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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 10:16

Document NO-395, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 590-592.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-395

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 374

LETTER FROM COMMANDER OF CONCENTRATION CAMP FLOSSENBUERG, 1 JANUARY 1945, TRANSMITTING PRODUCTION STATEMENTS OF SS AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES TO OFFICE D II OF WVHA

Waffen-SS
Command Post Allocation of Labor
Concentration Camp Flossenbuerg
File No. 14 (KL) D II 32/ 6/Be

Flossenbuerg, 1 January 1945

To SS Economic Administrative Main Office
Amt D II
Oranienburg

Subject: Production statement.
Reference: Order H.H.u.B. 28 September 1940
Enclosures: 87

The commander -- Allocation of Labor concentration camp Flossenbuerg hereby transmits:

1 FN 734 Deutsche Kuehl- und Kraftmasch Wilischthal - RM 18,338
1 FN 734a Deutsche Kuehl- und Kraftmasch Wilischthal - RM 404
1 FN 735 Bauleitung der Waffen SS u. Polizei Dresden - RM 15,683
1 FN 736 Bauleitung der Waffen SS u. Polizei Grafenreuth - RM 4,395
1 FN 737 Bauleitung der Waffen SS u. Polizei Hradischko - RM 44,164
1 FN 738 SS Sturmgeschuetzschule Janowitz - RM 18,472
1 FN 739 Bauleitung d. Waffen SS u. Polizei Neurohlau - RM 4,311
1 FN 740 Bauleitung d. Waffen SS u. Polizei Nuernberg - RM 2,881
1 FN 741 Bauleitung d. Waffen SS u. Polizei Pottenstein - RM 15,558
1 FN 742 Bauleitung d. Waffen SS u. Polizei Seifhe'dorf - RM 3,436
1 FN 743 Bauleitung d. Waffen SS u. Polizei Flossenbuerg - RM 15,554
1 FN 744 Bauleitung d. Waffen SS u. Polizei Wuerzburg - RM 6,515
1 FN 745 Bauleitung Kommando B 7 Hersbruck - RM 293,836
1 FN 746 Bauleitung Kommando B 5 Lobositz 2 - RM 482,574
1 FN 747 Schwalbe II Koenigstein- RM 102,988
1 FN 748 OT-Bauleitung Saal-Donau - RM 20,389
1 FN 749 Messerschmitt AG Flossenbuerg - RM 377,656.50
1 FN 749a Messerschmitt AG Flossenbuerg - RM 92,441.50
1 FN 750 Messerschmitt AG Flossenbuerg - RM 4,621.75
1 FN 751 Messerschmitt AG Flossenbuerg - RM 47,960.50
1 FN 751a Messerschmitt AG Flossenbuerg - RM 10,158.50
1 FN 752 Aussendienststelle Flossenbuerg - RM 6,080.25
1 FN 753 Weberei Flossenbuerg - RM 1,785
1 FN 754 Keramische Werke AG Bohemia Neurohlau - RM 4,649
1 FN 755 Erla-Maschinenwerk G.m.b.H. J'georgenstadt - RM 108,368
1 FN 756 Erla-Maschinenwerk (Lehrlinge) 7 J'georgenstadt - RM 6,634
1 FN 757 Forschungsstelle Bayreuth - RM 8,510
1 FN 758 Dr. Th. Horn, G.m.b.H. Plauen i.V. - RM 5,144
1 FN 759 Fortuna G.m.b.H. Floeha - RM 85,785
1 FN 760 Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke A. G. Groeditz - RM 59,762
1 FN 761 Metallwerke Holleischen - RM 26,832
1 FN 762 Lengwerke AG Lengenfeld RM 89,800
1 FN 763 SS-Fuehrungsstab, B. 5. Nossen - RM 32,542
1 FN 764 Luftwaffennachschublager Gundelsdorf - RM 4,738
1 FN 765 Erla-Maschinenwerk G.m.b.H. Muelsen - RM 76,932
1 FN 766 "Weser" Rabstein - RM 72,684
1 FN 767 Auto-Union AG Siegmar - RM 57,464
1 FN 768 A. Schulze jr. St. Georgenthal - RM 4,246
1 FN 769 Miag Zschachwitz - RM 122,859
1 FN 770 Miag Zschachwitz - RM 666
1 FN 771 Auto-Union AG, Werk Horch Zwickau - RM 115,038
1 FN 772 Elsabe (report missing, will be sent later)
1 FN 773 Bernsdorf & Co. Dresden - RM 616
1 FN 773a Bernsdorf Co. Dresden - RM 88
1 FN 774 Bernsdorf & Co. Dresden - RM 25,025
1 FN 775 Bernsdorf & Co. Dresden - RM 3,580
1 FN 776 SS Bekleidungswerk Grafenreuth - RM 6,138
1 FN 777 Hauptamt C I. Lobositz - RM 2,160
1 FN 778 SS Nachr. - Ausb. (Eichstaedt) Nuernberg - RM 1,66
1 FN 779 SS Nachr. - Ausb. (Pottenstein) Nuernberg - RM 1,404
1 FN 780 SS Kleiderkasse Schleckenwerth - RM 11,104
1 FN 781 SS Hauptzeugamt Moschendorf - RM 13,182
1 FN 782 R.A.W. Dresden - RM 74,998
1 FN 783 SS Unterkunftslager Poschetzau - RM 2,436
1 FN 784 Reichsausbildungslager (missing) Aue
1 FN 785 Hotel Glasstuben Steinschoenau - RM 6,862
1 FN 786 Karl Schreyer St. Oetzen - RM 280
1 FN 787 "Bohemia" AG (Me.) Neurohlau - RM 13,596
1 FN 788 "Bohemia" AG (Porzellan).Neurohlau - RM 18,284
1 FN 789 Astra-Werk, AG Chemnitz RM 47,180
1 FN 790 Zeiss-Ikon, Goehle-Werk Dresden - RM 58784
1 FN 791 Zeiss-Ikon, Reick-Werk Dresden - RM 19,540
1 FN 792 Universelle Maschinenfabrik. Dresden - 46,416
1 FN 793 Bernsdorf & Co Dresden - RM 32,024
1 FN 794 Bernsdorf & Co. Dresden - RM 4,508
1 FN 795 Froea, G.m.b.H. Freiberg - RM 99,000
1 FN 796 Luftfahrtgeraetewerk Graslitz - RM 43,788
1 FN 797 LuftwaffennachschublagerGundelsdorf - RM 8,986
1 FN 798 Framo-Werke Hainichen - RM 42,528
1 FN 799 Josef Witt Helmbrechts - RM 38-838
1 FN 800 Hertine, G.m.b.H. Hertine - RM 55,388
1 FN 801 Metallwerke Holleischen - RM 61,430
1 FN 802 Lorenz AG Mittweida - RM 48,540
1 FN 803 Siemens - Schuckert - Werke, AG nuernberg - RM 52,004
1 FN 804 Deutsche Kuehl- u. Kraftmasch G.m.b.H. Oederan - RM 46,380
1 FN 805 Baumwollspinnerei Plauen - RM 19,964
1 FN 805 Industriewerke, AG Plauen - RM 28,664
1 FN 807 Mechanik, G.m.b.H. Rochlitz - RM 28568
1 FN 808 "Vomag" Zehltheuer - RM 18,216
1 FN 809 Deutsche Kuehl- u. Kraftmasch Wilischthal - RM 27,260
1 FN 810 Opta-Radio AGWolkenburg - RM 34,812
1 FN 811 Luftfahrtgeraetewerk Hakenfelde Zwodau - RM 77,400
1 FN 812 Auto-Union, AG D.K.W.Werke Zschopau - RM 46,012
1 FN 813 Wiedemann & Co. Knellendorf - RM 1,272
1 FN 699 SS Fuehrungsstab B 5 Nossen - RM 21,178

