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PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: May I interrupt a moment, Doctor? Please
answer the questions as you can and if it serves any other purposes, let your
counsel ask about it. I don't know the document.
Q. Thank you. Dr.
Ambros, do you recall whether on occasions the subconstruction companies
answered that it was impossible to increase work performance of their inmates
standard set by your construction company? Do you recall receiving such
letters?
A. Prosecutor, you are asking me a question, to try to explain
the relations between a construction firm and the inmates, that is impossible
for me to answer. I tell you again, this Luranil firm is a construction firm
and not a building firm. They don’t have a foreman, they don’t have
workers. The Luranil has designers and accountants, they make the designs and
the blueprints. Therefore, I can't answer your question.
Q. Dr. Ambros,
I show you Documents NI-14297 and
NI-14294, offered as Prosecution Exhibits 1930
and 1931* respectively, and ask you whether either of the two refresh your
recollection as to whether the subconstruction firms wrote to your firm that
the standards set were impossible to be carried out?
PRESIDING JUDGE
SHAKE: Dr. Ambros, that is a simple question as to whether you know anything
about this letter having been written.
A. I know neither the document
nor the contents contained in your question.
Q. Thank you. Dr. Ambros,
you testified yesterday — no, the last court day, that you were taken in
by the façade at Auschwitz. Now, you visited I. G. Auschwitz, according
to your testimony, on approximately 18 separate occasions, and on each
occasion, remained 1 or 2 or 3 days. Now, was this same false front put up to
deceive you on each one of those visits?
A. I used that concept of a
façade when I spoke of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, in
connection with my visit of April 7, 1941, and then I said that this impression
I gained of the façade — I used the word Potemkin village —
was repeated during my second visit of 16 October 1941, and that my last visit
was 2 or 4 weeks later, I think on the 15th of November 1941. In other words, I
always refer to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, and that was my last visit
to the concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Q. I understood that. Now, I am
referring to IG Auschwitz, in your various visits to the I. G. Farben
construction site at Auschwitz. All those times you visited IG Auschwitz, were
things continued to be kept from you, or did you have access to what was
happening in IG Auschwitz? Let me ask a specific question and make it simpler.
Dr. Ambros, observing the appearance of the inmates on the oc-
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