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| C. Testimony of Prosecution Witness Rainer Brambusch | |
| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS RAINER BRAMBUSCH* |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION | |
| MR. STONE: Mr.
Witness, will you please state your full name for the record? WITNESS BRAMBUSCH: Rainer Brambusch. Q. When were you born? A. On 18 March 1911 near Erkelenz. Q. Where were you born? A. In Bahl. Q. Where do you reside at the present time? A. I live in Duesseldorf. Q. What is your occupation? A. At the moment, I am an engineer. Q. And how long have you been an engineer? A. Since 1933. Q. Were you a member of the NSDAP? A. Yes, since 1935. Q. Were you a member of the Allgemeine SS? [General SS] A. Yes, from 1933. Q. Did you hold any official position in the SS, or any rank? A. At the end I was a sergeant. Q. Were you employed as an engineer by the Groeditz plant? A. Yes. From 15 December 1940 until the end of the war, I was engineer in the Groeditz machine construction plant. Q. Were any prisoners of war employed in the plant at Groeditz during those years? A. Yes. Q. When was the first time prisoners of war arrived at the Groeditz plant? A. The first Russian prisoners of war came at the end of 1941 Q. And were there other prisoners of war, other than Russian there? A. There were also French and Belgian prisoners of war. Q. How could you identify them as being prisoners of war? A. The Russian prisoners of war had "RU" written on their backs. Q. I don't quite understand. Did you say "RU"? A. There was an "R" and a "U" in yellow writing. |
* Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 29 May 1947, pages 2378-2430.
