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when a number of western workers were no longer returning, to have
them give us some sort of a trustee; that I do remember.
Q. Now, do you
recall that you also made a suggestion that, through certain arrangements with
people in western Europe, these people somehow should be brought back?
A. I only remember that the people who no longer returned had to be
reported; as I had to request substitutes for then.
Q. Now, just one
thing: may I — you used the German word “Buerge.” It was
translated as “trustee.” Do you know English?
A. Not
sufficiently.
Q. Now, let me show you a document, Dr. Buergin. I want
to mark this document as NI-14557, Prosecution
Exhibit 1965* for identification and I want you to look at the second page of
this document at the bottom; you will find two handwritten remarks. Can you
tell me first whether this is your handwriting?
A. Yes, it is my
handwriting.
Q. Now, could you read out to us these two remarks? It is
rather difficult to read?
A. Yes. “French personnel going on leave
have to provide trustees — or guarantors.” In other words, the
authorities asked that in case these people did not return somebody else had to
wait to take his leave until the other person had returned.
Q. Will you
now read us the second short sentence?
A. “Private
agreements” — and then it says “slave traders.”
Q.
I think the sign is the German shorthand for the word “mit [with].”
“Private arrangements with slave traders” — is that what you
wrote?
A. Yes, and then a question mark at the end.
Q. That is
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DR. SCHUBERT (counsel for defendant Buergin): I now come to the
document which is offered this morning merely for identification. That was
Document NI-14557, Prosecution Exhibit 1965. It
bears your note with the words “slave traders.” Let me refresh your
memory and tell you that the author of that letter was a certain Tscherter. Who
was Tscherter?
A. Tscherter was in the social welfare department.
Q. Well he writes: in the next department and plant leader meeting it
is again to be pointed out that reserve must be exercised in granting of leaves
* * * and then, your note. It says here, “French workers: Supply
guarantors or trustees !” [French personnel |
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* Reproduced above in
subsection D.
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