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| 5. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT GAJEWSKI |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT
GAJEWSKI¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. VON METZLER (counsel for defendant Gajewski) : Dr. Gajewski, I
should like to put to you a few prosecution exhibits. First of all, Document
NI-3825, Prosecution Exhibit 1404,² which is
in book 71 on page 28 of the English. This is a letter of the Camera Plant
[Kamerawerk], Munich, to the Labor Office regarding the labor draft of Polish
female criminal prisoners who had been employed in the Camera Plant after their
prison term had been completed. The prosecution asserted that the Camera Plant
tried to have the prison term of these Polish female workers extended so that
they could continue to employ them in their plant. Do you have this exhibit of
the prosecution?
DEFENDANT GAJEWSKI: Yes.
Q. Were you at all
concerned with this matter at the time?
A. No. I learned of this matter
only after the presentation of this particular exhibit. Therefore, I cannot say
anything about it from my own knowledge and I have to refer to the documents
that you presented in this connection. One thing is sure, however, and that is
that it is absurd to consider the labor draft as an extension of the prison
term, of the punishment. During the war the overwhelming majority of German
workers were drafted for their particular jobs. Furthermore, this letter
doesn't have any signature. It is not quite impossible that the letter was
never sent, but I don't know that.
Q. Dr. Gajewski, then I should like
to put to you Document NI-4038, Prosecution
Exhibit 1405, and Document NI-6851, Prosecution
Exhibit 1406³ also in book 71, pages 29 and 30 of the English and pages 32
and 33 of the German. These are two letters and one file note regarding the
employment of female concentration camp inmates in the Camera Plant Munich.
These letters are directed to the Dachau concentration camp. Did you look at
these documents before your examination? Do you have them in front of you?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you know that these female concentration camp
inmates were employed in the Camera Plant in Munich which belonged to your
Sparte?
A. I want to say this in that connection: At first I was not
able to remember it. I believe it was in the middle of 1944, in July, if I am
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¹ Further extracts are
reproduced earlier in sections s V C3, VII C 5d, L 3e and VII M5,
volume VII, this series.
²
Reproduced above in subsection D.
³ Both documents are reproduced
above in subsection D.
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