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45 the neck were everyday occurrences. Epidemics of typhus and spotted fever were permitted to run rampant as a means of eliminating prisoners. Life in this camp meant nothing. Killing became a common thing, so common that a quick death was welcomed by the unfortunate ones."Passing to the next to the last sentence of this same paragraph, quoting directly . . . THE PRESIDENT: What are those exhibits that are referred to? MR. DODD: They are in evidence with the affidavit. They are attached to it. THE PRESIDENT: They are not, I suppose, mimeographed in our copy? MR. DODD: No, we have not had an opportunity to mimeograph each one of them. THE PRESIDENT: Are they documents or photographs or what? MR. DODD: They are principally documents. There are some few plans and photographs, and so on. THE PRESIDENT: Are they affidavits or what? There seem to be instances of . . . MR. DODD: Well, some of them are in the form of affidavits taken at the time of the liberation of the camp from persons who were there; and others are pictures of writings that were found there and of the plans and so on such sort of thing. THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Well the Tribunal will take judicial notice of those exhibits as well. MR. DODD: Very well, Your Honor. Reading from the last sentence of this same paragraph on the same page and quoting: "On Christmas, 1944, a number of prisoners were hanged at one time. The prisoners were forced to view this hanging. By the side of the gallows was a decorated Christmas tree; and as expressed by one prisoner, 'It was a terrible sight, that combination of prisoners hanging in the air and the glistening Christmas tree.'"We will not burden the Tribunal with a recital of all of these reports. We wish, however, to make reference to the Concentration Camp Mauthausen, one of the most notorious extermination centers; and I refer particularly to Document Number 2176-PS, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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