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''DEST'', (an acronym of (ドイツ語:Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH) or "German Earth & Stone Works Company" Inc), was an SS owned company originally created to procure and manufacture building materials for state construction projects in Nazi Germany. ''DEST'' was a subsidiary company of ''Amtsgruppe W'' (''Amt. W'') of ''SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt'' (''WVHA''). Both ''Amt. W'' and the ''WVHA'' were headed by ''SS Obergruppenfuehrer Generalleutnant'' of the ''Waffen SS'' Oswald Pohl and ''SS Gruppenführer Generalleutnant'' of the ''Waffen SS'' Georg Lörner. The headquarters for ''DEST'' was located in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, a small town in Austria where Gusen II, a subcamp of Mauthausen, was built in 1944.〔St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered''. BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7610-5〕〔Business and industry in Nazi Germany By Francis R. Nicosia, Jonathan Huener Publisher: Berghahn Books; illustrated edition (March 2004) Language: English ISBN 1-57181-654-2 ISBN 978-1-57181-654-2〕〔United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). NMT 4 U.S.A. vs. Pohl ''Et.'' ''Al.'' Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project.()〕 ==History== ''DEST'', founded on April 29, 1938, in Berlin, was administered by the ''VWHA'' for the purpose of procuring building materials and organizing slave labor and overseeing quarry operations. The Sachsenhausen (1936), Buchenwald (1937), Flossenbürg (1938), Mauthausen (1938), Natzweiler-Struthof (1939), Gross Rosen (1940) and Neuengamme (1940) concentration camp sites were chosen because of their proximity to soil suitable for making bricks, or due to the close proximity of a brickworks factory or stone quarry. ''DEST'' was widely successful in the exploitation of slave labor, most of whom were Jews, in the quarries. Human labor was used cruelly, becoming one of the main tenets of war crime charges in the Nuremberg Trials. The director of the program, ''SS-Obergruppenführer'' Oswald Pohl, who was stationed in Berlin, was sentenced to death for war crimes in 1947 in Nuremberg, and executed in 1951. In 1943, ''DEST'' changed its focus from stone industry to armaments. From this time the organization played a key role, helping the SS to enter some key war industries. This was underlined by their industrial park at St. Georgen and Gusen that made the SS a key supplier of aircraft fuselages (Me 109, Me 262), carbines and machine guns to companies like Messerschmitt and Steyr-Daimler-Puch. To run its business with the inmates of the Gusen and Mauthausen concentration camps, ''DEST'' operated its headquarters of ''Granitwerke Mauthausen'' between 1940 and 1945 in the town of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen which was its biggest and most important "Werkgruppe" (industry group).〔St. Georgen - Gusen - Mauthausen: Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered By Rudolf Language: English ISBN 3-8334-7610-9 ISBN 978-3-8334-7610-5〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「DEST」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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