[Total] RM 3,673,965

1 table of employment of inmates during December 1944.

1 table of inmates not accounted for.

The Camp Commander CC Flossenbuerg
[Signed] KOEGEL
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer

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#47

Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 10:17


For those interested in calculating profits, the prewar Reichsmark (RM) was pegged at 4.30 to $1 (US). See http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 720#570720
By my estimation, at that rate of exchange, the RM 3,673,965 for the month of December 1944 would translate to more than $850,000.00 (US) -- at 2004 prices, a take of over $12,750,000 (US) in slave labor profit from this single concentration camp in one month.


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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 10:59

The "Aktion Reinhardt" discussions now have a thread of their own -- "'Aktion Reinhardt' -- What did it denote?", at:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=64215

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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 21:47

Document NO-1882, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 618-619.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-1882

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 499

LETTER OF HIMMLER TO GAULEITER KRUEGER (COPY TO POHL), JANUARY 1943, ORDERING MEASURES AGAINST WARSAW JEWS

The Reich Leader SS
Journal No.
RF/V

[Stamp]
Personal Staff Reich Leader SS
Archives
File No. Secret /126
Field Command post, January 1943

[Stamp] SECRET
[Handwritten] To be filed

Dear Krueger,

I was in Warsaw yesterday. As I did not know for sure whether I would get there, I did not inform you.

I called the local man of the Inspectorate of Armament of the Army, a Colonel Fretter.

There still are about 40,000 Jews in Warsaw. In the next days, 8,000 of them will be shipped [Abgefahren]. Thirty-two thousand still are in so-called armament plants. About 24,000 of these in textile and fur plants, particularly with the firm Walter C. Toebbens, KG, Warsaw.

I gave Colonel Fretter the order to tell Major General Schindler, the Inspector of Armament, that I am surprised that my orders concerning the Jews are not being carried out.

Now, I once more set a term, until 15 February 1943, when the following things are to be accomplished:

(1) Immediate elimination of the private firms.

I consider it absolutely necessary to make sure that the proprietors who made themselves indispensable around here are called up and sent to the front.

(2) I am giving orders to the Reich Security Main Office [RSHA] to make a thorough check on the business and the returns of the firm Walter C. Toebbens, KG, Warsaw, with the help of certified public accountants.

If I am not mistaken, a man who formerly did not possess any property, developed in three years in this case, into a well-to-do proprietor -- if not even into a millionaire already -- and this only because we, the State, furnished him with the cheap Jewish labor.

(3) Immediate transfer of all the 16,000 Jews to a concentration camp, the best would be to Lublin. Guarantee to Armaments Inspectorate to accomplish and to deliver the same quantity and in the same time as before. I guess it also could be done at lower prices.

