At page 51, I offer NO-1031 as Exhibit 437. This is a letter signed by Mummenthey addressed to Pohl, suggested that the WVHA take over a salt quarry and the DEST would run the quarry. The first paragraph reads, "In October 1942 the commandant of the CC Buchenwald, Pfister called my attention to the fact that a basalt-work in Roemhild near Hildburghausen could be bought or taken over as a leasehold", and at page 2 of the original he says, "Several experts were in favor of taking over the work at reasonable terms. Nevertheless I had to postpone the transfer for an indefinite period because Amt D II could not supply any prisoners or guards. The town of Roemhild therefore shut down on 1 January 1943." Then dropping down half a paragraph, the letter continues, "I therefore discussed the matter with Dr. Wolf on Friday, 25 June: He would agree to the following settlement: Dest is to start the operation of the work again and not the community of Roemhild. Dest can make use of its experience in managing concentration camp - abbreviation K L - establishmentsand offer its technically experienced staff. The mayor of Roemhild being not fully occupied with his job as a mayor and therefore willing to assume in addition the post as camp commander would be at the same time the work manager of the Dest. The Dest is to put at his side a man experienced in the broken stones industry either permanently or temporarily. At the bottom of the page he says, "Gestapo will back up the matter 100%." At the last paragraph, he says, "I am asking you for your approval on principle to this settlement", signed Mummenthey.
The balance of that paragraph is interesting. He says:
"In this connection may I point out that in this case DEST would not take over for the first time a work operated by prisoners who are no concentration camp prisoners: the gravel-work Treblinka in the Government General which is attached to the work Auschwitz is working with the prisoners of a camp which is not taking orders from the inspectorate in Oranienburg but from the Higher SS and Police Fuehrer in Warsaw. So far no adverse results have been noticeable."
The following document, NO 1029, at page 54 I offer as Prosecution Exhibit 438. This is a letter signed by Mummenthey. The stencil indicates it to be illegible. My notes indicate that it is initialed by Mummenthey. It is to Staff W. He says:
"I return the file 'agreement with the Reich concerning the allocation of prisoners' which was left with me for perusal."
The balance of the document consists of a letter. The signature is indicated to be illegible. The first paragraph says:
"Some time ago a contract regarding the allocations of prisoners was drawn up for signature by the Reich on the one hand and DEST on the other."
I should like to make a correction in the numbering here. This document has already been offered in evidence as Exhibit 65, so I'll cancel the number 438. This is Exhibit Number 65, Document Book III, page 141 of Book 3.
I offer the next document, NO 1028 on Page 56, as Exhibit 438. This is a letter from Mummenthey to Pohl regarding quarries operated W-1. He is asking for approval to increase the salary of the plant manager Walther, and in the letter he describes the extensive work which Walther is doing.
At Page 58 I offer NO 1027 as Exhibit 439. This is a letter from the defendant Baier to the SS and Police Leader Radom regarding the stone quarries at Blizyn. The first paragraph reads:
"I have been informed by the chief of the office W-IV, SS Sturmbannfuehrer Opperbeck, that you expressed yourself in the sense the stone quarry Blizyn was messed up and the output had decreased since it came under the management of Office W-1."Today during a survey of the plant DEST in Auschwitz I had the occasion to investigate and to establish whether the assertion proves correct in case it originates with you."
The last paragraph reads:
"I may suppose therefore that you will agree to my opinion that there is no reason to assume that the management in Blizyn had deteriorated since it has been taken over by the DEST."
THE PRESIDENT: Who wrote that?
MR. ROBBINS: This is by Baier, the defendant Baier.
I offer NO 1278 as Exhibit Number 440. This is a letter from Mummenthey to Baier giving the status of the diamond industry in Holland and making certain proposals regarding its operation.
At Page 63 I offer NO 2155 as Exhibit 441. This is another letter from Mummenthey giving a list of the W-enterprises employing concentration camp inmates. He says:
"The following plants and workships of my department are employing prisoners:"
And he lists 13 separate industries. It is addressed to Staff W.
At page 64 I offer NO 1220 as Exhibit 442. This is a monthly report on the Bohemia Ceramic Works, which is another industry under Amt W-1, and in Paragraph Number 4 the number of foreigners are indicated as being employed, and at one point in this document -Four, subparagraph 5, "prisoners 447" are indicated as being employed. At one point I thought that there was a number 5,245 prisoners indicated, but I can not find it now. That must be in a later document.
