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| C. Treatment of Foreign Laborers; Working and Living
Conditions, Discipline, and Krupp’s Relations with the Gestapo
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| I. CONTEMPORANEOUS DOCUMENTS |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-3991
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 897
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| MEMORANDUM FROM KRUPP'S MACHINE CONSTRUCTION 8 PLANT TO HUPE,* 14
MARCH 1942, DISCUSSING THE INCREASING WEAKNESS AND INABILITY TO WORK OF RUSSIAN
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Fried. Krupp
Aktiengesellschaft
Essen W./R.
[Handwritten]
m/6995. Machine Construction 8 (Office and No. of the letter)
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14 March 1942
Tool Workshop
14 March 1942 |
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To: Mr. Halle through Mr. Koch
Subject: Employment of Russians
Case: |
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| [Handwritten] DR. FRANKE |
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[Initial] FR. [Franke]
18 March
[Handwritten] MR. IHN
[Initial] H. [Hupe] |
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[Handwritten] Dr. Beusch
[Initial] J 18/March
We have
ascertained during the last few days, that the food of the Russians working
here is so pitifully bad that they are getting weaker and weaker every day.
Investigations have shown for example, that some Russians are not
strong enough to tighten a turning part sufficiently for lack of physical
strength. Conditions are exactly the same at all other places where Russians
are employed.
If care is not taken to change the feeding arrangements
sufficiently, so that a normal output may be demanded from these men, then
their employment, and all the expense connected with |
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* Mr. Hupe was technical
manager of Krupp’s Cast Steel Works in Essen, a member of the Vorstand of
the Bertha Works in Markstaedt in 1942 and 1943, and technical manager of the
Krupp company established to manage the ELMAG plants in Mulhouse, Alsace,
during the German occupation.
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