(4) The same applies to a number of smaller workshops in the ghetto, producing parts of engines or parts of aircraft, which also could be made in a camp.

(5) The remaining plants, which really are manufacturing iron, are as speedily as possible to be concentrated at some place in the Government General, thus establishing one plant consisting of a couple of sheds where only Jewish workers are working who may then be guarded and isolated most strictly.

I request action to be taken and report about accomplishment.

Heil Hitler!
[Signed] H. HIMMLER

Copies of the letter to:
1. Reich Security Main Office
2. SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl
Certified
[Signed] MEINE
SS Obersturmfuehrer
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Wolff for information

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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 21:54

Document NO-2514, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 620-621.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2514

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 500

ORDER OF HIMMLER TO POHL, 16 FEBRUARY 1943, CONCERNING ASSIGNMENT OF ALL WARSAW JEWS TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP TO BE ESTABLISHED IN THE WARSAW GHETTO

[Stamp]
Personal Staff Reich Leader SS
Archives
File No. Secret/343

The Reich Leader SS
Journal No. 38/32/45 g.
Field Command Post, 16 February 1943

SECRET !

To the Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl
Berlin

(1) I am giving the order to establish an X ["X" Inserted in pencil at this point in original document followed by remainder of sentence underlined in original.] concentration camp in the ghetto of Warsaw.

(2) All Jews living in Warsaw are to be transferred to this concentration camp; Jews are not permitted to work in privately owned enterprises.

(3) The former privately owned enterprises in the ghetto of Warsaw are being taken over by the concentration camp (Reich enterprise).

(4) The concentration camp Warsaw as a whole, including its enterprises and its inmates, is to be transferred to Lublin and surroundings as quick!y as possible, but in such a way that production does not suffer.

Signed H. HIMMLER

(2) SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger, Krakow.
Copy transmitted for information
By Order
Certified Copy:
Signed BRANDT
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
[Initialed] M[eine]
SS Hauptsturmfuehrer
16 February
(3) To the Chief of the Security Police and SD, Berlin.
Transmitted for information.
[Initialed] BR[andt]
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
[Initial] M

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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 22:00

Document NO-2494, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 621-622.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2494

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 501

LETTER OF HIMMLER TO THE HIGHER SS AND POLICE LEADER EAST KRUEGER
(KRAKOW), 16 FEBRUARY 1943, ORDERING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WARSAW GHETTO

The Reich Leader SS
Journal No. 38/33/43 g.
Field Command Post, 216 February 1943

[Stamp]
Personal Staff Reich Leader SS
Archives
File No. Secret/343

To the Higher SS and Police Leader East

SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger
Krakow
Secret !

For security reasons, I give the order to tear down the ghetto of Warsaw after the concentration camp has been removed [Herausverlegung]; all utilizable building material or material of any kind is to be recovered beforehand.

The tearing down of the ghetto and the installation of the concentration camp is necessary, because otherwise we never will quiet down Warsaw, and criminal disorder will never be rooted out as long as the ghetto remains.

A master plan for the pulling down of the ghetto has to be submitted to me. It has to be accomplished in any case that the living space which accommodated 500,000 sub-humans [Untermenschen] and never was suitable for Germans will completely disappear, and that the city of Warsaw with its one million inhabitants will be reduced in size, having always been a dangerous center of decomposition and of rebellion.

[Signed] H. HIMMLER

(2) To the Chief of the Security Police and SD.
Copy transmitted for information.
By Order
[Initialed] BR[andt]
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
Chief "P" also received copy.

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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 22:04

Document NO-2496, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 623-624.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2496

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 504

LETTER OF HIMMLER TO POHL, 11 JUNE 1943, ORDERING THE COMPLETE FLATTENING OF THE DESTROYED WARSAW GHETTO BY JEWS

[Stamp]
Personal Staff Reich Leader SS
Archives
File No. 3436

The Reich Leader SS

Field Command Post, 11 June 1943

1. To the Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office
2. To the Chief of the Security Police and SD.
[handwritten] to files

I herewith order, that the Dzielna prison in the former ghetto of Warsaw, is to be transformed into a concentration camp. The prisoners are to gather and to secure the millions of building stones, scrap iron, and other building material of the former ghetto. Special care is to be taken for the secure guard of the prisoners during this work.

I instruct the Higher SS and Police Leader East and the Police Leader Warsaw to make sure that during this cleaning up the city center of the former ghetto is to be flattened completely and every cellar and every canalization is to be filled in.

After the work is finished the area is to be covered up with earth and a large park is to be planted.

Copies for information:

3. Higher SS and Police Leader East
4. SS and Police Leader Warsaw

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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 22:17

Document NO-2403, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 626-627.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2403

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 505

LETTER OF HIMMLER TO POHL, 21 JUNE 1943, ORDERING, AMONG OTHER MEASURES, "EVACUATION" OF "NOT REQUIRED" JEWS FROM THE GHETTOS

The Reich Leader SS
RF/Bn. 38195143 g

(1) To the Higher SS and Police Leader Ostland [added in shorthand]: By courier by way of the command staff

(2) To the Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office.

