Then the letter on page 36 is also interesting. It is a letter signed by Pohl and addressed to Thierack. It reads as follows - I beg your pardon. This is a draft of a letter which was submitted to Himmler by Pohl to be sent on to Thierack.
"I have had the camp commandants submit reports to me concerning the state of health of prisoners in protective custody taken over by concentration camps.
"The following picture is derived from the census dated 1 April 1943:
"1) 12,658 prisoners in protective custoday were transferred to concentration camps.
"2) 5,935 of these died.
"3) 6,723 present strength on 1 April 1943.
"The shockingly high mortality figure is due to the fact that the prisons transferring them have literally released inmates who are in the worst possible physical condition and who are afflicted with every possible disease.
"The observations and reports of the camp doctors show unequivocally that in spite of all medical efforts the physical debility and death of the prisoners cannot be retarded. A hearty active labor assignment as is expected from the concentration camp prisoners in the munition works is impossible with a sapped weak body.
"I do not wish to support a quarantine station in the concentration camps because I need every space for healthy workers. The armament work assigned to the concentration camps by the Fuehrer can only be executed by laborers who are in perfect health.
"I beg you, Herr Reich Minister, to support me in this matter and to order that only healthy protective custody prisoners who are completely capable of work be sent to the concentration camps."
Apparently it was not enough for the SS to work diseased prisoners to death or prisoners who were in bad health. It had to be that they were working healthy prisoners to death.
At page 39 appears Document 054-PS, which I will not offer into evi dence.
At page 45 I offer Document NO 2106 as Exhibit 336. This is a memorandum dated 13 October 1942, the memorandum of the labor officer of the concentration camp Neuengamme, referring to the transfer of inmates to the Reich Works Hermann Goering, Brunswick.
DR. SEIDL (For the defendant Oswald Pohl): I am sorry, this document is missing also in our document book and the following is also not contained in the book. I shall appreciate it if the prosecution would possibly send us the necessary photostatic copy afterwards.
MR. ROBBINS: We'll do that, Your Honor, and I'll offer Exhibit 336 only provisionally at this time.
The next document is not in the English book either. It is Document NO 491. I'll assign the number 337. I think the clerk has a copy of it so I don't know why it is not in the book, but at any rate it is not.
I next offer Document--- Well, the following document is not in the book either. It is NO 1002. I'll assign Exhibit No. 338 to it but will not offer it at the present time.
At page 46 of Document Book 12 I offer NO 1515 as Prosecution Exhibit 339. This is a letter by Liebehenschel. The stencil indicates that the signature is illegible but I have determined that it was signed by Liebehenschel, Chief of Amtsgruppe D I.
THE PRESIDENT: Is this the one which is on page 46 theoretically?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, sir. Is that 1515 in your book, Your Honor?
THE PRESIDENT: All right. Yes. I was confused by the German figures here.
MR. ROBBINS: This is a letter by Liebehenschel to the camp commanders of the concentration camps Dachau, Sachsenheusen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenheim, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Natzweiler, as listed there. It is dated 6 November 1942 and reads as follows:
"Subject: Supply of civilian clothes for prisoners.
"With reference to the letter quoted above, which Department B of the WVHA has sent directly to the administration departments of concentration camps, I wish especially to emphasize that prisoners who have been supplied with civilian clothes are only to be employed in places from which escape is highly improbable.
"Prisoners working in outside gangs must, without exception, wear the blue and white striped prisoners' clothing."
The following document on page 47, 1063-D-PS, I offer as Exhibit 340. This is a circular letter by the Chief of the Security Police and Security Service, dated 17 December 1942. A copy went to Pohl for his information and to the Inspectors of the concentration camps. It is signed by Heilmuth. I should like to read the first paragraph:
"For reasons of war necessity, not to be discussed further here, the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police on 14 December 1942 has ordered that until the end of January 1943 at least 35,000 prisoners qualified for work are to be sent to the concentration camps."
