SAUCKEL: Yes, that is correct. That is a statement, a rather abbreviated
statement, probably made by Reich Minister Dr. Lammers. But I should
like to say emphatically that it can be interpreted only in this way: In
those areas, which were very numerous at the time, I could not put into
effect an administration to deal with manpower until order had been
restored through executive forces. This statement, therefore, is not
quite correct as presented here.
M. HERZOG: Defendant Sauckel, you said to us only yesterday that you
were formerly a worker. Did you ever consider that a worker could be
taken to his work handcuffed?
SAUCKEL: No, I never thought of such a thing. I hear now for the first
time that I am supposed to have sent, or had workers sent to their
places of work handcuffed. I do not remember that. In any case, I never
decreed anything like that; that much I can say.
M. HERZOG: On 30 August 1943, you made a speech in Paris to the
Allocation of Labor staffs which you were setting up in France. I give
you Document Number F-816, which I submitted to the Tribunal this
morning, and I ask you to look at it again. I ask you to read...
Mr. President, I think I have made a mistake. I do not think I submitted
that document, and, therefore, I submit it now, under the Exhibit Number
RF-1517.
[_Turning to the defendant._] Please look at Page 10 of the photostat
which has been given to you—Page 38 of the French translation, the last
line on the page:
“The most severe measures for recruiting labor—police action or
the use of handcuffs—must be applied by us in the most
unobtrusive manner.”
That is what you declared on 30 August 1943 to the Allocation of Labor
staffs when they met in Paris.
SAUCKEL: I have not found the place. Will you please have it shown to
me?