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| not a question of wanting to or
being able to tell you. After so many years, I can't tell you how many visits I
made to the individual plants and how many times 1 have seen the commander. It
would simply be impossible. Q. Now, Defendant, you must have had some sort of regular inspection trips to your plants. How often did you visit the plants now. You said you had 14 by the end of the war. How many times did you visit those plants during a year's time? A. Well, it depended entirely on the importance of my call, and it depended on the importance of the plant also. As an average, in the more important plants, it was three or four, and possibly five times a year, and in the smaller enterprises, or plants, it was once or twice a year at the utmost. Q. But you made it a point to visit every plant of the DES I industry, didn't you, Defendant? A. Yes. That was my duty. Q. And isn't it true that you customarily went inside the camp proper when you made visits to these plants? A. If it was necessary to talk to the commander, I would go to his office. Q. All right, that gets us rather close to a figure, doesn't it, Defendant? You said you visited at least the larger plants as frequently as five times a year. You just take a rough average of ten plants, that's 50 trips a year. So, my figure of 50 times in the concentration camps was undoubtedly too low, wasn't it, Defendant? A. I did not go to the commander every time I went to visit a plant. That was not necessary every time I went to visit a plant. Q. You just testified that you usually did though, isn't that true ? A. I stated that if it should become necessary I went to see the commander. Q. And that was usually necessary, wasn't it? A. Frequently. |
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| Q. Now, Witness, we didn't quite get the fact
straight about the reports on deaths among inmates working for DEST, and I ask
you, did you ever receive a report of any kind stating that deaths had occurred
among the inmates working for a DEST enterprise ? A. I cannot recall ever having received such a report. Q. So your testimony is that you received no reports of even a single death? A. I have already stated in my direct examination that acci- […dents] |
