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Minutes of a Fuehrer Conference concerning the conscription of 4,050,000 workers for the war economy, including workers from the concentration camps and POWs
IMT
Authors
Hans H. Lammers (Dr., Chief of Reich Chancellery)
Hans H. Lammers
German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)
- Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec)
- Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness)
- Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague)
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Fritz Sauckel (Plenipotentiary for Labor Mobilization)
Fritz Sauckel
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1894-1946)
- Born: 1894-10-27 (Haßfurt) (located in the administrative territorial entity: Bavaria)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: item/value with less precision and/or accuracy; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: International Military Tribunal (date: 1946-09-23; role: affiant, defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Albert Speer (Minister for Armament and War Production)
Albert Speer
German architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany (1905-1981)
- Born: 1905-03-19 (Mannheim) (country: Germany)
- Died: 1981-09-01 (London)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: architect; autobiographer; engineer; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (series ordinal: 474481)
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant); Milch Trial (date: 1945-10-18; role: witness)
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
Date: 04 January 1944
Literal Title: Ref.: Allocation of Labor 1944
Defendants: Wilhelm Keitel, Fritz Sauckel, Albert Speer
Total Pages: 6
Language of Text: Multilanguage
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-1292
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 68
Document Book No: Prosecution Forced labor
Citations: IMT (page 3034), IMT (page 3048)
HLSL Item No.: 453448
Notes:In French (4pp), then English (2pp). Lammers recorded statements by Hitler, Sauckel, Speer, and Himmler.
Trial Issues
Forced labor and mistreatment of workers in war economy (IMT, NMT 2) Forced labor in concentration camps and SS labor units (IMT, NMT 4)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-1292: Minutes taken at a Fuehrer Meeting, subject: Procurement of New Labor Supplies, and a letter from Sauckel to Lammers, same subject
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-1292: Notes by Dr. Lammers on a discussion with Hitler on 4 January 1944 (hitler, Sauckel, Speer, Keitel, Milch, backe, Himmler, Dr. Lammers): at least 4 million more workers are to be recruited from the occupied territories. telegram from Sauckel to Lammers, 5 (january 1944, on the result of the discussion
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-1292: 4 January 1944. Lammers report on Hitler meeting re allocation of labor.
Sauckel letter to LAMERS. including the rulings made by Hitler at confenrence set forth in previous document NG-1508. In this letter LAMMERS is asked to confirm the results to the chiefs who participated, and to support Sauckel in the introduction of measures which have become necessary as a result of the conference