It is seen here that merely an order for a certain number of prisoners is given and the SS is to get these people as best they can.
"In order to reach this number the following measures are required:
"1) As of now (so far until 1 February 1943) all eastern workers or such foreign workers who have been fugitives or who have broken contracts and who do not belong to allied, friendly, or neutral states are to be brought by the quickest means to the nearest concentration camps."
On the following page it states, "Every single laborer counts!"
"The checking must be taken up at once. All withholding of prisoners qualified for work is prohibited. My approval is required for exceptions.
"3) The prisoners who are committed to concentration camps till 1 February 1943 will be seized under reference to this decree, solely according to a list (present number, first and second name, place of birth and date, residence, reason for arrest with a short commentary). One list will be sent to the Reich Security headquarters as a collective request for both protective custody as well as for commitment to a concentration camp, for which the confirmation can be assumed.
"In regards to eastern workers, that is to say, for such workers who have to wear the insignia 'East', it is sufficient to give the total number of the arrested.
"One copy goes with the transport to the commander of the concentration camp and another copy remains with the authorities who are making the commitment.
"In order to facilitate the necessary exploitation, the lists are to be made up on single pages and in such a way that enough space is left between the date of the individual prisoners, so that the lists can be cut out."
I do not intend to offer the document on page 49, which is 018 PS.
The following document on page 53 has already been offered as Exhibit 152. That is Document 3680 PS. It has already been offered as Exhibit 152 in Book 5 at page 159 of that book. It was the letter, the Court will remember, from the WVHA to various concentration camps containing instructions to collect hair from inmates and to deliver it to a felt manufacturer near Nuernberg for payment, and a similar letter requests the collection of string for the manufacture of rush mats at the concentration camp Ravensbruck.
The following document on page 55, NO 2031, I offer as Exhibit 341. It is a letter dated 6 January 1943. The index is incorrect in that respect. It is January rather than June. It is a letter, an order, from Himmler to remove to concentration camps families suspected of pro-partisan sympathies. I should like to read part of it:
"In operations ---"
I should state that it is addressed to - one copy went to the WVHA.
"In operations against guerilla troops, men, women, and children suspected of guerilla activities will be rounded up and shipped to the camps in Lublin or Auschwitz.
"The Higher SS and Police chiefs will arrange the shipments with the Chief of the Security Police, the Chief of the SS-Main Economic and Administrative Office," which was the defendant Pohl, "and the Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps," which was under the defendant Pohl. "The Chief of the WVHA, in agreement with the Chief of the Security Police and SD, suggests the establishment of collective camps for children and adolescents in Lublin.
In these camps a racial and political examination will take place. Racially worthless adolescents, male and female, will be assigned as apprentices to the economic enterprises of the concentration camps.
"Children will have to be brought up. This will be done by teaching them obedience, diligence, unconditional subordination and honesty toward their German masters. They will do sums to one hundred, learn to recognize traffic signs, and be prepared for their special occupations as farm workers, locksmiths, stone masons, joiners, etc. The girls will be trained as farm workers, weavers, spinners, knitters, and for similar jobs."
The following document on page 56 I offer as Exhibit 342. This is Document NO 1523. It is in two parts. The first is a letter dated 20 January 1943 from Gluecks, head of Department D, to various concentration camps. It is an order stating that they must attempt to cut down the death rate. He said:
"The attached copy is sent for your information. As I have already pointed out, every means must be used to lower the death rate in the camp.
"Full utilization and tasty preparation of the rations at hand, as well as the increased reception of parcels, make this perfectly possible."
I should point out that this came at a time when complaints were reaching the WVHA that because of the high death rate in the camps the supply of labor was being seriously diminished. He says:
"I hold the camp commandant and the chief of the camp administration personally responsible for exhausting of every possibility of maintaining the physical strength of the prisoners. In connection with opinions on personnel qualifications to be given by me, I shall in future examine whether the responsible SS leaders have satisfactorily fulfilled their duty in this matter too."
