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| Q. Didn't you find 53,000,000 and some odd
marks there? A. No. 53,000,000 marks — that had already been handed over, your Honor. 53,000,000 marks had been handed over already before 3 February 1943. I looked into the cash there in June 1943. Q. Wasn't it already there and you went down to check it? Wasn't that what you were there for, to check what he had on hand, the cash on hand, 53,000,000 marks? A. No, your Honor. Q. Well, his report shows that he had it on hand doesn't he? A. These 53,000,000 were no longer in Lublin. Q. How about banknotes? A. The foreign currency was not left there either. That was new foreign currency which had meanwhile been delivered. Q. How many bank notes did you find there, approximately? A. Well, that is extremely difficult to say. It was a large parcel about this size, and most of it was Romanian lei, but from all over the world also. Q. Did you find some American currency? A. Yes. Yes, also dollars; certainly. Q. Didn't you find some British pounds! A. Yes, certainly. Q. Didn't you find a large amount of French money? A. French money, yes; but I am unable to say very much about the details. Money was there from all over the world. Q. Didn't you even find some Cuban money there? A. I don't know anymore. Q. I'll ask you if you didn't find money from practically every known nation of the earth? A. From all over the world, your Honor, all countries. Q. I'll ask you further if you didn't find at the time you made this check as many as several thousand different kinds of items of personal property. A. No. The examination showed only the money. Other items were not present there. They were not in the treasury because the treasury was in the official building of the garrison administration. Q. Didn't this man Wippern tell you then that this was stolen property? A. Wippern told me, "These are confiscated goods from confiscations carried out by Police Leader Globocnik." Q. Didn't you then make up your mind that this was ill-gotten property and that after you had made your check you were so shocked until you almost ran away from there ? A. Your Honor, for me as an official — |