The balance of the documents in this book concern Amt W-a, which was under the defendant Bobermin.
The document at page 68, NO 1299, I offer as Exhibit 443.
I'd like to make a correction here. This has already been introduced as Exhibit Number 35 in Book Number II. This is a memorandum by Hohberg giving the scope of Office III-A, which was a precursor of W-2.
The following document at Page 70 I offer as Exhibit 443. This is Document NO 1012. It is a memorandum signed by Pohl, stating that Bobermin is appointed business manager of the Ostdeutsche Baustoffwerke, which is an enterprise under W-2. This is known in English as the Eastern German Works for Building Materials.
On the following page, page 71, I offer Document NO 1008 as Exhibit 444. This document consists of correspondence between Bobermin and Pohl dealing with the transfer of brick works in the East to racial Germans. I don't think that it is necessary to read any particular part of this document.
At Page 80 I offer NO-1004 as Exhibit 445. This is a letter from Bobermin to Pohl inviting him to the opening of the new works at Krubin. He says:
"The drying installations are completed, except for the fitting of ventilators and doors, which are being supplied by the SAW."
The last paragraph states:
"The opening ceremony and solemn starting of the works will presumably be carried out by SS Gruppenfuehrer Pohl, in view of the importance of the ceremony."
The pencilled note at the bottom:
"I can not attend the first celebration," with the initial P.
At Page 82 I offer NO 1018 as Exhibit 446. This is a certificate of identity for Bobermin, which is signed by Pohl and states that Bobermin is charged with discovering manufacturing firms for construction material. It says:
Bobermin "has been ordered by me to inspect the formerly Russian territories for plants producing building material and for places in which new factories may be built in order to provide Wehrmacht and SS agencies with the required building material for the construction of army installations and office buildings which are necessary for the defense of the Reich."
At Page 83 I offer NO 1013 as Exhibit 447. This is a letter from defendant Bobermin to Pohl regarding changes in the agreement of partnership for the Eastern German Works for Building Materials, Ltd.
At Page 85 I offer NO 1021 as Exhibit 448. This is a letter from Bobermin to Hohberg regarding the operation of certain brick kilns in Russia.
At Page 88 I offer NO 1006 as Exhibit 449. This is a letter from the defendant Bobermin to Pohl suggesting the operation of a brick work called Bonarka near Cracow. He says that the labor potential of the forced labor camp situated hear the factory should be effectively employed. The second page of the original states:
"The Hauptamtsschef takes the point of view that on principle we should come to the economical consolidation of the concern."
And he vetoes Bobermin's suggestion.
At Page 90 I offer NO 1280 as Exhibit 450. This is a certified copy from the Commercial Register-General, and it states that Bobermin is head of the Clinker Cement Works and Volk is procurist. It says: "The Obersturmfuehrer Trustee: Dr. Leo Volk, Berlin, has been given power of procuration."
At a little later date we will introduce evidence of the extent of the power of a procurist under the SS industries.
At page 93 I offer document NO 1015 as Exhibit 451. This is a letter from Bobermin to Hohberg regarding certain credits for the Clinker Cement Company.
At page 95 I offer NO 2162 as Exhibit 452.
The last document in the Book, NO 1279, I offer as Exhibit 453. It is a letter from Pohl to Bobermin releasing Bobermin as business manager of the Clinker works. I believe that it states that he is released for one year.
THE PRESIDENT: Four more books?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, Your Honor. I believe that we can put those in tomorrow.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we'll tell by tomorrow night. We'll start until tomorrow morning at 9:30.
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is recessed until 0930 hours tomorrow morning.
(Whereupon at 1630 hours, 24 April 1947, the Tribunal recessed until 0930 hours, 25 April 1947).
Official Transcript of the American Military Tribunal in the matter of the United States of America, against Oswald Pohl, et al, defendants, sitting at Nurnberg, Germany, on 25 April 1947, 0930 - 1630, Justice Robert M. Toms, presiding.
THE MARSHAL: Persons in the courtroom will please find their seats. The Honorable, The Judges of Military Tribunal II.
Military Tribunal II is now in session. God save the United States of America and this Honorable Tribunal.
There will be order in the Court.
MR. ROBBINS: May it please the Tribunal, Document Book 17 is the last document book dealing with the SS industries.
DR. KLINERT: (Assistant of Dr. Gawlik for Defendants Volk and Bobermin) What book?
MR. ROBBINS: Book 17.
