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| Q. Just answer my question, please, and then
you can make any explanation you desire. A. That is true, yes; but that it was stolen property was not known to me. I had to assume that it was confiscated goods which had been taken away from the new arrivals. To me, as an official, it was a confiscation which had already been carried out. Q. When you went over to that camp you saw practically all Jews there, didn't you? A. Well, I assumed that they were all Jews. I don't know who was locked up. Q. I'm talking about the ones that you saw. A. I only looked into the workshops where I saw people. Q. What about the ones that you saw in the workshops then? A. I assumed that they were all Jews, yes; but I'm not sure. Q. You knew they were foreign Jews didn't you? A. There were also German Jews there. Q. The majority of them were foreign Jews? A. Yes, quite. Q. You thought this property was taken away from them? A. Yes. Q. That shocked you so until you hurriedly left there to get back ? A. What shocked me, your Honor, was that so many people were interned there. That I saw for the first time. Q. The taking of the property didn't shock you? A. That was before, when I counted the money, I saw that. Now I'm speaking only about the camps. Q. You asked this man Wippern what "Action Reinhardt" meant, didn't you, or what the letter "R" meant? A. The letter "R" stood for an account; and he didn't explain to me what it was about. He only said it was a cover-name for a secret matter. Q. Just answer my question. We can go along faster. I asked you, did you ask Wippern what the letter "R" meant? Did you ask him that or not? A. Yes. Q. All right, now, what did he say? A. "It is a cover-name for a secret matter." Q. That put you on guard right then that there was something wrong with it, didn't it? A. Yes, because of the cover-name. Q. Yes, and why didn't you go back then and report it to Pohl, your superior of the Main Office, and tell him that Frank had sent you over there on something you thought was crooked, and |
