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Q. You also stated that prisoners collapsed in the Farben plant at
Auschwitz. How many such prisoners did you see who collapsed?
A. Many.
Q. Witness, can you give me an approximate figure-five, ten, or twenty?
A. Counting all those I saw being carried home after the work was
finished, I should say hundreds.
Q. During what period of time was
that? How long were you working in the Farben plant as a prisoner of war?
A. From September until April 1944.
Q. That is September 1943?
A. September 1943.
Q. Until April 1944?
A. That is
correct.
Q. Did you yourself ever come to camp IV in which these
prisoners lived!?
A. Only outside of it.
Q. Is it correct that
there was a street running between the camp IV, and the Farben plant on which
large traffic moved?
A. Would you repeat that, please?
Q. I
wanted to ask you, Witness, whether you still remember that south of the Farben
plant, and in the immediate vicinity of the north of camp IV and the PW Camp,
there was a big road with a lot of traffic on it, which led to the east, and
which you had to cross when you wanted to enter the Farben plant?
A.
There was a road, yes, the other side of the main wire, I think, on H Street.
Q. Did you see personally how prisoners were hanged in camp IV?
A. I saw three men hanging in the gate of camp IV approximately in
February 1944.
Q. Do you know why these prisoners were hanged?
A. I didn't know there had to be a reason.
Q. Then I want to
tell you that it happened repeatedly — two or three times — that
inmates were hanged because they murdered their fellow prisoners.
MR.
MINSKOFF: We object to that testimony.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: The
objection is sustained. Ask another question.
DR. SEIDL: You say that
these inmates had been hanged immediately on the gate, the entrance to camp IV.
Is it true that this spot could easily be seen from the road?
A. Yes,
quite easily.
Q. Did you yourself ever speak to a member of Farben, an
engineer, or a foreman, about the gas chambers that you mentioned?
A.
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