The following letter is from the Chief of the SIPO and SD to the Defendant Pohl stating that despite an increase in prisoners that had increased and an increase in profit was impossible. Since this is dated prior to the letter which I just read I assume that the first letter has some reference to the one that I would like to refer to now.
THE PRESIDENT: What about the dates, Exhibit 342, 20th of January of what year?
MR. ROBBINS: '43, your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: And the next one, 31st of December?
MR. ROBBINS: '42.
THE PRESIDENT: '42?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, sir. The letter reads in part as follows:
"In answer to the letter addressed to the Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of the German Police, a copy of which was sent to me by the Adjutant's Office of the Reichsfuehrer-SS, I have to inform you that in the meantime measures have been taken to increase the total number of prisoners in the concentration camps."
Here again we see reference to the fact that efforts were made to increase the number of prisoners in the concentration for labor, irrespective of the inmate's guilt or innocence. I think that this is further proof of the fact that concentration camps were not used simply as a penal institution but were used as a source for labor, as the I.M.T. found in its decision.
The last paragraph states:
"As soon as these measures are completed I shall give further instructions. But I should like, however, to point out in this connection that because of the great number of deaths in the concentration camp, it was impossible to increase the total number of prisoners, in spite of the increased numbers sent to them recently, and that with a constant or oven increasing death rate, it is unlikely that an improvement can be effected, even by sending an increased number of prisoners."
The next document at page 58 is NI-325. The next document which is on the index is missing from both the English and the German, I believe. That is NI-458, and I should like to reserve 343 for that document. The following document I should like to omit. It will not be offered by the Prosecution. This is the one at Page 58, NI-235.
The following document on page 59 I offer as Prosecution Exhibit 344. This is Document NO-2141 and is a letter from Mueller regarding the treatment of fugitive Russian Soviet PW's. It is dated 30 March 1943. It provides in the second full paragraph:
"Upon motion of the regional headquarters of the Secret State Police, Soviet-Russian prisoners of war who on their flight committed criminal delicts or who were put at disposal by Stalag-commanders because of criminal delicts, were up to date assigned to a concentration camp from here for labor or for execution.
"Assignment for labor in concentration camps originally effected for minor offenses, while for more serious offenses, repeated flight and all cases where criminal disposition was found to exist, order for execution was issued. Due to the increasing requirements on the labor market, Soviet-Russian prisoners of war were assigned for labor in a camp also if they had committed serious delicts.
"To simplify the office work, I authorize the regional headquarters of the Secret State Police and/or the Commanding officers to assign Soviet-Russian prisoners of war to concentration camps in the following cases:
"(1) Escaped Soviet-Russian prisoners of war who on their flight committed criminal deeds (for example) theft of food-also at night), and against whom Special Treatment is not suitable.
"(2) Soviet-Russian prisoners of war who were put at disposal by Stalag-commanders on account of criminal delicts or other offenses because of unsufficient disciplinary authority, and against who Special Treatment is not suitable.
"Only Soviet-Russian prisoners of war who committed crimes by physical force (for example, murder, arson, physical force against employers, guards or criminal dealing with women sexual intercourse and so on) or dangerous political delicts (inviting sabotage, strikes and so on) are to be reported for execution to the Reich Security Main Office."
I can't make out the next word there.
THE PRESIDENT: It is IV A 1c by PS.
MR. ROBBINS: "On assignment to the camps for labor detail, the transport commander has to be given a letter containing, aside of the reason for the arrest, only the information that the prisoners of war are detailed for work. No routing action as to identification or protective custody measures are to be taken."
A copy of this was sent to the WVHA and to Amtsgruppe D, also to the Oranienburg concentration camp.
THE PRESIDENT: Mueller was Chief of the Security Police?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, sir. The following document on page 61 I offer as Exhibit 345. That is Document NO-2114. It is a list of inmates detailed to work on railroad construction at the concentration camp Buchenwald and states that 1579 inmates and 259 guards were used altogether. I am not able to make out the signature on this document.