DR. KLINERT: I would like to come back to Exhibit 436 yesterday.
THE PRESIDENT: Wait a minute, what book is it in? Let's find out what he is talking about.
DR. KLINER: Document Book 16, in the German Document Book, Page 37.
MR. ROBBINS: Page 39, your Honor.
DR. KLINERT: It was stated yesterday that this document was a report about DEST, and it ran from Mummenthey to Bobermin, but in actual fact this document is a report to Staff W, attention of Dr. Hohberg. I would like to have it stated here to whom this report is addressed.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the report shows on its face to whom it was addressed. It is to Staff W, attention Dr. Hohberg.
DR. KLINERT: Yes, quite, but yesterday it was stated that 1017 A this was a report addressed to Bobermin, which is what the index says.
THE PRESIDENT: Apparently the index is incorrect. The document shows on its face that it was addressed to Hohberg. We can read the document, and it speaks for itself.
MR. ROBBINS: Document book 17 is the last book dealing with the SS Industries. The Tribunal will recall that books 11, 12 and 13 dealt with slave labor, and books 14, 15 16 and 17 have dealt with the organization and structure and function of the SS Industries. It has not been possible to make an absolutely logical division between the slave labor books and the SS industry books because the two subjects are intermingled. However, they were separated because the slave labor books also dealt with the use of inmate labor, and Amtsgruppe C, and the construction details; also, the use of inmate labor; and Amtsgruppe A and B, and the assignment of innate labor by Amtsgruppe D. The books of the SS industries of B, designed to describe the functions and structure of Staff W, and Amtsgruppe W would be through W-8 and the SS Industries under Amtsgruppe W of the WVHA.
We will present to the Court briefs which will, I hope bring out the pertinent points in these various documents. There are only a few documents in book 17; the first one on page 1, NO-678, I offer as Prosecution Exhibit 443. This is a lengthy financial report on the DAW, and this series of documents deals with Amtsgruppe W-4 which included the DAW industry, the German equipment Works. At page two of the document, the object of the DAW is stated: (b) The "employment of workers in public funds. Workers idle for various reasons and unfit for employment in free enterprises."
Under "Company Capital," it is stated that Dr. Salpeter and the DWB are shareholders in the DAW, one of the managing directors.
It is stated on page 5 of the original, is Maurer -
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DR. HEIM(Counsel for the defendant Hohberg): May it please the Tribunal, I object to the admission of Document 786, Exhibit 443. This document does not show who drew it up, nor has it been signed by anybody at all. The Prosecution should, at least, have given us information on where they got the document.
MR. ROBBINS: This is, according to the certificate attached to the document, found in the Berlin Document Center. It is true that the document is not signed. However, it is one of the captured documents, and found in the WVHA files.
THE PRESIDENT: As a captured document it is admissible. The fact that it is not signed will be considered as bearing upon its weight.
DR. HEIM: Thank you very much.
MR. ROBBINS: I think that the contents of this document will be corroborated by other evidence which is, or will be, admitted.
As I was saying, one of the managing directors is stated to be Maurer, who is the same Maurer of Amtsgruppe D-II, which, again, shows the close relation of W-II-D. At page 12 of the original, page 6 of the English stencil, paragraph 5, "Dachau Works in Dachau, near Munich," are referred to as being a part of the DAW. It is stated, "By order of Pohl, the economic enterprises of the Dachau SS have been taken over by the DAW as from first of January 1940. For this reason the capital of the DAW was raised by RM. 500,000..."
And at paragraph 6, "Sachenhausen Works ..near Oranienburg," the concentration camp here referred to, would include saw-mill, carpenters' -, painters'-, joiners'-, smiths'-, and electricians' workshops.
Buchenwald Works, Auschwitz Works, Lublin Works are referred to.
I might say that there is no one in the dock from Amt W-IV, but it is the position of the Prosecution that this Amt was under the supervision of Staff W: Hohberg, Baier, and Volk, as well as the chief of the WVHA, Oswald Pohl, and his deputies, Frank and Georg Loerner.
The next document, NO-1034 -
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Robbins, will you explain about DAW? Has that the holding company?
MR. ROBBINS: No, the DWB is the holding company. That, I think, is shown on the first document in book 14. That long list of industries.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well. We are trying to get these alphabetical designations straightened out in our minds. DWB was the holding company?
MR. ROBBINS: DWB was the holding company under Staff W, and the DAW was under -- or a subsidiary -- the DWB.
