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| Markstaedt altogether employs 15,000 workers including 3000
construction workers furnished by Speer (Organization Todt). In the
manufacturing process itself 12,000 workers are employed about half of which
are concentration camp inmates.* The other workers are mainly foreigners —
Poles, Russians, Frenchmen, etc. — and there is only a very insufficient
number of German foremen and supervisors. Mr. Wollstaedter mentioned in
connection with this that the Krupp plants in the West could provide German
personnel only to a very limited extent. Not even because of damages caused by
air raids could workers be released there to an extent worth mentioning,
because production on the one hand has again been taken up considerably and, on
the other hand, people are urgently needed for cleaning up and reconstruction
work. |
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| The whole conversation was very friendly and Mr. Wollstaedter thought
that we ought to keep in touch to a certain extent in the future, too. He
regularly gets together with Dr. Putze since the latter is the competent
armament chief. And he would, at any time, be ready to discuss several economic
questions of the Lower Silesian area with me |
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| On our visit through the plant we were only able to take a look at
shop 1 in which parts for the field howitzer are fabricated. Then there was an
air raid alarm. Since sufficient shelter was not available we were advised to
leave the plant. The employees and the workers too, with the exception of the
concentration camp inmates, left the plant, some in busses, some on bicycles,
while still others ran into the surrounding territory up to a distance of 1 or
2 kilometers from the plant |
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| [Signed] B. WEISS |
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Copies to:
Dr. Burkart
Mr. Kaletsch |
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* Compare the figures given
in the affidavit of the defendant Alfried Krupp. Document NIK-11231.
Prosecution Exhibit 1247, reproduced above in this section.
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