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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NIK-8283
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE AFFIDAVIT OF DEFENDANT LOESER, 28 APRIL 1947,
CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN WORKERS AND PRISONERS OF WAR |
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| I, Ewald Loeser, residing at Frankenstr. 379, Essen-Bredeney,
honorary town councilor of Essen, at present temporarily in Nuernberg, after
having been told that I am liable to be punished for giving false testimony,
and that false testimony consists not only in incorrect statements but also in
statements left intentionally incomplete, hereby reply to questions put to me
by Mr. Maximilian Koessler, Attorney, Trial Team III, and declare under oath,
voluntarily and without duress the following |
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At that time [April 1942 – April 1943] there was a plan to use a
large number of foreign workers of all sorts, including prisoners of war, at
Krupp’s in Essen. A number of about 50,000 to 80,000 was intended. Whereas
this idea was considered feasible by the gentlemen with whom I disagreed, as
mentioned above, I was decidedly opposed to this plan, pointing out that the
practical difficulties of accommodation (building of suitable barracks) and
feeding could not be overcome.
Gustav Krupp and the other gentlemen,
with whose opinions I differed, took the stand that Berlin had ordered an
armament production which necessitated the employment of such numbers of
workers.
This clash of opinion was one of the main reasons for my
leaving the Krupp firm. |
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: Concerning the region of Essen I have this to add —
The NSDAP in Essen took the stand that the foreign workers, especially
the Russians, were to receive less to eat. The industrial enterprises, however,
and especially Krupp, were opposed to this, and of their own accord they
voluntarily supplemented the above-mentioned official food rations. Besides, as
far as I remember, the official food rations for the Russians were, at a
certain date, raised, most probably upon the instigation of Sauckel. But
I don't remember how much the rations were raised, and whether they were then
the same as those of other workers.
Even though I had officially
nothing more to do with these questions, I personally saw Sauckel two times, in
Berlin in autumn 1942, and winter 1942-1943, about raising the food rations for
the Russian workers, and at the same time I made representa- […tions]
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