Q. Lehmann told you, didn’t he, that he had been instructed by
Ihn to send these women back to Buchenwald?
A. He did not tell me that
in that way.
Q. I did not say he used those words. How did he tell it
to you?
A. He said these women have to be removed. I said that already;
and I assumed from his words that his efforts had been very difficult in that
respect, and that he only managed it when a general order or a general
regulation was given for the removal of foreign workers from the danger area
and the Ruhr area, thus making it possible |
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| G. Employment and Treatment of Prisoners of
War |
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| I. CONTEMPORANEOUS DOCUMENTS |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
LEHMANN DOCUMENT 460
DEFENSE EXHIBIT
966 |
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| EXTRACTS FROM A COMPILATION OF GENERAL AND SPECIAL DECREES CONCERNING
THE EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR |
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REICH LABOR GAZETTE, PART I, PAGE 384, 25 JULY 1940
The Reich
Minister of Labor has brought the compilation printed below, of a large number
of special and general decrees on the “Employment of Prisoners of War at
Places of Work,” to the attention of the supreme Reich authorities
interested, the top organizations etc., and also to the regional labor offices
and local labor offices with directions for official use. We point to the
article of the same content on page V 352. |
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| Employment of Prisoners of War at Places of Work |
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| I. General |
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The prisoners of war are used for work in the territory of the Reich
according to the international agreement on the treatment of prisoners of war
of 27 July 1929 soon after they are brought into the prisoner of war camps
(Stalags). Prisoners of war who do not want to work can be compelled to work.
The prisoners of war are assigned to their places of work by the military
offices from the Stalags according to the suggestions and with decisive
participation of the regional labor offices and local labor offices.
Agricultural work has priority where the assignment of prisoners of war is
concerned.
Accordingly, the prisoners of war from the Polish campaign
were employed predominantly in agriculture. With respect to |
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