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| a secret report on the government agencies participating in the
exploitation of the Soviet Union. Its own participations in the exploitation of
Russia in special chemical, textile, and related fields were listed. Farben was
informed by this report that the policy of the government was to give German
industry a free hand in Russia and that "the directives provide for ruthless
cleaning out of the industrial cities of South Russia and for the removal of
all usable industrial machinery The East is ultimately to be a ‘purely
agricultural and raw material territory’." A copy of this report was sent
to each member of the Vorstand and of the Commercial Committee, at the request
of the defendant Mann. |
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| VIOLATION OF LAW |
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| 119. The acts and conduct of the defendants set forth in this count
were committed unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly, and constitute violations
of the laws and customs of war, of international treaties and conventions,
including Articles 46.-56, inclusive, of Hague Regulations of 1907, of the
general principles of criminality as derived from the criminal laws of all
civilized nations, of the internal penal laws of the countries in which such
crimes were committed, and of Article II of Control Council Law No.
10. |
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| COUNT THREE — SLAVERY AND MASS MURDER |
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| STATEMENT OF THE OFFENSE |
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| 120. All of the defendants, acting through the instrumentality of
Farben and otherwise, with divers other persons, during the period from 1
September 1939 to 8 May 1945, committed war crimes and crimes against humanity
as defined by Article II of Control Council Law No. 10, in that they
participated in the enslavement and deportation to slave labor on a gigantic
scale of members of the civilian population of countries and territories under
the belligerent occupation of, or otherwise controlled by, Germany; the
enslavement of concentration camp inmates, including German nationals; the use
of prisoners of war in war operations and work having a direct relation to war
operations, including the manufacture and transportation of war material and
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