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PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Now, Mr. Prosecutor, the witness has indicated
pretty generally what he knows about the so-called weekly reports. The
suggestion that I am taking the liberty of offering is that in the interests of
time, if you have others, group them together, have them marked, and introduce
them. They speak for themselves, and there is no use going over a ritual of
having the witness repeat again and again what he has now said about three or
four different times about this matter. I am not objecting to your introducing
the reports but the method by which you are doing it is time-consuming.
MR. MINSKOFF: Document NI-14556, all Auschwitz weekly report is offered as
Prosecution Exhibit 1988; Document
NI-14555 is offered as
Prosecution Exhibit 1089; Document NI-14549 is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 1990;
Document NI-14551 is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 1991.* Dr.
Buetefisch, I show you the three exhibits, 1989, 1990 and 1991, and ask you
whether they refresh your recollection as to whether it was I. G. Farben which
took the initiative to have foreign workers who did not work hard enough thrown
into the concentration camp. You might look particularly at Document NI-14551,
Prosecution Exhibit 1991, under the entry of 10 July, the second paragraph.
A. Which document is that?
Q. 1991. That is weekly report 60/61
and it is an entry under July 16, the second paragraph. It begins, “ * * *
we do not intend to put up any longer with the slackness of the Belgians * * *
we will not hesitate to commit the Belgians who will not work to the
concentration camp.” Does that refresh your recollection, Dr. Buetefisch,
as to whether it was Farben that took the initiative in having foreign workers
who didn’t work hard enough thrown into the concentration camp?
A.
Well, it can’t refresh my memory, because these reports here —
Q. If it please the Court, he said it doesn't refresh his recollection.
I think that is an answer. We can save time.
A. But I should like
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PRESIDING JUDGE SHARE: Mr. Defendant, the prosecutor is entitled
to limit his examination to what he wants to know. If he has your answer that
is sufficient. I may say to you that your own counsel will have an opportunity,
on redirect examination, to afford you the privilege of saying what is suitable
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* The documents listed are
all reproduced in part above in subsection D.
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