2. “CHARGES” AGAINST CONCENTRATION CAMP INMATES
In the Eastern territories, these victims were apprehended for extermination in concentration camps without any charges having been made against them. In the Western occupied territories, charges were apparently made against some of the victims. Some of the charges which the Nazis considered sufficient basis for confinement in a concentration camp are illustrated in a summary of the file of the dossier of 25 persons arrested in Luxembourg for commitment to various concentration camps and sets forth the charges made against each person (L-215). These charges read as follows:
| “Name | Charge | Place of Confinement |
| HENRICY— | By associating with members of illegal resistance movements and making money for them violating legal foreign exchange rates, by harming the interests of the Reich and being expected in the future to disobey official administrative regulations and act as an enemy of the Reich. | Natzweiler |
| KRIER— | By being responsible for advanced sabotage of labor and causing fear because of his political and criminal past. Freedom would only further his anti-social urge. | Buchenwald |
| * * | * * * * | * * |
| MONTI— | By being strongly suspected of aiding desertion. | Sachsenhausen |
| JUNKER— | Because as a relative of a deserter he is expected to endanger the interests of the German Reich if allowed to go free. | Sachsenhausen |
| JAEGER— | Because as a relative of a deserter he is expected to take advantage of every occasion to harm the German Reich. | Sachsenhausen |
| * * | * * * * | * * |
| LUDWIG— | For being strongly suspected of aiding desertion.” (L-215) | Dachau |
3. USE OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR PRISONERS OF WAR
Not only civilians of the occupied territories, but also prisoners of war were subjected to the concentration camp. A memorandum to all officers of the State Police, signed by Mueller, Chief of the Gestapo, dated 9 November 1941, discusses the “Transportation of Russian Prisoners of War, Destined for Execution, into the Concentration Camps.” (1165-PS). This memorandum states in part:
“The commandants of the concentration camps are complaining that 5 to 10% of the Soviet Russians destined for execution are arriving in the camps dead or half dead. Therefore the impression has arisen that the Stalags are getting rid of such prisoners in this way.
“It was particularly noted that, when marching, for example, from the railroad station to the camp, a rather large number of PWs collapsed on the way from exhaustion, either dead or half dead, and had to be picked up by a truck following the convoy.
“It cannot be prevented that the German people take notice of these occurrences.
“Even if the transportation to the camps is generally taken care of by the Wehrmacht, the population will attribute this situation to the SS.
“In order to prevent, if possible, similar occurrences in the future, I therefore order that, effective from today on, Soviet Russians, declared definitely suspect and obviously marked by death (for example with typhus) and who therefore would not be able to withstand the exertions of even a short march on foot, shall in the future, as a matter of basic principle, be excluded from the transport into the concentration camps for execution.” (1165-PS)