“Sauckel: First of all, I should like to point out that this
document is dated 6 March 1941—that is more than one year
before I assumed office.... Since this document, Number 4, has
been submitted to the Tribunal, I must add supplementary
documents to my case which confirm that I automatically
destroyed all such unnecessary directives.... In such a case I
could not have issued orders of this description to any
government office in the Reich.”
Do you remember these depositions given at the session of the 29th of
May the current year?
SAUCKEL: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: General, I am told that this is an incorrect translation.
It was “revoked” and not “destroyed.” You said “destroyed,” did you not?
GEN. ALEXANDROV: I am reading from the Russian transcript and perhaps
there are certain inaccuracies in it, but I do not object to replacing
“destroy” by “revoke.” The meaning remains the same.
SAUCKEL: May I ask for the context to be repeated? It is not quite
clear.
GEN. ALEXANDROV: No, I do not want to revert to Document EC-68. All I
want is to establish what you said in reply to your defense counsel in
connection with this document. You do not contradict your testimony
which I have just read into the record? Does it correspond to the
statement you made here on the 29th of May?
SAUCKEL: No. But I do not understand what the term “destroyed” has to do
with it.
GEN. ALEXANDROV: We should not read “destroy,” but should use the word
“revoke.”
SAUCKEL: That is possible.
GEN. ALEXANDROV: So you confirm the testimony which I have just read
into the record from the transcript.
Now, tell us, do you remember the living conditions you imposed on the
Ukrainian women and girls from the occupied territories, on those who
had been mobilized for work in German agriculture?