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| Q. And what is your present position today?
A. I am at present director for the U.S. Zone of the IRO [International Refugee Organization], Tracing, Child Search Branch. Q. And in your work, in connection with child search, what offices, what German agencies has it come to your attention that were involved with the taking of these children; and will you please state where this information came from? A. In the course of the past year and a half the Tracing, Child Search Branch has discovered certain documents and has heard statements by little children, by certain German foster parents, and by neighbors of such foster parents, which have disclosed to us about seven German organizations which in one way or another have been connected with the selection, the training, the institutionalization — PRESIDING JUDGE WYATT: Witness, the only thing that the Tribunal is interested in now is what you know about the number of children that came in through Lebensborn, that is all. MR. NEELY: Your Honor — JUDGE O'CONNELL : I have been refreshing my mind by looking at such notes as I have made, and my recollection and the notes that I have before me is that it has been testified that 167 children were brought into Lebensborn. Isn't the issue in rebuttal whether that is correct or whether there was more or less? MR. NEELY: Witness, I only have one question to ask you. How many children of foreign nationality have been located by your department, and of this number, how many were children who were under the custody at a former time of Lebensborn? WITNESS LAVITAN: A few less than ten thousand children have been located by us, and have either been repatriated or are in stages of repatriation. Of these, we have complete evidence on exactly 340 as having been in the hands of Lebensborn at one time or another. Q. Now, I would like to ask you in this connection: You are speaking only of the American Zone of Germany; is that correct'? A. I am speaking only of the U.S. Zone of Germany. |
| b. Selections from the Argumentation of the Defense |
| EXTRACT FROM THE CLOSING
STATEMENT FOR DEFENDANT SOLLMANN * |
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| The jurisdiction of the Lebensborn in no way lies within the |
* Closing statement is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 18 February 1848, pp. 5176 - 5205.
