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“Foreigners must be treated
with greater severity and strictness. For them, punishment away from work is
especially suitable. Dechenschule will become a penal camp for eastern workers
and Poles, under the supervision of the Gestapo. They are to be cared for by
the main administration for the workers camps and plant security police.
Special labor allocation officers are invited to enumerate especially difficult
and dirty work for which these foreigners may be used in groups of 50-60.
Reports to be made to Mr. v. Buelow.” |
The defendant von Buelow was the principal overseer of this camp for
Krupp; but it had been established by the defendant Ihn; and was under the
administration of the Lagerfuehrer [chief of camp], the defendant Kupke. To
fill the requirements of Krupp for labor, there were fed into this camp
(besides the eastern workers and Poles) political prisoners picked up in raids
in other countries. Krupp guards and trucks participated in the deportations.
Some of the inmates of this camp — and a similar camp of Krupp’s at
nearby Rheinhausen — who had been seized by the Gestapo as hostages, or
simply as available manpower in Belgium and Holland, will testify to their
seizure, deportation, and the heavy work and vile treatment in Krupp plants and
the deaths of many of their comrades.
In October 1943 the defendant von
Buelow concluded an agreement with one Captain Borgmeier [Borchmeyer] regarding
the punishment of prisoners of war employed in the Krupp plants. The agreement
stated that, where a prisoner of war had offended in such a manner that minor
disciplinary measures would not suffice, then the prisoner of war
(NIK-12362, Pros. Ex. 998) * — |
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“* * * will be turned over
to a military court * * *, except the Russians, who are to be brought before
the State Police. In such cases, the State Police always imposes the death
sentence, for the execution of which a Kommando [detachment] of other Russian
prisoners of war may be used.” |
| Von Buelow embodied the terms of this agreement in a note to the
defendant Lehmann, adding: |
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“I wish to request that in
the future such cases be handled according to the concluded agreements.
However, I request that the contents of this note be treated as confidential,
particularly in view of the death penalty.” |
| Krupp’s largest concentration camp was at the Bertha Works, in
Markstaedt; 5,000 concentration camp workers participated. |
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* Document reproduced in
section VIII C 1
119 |
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