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defendant here receives a copy of every single one of the reports
that I referred to.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Well, why don't you show it?
MR. MINSKOFF: He has them before him. I showed him the document. Dr.
Buetefisch, looking at the first page of the weekly report, Document
NI-14532, do you notice the
distribution list?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, who is Dr. Staden?
A. Dr. von Staden was the head of planning matters for Auschwitz, in
detail, whom I had appointed. He was also a plant leader at Leuna.
Q.
That is right. One of your employees, is that right?
A. Yes.
Q.
Who was Dr. Braus?
A. Dr. Braus was an employee. At the time he was one
of the planning officials for Auschwitz.
Q. Also one of your employees,
is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. Who was Dr. Hoepke?
A. Also.
Q. Dr. von Lom-Oberingenieur von Lom?
A. Also.
Q. And
Mueller?
A. Also.
Q. And at the head of the Merseburg list is
yourself, is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. Now these same persons have
received all the weekly reports, isn’t that true? All of the Auschwitz
weekly reports?
A. May I say one thing? I believe I have to say
something. Those weekly reports — one copy went to Buetefisch, Staden, and
Braus. And those weekly reports, as such, contained personal notes by a man who
is expressing his own opinion. As I said, I did not read these weekly reports.
I would have had a lot to read. And the men who are listed there for Leuna or
Ludwigshafen merely told us if there was something important in it. One can
imagine such an excess as reported here. [“Can one therefore blame a
foreman or shaft supervisor for lashing out?”] That doesn't mean that that
was the policy. That is what somebody wrote down, but that is not an approved
report. I can well imagine that Dr. Staden or Dr. Braus or Mr. Hoepke didn't
read this sentence to me. These men just reported to me, “Nothing
happened.” I can't have read all the weekly reports. It would have been
quite impossible. The over-all condition was the important thing for us. I have
already said that occasionally, on construction sites, there can be excesses;
that happens all the time. That happened at Leuna and that happened everywhere
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