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| Commander of 10a that dealt with it; when
orders had been received from the army for the commander to concentrate the
Jews, they were rounded up. Q. Did I understand you to say that the commander of l0a — what is this designation? Will you go a little further into details? A. Under direct examination I said that at Simferopol a Teilkommando, which was part of Kommando 10a, a few days after arrival was subordinated to me. The way I remember it is that originally it was Kommando 10a. Q. Thank you. The translation came over in better shape that time. Well, approximately how many Jews were there in this number which were executed? A. I have already said here that I cannot give you a definite figure. As far as I remember, I gave you the exact number of Jews present in peacetime in Simferopol. I also told you that at least half of them had escaped, but I cannot give you the exact figures. Q. Can you give me an approximate figure? A. No. I cannot do that either, unless I can just work it out this way. There were approximately 10,000 before, half of whom had escaped and from that I can deduce that in all circumstances there must have been fewer than 4,000 to 5,000, but I cannot give you an exact figure. Q. Then there were more than 1,000 executed during this one instance, is that what I am to gather? A. I think I am certain that there were more than 1,000. Q. Were women and children included in this number in this incident? A. Yes, but I have to add that on account of the rumors and on account of people escaping I think there were only a very few children. Anyway, I myself never saw children being shot, but there were women among them for certain. Q. Do you remember approximately how large the execution squad was that performed this execution? A. They were detachments, I believe, of 10 men. In each case there was a military commander. The exact number of these squads I cannot give you. Q. Were they composed of regular police or state police, army, and Gestapo? A. I have already told you that the majority of them were companies from the regular police, but I cannot give you any details as to their composition, all the more so because I believe that I remember that they were being relieved at the time. Q. Am I to assume that these executions were ordered by the army? A. Mr. Prosecutor, it happened the way I described it to you. |
