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Any redirect?
MR. MINSKOFF: No redirect.
PRESIDING
JUDGE SHARE: Then the witness is excused. |
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| 5. AFFIDAVIT OF DOUGLAS T. FROST |
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COPY
OF
DOCUMENT NI-11692
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1480 |
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| AFFIDAVIT, 16 JULY 1947, OF DOUGLAS TILBROOK FROST, BRITISH PRISONER
OF WAR IN GERMANY, CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF CONCENTRATION CAMP INMATES AT
FARBEN’S AUSCHWITZ PLANT, AND RELATED MATTERS* |
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I, Douglas Tilbrook Frost, 43, Ash Grove, Stapleford, Nr.
Nottingham, England, do hereby declare under oath the following facts:
1. I was born 15 April 1912 at Nr. Nottingham, England. I entered the
Army in November 1939, and was captured on 9 April 1941 near Tobruk. At the
time I was signalman in the 5th Battalion Tanks. I was brought first to Italy,
then to Germany and finally to Auschwitz. After about a week I, together with
about 30 or 40 others, was assigned to swamp work gathering reeds. Shortly
thereafter, I started working in the I. G. Farben factory at Auschwitz. I
continued working there until I was injured, in January 1944, and was sent to
Lamsdorf. I was later freed by the Americans.
2. The IG plant at
Auschwitz covered approximately 6 sq. kilometers and was built entirely by
slave labor. The Germans who were there were in a supervisory capacity. There
were 10,000 to 15,000 Jews, about 22,000 others of all nationalities,
particularly Russians and Poles.
3. Of all the persons working at IG
Auschwitz, the Jewish inmates had the worst time of it. I was very friendly
with them and often spoke to them. The impression I got was that at least half
of the inmates would never again be fit to go back to civilization because of
the deteriorated mental and physical condition they had reached. Their clothing
consisted of striped pajamas and for shoes they had wooden clogs. The food was
very poor. They would ask us for our soup. This soup which we gave them was so
bad that we couldn't drink it ourselves.
In spite of their poor
condition, which was obvious from just looking at them since their skin was a
dirty gray and body was |
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* The defense waived
cross-examination of this affiant and of most of the other former prisoners of
war whose affidavits were received in evidence.
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