S.S. General Oswald Pohl, who headed the Nazi ##oncentration camps system and was a deputy to Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, went ##n trial here today, together with 17 other SS leaders, on charges of attempting to ##exterminate entire races.”U.S. Prosecutor James McHaney told the American military court that under ##ohl’s direction a special fund was established at the Reichscenk into which gold and other valuables stripped from Jews murdered in concentration camps were placed. ##e estimated that the fund reached over $1,000,000 before the German capitulation.
The prosecutor said that Pohl had boasted that he had increased the number of ##oncentration camps to 20 and forced labor camps to 165. McHaney charged that Pohl ##ad personally witnessed barbarous experiments at Dachau in which Poles, Jews and ##ussians were used.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
