Count One & Count Two against Defendant Pleiger of Herman Goering Works for War Crimes and Crimes - Page 1

COWT ONE 1. The defendant Pleiger, with divers other persons, daring the period from September 1939 to !Лу 19b 5, condtted war Crimes and Crimes against Humanity as defined by Article XI of Control Council Law Ho.10, in that he wae a principal in, accessory to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, was connected with plans and enterprises involving, and was a member of organisations or -Toups compacted withi enslavement and deportation to slave labor on a gigantic scale of members of the civilian populations of countries and territories under the belligerent occupation of, or otherwise controlled by, the Third Keichj enslavement of concentration caap inmates including German naticnalej the use of prisoners of war in war operations and wort: leaving a direct relation with war operational and t mis treatment, terrorise tion, torture and murder of enslaved persons and prisoners of war. In the course of these activities millions of persons were enslaved, deported, ill-treated, terrorised, tortured, and murdered. 2. The acts, conduct, plans and enterprises referred to above wore carried out as part of the slave labor urogram of the niird Reich, in the course of which millions of persons including women and children were subjected to forced labor aider cruel and inhumane conditions which resulted in widespread suffering and many deaths. At loast five million workers тгего deported to Oemany. The conscription of labor was accomplished in many cases by drastic and violent methods. Workers destined for tho Reich were sent under guard to Gen.mny, often packed in trains without adequate heat, food, clothing or sanitary facilities. Other inhabitants of occupied countries were conscripted and compelled to work in their own countries to assist the Gorman war economy. The resources and needs of the occupied countries were completely disregarded in the execution of the said plans and enterprises as were the family honor and rights of the civilian populations involved. Prisoners of war were assigned to work directly related to war opo rations, including work in arraa:Tant factories. The treatment of slave laborers and prisoners of war was bused on the principle that they should be fed, s altered, anti treated in such a way as to exploit them to the greatest possible extent at the lowest expenditure.