. NMT05-T0348
Volume V · Page 348
| Q. You sent Burger out to
Auschwitz around 1913 as an administrative officer in Auschwitz, didn't you?
A. I don't know anything about that. I believe he was already at Auschwitz when I came. Q. You don't remember sending him to Auschwitz? You don't remember signing the order sending him there? A. It may be possible, but I assume that he had already been sent there at an earlier period of time. However, it is quite possible that this was done on my orders in this individual case. With these 2,800 or 2,500 people, I really can't recall in detail whom I sent; but it is quite possible. Q. Wasn't this actually a function of office A V/4 ? A. No. Q. What office under A V handled this matter? A. A V/2. Q. Now, if someone was called back from the Waffen SS, from the front, for example from the Death Head combat division, to the WVHA for reassignment as an administrative officer in the concentration camp, this would be handled in A V/2. Is that right ? A. Well, it doesn't matter from what unit in the field he came. That applied to all units in the field. Later on there were no Death Head units anymore, but we had a Death Head division. After the beginning of the war the division was designated as the "Death Head" division, just like any other division, the "Viking" division, or the Division "Das Reich." This applied to all divisions. |
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| B. The Concentration Camp System |
| I. INTRODUCTION |
| The indictment charged, in paragraph 14, that "The concentration camps were the principal means through which the defendants committed the crimes charged." The materials reproduced in this section deal with the concentration camp system, the treatment of the concentration camp prisoners or inmates, their working conditions, their state of health, their death rate, etc. Evidence of the prosecution, on pages 353 to 416, is followed by evidence of the defense pages 417 to 481. Of course evidence on the concentration camp system is likewise contained in the material gathered together in subsequent sections, since the concentration camp system was connected in various ways with the economic enterprises of the WVHA, (pp. 481 to 577) ; the allocation of inmates to construction and industrial work, (pp 577 to 607) ; |
