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with all phases of the medical activities therein and am hereby able to make the following statement:
10. In the camp we had a great many prisoners who were jealous of the positions held by a certain few of the inmates, that is, some of the political prisoners held key positions and were able to get better living conditions than the average. Hence, many of the prisoners envied these positions and made every effort to discredit the men who held the key positions. Such traitorous actions became known through the "grapevine" to the men in the key positions and then such traitors were immediately killed. In each case I was later notified in order to make out the death statements of the prisoners killed. These statements did not indicate the actual cause of death but were made out to indicate that the prisoner died of natural causes.
11. In some instances I supervised the killing of these unworthy inmates by injections of phenol at the request of the inmates. These killings took place in the camp hospital and I was assisted by several inmates. On one occasion Dr. Ding came to the hospital to witness such killings with phenol and said that I was not doing it correctly, therefore he performed some of the injections himself. At that time three inmates were killed with phenol injections and they died within a minute.
12. The total number of traitors killed was about 150, of whom 60 were killed by phenol injections, either by myself or under my supervision in the camp hospital, and the rest were killed by various means, such as beatings, by the inmates.
The above affidavit written in the English language, consisting of five (5) pages, is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. This affidavit was given by me freely and voluntarily, without promise of reward and I was subjected to no duress or threat of any [sic]
| [Signed] Dr. Waldemar Hoven |
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT
NO-257 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 283 |
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| EXTRACT FROM A SWORN STATEMENT BY DR. ERWIN SCHULER (DING, 20 JULY 1945, CONCERNING EUTHANASIA WITH PHENOL INJECTION | ||
| Freising, 20 July 1945 | ||
| Erwin Schuler, M. D. Case 508 As ordered I am briefly answering two questions: 1. Witness of Euthanasia with Phenol at Buchenwald. |
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