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A. I am sorry, no.
DR. SEIDL : I have no further questions.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Anything further, Gentlemen?
Mr.
Witness, you are excused, and the Marshall will escort you from the witness
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| 4. AFFIDAVIT AND TESTIMONY OF ERIC J. DOYLE |
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| a. Affidavit |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-12388
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1518
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| AFFIDAVIT |
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I, Eric James Doyle, after having been warned that I will be liable
to punishment for making a false statement, herewith state the following under
oath of my own free will and without coercion.
1. I was born 20 July
1907 at Surrey, England, and now reside at 56 Cambridge Drive, Lee, London.
England. I am employed as a clerk. I entered the Army on 1 September 1939. On
21 June 1942, I was captured at Tobruk while serving its a private with the
Royal Army Service Corps attached to the 22d Armament Brigade. I was brought
from Tobruk to Italy, then to Germany, and to Upper Silesia on 16 September
1943.
2. I was attached to Stalag VIII B, Lamsdorf, Commando E 715, IG
Auschwitz. The camp was already built when I arrived. It had been a German
civilian camp and consisted of wooden huts with 16 to 22 persons sleeping in
most of the rooms. There were no mess halls, but instead, there were tables in
the center of the rooms on which to eat. The camp was guarded by German Army
sentries. There were no guard towers but the camp was surrounded by barbed
wire.
3. After about 3 weeks. I was assigned to a work detail. We had
the impression that if we did not volunteer for work, we would be forced to
work in the mines. I. G. Farben foremen [Werkmeister] came into the camp and
assigned certain work to us. I worked as a laborer, mostly carrying pipes which
were quite heavy.
Some British prisoners of war worked where petrol was
being procured. We were aware that under the Geneva Convention we did not have
to work in connection with war products. When we complained about this,
Rittler, a German noncommissioned officer, said that the Geneva Conventions
were two-guns, so at the threat of a gun there was no choice. [sic]
4.
The condition of the concentration camp inmates was deplorable. I used to see
them being carried back at night, dead — from exposure, hunger, or
exhaustion. The concentration camp inmates did heavy, |
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