S.S. General Accused Of 20,000,000 Murders
(Received 11 a.m.) NUREMBERG, April 8. THE United States prosecutor cited a special fund built up from wealth seized from the corpses of murdered Jews in the trial of S.S. General Oswald Pohl, head of the Nazi concentration-camp system. Pohl is accused of responsibility for the murder of 20,000,000 persons in camps all over Europe.
The prosecutor said that more than £250,000 was paid into the fund at the German Reichsbank.
This represented the value of jewellery, gold, spectacles and gold teeth, taken from Jews whom the SS murdered.
The prosecutor asserted that through this fund and the profit of industries operated on concentration-camp labour, the SS hoped to become economically independent of both the German state and the Nazi Party. Pohl is one of 18 SS leaders on trial.
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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1947, Page 5
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