The following document at page 63 I offer as Prosecution's Exhibit 346. This is NO-1736. This is a letter from Keitel to Himmler. The index is erroneous in that respect. It is addressed to various people including Himmler - it is not addressed to the WVHA - regarding manpower for coal mining. It states that, "The Fuehrer demands that the following measures be taken with all possible speed with the object of making an additional 300,000 men available for coal mining."
THE PRESIDENT: Who were the parties to this letter, whom is it from and to?
MR. ROBBINS: This is from Keitel, and the distribution is shown on page 63, copies to the General Staff of the Army, etc., and also copies to Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of German Police Himmler. The measures referred to are:
"1. From the Soviet prisoners of war in our hands - with the exception of those prisoners of war in Finland and Norway and on unit establishments, -- Plenipotentiary for the Employment and Distribution of Labor with the agreement of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces (General Army Directorate Chief of Prisoners of War Division) will transfer to the coal mines, by 1 September 1943, beginning immediately and maintaining a continuous flow a first installment of 200,000 prisoners of war, fit for work in the coal mines.
"Any necessary replacements are to be provided by the Plenipotentiary for the Employment and Distribution of Labor."
The following document on Page 66, NO-482 has already been offered in evidence and is Exhibit 79 found in Book IV at Page 6 of that book. The Court will recall this is a circular letter from Himmler to the WVHA and others. The distribution is shown on Page 66, concerning the concentration camp Sobibor, S-o-b-i-b-o-r. The second part of the document is a letter dated 15 July 1943 from the Defendant Pohl to Himmler opposing the change of Sobibor. Rather, that is the third part of the letter as it is assembled here. Then the letter on Page 67 dated 24 July 1943 from Rudolf Brandt, I believe, that is from the personal staff of Himmler, states that Himmler agrees to leave the camp unchanged pursuant to Defendant Pohl's suggestion.
On Page 70 I offer Document NO-485 as Prosecution's Exhibit 347. This is a letter from Globocnick to Brandt, who is on Himmler's personal staff, reporting on work camps set up by him for the utilization of Jewish labor. The letter states that 45,000 people have already been used. Globocnick writes:
"I have prepared a report about the work camps for the utilization of Jewish manpower, which is to be organized according to the wishes of the Reichsfuehrer-SS, and am sending it to you as an enclosure. From this you can see, that 45,000 people are already put to work, and that this work level will be raised considerably in the next few months. But in the giving of orders, we have not been considered, - I do not want to use another expression - and therefore the danger is existing that we are only little utilized at times.
I am convinced that the reasons are as follows:
1. The antagonistic attitude of some offices towards the SS.
2. The greediness of private societies, who to-day, in the 4th year of the war, cannot make up their minds to close their doors.
I can determine that after the different excuses that are used.
I would be very thankful, if the Reichsfuehrer-SS would direct a letter to the High Command of the Army, to the Reichs Ministry for Economy etc., in which he points out without mentioning these negative angles, what work capacities are available and which manpower savings could, therefore, still be made in the Reich.
Our enterprises here are still too unknown, for some well-willing and well-meaning agencies to make use of them. Therefore a letter of the Reichsfuehrer-SS could cause, that first of all these enterprises would get known, and second, that they are regarded as ordered by him. Basing on this fact, I could also act much more effectively."
Signed Globocnick.
The last part of this document consists of a note signed also by Globocnick. He states that, "At the moment, there are 45,000 Jews in the camps. They are employed as follows:" and he gives a breakdown of the inmates.
The following document, NO-084PS.
THE PRESIDENT: We will observe that in the morning at 10 o'clock.
THE MARSHAL: This Tribunal is in recess until 1000 tomorrow morning.
(The Tribunal adjourned until 18 April 1947, at 1000 hours.)
Official transcript of the American Military Tribunal in the matter of the United States of America against Oswald Pohl, et al, defendants, sitting at Nuernberg, Germany, on 18 April 1947, 1000, Justice Toms presiding.
