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A. That might have been the customary term used by those people. All
I can tell you is what sort of terms we used to use, and all I remember is that
in the case of concentration camp inmates one spoke of concentration camps, K.
Z. camps.
Q. Well, suppose I show you a document where at Auschwitz,
Farben people were talking about K. L., and see if that term wasn't also used
there for concentration camps. That is
NI-11132,¹ which is in Document Book 73, page 80 of the English and
page 145 of the German.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: What is the exhibit
number, if you have it?
MR. SPRECHER: 1440. Exhibit 1440.
MR.
SPRECHER: Dr. Hauptman will show you the whole paragraph.
A. That is
correct. From the Heydebreck document, where reference is made to prisoners of
war, I concluded that a camp would be established which would be a
prisoner-of-war camp. But if it says so here it's quite correct. I myself
always spoke of K. Z. — concentration camps.
MR. SPRECHER: No
further cross-examination. |
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| 2. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT TER MEER |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF THE
DEFENDANT TER
MEER² |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. BERNDT (counsel for defendant ter Meer) : We now turn to the
question of the employment of foreign workers in Germany. Did German industry
employ foreign workers, Dr. ter Meer?
DEFENDANT TER MEER: The
employment of foreign workers, as I remarked a short while ago, was practiced
even before the outbreak of the war to a certain extent. I myself am from the
Rhineland. In my father's factory there were always Dutch construction workers
working in the construction trade. Near the frontier there, that was quite
customary. I remind you of the fact that there was an official here from the
Reich Ministry of Labor, Stothfang,³ who, if I am not mistaken, testified
that during normal times there were approximately one million foreign workers
employed in Germany, the larger part of them probably in agriculture. Under the
special circumstances of the years 1938 and 1939, when unemployment had been
done away with in Germany, a large number were working in industry. |
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¹ Reproduced in part
in subsection D above.
² Further extracts front the testimony of
defendant ter Meer are reproduced in subsections VII C5b, E3, G3, I7, J4, K3a,
L3d, M3, and O7a, volume VII, this series, and in subsections VIII C6, D3, D6,
and E4 above.
³ Walther Stothfang’s testimony is recorded in the
mimeographed transcript, 13 November, 1947, pages 3722-3712.
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