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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-13544
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
1954 |
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| LETTER FROM FARBEN'S LANDSBERG PLANT TO FARBEN'S BERLIN OFFICE, 13
MARCH 1942, INITIALED BY DEFENDANT GAJEWSKI, AND MENTIONING THE ALLEGED REASONS
WHY RUSSIAN PRISONERS OF WAR WERE BEING WITHDRAWN FROM THE LANDSBERG
PLANT |
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| [Handwritten] 12713-1 e |
| I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, |
| Landsberg (Warthe) |
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[Initial] G [Gajewski]
[Stamp]:
Secretariat Dr. Gajewski
In: 17 March
1942
13 March 1942 |
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TO Regierungsrat Hermann
I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Berlin SO 36 |
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| LaW–Hf/Fa |
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Dear Herr Regierungsrat,
As I informed you yesterday by
telephone, General Goellner paid me a surprise visit yesterday. Colonel Count
Schack and, surprisingly enough, Sergeant Sommerfeld, who is in charge of the
local Soviet camp, also took part in the discussion. No other gentlemen were
called.
General Goellner told me that the entire group of Soviet
prisoners of war would be withdrawn because the medical investigations had
shown such a poor state of health that any further employment on our
construction projects seemed to be impossible. The numerous deaths as well as
the poor state of health can be blamed on malnutrition on the one hand, and on
the heavy labor which the Soviet-Russians are expected to do, on the other. We
are said to have a share in this too.
I informed General Goellner first
that our negotiations with the Regional Labor Office had led to other results
and that, together with Mr. Bless, it had been decided to leave 130 healthy
Soviet-Russians who are unable to work here, because at the time of the
discussion with the Regional Labor Office — 2 weeks ago — already
more than 50 Soviet Russians had been designated healthy by the physician. I
also voiced my amazement that, in spite of the thorough discussions which we
had had here about 4 weeks ago with Count Schack and representatives of the
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