THE MARSHAL: All persons please take you seats. The Honorable 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 courtroom.
MR. ROBBINS: May it please the Tribunal, the document on page 76 of Book 12 - it's the third from the last document in the book - is 084-PS, and I do not propose to offer this into evidence. The next document is on page 87 and is Document NO-1738. This will be Prosecution Exhibit 348. It is a letter dated 7 August 1943 from Himmler, a circular order, and a copy went to the WVHA. It reads as follows:
"With regard to Point 4 of the above mentioned order (which is labor for the coal mines), I directed that the young female prisoners who are fit far work are to be transported for work in Germany through the offices of the Reich Commissioner Sauckel. Children, old women, and old men are to be assembled in the women's and children's camps designated by me on the states and on the borders of the evacuated areas and put to work."
May I inquire if the Tribunal has Book Number 13?
THE SECRETARY GENERAL: No, they do not.
MR. ROBBINS: It is supposed to be delivered here at 10:00 o'clock. I next offer Document NO-1247, which is the last document in Document Book 12 on page 88. This will be Exhibit 349. This is a letter from Liebehenschel. The signature on the first letter is Liebehenschel, Amtsgruppe D, to the concentration camp commandants, calling attention to the enclosed document, which is a letter dated 13 August 1943, an order by Kaltenbrunner regarding his work allocations of Jews and occupied Eastern territories. Jews, he says, are to be used only in physical labor.
I should like to read a part of the letter: "Various sources have called my attention to the fact that during the last month the attitude of German offices towards the Jews in the occupied districts of the East developed in a way that gives rise to some misgivings.
Above all, Jews have allegedly been employed by various offices for jobs and services which with regard to the necessary secrecy should be entrusted only to very reliable persons and which will make them appear to the indigenous population as confidential agents of the German offices.
"Moreover, it is unfortunately alleged that personal relations between Reich Germans and Jewesses exceed those barriers which for reasons of ideology and race should be most strictly observed. In addition to those Jews resident in the locality, this is said to refer also to those Jews that were brought from the original Reich into occupied districts of the East. These conditions have supposedly already led the Jews to utilize their alleged confidential position to get preferential supplies and foodstuffs and so forth from the indigenous population.
"When sometime ago fear sprang up relative to a retreat of the Germans, some indigenous people are said to have tried to become popular with precisely those Jews employed by the German offices in order to secure thus better treatment by the Bolsheviks. The decent part of the indigenous population observed these incidents with great astonishment since they believe this to be contradictory to National Socialist principles and the actual attitude of the Germans.
"A wrong assignment of labor of the Jews is detrimental to the authority of the great German Reich and the position of its representatives. It is also injurious to the necessity of an effective protection for the occupied districts of the East by police forces. Great danger can arise, particularly through the fact that the Jews utilize the positions entrusted to them for espionage and propaganda for the benefit of our enemies.
"I therefore ask that the following directives be given to the subordinate offices in the occupied district of the East.
"1. Jews and persons of a similar level may be employed only for manual labor. Their employment for office work, such as bookkeeping, typewriting, card index keeping, and registering, is forbidden, Strict observation must be kept that the nature of their work makes it impossible for them to draw conclusions from things that are to be kept secret.
"2. The employment of Jews for general or personal service, for executing commissions, concluding business deals, or procuring goods is forbidden. All private relations with Jews, Jewesses, and persons on the same level as well as all dealings with them exceeding the bounds of duty are prohibited."
A copy of the letter went to the SS Main Offices. If the Tribunal please, I'm sure that Book 13 will be here in a moment. I wonder if I might start reading the first document from Book 13. The defense counsel have received that book, I'm informed. Book 13, incidentally, is the last book on concentration camp labor. The first document is NO-567, which win be Prosecution's Exhibit 350.
DR. KRAUS: Dr. Kraus for the defendant Tschentschner. May it please Your Honor, the defendant has the right and I object to introducing this document from Document Book Number 13. The documents are not known to the defendants and their counsel and I do not believe, there fore, that permission should be granted to introduce these documents at this present moment.
