of the Regional Labor Office of Westphalia about employment of Russian PW's. Supplementing the contents of this directive, which scarcely needs explanation, I inform you that the employment of Russian PW's in the Freidrich Heinrich Mine has proved a total failure inasmuch as typhus has broken out among these PW's in spite of careful delousing and issuing of new clothing. The cases of illness and death have led to a quite extraordinary state of alarm among the employees. [Marginal note] The contrary in Breslau. As things stand, the employment of Russian PW's, at least in. the mines, is not warrantable, and this method of employment of |
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* This directive was not a part of this exhibit as offered in evidence. Defendant Weiss testified that the enclosure "must have been" Document NI-5222, Prosecution Exhibit 126, reproduced immediately above. See extracts from the testimony of defendant Weiss reproduced later in section VII F.
