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I saw in the courtyard. The 300 French women sentenced to death were sent to Ravensbrueck at the end of November 1944. The night before they were transported they had to sleep on a bare stone floor. One of the auxiliary wardens, who was also an interpreter for them and who had a great deal of courage and a kind heart, came to me in order to ask us political prisoners to give them our blankets, which we certainly did." |
| She further testified: |
"I know and have seen for myself that, for instance, in Moabit, some of the brutal wardens kicked them and shouted at them for reasons which seemed very, very unjust because these women did not understand what they were supposed to do." |
| The Night and Fog decree was from time to time implemented by several plans or schemes, which were enforced by the defendants. One plan or scheme was the transfer of alleged resistance prisoners or persons from occupied territories who had served their sentences or had been acquitted to concentration camps in Germany where they were held incommunicado and were never heard from again. Another scheme was the transfer of the inhabitants of occupied territories to concentration camps in Germany as a substitute for a court trial. Defendant Engert made such an order. |
| Trials under NN Decree |
| The evidence establishes beyond a reasonable
doubt that in the execution of the Hitler NN decree the Nazi regime's Ministry
of Justice, Special Courts, and public prosecutors agreed to and acted together
with the OKW and Gestapo in causing to be arrested, transported to Germany,
tried, sentenced to death and executed, or imprisoned under the most cruel and
inhumane conditions in prisons and concentration camps, thousands of the
civilian population of the countries overrun and occupied by the Nazi regime's
military forces during the prosecution of its criminal and aggressive war.
The trials of the accused NN persons did not approach even a semblance of fair trial or justice. The accused NN persons were arrested and secretly transported to Germany and other countries for trial. They were held incommunicado. In many instances they were denied the right to introduce evidence, to be confronted by witnesses against them, or to present witnesses in their own behalf. They were tried secretly and denied the right of counsel of their own choice, and occasionally denied the aid of any counsel. No indictment was served in many instances and the accused |
