. NMT06-T0769
Volume VI · Page 769
| whole 87 persons.
Among the men there was an 80-year-old blind man, and several men were over 65
years old. The women were partly ill, or pregnant, or mothers of infants so
that they also could not be used in mining work. There are quite a number of
families among them, of whom no one is working at all and therefore they are
not even earning living expenses. The men also, as far as they are in an age
group capable of work, are ill or suffering from an ailment preventing their
full employment. We offered immediately to return some families, 15 people altogether, to the Labor Office, because not a single member of these families was working. Nothing happened though. We also offered on 12 January 1945, to return the whole transport, if we could get the promised 100 prisoners of war. Our camps are not suited for family accommodations. The available sleeping place is needed urgently for other real workers so that we were forced already to use emergency camps for the lodging of so many people. We are burdened with the lodging and feeding of these many people who don't work and are not capable of working. The kitchen facilities, food, and clothing, matters that are difficult enough are being used much too much. It has to be expressed clearly for once, that with these transports we do not get labor, but refugee families [Fluechtlings-Familien] who do not belong in industrial labor camps, but in refugee camps. We cannot be expected to accept continuously these transports without objections and to take care and provide for them. Governmental agencies ought to provide special camps for these refugees, since this condition does not only occur here but also in other firms. We are asking you therefore to draw the attention of the responsible agencies to these conditions and to urge help. It is indeed useless to provide the requested personnel if it is obvious from the start that only a small fraction of them are capable of performing any work. |
|
| copy to —
RFAI. Director Kaiser Pit Ilse, N.-L. Director Hellberg, Berlin Director Baselt, Halle |
|
|
[Stamp] Anhaltische Kohlenwerke Aktiengesellschaft [Signed] KNAUL [Signed] NERGER |
