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| ones only arrived in
October, 1944; that was at a time when the first signs of collapse appeared.
Q. Did you know in October 1944 that they were being hired? A. That the war, at the end of 1944, couldn't last much longer was very clear to me — PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: Dr. Dix — DR. DIX (counsel for defendant Flick) : I should like to come back to this letter from Henningsdorf during my reexamination. Since I believe to have observed that this letter was returned by the defendant, I would ask that the letter be handed to me either in its original or else that I be given a copy of that letter. MR. ERVIN: I will make available to Dr. Dix all the documents that I have referred to in cross-examination, including this letter, prior to his redirect. Defendant, what I would like to know is if at the time these concentration camp workers were hired — which is in October 1944 — you knew about it. A. I cannot say that. I don't believe it. I have seen here that report from Busch-Bautzen of this period, according to which concentration camp inmates were to be employed in the railroad car industry by way of a total assignment. Whether these concentration camp inmates actually arrived, I cannot say; nor can I say whether I learned that concentration camp inmates were sent to Groeditz in October of 1944. It is possible that I obtained knowledge of it, and it is also possible that I did not. The witness Brambusch, who appeared here, has stated expressly, and I quote: "When Flick came along, no concentration camp inmate was visible." My visit took place in the course of the big demonstration which Gauleiter Mutschmann carried out at that time on the occasion of the management of the plant being handed over to my son. At any rate, a completely wrong impression would be gained if it was tried to demonstrate here that the employment of concentration camp inmates was a regular matter in our plants. That certainly was not the case. If, in October 1944 concentration camp inmates arrived at two plants, that certainly was not initiated by me. I certainly did not do that. Second, I don't know whether I learned of that matter. Third, I must maintain that this was in the last stage of the war. MR. ERVIN: If Your Honor please, the Busch-Bautzen report to which the defendant was probably referring in his last answer is Document NI-5204, Prosecution Exhibit 146,* which is in document book 5-A, page 52. It is another one of the exhibits with an initial of the defendant on it. PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: What number is the exhibit? |
* Letter from Busch Company to Weiss, 17 October 1944, reproduced in B above.
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