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DR. KAUFFMANN: The latter.
THE PRESIDENT: That the affidavit should not be read?
DR. KAUFFMANN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Are you referring to the affidavit of Höllriegl
Document 2753-PS?
DR. KAUFFMANN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal is of the opinion that the affidavit, which
is upon a relevant point, upon a material point, is evidence which ought
to be admitted under Article 19 of the Charter; but they will consider
any motion which counsel for Kaltenbrunner may think fit to make for
cross-examination of the witness who made the affidavit if he is
available and could be called.
[To Lieutenant Commander Harris.] You were dealing with these
photographs, were you not?
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: Yes, Sir. They have been offered in evidence as the
exhibit next in order, and I wish to refer to the first affidavit
accompanying them, which appears in the document book.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: It being the affidavit of Alois Höllriegl
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. You had handed up the affidavit at the same time,
had you not?
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: Yes, Sir, I did, Sir. That affidavit states, and I
quote:
"I was a member of the Totenkopf SS
and stationed in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp from January 1940
until the end of the war. I am thoroughly familiar with all of the
buildings and grounds at Mauthausen Concentration Camp. I have been
shown Document 2641-PS, which is a series of six photographs. I
recognize all of these photographs as having been taken at Mauthausen
Concentration Camp. With respect to the first photograph I positively
identify Heinrich Himmler as the man on the left, Ziereis, the
commandant of Mauthausen Concentration Camp in the center, and Ernst
Kaltenbrunner as the man on the right."
THE PRESIDENT: He does not say, does he, at what date the photographs
were taken?
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: No, Sir, I have no evidence as to what date the
photographs were taken, Sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Just that Kaltenbrunner was there?
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: Just that Kaltenbrunner was there, at some time, in
the company of Ziereis and Himmler.