. NMT04-T1139
Volume IV · Page 1139
| WITNESS SYDOWER: Yes. Q. How did you escape sterilization? By going underground, or, what, Witness? A. No. Toward the end of August I was told by the Administrative Area Headquarters that I should turn in my exemption certificate. Thereupon I hid immediately. PRESIDING JUDGE WYATT: Wait a minute. You are just going into the very things I said you couldn't. Let the witness retire from the stand. |
| H. Punishment for Sexual
Intercourse with Germans |
| I. INTRODUCTION |
| The defendants Greifelt, Creutz,
Meyer-Hetling, Schwarzenberger, Hofmann, Hildebrandt, and Schwalm were charged
with special responsibility for and participation in criminal conduct involving
severe punishment of foreign nationals (slave laborers and prisoners of war)
for sexual intercourse with Germans (indictment, count one, par. 14; count
two, pars. 2.4 and 25). On this charge only the defendants Hofmann and
Hildebrandt were convicted. Argument of the prosecution concerning this subject appears in the opening statement on pages 622 to 694. The selection from the evidence of the prosecution and from the evidence and arguments of the defense has been divided into two parts: Treatment of aliens who had sexual intercourse with Germans, pages 1140 to 1165 ; and, Meaning of the expression "Special Treatment", pages 1166 to 1172. The defendants claimed not to have known that "special treatment" in this connection meant hanging. The prosecution introduced evidence concerning the meaning of this expression. A selection from the evidence of the prosecution concerning the treatment of aliens who had sexual intercourse with Germans is set forth on pages 1140 to 1154. This is followed by extracts from the closing statements for the defendants Greifelt and Hofmann on pages 1154 to 1157. A selection from the evidence and arguments of the defense appears on pages 1154 to 1165. One document selected from the prosecution's evidence on the meaning of the expression "Special Treatment" appears on pages 1166 to 1167. This is followed by selections from the evidence of the defense on this point, on pages 1167 to 1172. |
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