Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-12
100000 Foreigners
|EnsIayed in Germany,
Nuremberg Court Told
BY the Associated Press.

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NUREMBERG, Dec. IL. - More
than 100000 conquered labor
ers were forced into virtual slav-
cry in Germany by murder, star
walton, larson and KIDNAPPING,
American prosecutors disclosed
today at the war crimes trial Of
81 Nazi war leaders.
The carefully planned slave sys-
tenn to provide workers for German
war plants and farms was described
as wild and ruthless manhunt
carried on everywhere" in q Nazi
labor commissioners own words
presented as evidence before the
International Military Tribunal
Pressing the charges of Grimes
against humanity" against Adolf
Hitler's top aides, Assistant Ameri-
can Prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd dis
closed by the Germans own records
that more than 1000, 900 men, wom-
en- and children Of IA different ma
tionalities had been shipped to the
Reich like cattle to bolster the Nazi
war machine by January. 1915.
Although Prosecutor Dodd limited
his estimate of slave laborers to
more than 100000 an unofficial
tabulation drafted from Nazi and
Allied court records placed the total
of foreign workers at 6,69l 900 by
January, l945.
Babies Thrown From Windows.
AS details of the Nazi slave labor
system we're unfolded before the
court, even the accused Hitlerites
stirred uneasily and some pulled
away in their seats from the trio
named by Mr.. Dodd as chiefly re-
sponsible-b l-necked Fritz Sauckel
SIS general and Reich labor commits
sioner; sauye Alfred Rosenberg. Of
fetal Nazi philosopher and admin
istrator of the occupied Ukraine, and
Albert Speer, Reich munitions min
lister.
One report taken from Rosenberg
files revealed that babies born on
slave labor trains were thrown from
the windows.
Speer sat with his face in his
hands as Prosecutor Dodd declared
that force and brutality as meth
cd of production found ready ad-
herent in the defendant Speer"
Hitler ordered forced labor fol
100000 Russians and Poles in Octo.
Der, 1912, and an additional 1000.
900 in March, l943, the evidence dis.
closed.
10000 Ordered Sent Daily.
Writing to Rosenberg on March
Is, 1943. Sauckel ordered the ship
4 ment of captive laborers to bt
speeded up to 10000 day.
Sauckel's own representative II
the Ukraine warned that 1.-The wile
and ruthless manhunt carried or
everywhere-in towns and country
| in streets, squares, stations, even If
churches and at night in houses-has
badly shaken the feeling of securit,
everywhere The comment, sent II
Hans Frank, Nazi Governor OF Pc
| land, was filed with the court.
] Mr.. Dodd produced a letter from
one of RoSenberg's agents, In which
he protested that prisoners of wal
have died Of hunger like flies" ane
said the mass deportation. method!
4 probably have their origin only ir
the blacklist periods of the slav,
1 trade"
i "A regular manhunt was inaug.
! urated," declared the letter, writer
I by Consul General DR.. B. Brafu.
tigam. a member of Rosenberg!
Ministry for the Occupied Eastern
I Areas.
without consideration of health
or age the people were shipped t.
! Germany, where it turned out i'm
Immediately that far more than 100.
600 had to be sent back because Of
serious illnesses or other incapable.
ties for work" ,-......
| Rosenberg apparently foresaw ths
day when he might be called Il
account for the inhumane treat.
ment of the forced laborers. In {
letter to Sauckel December 81, 1912
he protested against the "unusua
and hard measures" and expressed
the fear that responsibility "Wil