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| VIII. SLAVE LABOR — COUNT THREE |
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| A. Introduction |
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Count three of the indictment is entitled “Deportation,
Exploitation, and Abuse of Slave Labor.” The specifications concerning
this count appear in paragraphs 46 through 63 of the indictment. (Sec. I). All
of the defendants were charged under this count with participation “in
atrocities and offenses against persons, including: murder, extermination,
enslavement, deportation, torture, abuse, and other inhumane acts committed
against civilian populations of countries and territories under belligerent
occupation of, or otherwise controlled by, the Third Reich; enslavement and
deportation of foreign and German nationals, including concentration camp
inmates; employment of prisoners of war in war operations, work having a direct
relation to war operations, * * *.” Paragraph 48 of the indictment alleges
that “The acts, conduct, plans, and enterprises charged in this count were
carried out as a part of the slave labor plan and program of the Third Reich.
Millions of persons, including women and children, were subjected to forced
labor under cruel and inhumane conditions which resulted in widespread
suffering and many deaths.” All of the defendants except the defendant
Pfirsch, were convicted under this count.
The general theories upon
which the prosecution and the defense presented evidence concerning the slave
labor charges appear in the pertinent parts of the opening statements. (Sec.
IV). The present section contains selections from the evidence of both the
prosecution and the defense. For the convenience of the reader, the
contemporaneous documents and the testimony herein have been arranged under six
sections, each headed by a general descriptive title. Of course it was
unavoidable under any arrangement of the materials that some of the evidence in
one section overlap with materials in other sections. In many cases cross
references to related matters in other sections have been made by footnotes.
The first part below, “B. Procurement and Utilization of Foreign
Laborers,” contains evidence dealing with the number of foreign laborers
employed, including prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates; the manner
of the procurement of foreign laborers; the relations of Krupp with a number of
official agencies concerned with production demands to labor allocations
problems; and other matters related to these main points.
The following
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