exacting, cruel youth. That is what I want. Our youth must be in the possession of all these qualities. It must be without pity before suffering. It must be without weakness or softness. I want to see a glint of the wild animal in its eye." And the defendant Schirach instilled systematically the ideas of Hitlerism in the conscience of German youth and educated the German youth in the spirit of Hitler's wishes, modelling them after the image of the grown-up leaders of the Hitlerite band.

During cross-examination, the defendant Schirach was, at the end, forced to admit that the German youth was brought up in the spirit of National Socialist ideas, that members of the SA, officers of the German armed forces, and the SS, participated in its education, and that intense preparation of the youth for war was being carried out in Germany. For this purpose, special agreements were made between the Reich leaders of "Hitlerjugend" and the OKW, as represented by the defendant Keitel and the Reichsfuehrer Himmler, which made provisions for the education of youth in the spirit of aggressive militarism and appropriate enlistment and the preparation of youth for the German armed forces and the SS units.

The part taken by the defendant von Schirach and his participation in the common conspiracy, in war crimes, and crimes against humanity are best of all characterized by the behavior of the German youth brought up in "Hitlerjugend" during the

war.

The Soviet prosecution has presented to the Tribunal under USSR-6, in conformity with Article 21 of the Charter, a report of the Extraordinary State Commission about the crimes of the Germans on the territory of Lwow region. This report records the declaration of the French citizen, Ida. Wasseaux about the inhuman execution by the members of the "Hitlerjugend" of young children, of whom they made targets for shooting. In her written deposition of 16 May 1946, and also in her answer to the questionnaire of Counsel for the defendant Schirach, Ida Wasseaux confirmed this declaration in full. (USSR-455)

Conclusive testimony about the actions of the members of the "Hitlerjugend" in the cadre of the German armed forces were given by a German soldier, war-prisoner, Hertom Knitel, himself a former member of the "Hitlerjugend" since 1936 and who at the age of 18 was recruited into the German army in 1942. Describing his participation in numerous crimes, Hert Knitel, declared (USSR-454): "In the locality of Lishaisk, our company set on fire in June 1943 a house with all the people who were in it. * All those tried to jump out of the house, we shot

down excepting one old woman whom we did not shoot down, as she lost her mind before our very eyes.

For all these crimes, the defendant von Schirach bears full responsibility together with Hert Knitel and thousands of others. Schirach himself did not, of course, shoot, did not set on fire but he armed the German youth, morally corrupted it, and prepared it for the realization of any atrocity. But the activity during the war of the "Hitlerjugend" and the defendant Schirach was not limited to these crimes only.

The "Hitlerjugend" took an active part in the preparation of the war of aggression by the creation of fifth columns in Poland and Yugoslavia; the official reports of the Polish and the Yugoslav Governments testify to this fact. The Organization "Hitlerjugend” took an active part in the execution of all the measures undertaken by the Ministry for Occupied Eastern Territories, and this is shown by the report of the defendant Rosenberg, presented to the Tribunal; it participated also in the deportation for slavery from the occupied territories of children between the ages of 10 and 14, which fact is proved by a document presented to the Tribunal under 1031-PS.

In his capacity of Reich Deputy and Gauleiter of Vienna, Schirach directed personally the eviction of 60,000 Jews from Vienna, and who afterwards were exterminated in the concentration camps of Poland. The documents presented by the Prosecution-weekly reports addressed to Schirach-prove the fact that he was informed of all the numerous crimes perpetrated by the German armed forces and the occupation authorities in the East, and, in particular, about the tragic fate of the tens of thousands of Jews deported from Vienna.

In 1940, the defendant Schirach sent a telegram to Bormann in which he demanded the destruction from the air of one of the cultural towns of Great Britain, in answer to the murder of Heydrich, that butcher of Bohemia and Moravia. This telegram is in itself a sufficiently vivid and convincing description of the moral aspect of von Schirach.

Faithful to the Hitlerite clique, right to the end, aware of all its criminal deeds in which he himself took an active part-the defendant von Schirach is one of the most sinister figures of the third Reich.

SAUCKEL

I have already indicated in my Opening Statement that the action of deporting civilians-men, women, and children for forced labor into Germany-was one of the most important in the chain of heinous crimes committed by the German-Fascist usurpers. The decisive role in this sinister crime was enacted by the defendant Fritz Sauckel.

During cross-examination in this court-room defendant Sauckel could not help but admit that during the war about 10 million enslaved laborers originating from both occupied territories and from the ranks of prisoners of war, were utilized in German industrial undertakings and also partly for German agricultural labor. Whilst admitting the deportation to Germany and the utilization for the war industry of Hitlerite Germany of millions of workers from the occupied territories, Sauckel denied the criminal character of this action, affirming that the recruiting of labor was allegedly carried out on a voluntary basis. This assertion is not only a lie but a slander against the millions of honest patriots of the Soviet Union, of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, France and Holland who, devoted to their country, were forcibly sent for labor into Hitlerite Germany.

The attempts of defendant Sauckel to depict his part of plenipotentiary general for the utilization of manpower as merely consisting of coordinating and controlling other government labor organizations are futile. As the plenipotentiary general for labor employment, Sauckel was invested by Hitler with supreme and all-encompassing powers, and was, in his activity, directly and personally subordinate to Goering.

