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The defendant Sauckel, Plenipotentiary General for the Utilization of Labor, is authority for the statement that 'out of 5,000,000 foreign workers who arrived in Germany, not even 200,000 came voluntarily.' It was officially reported to defendant Rosenberg that in his territory 'recruiting methods were used which probably have their origin in the blackest period of the slave trade.' Sauckel himself reported that male and female agents went hunting for men, got them drunk, and 'shanghaied' them to Germany. These captives were shipped in trains without heat, food, or sanitary facilities. The dead were thrown out at stations, and the newborn were thrown out the windows of moving trains. Sauckel ordered that 'all the men must be fed, sheltered, and treated in such a way as to exploit them to the highest possible extent at the lowest conceivable degree of expenditure.'

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