On March 21, 1946, the chief prosecutor of the Soviet Union at the Nuremberg Trials, Roman Rudenko, interrogated Hermann Göring:
Rudenko: ...were people forcibly deported into slavery in Germany for the purpose of labor? Is that correct?
Göring: Not into slavery, but they were brought to Germany for work. However, I must emphasize that not all the people taken from the East, who are now missing there, were brought to work by us. For example, from Poland, in the area that the Soviet Union occupied at the time, 1,680,000 Poles and Ukrainians had already been transported to the East, the Far East, by the Soviet Union beforehand.
Rudenko: I believe it would be better for you not to bring up the issue of the Soviet Union's territory. Answer the question...
Source: *The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal...* (Trial Transcripts), Vol. IX, pp. 702f."
Rudenko: ...were people forcibly deported into slavery in Germany for the purpose of labor? Is that correct?
Göring: Not into slavery, but they were brought to Germany for work. However, I must emphasize that not all the people taken from the East, who are now missing there, were brought to work by us. For example, from Poland, in the area that the Soviet Union occupied at the time, 1,680,000 Poles and Ukrainians had already been transported to the East, the Far East, by the Soviet Union beforehand.
Rudenko: I believe it would be better for you not to bring up the issue of the Soviet Union's territory. Answer the question...
Source: *The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal...* (Trial Transcripts), Vol. IX, pp. 702f."
