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employed at your Landsberg plant, Russian prisoners of war, died of
malnutrition and overwork at your plant, which the authorities ascribed to your
management? Do they refresh your recollection?
A. I have to look at it.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Now, Mr. Prosecutor, I am not quarreling with
the way you are conducting this cross-examination by submitting a very large
number of lengthy documents to this defendant in your cross-examination, but
after all, there should be some reasonable limitation upon the time that you do
consume in a cross-examination, and if you utilize this method, you place the
Tribunal in a position of exercising some discretion on the length of time that
you utilize.
MR. AMCHAN: : Would it be helpful to Your Honors if I
indicated that I expect to be through in fifteen minutes?
PRESIDING
JUDGE SHAKE: Very well.
A. That is just as I said.
Q. Now, on
Document NT-13544, are your initials on that
document? That's Prosecution Exhibit 1954.
A. No, I am speaking about
Document NI-13551; that seems to me more
important; that is very important; it belongs with it. These two letters were
complaints by my plant manager to the Command of the Armament District, Air
Force Group. In these two letters of 24 January and 2d February, Dr. Hofmann
tells about the management of the Russian camp and complains about it. That is
what happened. I received this, and, as you will see at the bottom of page 2 of
Document NT-13551, the letter of 24 January, I even sent this letter on to the
Kreisleitung to draw attention to conditions so that it would be reported to my
Gau. The second letter shows that we are accused of being responsible for these
conditions, and Dr. Hofmann objected. Count Schack came to inspect the camp and
brought the Sergeant with him who, as I recall, was the man in charge of the
camp, the man with whom we always had great difficulties, because he didn't
want to do things as we did. This letter was sent from Hofmann to Regierungsrat
Hermann, the social welfare man of the Berlin-Lichtenberg plant, Berlin SO 36,
and I sent him there to bring order into these conditions. I should like to
emphasize —
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: You perhaps answered the
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| DR. VON METZLER (counsel for defendant Gajewski) : Dr. Gajewski, I
should now like to ask you about Document NI-13551, Prosecution Exhibit 1953 and Document
NT-13544, Prosecution Exhibit 1954,
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* Cross-examination
hereupon proceeded to another topic. No further questioning on the documents
just introduced took place until the redirect examination.
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