Field Command Headquarters, 6/21 June 1943
[Stamp]
Personal Staff Reich Leader SS
Archives
File No. Secret 343

[Stamp] Secret

[Pencil note] 1. By courier by way of the command staff

1. I order that all the Jews still remaining in ghettos in the Ostland area have to be collected in concentration camps.

2. I prohibit any taking out of Jews from concentration camps for [outside] work projects beginning 1 August 1943.

3. There has to be erected a concentration camp in the vicinity of Riga, to which has to be transferred all the manufacturing of clothing and equipment in outlying works maintained by the Wehrmacht. All private firms have to be cut out. The workshops are to become plain concentration camp workshops. The chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office is requested to take care, that this reorganization does not cause any reduction in the necessary production for the Wehrmacht.

4. The biggest possible part of the male Jews has to be brought to the concentration camp in the oilshale area for the mining of oilshale.

5. Members of the Jewish ghettos not required are to be evacuated to the East.

6. Fixed day for the reorganization of the concentration camps is 1 August 1943.

[Signed] H. HIMMLER

(3) To the Chief of Security Police and SD, a copy sent for information.
BY ORDER
[Initial] B. [Brandt]
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer
(4) To SS Standartenfuehrer Rode, copy sent for information.
BY ORDER
[Signed] BRANDT
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer

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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 22:22

Document NO-2516, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 627-628.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2516

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 506

LETTER BY POHL TO HIMMLER, 23 JULY 1943, REPORTING ERECTION OF CONCENTRATION CAMP IN WARSAW TO CARRY OUT WORK IN THE FORMER GHETTO

[Stamp]
Personal Staff Reich Leader
Central Files Administration 343

The Reich Leader SS and Chief of German Police
SS Economic and Administrative Main Office
Ref: D II/1 29a/27 Ma./Hue.
Must be quoted in reply.

Berlin, 23 July 1943
Lichterfelde-West
Unter den Linden 120-135
Telephone: Local 765251
Long Dist 765101

To the Reich Leader SS
Berlin SW 11
Prinz-Albrecht Str. 8

Subject: Erection of concentration camp in the former Warsaw ghetto.
Reference: Decree of 11 June 1943.

Reich Leader,

I report that the concentration camp in the Warsaw ghetto has been erected and was occupied by the first 300 prisoners on 19 July 1943.

As commandant I have appointed SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Goecke, who has acquainted himself with the duties at Mauthausen concentration camp during the past few months.

The prisoners will, as ordered, be assigned to the salvaging and collecting of materials. The number of prisoners will be increased as speedily as possible as far as the erection of further accommodation permits.

Work in the former ghetto will be executed in the closest collaboration with the SS and Police Leader in the Warsaw district, SS Brigadefuehrer Stroop.

[Stamp]
Received on 27 July 1943
Journal No. 38/32/43 g.
To: RF

[Signed] POHL
SS Obergruppenfuehrer and Lt. General of the Waffen SS

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Post by David Thompson » 16 Nov 2004, 23:00

Document NO-2503, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 628-630.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2503

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 507

LETTER BY POHL TO HIMMLER, 29 OCTOBER 1943, WITH ENCLOSED REPORT ON DEMOLITION OF WARSAW GHETTO (REFERENCE TO HIMMLER'S ORDER OF 11 JUNE 1943)

SS Economic and Administrative Main Office
Berlin, 29 October 1943
Lichterfeld-West
Unter den Linden 126-135
Telephone: Local 765261
Long Distance 765361

[Stamp]
Personal Staff Reich Leader SS
Archives Administration
File No. Secret 343

[Handwritten] good [Initials] H.H. [Heinrich Himmler]

Dictation reference: C V/4 Gg 38/11 /Pr/W.
Must be quoted in all replies.

Subject: Demolition of the Ghetto in Warsaw

Enclosures: 1

To the
Reich Leader

I herewith enclose a report on the measures taken up to now with regard to the demolition of the ghetto in Warsaw.

Heil Hitler!
[Signed] POHL
SS Obergruppenfuehrer and General of the Waffen SS

[Stamp partly illegible]
4 November 1943 38/140/438
RF.

**************************************
SS Economic and Administrative Main Office
[Stamp]
Berlin, 29 October 1943

Personal Staff Reich Leader
Archives Administration
File No. Secret 343

Report about the measures taken up to now, with regard to the demolition of the ghetto in Warsaw, reporter: SS Brigadefuehrer Dr. Engr. Kammler SS Hauptsturmfuehrer (F) Prinzl.

1. Official directive. The Reich Leader SS on 11 June 1943 ordered the demolition of the ghetto in Warsaw. The SS Economic Administrative Main Office, division C, has been charged with the technical execution of these measures.

The placing of the prisoners will be carried out by division D.

2. Type and extent of measures. The ghetto of Warsaw covers a total area of 320 ha. [791 acres]. Of this area about 120 ha. [296 acres] have so far been handed over to the civil administration. The destroyed area which has to be demolished amounts to 180 ha. [445 acres].

The buildings which are to be demolished, have a total capacity of 12 million cubic meters [424 mill. cubic feet] of surrounded space. About 2,460,000 cubic meters [86,872,000 cubic feet] of masonry will have to be demolished.

Considerable quantities of iron (scrap metal) are supposed to be in these buildings.

3. Measures taken. In order to pull down the debris and to remove it, the following steps were taken:

GB construction. From the Reich Minister Speer, the urgent quota number Government General 43 Z up 1 has been secured for this construction project.