THE PRESIDENT: All right.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Mr. Robbins, I notice, page 8 of the English Document book, of this document, a note down at the bottom which says that the prisoners worked on an average of 9 hours per day. "The Office for Budget and Construction charges RM -.30 per day for each prisoner." That is 30 pfennigs, I take it?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Now, to whom did that money go?
MR. ROBBINS: It went to Staff W, and it was the only obligation of Staff W, to turn that money over to the Reich treasury.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Well, now, in case these prisoners were employed by somebody who didn't belong to this organization, would the camp commander still charge the same amount and put the money back into the same fund?
MR. ROBBINS: The pay in that case went to Ant D, and in turn to the Reich Treasury.
JUDGE TREASURY: Thank you.
MR. ROBBINS: The second document, NO-1034, I offer as Exhibit 444. This consists of two letters -- three letters. The first is from the defendant Hohberg to the defendant Pohl. The first paragraph reads: "By your letter of 31/1/40 addressed to the Standartenfuehrer Dr. Salpeter, you have given instructions to the transfer of the Economic Enterprises Dachau to the German Equipment Works" this is the DAW -- "on the basis of the former's balance sheet of 31 December 1939."
"...Maurer guarantees the assets on the balance sheet of the Economic Enterprises not to be over-estimated.."
The third letter, dated 11 September 1940, is signed by Hohberg and addressed to the Plenipotentiary for the Governor General of the Occupied Polish Territories, and reads as follows:
"With reference to the telephone conversation with Maurer and chartered accountant Dr. Hohberg, we herewith inform you that the SS is endeavoring at present to expand the basis for the production of household furniture."
"You kindly undertook to locate furniture factories situated in the Governmental General and to endeavor if possible to arrange for such factories to be transferred to the SS. We already know that a good-sized furniture factory at Radom (750 workmen) is available."
DR. BELZER (Counsel for the defendant Sommer): May I draw the Court's attention to the fact that the documents submitted here are, with the exception of the last two, documents which date from the time prior to the first of April 1942.
The prosecution, with regards to Exhibit 443, and as regards the Exhibit 444, pointed out that the name Maurer is mentioned in these documents, and they have drawn the conclusion that there is a close connection between Amtsgruppen D and D-W of the WVHA. The Office Group D of the WVHA was formed on the first of April, 1942.
MR. ROBBINS: It is true that Maurer was not a member of Amtsgruppe D because Amtsgruppe D had not been formed ---it was formed at a subsequent date. However, be was a member of Amt-III, I believe, at that time, which was a part of the WVHA. That is an argumentative statement on my part and I withdraw the statement.
THE PRESIDENT: We will bear your comment in mind.
MR. ROBBINS: The third document in the book at page 15, NO-548, I offer as Exhibit 445. This is a monthly report on the activities of Amt 3C of the WVHA, which was a precursor of Amtsgruppe W. It states on page 3 that at Dachau 650 prisoners are employed, at Sachsenhausen, 230. At paragraph 7, sub-paragraph C, is stated "Workshops are also being erected at Auschwitz concentration camp and will supply work for 500 prisoners. Completion of the workshops and the erection of machinery will be effected in about six weeks." This is signed by Mauer and it is addressed to Pohl.
Document NO-552 is not included in the English Document Book. I should like to reserve the Exhibit Number 446 for that document.
I now introduce Document NO-549 as Exhibit 447, at page 19. This is a monthly report for September, October, and November, 1942, of the DWB, or, rather, the DAW. The number of prisoners employed as of that date are given in the report. At page 24 of the English Document Book paragraph C, sub-paragraph 6, it is stated that 9,129 prisoners are employed. At page 28, it is stated that 8,350 are employed, November 1942. At page 31, the last page of the document, it is stated that 9,129 prisoners are employed.
At page 32, I offer Document NO-554 as Exhibit 448.
JUDGE MUSMANNO: I notice of Page 19, the repair order for skies of the Wehrmacht has been completed.
MR. ROBBINS: That is skis. I think it is a typographical error in the English translation.
JUDGE MUSMANNO: Yes, yes, "s-k-i-s."
MR. ROBBINS: Exhibit 448 is a memorandum giving the loans to the SS industries and on page 33 of the English book, page 2 of the original document, it is stated there has been a loan from the Reinhart fund and it will be explained in Books 18, 19, and 20 just what the Reinhart fund consisted of.
