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| Brigadier Glyn Hughes
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contained
quite large stocks, although they were short of certain things — I think
dressings, although I believe a large stock was found in another hut — and
they were short of anaesthetics. Within a very short time of going there we
collected 45 three-ton loads of captured German medical supplies in that area.
By another Member of the Court — Apart from the camp
doctor, what was the German medical staff at the camp? — Nil.
By the PRESIDENT — How many Red Cross boxes were there?
— One room full.
Colonel BACKHOUSE — I propose next to put in
the affidavit by Colonel Johnston (Exhibit 3).
Major WINWOOD —
Before this deposition is handed in I should like to object to paragraphs 8, 9
and 10, on the ground that this is merely a comment on the point which it is
the Court’s duty to decide.
The JUDGE ADVOCATE — I think the
man swearing this affidavit was going rather outside his province, and if we
can agree without troubling the Court, I suggest you do not read paragraph 10.
Colonel BACKHOUSE — “Deposition of Lieutenant-Colonel James
Alexander Deans Johnston, R.A.M.C., sworn before me, Major Savile Geoffrey
Champion, R.A., Legal Staff, No. 1 War Crimes Investigation Team.
1. I
command 32 (British) Casualty Clearing Station and was Senior Medical Officer
at Belsen Concentration Camp.
2. I arrived at Belsen Concentration Camp
about 0900 hours on 17th April, 1945.
3. I went round the camp and
found that it consisted of one main camp which had been in use for a
considerable time and was hutted. This was Camp No. 1, On going into the
entrance there were huts occupied by the German Camp Staff. One then passed
through a gate in the wire where the main part of the prisoners’ camp was.
This consisted of three Lager, one male and two female. There was also a female
Lager immediately adjoining on the north. The conditions which I shall describe
applied equally to all the Lager in Camp No. 1.
4. Camp No. 2 consisted
of brick buildings and was in part of the German barracks and lay about one
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