MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: You do not admit this?
FUNK: In no way whatsoever.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: I now submit to the Tribunal Document USSR-453. This is a new document, consisting of notes on a conference held by the Reich Commissioner for the determination of prices on 22 April 1943. Price experts from all the occupied territories attended this conference. I shall now read into the record some excerpts from this document. It says on Page 2:
“The 5½ million foreign workers are composed of: 1½ million prisoners of war, 4 million civilian workers.”
The document further says:
“1,200,000 from the East, 1,000,000 from the former Polish territories... 200,000 citizens of the Protectorate... 65,000 Croatians, 50,000 remainder of Yugoslavia (Serbia)”—and so on.
Further this document also says in connection with the equalization of prices:
“Price equalization should be operated to the debit of the producer countries, that is, through the Central Clearing Office, which for the most part is to the advantage of the occupied countries.”
On Page 14 it is stated:
“These price deliberations were of no importance for the occupied territories, since the main interest did not lie in the welfare of the population but in the utilization of all the economic forces of the country.”