The first page, page 32 of the English book -
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Mr. Robbins, I notice on page 33, Document NO-554, that the second paragraph "Direct loans to the Red Cross amounting to one-million Reichmarks," have you any records, or evidence, showing that the Red Cross loaned to industry?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, I think that is shown at various places in the document, not only at this point.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Any of them ever repaid?
JUDGE MUSMANNO: I notice that they use a different proposition in an item below that. They say "to the Red Cross", above that they say of the Red Cross. Which direction was this loan travelling?
MR. ROBBINS: I think it is shown from other documents that the money was going from the Red Cross to the WVHA. Pohl, I believe, was treasurer of the Red Cross as well as Chief of the WVHA, and there was a rather close financial relationship between the two works.
JUDGE MUSMANNO: Is that the International Red Cross?
MR. ROBBINS: No, this is the German Red Cross.
This letter of the first page of the document is signed by Dr. Wenner. It has already been explained in a previous document that he is a member of the DWB.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Doctor, who?
MR. ROBBINS: Dr. Wenner, W-e-n-n-e-r.
The second letter is also signed by Dr. Wenner. The other letter of the document is signed by Dr. Wenner, as well as the letter at Page 37, and 38, 39, and 40. The letter at page 41 is signed by Hohberg.
This is a letter dated 5 June 1943, "Subject, Conversion of credits concerning grated by third-party creditors."
At a number of places, the signatures are indicated as being illegible. I will submit to the court a chart of all the documents, before we finish the case, which will give the signatures of all the documents where the signature is indicated as being illegible.
The following document at page 60, NO-1282, I offer as Exhibit 449. It is headed "Total Turnover Statistics of Office W-IV, including the DAW.
DR. SEIDL: (Attorney for the Defendant Oswald Pohl) May it please the court, the document mentioned here is not in our document book. I would like the prosecution to supply us the document before it rests its case.
MR. ROBBINS: In that event, we will offer this document conditionally. I think the figures speak for themselves as to the turnover of the various industries.
The following document has already been offered in evidence, At page 86, that is, Document NO-1036, which has been offered as Exhibit 66 in Book 3.
JUDGE SPEIGHT: What page is it in this?
MR. ROBBINS: That is page 80. I an sorry. I am sorry. I have skipped Document NO-063 at page 80, which should be Prosecution Exhibit 450. This is a memorandum giving the total orders on hand for the industries in the SS labor camp district of Lublin. It is signed by Globocnik. Globocnik's position will also be made clear in Books 18, 19, and 20.
At page 81 of the English Document Book page 3 of the original document it is stated that "Aryan supervisors directed 5,445 Jewish laborers, who in the first ten months of 1943 performed, 1,115,000 work days with a balance of cash on hand and in the bank of 31,000,000 Zloty.
At page 84, page 5 of the original, page 6 of original, it is stated "by operation 'Reinhardt' Lublin the Greater German Reich received in the period from 1 April 1942 to 15 December 1943, inclusive,"
THE PRESIDENT: Page 85.
MR. ROBBINS: I guess my pages are numbered differently from yours. "1 April 1942 to 15 December 1943, inclusive, the following currency goods:" and then the various currencies and goods are listed there.
THE PRESIDENT: Will we learn what "Operation Reinhardt" means.
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, that is taken up in Books 18, 19, and 20.
The last entry on page 84 of my book, I imagine it is 85 of the court's, states "General expenditures (approximately 40% of which for transports of Jews)" amounts to 11,765,552.62 Reichmarks.
DR. HEIM: (Attorney for the defendant Hohberg) May it please the court, Document NO-1036, Exhibit 450, suggests is on its first page on page 62 of the German book, that this document is attached to something else and it would be very interesting to us if the prosecution would show us the original letter which belongs to it so that one could see to whom this goes, or, that is to say, where the letter is directed.
THE PRESIDENT: Did you finish, Mr. Robbins, with NO-063?
MR. ROBBINS: I believe that is the document that defense counsel was referring to.
THE PRESIDENT: If so, he calls it by NO-1036. Now, what are we talking about?
MR. ROBBINS: Well, he has before him NO-063.
THE PRESIDENT: He referred us to NO-1036. Now, what document is he talking about?
DR. HEIM: May it please the Court, I'm referring to Document NO-063. I believe that I called it that myself.
MR. ROBBINS: It is true that the document indicates that it is an enclosure. We will make a search for it. As far as I know, I don't have it in my possession; but if I can find it, I will present it.
THE PRESIDENT: All right, it will be furnished if it is available.