Firms. In accordance with the GB construction and the Main committee for construction the following efficient firms under the leadership of the firm Merckle, Ostrowo-Wartheland have been engaged:

Ostdeutsche Tiefbau G.m.b.H., Hamburg-Bober, Firma Willy Keymer, Warsaw, and Berlinische Baugesellschaft, Berlin. These firms have guaranteed to pull down and to remove 4,500 cubic meters [159,000 cubic feet] daily.

The following implements will be in use as from 15 November 1943: 10 Dredgers, 15 km. of tracks, 400 tilting lorries, and 20 locomotives. As this project hardly could be provided with fuel, the implements have to be operated to 80 percent by steam or electricity aside as substitutes.

At present, negotiations with the Eastern Railway are in progress to lay the main railway to the ghetto which is to be demolished: in this way the debris destined for the immediate use of the Eastern Railway is to be removed.

Fifteen thousand prisoners are used as laborers up to now. After the arrival of the implements 2,000 more will have to be used immediately. Furthermore, 145 Germans and Poles are at work as civilian laborers. In addition to these the firms will employ 240 foremen and enginemen, 30 foremen of navvies and polishers, and a technical and commercial staff of 30 men.

For the housing of the prisoners a concentration camp will be erected in the ghetto. The concentration camp will be built in three construction periods as follows:

1st period to 15 November 1943.
2d period to 31 January 1944.
3d period to 28 February 1944.

By means of these firms, implements, and laborers the daily performance is to be 4,500 cubic meters. Taking into consideration the time required to reach full production, this would by 1 August 1944, the date set for the completion, amount to 1,100,000 cubic meters [38,845,000 cubic feet] of rubble.

The remaining amount of 1,540,000 cubic meters [54,384,000 cubic feet] of rubble is to be levelled on the spot before the abovementioned date. Making allowances for an area of 30 ha. [74 acres] for the concentration camp and 20 ha. [49 acres] for the streets, the level of the area will be raised 1,20 m. by the layer of debris. This debris is to be covered with city refuse, ashes, and feces and is to be planted.

The expenditures for the above measures, are estimated at about 150 million. This amount is made up of the following items:

(1) 12 million cubic meters of walled-in space to be demolished, including the erection of the concentration camp-RM 11,50 for 1 cubic meter - 138,000,000.

(2) 1,000,000 cubic meters of debris to be removed RM 8 for 1 cubic meter - 8,800,000.

(3) 120 ha. to be levelled, to be covered and cultivated as described above- RM 10,000 for 1 ha. - 1,200,000.

(4) Installations on the building ground, laying of the tracks and removal later on - 2,000,000.

Value of the material thus obtained is estimated at 5,000,000 RM.

In view of the unusual circumstances which prevail in the Warsaw sector, no monetary returns can be expected for the salvaged material, as usufructuaries, civilian and military alike, will remove the material only on the condition that it is placed at their disposal free of charge.

[Signed] POHL

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Document NO-1278, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printuing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 639-641.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-1278

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 440

LETTER OF DEFENDANT MUMMENTHEY TO DEFENDANT BAIER, 8 JUNE 1944, CONCERNING PROPOSAL TO SET UP A DIAMOND CUTTING FACTORY IN BERGEN-BELSEN BECAUSE THE DUTCH JEWS HAVE BEEN DEPORTED FROM CONCENTRATION CAMP HERTOGENBOSCH, NETHERLANDS

Office, Chief W I
My [Meyer] /A.
Oranienburg, 68 June 1944
[Handwritten] Berlin, W 9 June 44
(1) Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. Volk for notice 6 June 44
(2) To files: Office W I

To Chief W, SS Oberfuehrer Baier,
Berlin-Lichterfelde-West

Subject: Diamonds.
Reference: My letter of 20 May 1944.

Oberfuehrer,

Referring to my letter mentioned above, I inform you herewith about the motion brought before the chief of the Main Office [Pohl] on 30 May 1944.

"By order, the most important points will be brought up for decision.

1. Developments up to now. (Pohl 1-6)

3 December 1942 Order of the Reich Leader SS for establishment of a diamond cutting factory in the concentration camp Hertogenbosch.

28 July 1943 Your order, that the W I take over.

15 December 1943 Report of completion sent through SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Dr. Brandt to the Reich Leader SS and description of the situation as to rough diamonds.

29 December 1943 Reich Leader SS requests transfer and issues instructions for furnishing of rough diamonds.

February 1944 Inspection of the diamond cutting factory in the concentration camp Hertogenbosch by Reich Leader SS.

March 1944 Reich Leader SS orders the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands.

18 May 1944 The last Jewish diamond workers are deported.

2. Present situation.

a. Diamond cutting factory of concentration camp Hertogenbosch without worker, therefore closed. Only a small part of the technical establishment is property of the DEST [German Earth and Stone Works].

b. The diamond industry of Amsterdam came to a standstill because of the lack of Jewish skilled workers. In case of negative decision, the Aryan plants have to close at the end of May.

3. Proposal. Aryan diamond industrialists from Holland ask the management of the concentration camp Hertogenbosch [Kl He.] for permission by way of the German Earth and Stone Works, that 80 Jewish polishers and 18 Jewish cutters may be permitted to manufacture half finished articles in a special camp under direction of Jewish contractors. They themselves would be prepared to furnish machines and raw materials and to take any risk concerning financial and technical problems.

