“Food is a matter of the Four Year Plan. Procurement of special food (cats, horses, et cetera).
“Clothes, billeting, messing somewhat better than at home where part of the people live in caves.
“Supply of shoes for Russians; as a rule wooden shoes, if necessary install Russian shoe repair shops.
“Examination of physical fitness in order to avoid importation of diseases.
“Clearing of mines as a rule by Russians; if possible by selected Russian engineer troops.”
The Defendant Göring was not the only one of these defendants who sponsored and applied the policy of using prisoners of war in the armament industry. The Defendant Speer also sponsored and applied this same policy of using prisoners of war in the armament industry. And we refer to the document bearing our Number 1435-PS, which also carries Exhibit Number USA-216. This document is a speech to the Nazi Gauleiter delivered by the Defendant Speer on the 24th day of February of 1942, and I wish to read from Paragraph 2 of that document, and I quote as follows:
“I therefore proposed to the Führer at the end of December that all my labor force, including specialists, be released for mass employment in the East. Subsequently the remaining prisoners of war, about 10,000, were put at the disposal of the armament industry by me.”