| 39. |
(cont.)
and the other 30 covered in a mantle of silence.
Each death occurring at
the camp was notified to and recorded at the Natzweiler Town Hall. But there is
no mention of these 87 Jews. They arrived at the camp alive and left it dead,
without it being known why.] |
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| 40. |
Book with
notes made by SS-man Volkmar of the K.L. Natzweiler Kommandantur.
Sheet 71
(reverse) bears the following remark: “Hydrocyanic acid gas Prof.
Hirt.” (Hydrocyanic acid is a very strong poison). The names of Profs.
Hagen and Bickenbach appear on the other two.
[The “book” is a
small pocket note-book with a black cover.] |
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| 41. |
Page from
SS-man Volkmar's note-book.
[“Prof. Bickenbach” is noted on
the 4th line.] |
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| 42. |
Page from
SS-man Volkmar's note-book.
[“Prof. Hirt” is noted on the 1st
line, and “Prof. Hagen” on the 3rd line.] |
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| 43. |
Page from
SS-man Volkmar's note-book.
[“gas Blausäure Prof. Hirt”
is noted on the 3rd line. The reports of the 14th and 21st August 1943,
together with SS-man Volkmar’s note-book, are in themselves devastating
and irrefutable evidence for the prosecution.] |
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| 44. |
Record of
questioning by the Permanent Military Tribunal of Military Region 10, sitting
in Strasbourg, carried out on the 26 July 1945 by Major Jadin, military
investigative judge, of witness Kramer Jose[f]ph, Hauptsturmführer-SS, 39
years of age, resident in Bergen-Belsen.
[These are extracts from the
tribunal report of the 26 July 1945, the so called “first deposition”
by J. Kramer, classified as documents 107 and 1806/V/2 of the Struthof
trial.] |
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| 45. |
Idem.
[Ditto] |
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| 46. |
Idem.
[Ditto] |
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| 47. |
Idem.
[Ditto] |
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V. Corpses at the Institute of Anatomy
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| 48. |
Heading
of the Institute of Anatomy. |
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| 49. |
Vats for
preservation in alcohol of corpses to be used for anatomical preparations.
[Located in the basement morgue (called “Leichenkeller”
according to document
NO-088) of the
Institute, these vats, filled with synthetic alcohol at 55 degrees Centigrade,
contained 16 (or 17) whole corpses, of which 3 were women, as
well as numerous limbs and other pieces of dismembered corpses.]
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