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Prosecution Exhibit is 146, Your Honor; page 52, document book 5-A. MR. ERVIN: Defendant, you referred to the trip to Groeditz, and the testimony of the witness Brambusch. Do you suppose they were trying to hide these concentration camp workers from you when you were down there? A. No. I have stated that the ceremony took place in the very shop where they were working as the witness here stated, "that the shop had to be evacuated before Flick came along" in order to be able to prepare for that ceremony. The hall was not evacuated in order to hide these concentration camp inmates from me, but there was quite a different reason. It is quite possible that I learned about their existence there, I don't deny that — but I can't say. I think I wouldn't have thought very much of it at that time if I had been told that they were there. At any rate, I didn't initiate their being sent there in the first place, and I don't suppose the plant did either. JUDGE RICHMAN: Didn't you see the rooms where they were kept? DEFENDANT FLICK: No, certainly not. Q. Did you see the guards at the door leading up to the rooms? A. No. I told you there was a big ceremony; there were about a thousand people present who were all in that hall. This took place in the evening, at 1730, and it was already dark. The witness Brambusch also testified that "Flick really couldn't have seen them." Q. What time of the year was this? A. As far as I remember, it took place either at the end of October or the beginning of November. PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: You may ask the next question, Mr. Ervin. MR. ERVIN: You heard the testimony of several witnesses about the arrangement of this machine hall. Didn't you notice when you went into the building the extra barbed wire fence, machine gun towers that had been constructed since your last visit? DEFENDANT FLICK: No. It was dark and I didn't see anything of that. Q. Machine gun towers? The type of expenditures that you might discuss with the Vorstand? A. No. To erect a machine gun tower in a Concern which has 130 thousand workers or more is such a trifle that they certainly wouldn't have talked to me about it. After this inspection there was a dinner at the Casino where about 40 or 50 |
