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supposed to carry two cement bags, simultaneously at double time,
which weighed 100 pounds. That is not correct. I only say how other prisoners
carried two cement bags of 100 pounds each.
Q. Are there any other
corrections?
A. Nothing else to be added to my statement.
Q.
That is all for the prosecution. We are ready for cross-examination, sir.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: The defense may cross-examine.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
DR. SEIDL (counsel for defendant
Duerrfeld): Witness, from your affidavit which has been offered by the
prosecution, I see that you were a prisoner in camp IV and apparently worked
for I. G. Farben in Auschwitz. I should like to ask you, when were you arrested
for the first time and what was the reason?
A. I was arrested for the
first time on 13 May 1939 for distributing illegal leaflets.
Q. Is it
true, if I assume that these leaflets were apparently inciting revolt against
the German occupational authorities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia,
or that the contents were similar?
A. The contents, of course, were
directed against the National Socialist system, obviously.
Q. Were you
given a trial or were you released?
A. The Nazi system didn't put
people before a trial and I didn't get one either.
Q. Witness, you did
not answer my question.
A. I did. I said I didn't get one either.
Q. You were released?
A. I was arrested and I was under arrest
for 77 days and on 26 July 1939, I was released.
Q. From your affidavit
I see that in September 1939, you were arrested again, and then you were sent
to various concentration camps. What concentration camps were these, please?
A. Dachau, Buchenwald, Monowitz, and Treblinka.
Q. And when did
you come to Monowitz?
A. On 28 October, 1942.
Q. Now this camp
Monowitz, or this camp IV as the chart behind you says — how long had it
existed then?
A. We were the first inmates who moved into this camp.
Q. Do you know, Witness, that this camp IV, as it was no doubt called,
was first of all intended and built as a camp for free foreign workers?
A. I don't know that.
Q. Then you were sent to Treblinka on 4
August 1944, is that right?
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