 |
Q. Can you give me a name, particularly the name of a foreman of
Farben with whom you spoke?
A. He was an immediate foreman, I don't
know his name, Rother, or something like that.
Q. What did that person
tell you, Witness?
A. He seemed to think that the inmates of the Lager
were just nothing at all —
Q. Please excuse me, Witness, if I
interrupt you. I do not want to know what he seemed to think, but I want to
know what he told you.
A. The exact words?
Q. As far as
possible; at any rate, give me the sense of what he said as far as possible.
A. The people were no further use to Germany as workers, and therefore
they must make room for new workers.
Q. You say that, in your opinion,
the concentration camp inmates had a life expectancy of 2 to 3 months. Does
this expression “life expectancy” come from you, or who told it to
you?
A. Every word in there comes from me.
DR. SEIDL: I have no
further questions.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Is there any further
cross-examination of this witness?
DR. GIERLICHS (associate counsel for
defendant Schmitz): Witness, I have one question in regard to the hangings that
you mentioned. You say that you saw those four corpses from the gate of the
camp. Can you describe that to me a little more clearly?
A. Quite
easily. There were three, not four, and the men were hanging on the beam over
the gate, suspended, I think, possibly 15 feet high, quite easily to be seen
from the road on which I was walking.
Q. Did I understand you correctly
that there was an arch over the gate of the camp and that these dead bodies
were hanging in the arch of the gate?
A. Either an arch or a support,
and they were hanging from that. They went directly over the gate.
Q.
You maintain that assertion, Witness, even if I put to you that the exit of
camp IV had nothing over the gate, that there was no arch, that it a was a
double fence, and that on the outside of the two fences there was a gate that
opened and it did not have anything over it? Is it possible, then, that you are
mistaken?
A. Not possible.
DR. GIERLICHS: Thank you. I have no
further questions, Mr. President.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Any further
cross-examination? |
| |
| (No response) |
622 |
. 