THE PRESIDENT: Do you have the German copy of this document?
DR. KRAUS: No, I don't, Your Honor.
MR. ROBBINS: These books were delivered to the Defense Information Center at 5:00 o'clock yesterday. Moreover, these documents have been in the Defense Information Center in photostatic form - that is, photostats of the original - for more than a week, I am informed. They were not assembled in the book but the index has been there and the book itself was delivered last night.
DR. KRAUS: May it please Your Honor, the book itself was not handed over to the majority of the defense counsel as I myself did not receive it, either. Even if it had been turned in yesterday at 5:00 o'clock, I believe that the time was too short to enable us to gain knowledge of the contents.
As far as the documents are concerned, and should they be among the heap of documents that has been turned in, it would be difficult to remember these single documents now and be able to take a position against them. I believe it is only right that the defense be given a possibility of seeing the German text of the document or the compact Document Book Number 13 twenty-four hours before it is introduced in court here.
MR. ROBBINS: If the Tribunal please, the prosecution should like then to offer these documents as subject to the later objection of the defense counsel when they have had time to study them. I believe that the majority of defense counsel did pick up the books last night in the Defense Information Center.
THE PRESIDENT: The Defense Information Center was moving yesterday from one building to another, which may have caused some confusion. Is there any objection to the documents being read now in order to save time and later when you get your copy, if you have any objection, the Court will hear your objection?
DR. KRAUS: Your Honor, I see that I have to object to this sort of proceeding. I must have the possibility of taking a position or raising objection with reference to some sort of document that is introduced. And, may it please Your Honor, may I add the following plea? In case the document books should be at our disposal, out there in the defense information room, that is, or some other place, and they could possibly be provided now, and if you were to allow a recess of approximately thirty minutes in order that we may be able at least to look over and glance through the documents, then I would not have anything against the continuation of the proceedings at this moment.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the schedule of the Tribunal is somewhat upset this morning by reason of the visit of prominent American army officials. The present plan is to recess at 10:25 and to resume session at 10:35. Then we will run until 11:20 and recess for the morning. Will it not be satisfactory, counsel, to follow that schedule? You will have the right at any tine to move to strike out a document to which an objection is made.
Then beginning this afternoon you will have had opportunity to get your German copy and to read the exhibits. I think you lose nothing. You are entirely protected in your rights if this procedure is followed.
DR. KRAUS: your Honor, I shall appreciate, I am positive, any possibility that those document books can be picked up over there in case they should be available, or in case they should be introduced. It will quite facilitate defense counsel's work of putting the books before him.
THE PRESIDENT: In eight minutes you will have a chance to go to Defense Information Center and pick up your book. Will that be all right?
DR. KRAUS: Yes.
MR. ROBBINS: The first document in the book is NO-567, which will be Prosecution Exhibit No. 350. This consists of six letters, four letters from Pohl to Rudolf Brandt, who is on the personnel staff of Himmler. The first one refers to Pohl's order that small details of less than one-hundred men should not be furnished to private individuals without Pohl's express permission. The next letter refers to assignments to private individuals of inmates for gardening purposes, of roofing work, and work of a private nature. The third letter concerns request to put certain prisoners at the disposal of Frau Hess. This letter is signed by Pohl, and it includes a list of certain Jehovah Witnesses, men and women, who are gardeners by occupation. The letter is addressed to Himmler. The next letter is a letter from Brandt to Frau Hess regarding assignment of concentration camp prisoners to her, and, the following letter, dated 27 January 1944, is another letter requesting a prisoner be made available to Frau Hess. This is addressed to Pohl, and I am not able to make out the signature on the letter, but it is from the personnel staff of Himmler. The last letter is also concerned with assignment of concentration camp inmates to private parties, and is signed by the defendant Pohl, addressed to Brandt on Himmler's personal staff.
