Conference Authorized Extermination through Labor

Wannsee Protocol explicitly stated:

“Under proper guidance, in the course of the final solution the Jews are to be allocated for appropriate labor in the East. Able-bodied Jews, separated according to sex, will be taken in large work columns to these areas for work on roads, in the course of which action a large portion will be eliminated by natural causes”

It is almost a textbook definition of extermination through labor – cut and dry, plain and simple, loud and clear. Consequently, Wannsee Protocol (and thus the participants of Wannsee Conference) explicitly authorized mass murder of Jews.

Making the conference, indeed, a criminal conspiracy to commit serial mass murder (genocide of Jews). Therefore, Wannsee Protocol was sufficient to indict all attendees of Wannsee Conference, charge them with conspiracy to commit war crimes and crime against humanity (which were, indeed, committed), find them guilty, sentence them (all of them) to death by hanging – and execute them.

It never happened – justice was never served (as it was not served in thousands of cases of horrific crimes committed during the Holocaust).

Eichmann and Heydrich (co-authors of Wannsee Protocol) lied. In reality, only a very small number of “able-bodied Jews” were allocated for “appropriate labor in the East” (and very few of them ended up working on roads).

The overwhelming majority did not even get the chance – they were murdered (gassed) on arrival to dedicated killing centers in Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. And those who were (initially) spared in Auschwitz and Majdanek, did not last long – and almost always did not die from “natural causes”. They were gassed when it was determined that they were not efficient enough.

There is no evidence that the “Extermination through Labor” program officially existed in any camp (including Auschwitz and Majdanek); however, conditions in Nazi labor camps were so inhuman that in some camps most prisoners died within a few months of incarceration. According to WVHA estimates, the average life span of a labor camp inmates was mere nine months (in many camps it was just four).

There is evidence that the deliberate policy of Extermination through Labor did exist – but in the Soviet Gulag. For example, the penal system in the Kolyma and in the camps in the north was deliberately designed for the extermination of inmates.

Like the SS, the NKVD operated “annihilation camps” where the inmates were systematically wiped out through starvation and neglect. Which was far, far worse than poison gas – or a bullet to the head or to the heart.