" ......" [sic]


Approval of the proposal, just submitted, will decide the future existence of the European diamond-cutting monopoly as laid down by the Reich Leader SS and the State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for Economy, SS Gruppenfuehrer Dr. Hayler.

The urgency of the decision is based on the fact that the diamond industry in Amsterdam practically came to a standstill by the deportation of the Jews on 18 May. In addition the technical establishments by order of the Reich Leader SS have to be brought into safety before the setting in of special events.

The chief of office D II, SS Standartenfuehrer Maurer received detailed information, describing the circumstances. He is of the opinion that a diamond-cutting factory for about 150-200 skilled workers could be established in the special camp Bergen-Belsen, to execute there the work required: SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Sommer from office D II, SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Schwarz, and SS Obersturmfuehrer Meyer from office W I will go to Bergen-Belsen on Saturday, 3 June 1944, to select the premises where the machines are to be installed and, taking your approval for granted, prepare the installation of the machines and the housing of the Jewish skilled workers. Once this question has been clarified I will write another report.

[Signed] MUMMENTHEY
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer

(The remarks of the chief of the Main Office were marked with red pencil.)

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Post by David Thompson » 17 Nov 2004, 02:24

For the "Aktion Reinhardt" phase of this profiteering, see "Documents relating to 'Aktion Reinhardt"" at:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=64269 and

Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Galicia
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=61707

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Post by David Thompson » 23 Nov 2004, 03:18

Document 858-PS, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 368-370.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 858-PS

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 153

ORDER OF FRANK TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS, 7 JANUARY 1943, CONCERNING PROPERTY OF DECEASED PRISONERS

Copy

Berlin, 7 January 1943
The Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office
A II/2a/420/12.42/Ba/Scho.

To be distributed to
Concentration Camps
Natzweiler 3 copies
Dachau 3 copies
Sachsenhausen 3 copies
Buchenwald-Weimar 3 copies
Flossenbuerg 3 copies
Gross-Rosen 3 copies
Mauthausen 3 copies
Ravensbrueck 3 copies
Neuengamme 3 copies
Niederhagen-Wewelsburg 3 copies
Auschwitz 3 copies
Gusen 3 copies

Berlin, 7 January 1943

SS Special Camp 'Hinzert" Hermeskeil 3 copies
Meringen 3 copies
Prisoners of War Camp Lublin 3 copies
Penal Camp Danzig-Matzkau 3 copies
Penitentiary Straubing 3 copies
Division D Oranienburg 10 copies
The Chief of the Security Police and SD, Berlin SW 11, Prince Albrechtstr.8 5 copies
SS Economic and Administrative Main Office 15 copies
Reserved 9 copies

Subject: Property of deceased prisoners.

Rescinding all decree and ordinances issued up to this date, I decree the following:

I. General. The property of deceased prisoners shall be sent, as before, to the respective relatives, except in the case of Polish and Jewish prisoners and of prisoners from the former Soviet territories.

II. Property of deceased or discharged prisoners which cannot be disposed of:

1. Cash. Cash shall be deposited as formerly to account H 10 with the administrative offices of concentration camps. It shall be transferred at the end of each quarterly period, that is on January 10, April 10, July 10, and October 10 to division D, Office Stadtsparkasse Oranienburg, Account 426.

2. Textiles (article of clothing), leather articles, suitcases. Leftover articles shall be given by the concentration camps to prisoners without funds on their discharge. Unusable articles shall be transferred to the prisoners' repair shops for further use, or sent to salvage.

3. Valuables and other articles. Concentration camps shall return a list of valuables and other articles on hand, to Division D on 20-11943 in conformity to the following example:

Example
Date....................

Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen
Summary of valuables and other articles on hand.

1. 10 kg, Gold
2. 5 kg, Silver
3. 100 kg, Gold dollars
4. 1000 kg, Dollars in bills
5. 50 kg, Pounds sterling in bills
6. 100 kg, Watches
7. 50 kg, Rings, gold
8. 50 kg, Rings, silver
9. Fountain pens
10. Mechanical pencils
11. Spectacles
12. Cigarette cases
13. Cuff links
14. Bracelets
15. Chains, etc.

4. A special order will then be issued for the further disposal of valuables and other articles.

ACTING:
[Signed] FRANK
SS Brigadefuehrer and Brigadier General of the Waffen SS
Certified.
SS Hauptsturmfuehrer
Certified true copy.
SS Obersturmfuehrer

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Post by David Thompson » 23 Nov 2004, 03:27

Document NO-599, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1950. pp. 377-379.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-599

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 63

FILE NOTE BY POHL, 7 SEPTEMBER 1943, ON CONFERENCE WITH GEORG LOERNER AND OTHERS, CONCERNING TAKING OVER OF LABOR CAMPS IN LUBLIN DISTRICT

Appendix 4
Copy
Chief of the SS Economic and AdministrativeMain Office
D II/I file No. 29 Ma./F.
Diary No. 407/43 Secr.
Berlin, 7 September 1943

Secret!

Note for file.

Subject: Taking over of Jewish labor camps from SS and Police Leaders in the Government General.

In connection with the discussion with SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger on 3d inst., a conference took place on the 7th inst. at the SS Economic Administrative Main Office. Present were SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl, SS Gruppenfuehrer Globocnik, SS Brigadefuehrer Gluecks, SS Brigadefuehrer Loerner, SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Schellin, SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Maurer, SS Sturmbannfuehrer Florstedt, and SS Obersturmfuehrer Dr. Horn.

