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[discus...] sion as to what type of workers were involved or where
they came from? Is that your testimony?
A. No, that is not right.
Q. Now, what is your testimony? What is your testimony in respect to
that?
A. My testimony is that this affair was not discussed in the
Vorstand; that it only reached the knowledge of the Technical Committee, as I
have stated this morning; and there, through Dr. Struss’ charts or Dr.
Ambros’ lecture, the Technical Committee learned of it, and consequently
the Vorstand members who were present in the Technical Committee, but it is not
correct that the Vorstand decided on this, because the credits were discussed
in the Technical Committee, and the large sums were reported to the Vorstand,
but the details of these credits were not discussed in the Vorstand.
Q.
In other words, your testimony is that the matter as a whole, so to speak, or
summary of the matter as a whole, was presented to the Vorstand, rather than
the details?
A. What is your question? The Vorstand learned about the
total sums of the credit applications, the details of which had been discussed
in the TEA, and were presented to the Vorstand in summary. Some big credits
were perhaps discussed with a few words, but I do not remember that the
Vorstand, for instance, discussed the appropriation of credits for barracks for
concentration-camp inmates.
Q. Well, at the time the Vorstand approved
the credits for the housing of concentration-camp inmates, would not the
Vorstand know that the particular credit or credits were for that precise
purpose?
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Q. Dr. Schneider, in connection with your testimony yesterday, on the
employment of children, you stated that the only reason children were employed
was to keep them off the streets. Now I want to ask you now — could not
the children have been kept off the streets by being sent to school?
A.
That would certainly have been the case also, but — and if I may explain
this — a regulation existed according to which Ukrainian children from 12
to 14 years were permitted to be employed.
Q. You also indicated
yesterday, in your direct examination, that the nature of the operation in the
Leuna plant was such that there were fire and explosive hazards, and for that
reason, German personnel were preferred to the foreigners, who could not always
be trusted to take the proper care. Now, if this is true, how then, can you
reconcile this situation to your employment of little children, who by nature
and disposition are not as careful as adult persons?
A. That is
something different altogether. Those children were not employed in the plants.
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