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Q. Where were they employed?
A. I beg your pardon?
Q.
Where were they employed?
A. Partly in the laboratory, washing out
glassware — and then I, myself, remember that children were employed in
Leuna plants as messengers, for delivering letters from the post office to the
various places in the plant.
Q. In other words, even in the messenger
service, though, they would be in the plant, is that right?
A. Yes,
certainly, but the plant, as such, was not in danger. What I stated about the
danger of explosion and fire in regard to the plant refers to the work carried
on in the plant itself, and I meant we needed very reliable people so that no
fire or explosion might be caused by negligence.
Q. Now, Dr. Schneider,
why was prompt attention given to the erection of brothels, arid the erection
of schools for children ignored?
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Mr. Prosecutor,
that might be a pertinent inquiry if the issue here was one of morality or
moral conditions.
MR. VAN STREETS. Your Honor, I am coming to the next
question, which probably will —
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Very well.
Go ahead . Answer the question, if you can.
A. We never paid any
attention to the erection of brothels. That was an affair that we were
approached with from the outside, by the German Labor Front and which they
demanded. We didn’t like to do this and we only did it because we were
forced to. I consider it out of place to bring this up in connection with
schools. We have done enough for the social welfare of our people and we can
prove that and I believe that it is absolutely out of place to make such a
comparison here.
Q. Then, Dr. Schneider, your answer is that you
erected the brothels because you were asked to?
A. Yes.
Q.
Then, if you had been asked to erect schools you would have erected schools, is
that right? A. That would have been done, too, yes, but I already said we had a
school in Leuna, too, and we shall prove that also. |
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