The following points were agreed upon:

1. The approximately 10 labor camps of the SS and Police Chief existing in the district of Lublin will be taken over by the SS Economic Administrative Main Office as branch camps of concentration camp Lublin. When taken over, the SS Economic Administrative Main Office will be responsible for them, supervise them, and immediately subordinated to SS Sturmbannfuehrer Florstedt, who will be in charge of security and orderly management.

2. On being taken over by the SS Economic Administrative Main Office (Amtsgruppe D) the inmates of these labor camps will become concentration camp prisoners. Workshops which have been or will be erected by Osti in these camps, will have these prisoners assigned against payment of prisoners' wages that will flow into the Reich Exchequer.

All expenses for these prisoners will be met by the Reich.

3. Apart from these approximately 10 labor camps in the district of Lublin, all labor camps in the Government General are to be taken over by the SS Economic Administrative Main Office in the interest of a general clean-up. SS Sturmbannfuehrer Florstedt will be made responsible for the taking over of these camps into the scope of duty of Amtsgruppe D of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office. About details he will confer with Obersturmbannfuehrer Schellin, SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Maurer and SS Obersturmfuehrer Dr. Horn. First of all he will ascertain as quickly as possible the number and locality of the camps, the number of inmates as well as of the guards and the nature of the camps' production; then he will get into contact with the mentioned leaders. It should be endeavored to dissolve camps with a small number of inmates, non-war-essential production, not decisive for victory.

4. The participants of this conference realize that the taking over of all these labor camps by the SS Economic Administrative Main Office (division D) will be possible only if the guards detailed at present for these camps (police forces and Askaris) will remain there and be subordinated to the SS Economic Administrative Main Office for the duration of these camps, and taken over by this office, as far as they are members or possible candidates of the SS.

SS Gruppenfuehrer Globocnik declared that this was a matter of course and that SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger would of course agree to it.

[Signed] POHL
SS Obergruppenfuehrer and Lt. General of the Waffen SS

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Post by David Thompson » 23 Nov 2004, 03:50

Document NO-1990, in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Oswald Pohl, et. al. (Case 4: 'Pohl Case'). US Government Printing Office, pp. 388-392.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-1990

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 73

REPORT BY BURGER TO GEORG LOERNER, 15 AUGUST 1944, ON PRISONERS' STRENGTH, EXPECTED NEW ARRIVALS, AND INVENTORY OF PRISONERS' CLOTHING

Economic and Administrative Main Office
Division D, Concentration Camps
D IV- 189 - 8.44 - Bu./Schm. Journal No. 199/44 Secret
Oranienburg, 15 August 1944
[pencilled] G 18.18

[Stamp]
Top Secret

To the Chief of Division B
SS Gruppenfuehrer and Major General of the Waffen SS Loerner
Berlin-Lichterfelde-West
Unter den Eichen 126-135

Subject: Prisoners' strength report, inventory of prisoners' clothing "G" and "Z", and available stocks "G" [The letter "G" stands for Gafaengnis-prison (clothing), and the letter "Z" for Zivil-civilian (clothing).].

Reference: Telephone call of SS Sturmbannfuehrer Waschkau of 15 August 1944.

With reference to the above-mentioned telephone call I report the prisoners' strength as per 1 August 1944 and that of the new arrivals already announced to us, as well as the stock of clothing as per 15 August 1944, as follows:

1. The strength on 1 August 1944 was

a. male prisoners 379,167
b. female prisoners 145,119
[Total] 524,286

In addition to this there are the following new arrivals, already announced

1. From the Hungary Program (Jewish Campaign [Aktion]) - 90,000.
2. From Lodz (police Prison and ghetto) - 60,000.
3. Poles from the Government General - 15,000.
4. Convicts from the Eastern territories - 10,000
5. Former Polish officers - 17,000.
6. From Warsaw (Poles) - 400,000.
7. Current arrivals from France approximately 15,000 to 20,000
[Total] - 612,000

A large number of the prisoners is already on its way and will arrive during the next days for delivery to the concentration camps.

2. Inventory of the male prisoners' clothing in the possession of the prisoners or the concentration camps.

"G" = Prisoners clothing; "Z" Civilian clothing; Available stocks of Division D in Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald]

