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Volume VI · Page 768
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-5391 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 140 |
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| LETTER FROM FLICK'S ANHALTISCHE KOHLENWERKE TO ENGINEER RIES OF THE DISTRICT LABOR ALLOCATION OFFICE, 18 JANUARY 1945, COMPLAINING ABOUT THREE DIFFERENT TRANSPORTS OF EASTERN WORKERS, NOTING INCLUSION OF AGED PERSONS AND INFANTS, AND OTHERS INCAPABLE OF MINING WORK | |
| [Handwritten] To be circulated among the managing board. | |
| [Stamp] 22 January 1945 |
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| To the District Labor
Allocation Engineer Director Dr. Ries Coal Mine Ilse N.L. |
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| 18
January 1945 [Initials] T.[TERBERGER] H. [HELLBERG] |
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| Subject: Allocation of Foreigners Group Klettwitz Ia N/W. 61/45 | |
| We refer to your
wish, mentioned at the meeting on 16 January 1945, to be informed of
difficulties occurring in the allocation of foreigners and bring, therefore,
the following to your attention. On 26 February 1944 we received a transport of eastern workers, consisting of 20 men; 23 women; 13 children, 13 and 15 years old, who were considered capable to work; and 13 babies. Out of these 56 so-called workers only 31 could be employed, the rest merely filled up the camps and used up the already scarce supplies, without being of any help to us. We contacted immediately the proper authorities concerning this transport, such as the Gau Labor Office [Gauarbeitsamt], the Reich Association Coal, and the Reich Labor Ministry, with the request not to send us in the future such transports, since we can use only people who are capable of working in mines. On 12 May 1944 we received another transport of eastern workers, according to the Labor Office, 50 workers. This is what they consisted of: 17 men, among them one 60 years old, one 71 years, and one 75 years; and 34 women, one 71 years old, and two 75 years old; 22 children, in the ages between 1 and 14. Out of these 73 people only 12 men and 24 women were capable to work; for mining, for which they had been requested, only 9. We informed the Reich Association Coal of this at the time and asked to be spared further transports of this kind. On 16 December 1944, we again received a transport of eastern workers, consisting of 15 men, 36 women, and 36 children; on the |
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