TWENTY-SIXTH DAY
Thursday, 3 January 1946
Morning Session
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: If the Tribunal will recall, at the
end of the last session we had finished reading a portion of the sworn
interrogation of the Gaustabsamtsleiter under the Gauleiter of Munich
and had touched on the point where he said that Kaltenbrunner issued
directives to Dachau to transport Western European prisoners by truck to
Switzerland and to march the remaining inmates into Tyrol.
I now offer, as exhibit next in order, the first five pages of the
interrogation report of Gottlob Berger, Chief of the head office of the
SS, made under oath on 20 September 1945, in the course of these
proceedings. You will find these pages at the end of the document book
and this is offered as Exhibit Number USA-529. These pages have been
translated into German and made available to the defendants.
THE PRESIDENT: Does it have a number?
LT. COMDR. HARRIS: It has no PS number, Sir. It is at the very end of
the document book. I wish to read only one question and answer from
these pages; and I refer to Page 3 of the exhibit, the last question and
answer on that page:
"Q: Assuming, only for the purposes
of this discussion, that these atrocities that we hear about are true,
who do you think is primarily responsible?
"A: The first one, the commandant; the second one, Glücks;
because he was practically responsible for all the interior direction
of the camps. If one wants to be exact, one would have to find out how
the information service between the camp commandant and Glücks;
actually operated. I want to give you the following example:
"During the night of the 22d and 23rd of April, I was sent to
Munich by plane. As I entered the city, I met a group of perhaps 120
men dressed in the suits of the concentration camps. These people made
a very miserable impression on me. I asked the guard who was with
them, 'What about these men? He told me that these men were marching
by foot to the Alps. Firstly, I sent him back to Dachau. Then I wrote