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given time, and do not reflect the fact that many died and were
replaced and many were "exchanged." Farben, in its use of slave labor, affected
the freedom, the well-being, and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of
human beings.
130. In Farben's internal organization, the Technical
Committee passed upon and recommended to the Vorstand the construction of
barracks and concentration camps, together with installations and equipment
necessary to house the slave labor. The Vorstand, thereupon, gave its approval
to the projects so recommended and authorized the necessary expenditures. The
welfare of such slave labor, including the administration of the barracks and
concentration camps and the type of disciplinary action to he taken against the
slave labor, was under the immediate supervision of the plant leaders and plant
managers, including the defendants Wurster, Ambros, Lautenschlaeger, Buergin
and Gajewski. The Vorstand "delegated" its over-all responsibility for the
welfare of laborers in all its plants to the defendant Schneider as
Hauptbetriebsfuehrer (chief of plant leaders). Schneider consulted with the
plant leaders and plant managers and other members of the Vorstand, including
the defendants von Schnitzler, Ilgner, ter Meer, and Brueggemann, in
formulating policy decisions. The defendant Krauch discussed with Schneider and
other members of the Vorstand the requisitioning and handling of slave
labor. |
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B. Use of Poison Gas and Medical Experimentations
Upon
Enslaved Persons |
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| 131. Poison gases and various deadly pharmaceuticals manufactured by
Farben and supplied by Farben to officials of the SS were used in
experimentation upon, and the extermination of, enslaved persons in
concentration camps throughout Europe. Experiments on human beings (including
concentration camp inmates), without their consent, were conducted by Farben to
determine the effects of deadly gases, vaccines, and related
products. |
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| C. Farben at Auschwitz |
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| 132. The Auschwitz concentration camp was established for the main
purpose of exterminating human beings. Life or death of the inmates depended
solely upon their fitness for work. All who were considered fit to work were
used as slave laborers; all who were not considered fit to work were
exterminated in gas chambers and their bodies burned. When the remainder of
dead exceeded the capacity of the specially constructed crematoria, the
"overflow" of human beings was burned in huge open bonfires. |
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