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not mistaken, when I was informed that the Camera Plant had suffered
a heavy air raid. As it was my duty, I went there immediately to find out what
damage to human lives and to property had been done. I stayed at the Camera
Plant only for about 2 hours. At that time the Camera Plant did not employ any
concentration camp inmates as yet. At least, I don't know anything about that.
It is possible that Dr. Lingg told me at that occasion that he had to employ
concentration camp inmates but, apparently, that fact escaped my memory later.
This, after all, is not inexplicable, since the employment — and this can
be seen from the documents — took place subsequently in the autumn of
1944. That was at a time when one was overloaded with cares and worries and
when one was so overburdened through all these events that it is quite possible
that I forgot it at the time. At any rate, I can see from this document that
inmates came to the Camera Plant in Munich as late as the second half of 1944.
Q. Dr. Gajewski, were you informed of the particular events that the
prosecution presented in these two documents?
A. No. |
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DR. AMCHAN: Now, with respect to your discussion of slave labor and
prisoners of war, if I understood you correctly, you testified that you knew
they were employed in your plant, but that you could not refuse to accept them,
and you said you never heard of any complaints of mistreatment Now, I ask you,
did you not know that at your Landsberg plant, where five hundred Russian
prisoners of war were employed, about two hundred died from malnutrition and
overwork, which the authorities attributed to your management. Did you know
that?
A. That is not true. No management ever accused me of any such
thing. The people did not die because of mistreatment at Landsberg by the firm.
As far as I recall, there weren't two hundred but about fifty or sixty; they
were Russian prisoners of war, who arrived, as I was told, in an extremely poor
condition, and we opposed their employment. We did everything possible to
improve the condition of these people. Moreover, these people belonged to the
Stalag; they weren't under us; the Stalag was responsible for them — the
military authorities. I remember only fifty or sixty who died, and we did
everything we could for them.
Q. Now, I show you Document
NI-13551, which we offer as Prosecution Exhibit
1953, 1 and Document NI-13544, which we offer as
Prosecution Exhibit 1954, 2 and I ask you, Dr. Gajewski, do these documents
refresh your recollection that about two hundred prisoners of war |
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¹ Reproduced above in
subsection D.
² Ibid.
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