The following document, NO-496, will be Prosecution exhibit No. 351. This consists of two letters. The first one with a date which is indicated as being eligible.
That is, 28 December 1943. The second part of the document is a letter dated 21 December 1943. The latter is a letter from Kammler to Grotmann on Himmler's personal staff, and it refers to the use of a special construction brigade for work which was the Army Commands Western Approaches, and states that five-hundred camp inmates have been detailed to this work, and signed by Dr. Kammler of Amtsgruppen C. The later letter, which is the first part of the document, dated 28 December 1943, is a letter from Himmler to Jodl agreeing to leave the special construction brigade consisting of concentration camp prisoners for another five months.
The following document, NO-1937, has already been introduced in evidence and is Prosecution's Exhibit No. 132. I do not have the document book number before me at the moment. NO-1937 has already been introduced as Exhibit No. 132. This is a telegram from Liebehenshal of the concentration camp Buchenwald regarding transfer of inmates, dated 25 November 1943.
The following document, NO-2164, will be Prosecution Exhibit No. 352. This probably should have been included in a later book on the SS industry. It is a letter from Porcelain Manufacturing Company, Allach-Munich, which was one of the industries in Amtsgruppen W. It stated that the company has suffered a loss of 10,500 Reichsmarks because of the typhus epidemic in Dachau. The letter states that the Porcelain Manufacturing Company is entirely dependent upon the concentration camp inmates, and that because there was no labor available from 26 January to 3 March a loss of 10,500 Reichsmarks occurred, and they asked for reimbursement of this amount.
The following document has already been offered in evidence; this is Document NO-1548, which is Exhibit No. 64.
THE PRESIDENT: 64?
MR. ROBBINS: 64, Yes sir. This is a circular letter from Amtsgruppen D to the concentration camp commandants regarding reports on inmates.
It calls for a report on executions carried out on prisoners who were entitled to special privileges and on protective custody camps.
The next document is NO-1905, and is Prosecution's Exhibit 353. This is a letter from the defendant Pohl in reply to a request for inmates, and it states that the supply of concentration camp inmates is very low at that time, and gives the reason for it. He says already they have supplied the following, or - excuse me - fulfilled the following requests:
1. I.G. Farben Industry, A. G. Auschwitz, Upper Silesia. There prison inmates have been employed since April 1941. At present 5,300 inmates are employed.
2. Low temperature carbonizing plant, Jawischowitz, Upper Silesia, and in the low temperature carbonizing plant Jawischewitz prison inmates have been used since July 1942. Originally 1,000 inmates were provided for this.
THE PRESIDENT: We will recess, Mr. Robbins, for ten minutes.
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal will recess for ten minutes.
(recess)
THE MARSHAL: Tribunal Nimber II is again in session.
MR. MC HANEY: If the Tribunal please, the Prosecution requests that the Marshal be directed to summon the witness Chaim Baliski to the stand.
THE PRESIDENT: The Marshal will summon the witness Chaim Balizki.
CHAIM BALIZKI, a witness, took the stand and testified as follows:
THE PRESIDENT: The witness will raise his right hand and repeat the following:
I swear by God, the Almighty and Omniscient, that I will speak the pure truth and will withhold and add nothing.
(The witness repeated the oath.)
THE PRESIDENT: You may be seated.
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. MC HANEY:
Q Your name is Chaim Balizki?
A Yes.
Q You spell your first name C H A I M?
A Yes.
Q And you spell your last name B A L I C K I?
A No, Balizki. B A L I Z K I?
Q Where and when were you born?
THE INTERPRETER: I'm sorry, Mr. Mc Haney. My witness microphone is out of order.
Q. Witness, will you repeat when and where you were born?
A Yes. I was born on 28 February 1920 in Dzialoszuci, Poland.
Q And you are Jewish?
A Yes, I am.
Q Where are you living now?
A I live in Constance.
Q Will you tell us your street address in Constance?
A Yes sir. Schaeferstrasse 20.