cloth jackets: "G", 232024;"Z", 168987; Available stocks, 70509.
cloth trousers: "G", 184338;"Z", 121581; Available stocks, 72220.
cloth coats: "G", 162809;"Z", 102657; Available stocks, 19990.
cloth caps: "G", 257509;"Z", 65669; Available stocks, 27610.
drill [Drillich] jackets: "G", 229840;"Z", -; Available stocks, 2930.
drill trousers: "G", 243366;"Z", -; Available stocks, 6865.
shirts: "G", 358871;"Z", 331467; Available stocks, 5500.
pants: "G", 457232;"Z", 167022; Available stocks, 1000.
woollen waistcoats: "G", 169462;"Z", 19605; Available stocks, 32501.
cloth waistcoats: "G", -;"Z", 38847; Available stocks, -.
socks: "G", 328041;"Z", 9517; Available stocks, 174186.
foot cloths: "G", 96615;"Z", -; Available stocks, 30240.
short socks: "G", 82739;"Z", -; Available stocks, 2200.
ear protectors: "G", 97567;"Z", 9640; Available stocks, 440.
ear bonnets: "G", 47845;"Z", 12000; Available stocks, 206220.
handkerchieves: "G", 20941;"Z", 77205; Available stocks, 17000.
mittens: "G", 74570;"Z", -; Available stocks, 145400.
gloves: "G", -;"Z", 9177; Available stocks, -.
kit-bags-paper: "G", 48386;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
kit-bags-cloth: "G", 89396;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
aprons: "G", 6267;"Z", 4796; Available stocks, -.
working jackets: "G", -;"Z", 2602; Available stocks, -.
working trousers: "G", -;"Z", 2594; Available stocks, -.
working suit: "G", -;"Z", 4998; Available stocks, -.
lace shoes-leather: "G", 47406;"Z", 16979; Available stocks, -.
lace shoes with wooden soles: "G", 243128;"Z", -; Available stocks,
lace boots with buckles and wooden soles: "G", 10041;"Z", -; Available stocks, 3539.
slippers with wooden soles: "G", 119259;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
boots, long (leather): "G", 2192;"Z", 3233; Available stocks, -.
wooden clogs: "G", 13520;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
body-belts: "G", 9788;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
woollen shawls: "G", -;"Z", 9770; Available stocks, -.
boots with wooden soles: "G", 389;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
shoes, leather: "G", 1635;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
small kit-bags: "G", 21992;"Z", -; Available stocks, .

3. Inventory of the female prisoners' clothing in the possession he prisoners, or of the concentration camps.

winter dresses: "G", 38064;"Z", -; Available stocks, 2220.
summer dresses: "G", 55638;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
dresses Z: "G", -;"Z", 141963; Available stocks, -.
skirts Z: "G", -;"Z", 34796; Available stocks, -.
blouses Z: "G", -;"Z", 36262; Available stocks, -.
winter jackets: "G", 42183;"Z", -; Available stocks, 4840.
coats Z: "G", -;"Z", 32802; Available stocks, -.
vests: "G", 35418;"Z", 210808; Available stocks, 14680.
night dresses: "G", 9194;"Z", 4940; Available stocks, -.
winter slacks: "G", 48246;"Z", -; Available stocks, 14010.
summer slacks: "G", 35781;"Z", -; Available stocks, 6690.
panties Z: "G", -;"Z", 79687; Available stocks, -.
slips: "G", 36878;"Z", 938; Available stocks, 3490.
women's jackets Z: "G", -;"Z", 8041; Available stocks, -.
women's stockings: "G", 41677;"Z", 58711; Available stocks, 6199.
suspenders: "G", 13676;"Z", 3322; Available stocks, 2622.
scarves: "G", 32270;"Z", 60643; Available stocks, -.
woollen vests: "G", 2066;"Z", 74808; Available stocks, 13290.
brassieres: "G", -;"Z", 7620; Available stocks, -.
paper for sanitary towels: "G", 33400;"Z", -; Available stocks,
cloth for sanitary towels: "G", 64041;"Z", -; Available stocks, 9755.
sanitary girdles: "G", 23826;"Z", -; Available stocks, 807.
handkerchieves: "G", 38553;"Z", 14562; Available stocks, 152100.
aprons: "G", 4436;"Z", 13636; Available stocks, -.
women's caps: "G", 9488;"Z", -; Available stocks, 5600.
mittens: "G", 9294;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
gloves Z: "G", -;"Z", 5931; Available stocks, -.
lace shoes, leather: "G", 2329;"Z", 14348; Available stocks, -.
low shoes, leather: "G", 20442;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
lace shoes with wooden soles: "G", 33967;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
slippers with wooden soles: "G", 40092;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
wooden clogs: "G", 7272;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.
kit-bags: "G", 19963;"Z", -; Available stocks, -.

4. Owing to the prisoners' present total strength of 524,286 and the announced new arrivals of 612,000 prisoners, who are already on their way here, I am unable to provide all those who will arrive unexpectedly with sufficient clothing, in spite of the last allocation of extra quotas for spinning yarn and textiles by the Reich Ministry of Economics for the Hungary Program.

In this connection I should like to mention that the civilian clothing, obtained up to now from the Hungary program, has already been completely disposed of and that only very few pieces fit for wear, can yet be expected especially from the Polish campaign [action] (Warsaw).

The civilian clothing distributed up to now, especially underwear and shoes, will have to be replaced very soon because of their inferior quality. It can only be worn for a very limited time in comparison with new pieces.

Moreover, it must be considered that the clothing and shoes of the prisoners employed in the categories A and B "Special Measures" wear out far more quickly, and the set time of wear must be considerably reduced.

For the above-mentioned reasons I ask you, Gruppenfuehrer, to arrange for the necessary steps to be taken at the Reich Ministry of Economics, to obtain once more extra quotas for spinning yarn and leather, so that the extraordinary high demand for prisoners' clothing will be guaranteed. It should be pointed out to the Ministry of Economics that up to now enormous quantities of rags from the useless civilian clothing, from the individual campaigns in Auschwitz and other camps, were delivered and placed at the disposal of the Reich Ministry of Economics, are being delivered.

[Signature] BURGER
SS Sturmbannfuehrer
Chief of Administration

[Handwritten]
of those appr. 387 000 men
and 225 000 women
[Total] 612 000

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