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Volume V · Page 764
| EXTRACT FROM TESTIMONY
OF DEFENDANT VOGT |
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| RE-CROSS EXAMINATION |
| MR. ROBBINS: Witness, you say in your
affidavit, which is in document book 1, Document NO-1567, Prosecution Exhibit
18, that you were taken into the Party on 1 April 1938, and according to my
notes you told us today that you were taken into the Party in 1937. Suppose you
tell us now when you really were taken into the Party. DEFENDANT VOGT: I do not remember the date exactly; I do not know. Q. Well, it was a long way from 1937, wasn't it? A. From April 1937 I was on leave from my office, and then I was not a Party member. Q. If I tell you that the prosecution has in its possession your curriculum vitae in your own handwriting, which is part of your 201 file, your personal records, with the SS, will that refresh your memory? A. Yes. I don't know it by heart; it could, of course. Q. Suppose I tell you that you say in that record, in your own handwriting, that you joined the Party in April 1920; and that in 1921 you organized a Party group in Deggendorf. Does that help your recollection any? A. Mr. Prosecutor, that was no organization of the Party. At that time I was a member of an organization called "Bund Bayern and Reich," and was with the "Voelkische Block." That was called the beginning of a party at that time. I myself came from the army and I joined the home guard and took part — I did take part in general revolutionary movements only insofar as others took part in it, but that was not a party in the ordinary sense of the word. Q. You don't deny that you took credit in your curriculum vitae for joining the Party in 1920 and for organizing a Party group in 1921, do you? A. I did not organize a party myself. Q. I didn't ask you that. I asked you if you denied that you stated in your curriculum vitae that you were a member of the Party in 1920 and that you organized a party group in Deggendorf in 1921. Do you remember that from your curriculum vitae? A. No. I do not remember that, but Mr. Prosecutor, this matter was organized by Gregor Strasser at that time, who was from Deggendorf. |
* Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 13, 16, and 17 June 1947, pp. 2757-2916.
