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| equipment; and the mistreatment, terrorization, torture, and murder
of enslaved persons. In the course of these activities, millions of persons
were uprooted from their homes, deported, enslaved, ill-treated, terrorized,
tortured, and murdered. All of the defendants committed these war crimes and
crimes against humanity, as defined by Article II of Control Council Law No.
10, in that they were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a
consenting part in, were connected with plans and enterprises involving, and
were members of organizations or groups, including Farben, which were connected
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PARTICULARS OF DEFENDANTS’ PARTICIPATION
IN SLAVERY AND MASS
MURDER |
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| A. Role of Farben in Slave Labor Program |
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121. The acts, conduct, plans, and enterprises referred to above were
carried out as part of the slave labor program of the Third Reich, in the
course of which millions of persons, including women and children, were
subjected to forced labor under cruel and inhuman conditions which resulted in
widespread suffering and millions of deaths. At least five million workers were
deported to Germany. Conscription of labor was implemented in most cases by
brutal and violent methods, among which were included systematic manhunts in
the streets, in motion picture theaters, houses of worship, and other public
places, and frequent invasions of homes during the night. Workers deported for
the Reich were sent under armed guard to Germany, often packed in trains
without heating, food, clothing, or sanitary facilities, as a result of which
many of them were dead upon arrival, and most of the survivors were seriously
ill. Those inhabitants of occupied countries who were not deported to Germany
were conscripted and compelled to work in their own countries to assist the
German war machine.
122. In the execution of said plans and
enterprises, the human and material resources of the belligerently occupied
countries, completely out of proportion to the needs of the occupying forces,
Were seized and harnessed to the German war machine. The needs of the
respective countries were utterly disregarded, and the family honor and rights
of the civilian populations involved were ruthlessly despoiled. Prisoners of
war were forced to labor at work related directly to war operations, including
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