DR. HEIM: Thank you very much.
MR. ROBBINS: I should like to call the Court's attention to the fact that each of these annexes and enclosures is dated 3 November 1943. That date will become significant in the presentation of Books 18, 19, and 20. The summary at the last page gives the receipts, disbursements, and net profits from the operations. At Page 86 Document 1036 has already been presented as Exhibit 66, in Book 3, at Page 147 of Book 3. Document NO-555 at Page 92 I offer as Exhibit 451. This is a lengthy report, the annual report for 1943 of the DWB. It is stated therein that "15,498 concentration camp prisoners are employed."
THE TRIBUNAL (JUDGE PHILLIPS): What page is that?
MR. ROBBINS: That is at Page 103 of the English Document Book, Page 9 of the original, Page 11 of the English Document.
DR. SEIDL: Dr. Seidl for Oswald Pohl. May it please the Court, in the translation we were told just now that Document NO-555 was a report of the DWB for 1943. In actual fact, and it says so in the index itself, it is an annual report for 1943 of the DWB; but the document says, however, that it is a report of the German Recruitment Works Ltd.
Quite obviously there is a misunderstanding here which I should like to put right.
MR. ROBBINS: The index is incorrect; it is the DAW, since this is the part of the document book dealing with the DAW. At Page 110 of the English Document Book, which is Page 15, I believe, of the original, it is stated that 3650 inmates were employed for 1941; 7402 inmates for 1942; and 15,498 inmates for 1943. The balance of the document consists of a detailed report for the year 1943 of the DAW.
On Page 143 I offer Document NO-1044 as Exhibit 452. In my document book 143 comes after Page 153. I don't know whether that is true of the Tribunal's books or not.
THE PRESIDENT: No.
MR. ROBBINS: Exhibit 452, Document NO-1044, is a report on the German experimental station for nutrition, which came under Amt W-5. The preface states that this organization" is an organization of the Reich Fuehrer SS to utilize concentration camp prisoners in agriculture to preserve the economic value of the prisoners' work. The private economic form of the "Ltd." was chosen here as in similar cases."
On Page 144, just under "Page 3 of original," just after Paragraph F, it is stated: "The location of the individual enterprise is chosen with a view to the location of the concentration camps. As workers employed in Dachau will be chiefly inmates of the concentration camp located there..." This is just under Page 3 of the original, just after Paragraph F. It is also stated that Ravensbruck inmates will be used.
DR. HEIM: Dr. Heim for Hohberg. May it please the Court, I should like to draw the attention of the Tribunal to the fact that this so-called report has not been signed nor does the report show to whom it was addressed. I should, therefore, ask the Court to take this into consideration when it decides on the value of it.
THE PRESIDENT: We have noted your observation and will keep it in mind.
DR. HEIM: Thank you very much.
MR. ROBBINS: On Page 53 I offer 543 as Exhibit 453. This is a monthly report for July 1941 of Amt III D, which was a precursor of the W industries. It is stated that 236 male and female workers are employed; "a daily average of 800 to 1200 prisoners are put at work in Dachau. The farm Ravensbruck employs an average of 30; the gardening form an average of 35, "and so on. I might state that Amt W-5 is the part of the WVHA which dealt with the production of food. Here again there is no one in the dock from Amt W-5; but the Prosecution takes the same position with regard to W-5 as it does the W-4, that it is under the supervision of Staff W and the Chief of the WVHA and the deputies.
On page 156 I offer NO-1221 as Exhibit 454. This deals with Amt W-6, which was the leather and textile producing organization of the WVHA. This document is an annual report on the textile and leather company. Again, there is no one in the dock from this Amt. On Page 178 I offer Document NO-547 as Exhibit 455. This deals with Amt W-8. The Chief of W-8 was the defendant Klein. This document consists of four monthly reports. At Page 179, Paragraph 3, it is stated: "Allocation of prison labor is now, as before, not satisfactory." Just above that, above Paragraph 2, reference is made to the construction of a concentration camp at Wewelsburg; and Paragraph 2 states that "building is proceeding on the northern tower, on the staff building, on the terrace of the guardhouse, on the employees' block, and on the inmates' camp."
On Page 5, Sub-Paragraph 2, it is stated: "The reconstruction of the prisoners' camp -- this can take, in the present situation, 1800 prisoners. Only the water supply and the canalization have still to be constructed." This document is signed by the defendant Klein at Page 17 of the English Document on mine, and Page 17 on the original.