And Sauckel extensively used these full powers in order to deport to Germany labor from occupied territories.

There is no need to refer to the extensive documentary evidence presented to the Tribunal and which irrefutably establishes the criminal character of the methods of mass deportation into slavery of the population of occupied territories as well as the role of the defendant Sauckel in organizing these crimes. How far these crimes extended is shown in the operation carried out by the German military and civil authorities, and ciphered under the name "Seno" which provided for the forced deportation of Ukrainian girls destined by Hitler for Germanisation. (031-PS, USA 171; USSR-365; 025-PS, USA 698) The defendant Sauckel has tried to assure the Tribunal that he had strictly complied with the demands of the Geneva and Hague Conventions concerning utilization of labor of prisoners of war. However his own instructions fully expose his lies.

The defendant Sauckel had planned beforehand the forced utilization of Soviet war prisoners for the war industry in Germany and never made any difference between them and the civilian labor forces. The inhuman conditions under which the foreign workers and prisoners of war deported for slavery lived are testified to by the numerous documents submitted as evidence. The defendant Sauckel himself was obliged to admit that foreign workers were kept in camps behind barbed wire and were obliged to wear special identifying badges.

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The witness Dr. Wilhelm Eger summoned to the Tribunal by counsel for the defense was obliged to give an awful picture of the conditions under which the enslaved workers at Krupp's work lived. After all this, the deposition of the other witness Fritz Wishofer seems ridiculous because trying to excuse Sauckel, he manifestly overdid it by informing the Tribunal that he allegedly saw foreign workers walking and enjoying themselves in the Prater in Vienna.

The defendant Sauckel showed great activity in committing all these crimes. In April 1943, he personally visited the towns of Rowno, Kiev, Dniepropetrovsk, Saporozhie, Simferopol, Minsk, Riga and, in June of the same year, Prague, Cracow and again Kiev, Saporozhie, and Melitopol in order to force the deportation of labor. And it was as a result of his journey to the Ukraine in 1943 that Sauckel expressed his gratitude for the successful mobilization of labor forces, to the Reichskommissar of the Ukraine Koch, known for the drastically cruel measures which he applied with regard to the Ukrainian population.

And it is not mere chance that the criminal activity of Sauckel was so highly appreciated in Hitlerite Germany. On 6th August 1942 the defendant Goering declared at the conference of the Reichskommissars for the occupied territories:

"I do not wish to praise Gauleiter Sauckel. He does not need it. But what he has done in this short time in order to gather workers rapidly and to have them brought to our enterprises is a unique achievement. I must tell everybody, gentlemen, that if each of you applied but the tenth part of the energy which Gauleiter Sauckel applied in his sphere, it would be easy indeed to fulfil the tasks imposed upon you. *****

In the article published in the Reichsarbeitsblatt for 1944 and dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Sauckel it was said:

"True to his political task, he pursues his responsible course with unyielding consistency and steadfastness, with a fanatical belief. As one of the most faithful adherents of Hitler, he gathers his creative and spiritual strength from the Fuehrer's trust in him."

When estimating the criminal activity of Sauckel, Your Honors will surely consider the tears shed by the millions of people who languished in German slavery, of the thousands of people tortured in inhuman conditions in the workers' camps-they will consider this and will judge accordingly.

The defendant Artur Seyss-Inquart was appointed by Hitler Chief of the civil administration in Southern Poland at the beginning of September 1939 and, since 12 October of the same year, Deputy Governor General of Poland. He held this post till May 1940.

Over a period of seven months Seyss-Inquart personally, under the leadership of Frank and jointly with him, established a regime of terror in Poland, and took an active part in elaborating and realizing the plans for the extermination of many thousands of people, for the economic plunder and enslavement of the people of the Polish state. On 17 November, 1939, Seyss-Inquart addressed the chiefs of the administration and departments of the Warsaw Government. He mentioned among other things, that when the German administration acted in the General Government "its leading principle must be the interests of the German Reich. By means of a severe and unrelenting administration this region must be utilized for German economy, and in order not to show any unnecessary charity, one must remember how the Polish race usurped the German territory." Two days later Seyss-Inquart instructed the Lublin Governor Brigadenfuehrer Schmidt on the same question in the following way: "The resources and the inhabitants of this country must serve Germany, and they may prosper only within these limits. The development of independent political thinking cannot be permitted. Perhaps the Vistula will have an even greater significance for the fate of Germany than the Rhein."

The report on the official journey of Seyss-Inquart establishes that the governor of Warsaw Fischer informed the defendant that all valuables of the Warsaw bank in gold, precious metals, and bills of exchange were transferred to the Reichsbank, while the Polish inhabitants were obliged to leave their deposits in the banks; that he was informed that the German administration was employing forced labor; that the Lublin Governor Schmidt declared in the presence of Seyss-Inquart: "This territory with its strongly marked swampy nature could serve as a region for the Jews, where conditions could be created to shoot every tenth Jew." I draw the attention of the Tribunal to the fact that it was exactly at Maidanek near Lublin that the Hitlerite henchmen created an enormous death concern in which they exterminated about one million and a half human beings.

It is also known that Seyss-Inquart, as Frank's deputy, fulfilled on his behalf so-called "special tasks". On 8th December 1939, Seyss-Inquart participated in a conference on the following subjects: the appointment of Frank as authorized Plenipotentiary