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Q. Now, Mr. Witness, isn't it true that when you had conversations
with I. G. Farben employees that you often talked about the gassings of human
beings at Auschwitz-Birkenau? A. All inmates who had any connection with
civilians described all the conditions in the camps.
Q. The question I
am asking you is; does that include the gassing of inmates at
Auschwitz-Birkenau?
A. Yes, 100 percent.
Q. Thank you. No
further questions.
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
DR. SEIDL:
Witness, I wish to ask you, when did you come to Monowitz to the camp IV where
the inmates were housed who worked in the Farben plant?
A. In October
or the beginning of November 1942.
Q. How long were you there?
A. Until June or July 1943, until I was put into a punitive detachment.
Q. And afterwards you returned to Monowitz?
A. No, after I had
been in a punitive company for 2 months, I went to Warsaw with a transport.
Q. You said before that the food in Sachsenhausen was better. Is it
correct that you were in Sachsenhausen before and that at that time conditions
were better generally?
A. In Sachsenhausen at the beginning of 1939
until 1940, the time was very bad, and from 1940 to 1942 conditions became
better every day because they already needed the workers.
Q. You also
answered to the prosecutor’s question that the supervision over the
inmates in the Farben plant was carried out by Farben people themselves. Isn't
it correct that the immediate supervision was carried out by Kapos, that is
other inmates?
A. The IG foreman told the Kapo to see to it that a
certain amount of work was carried out, and it occurred when a Kapo did not
manage to do the amount of work with his people he was supposed to do, then he
was told off by the Kommando leader about it, I presume, because the Kommando
leader was told about this. In that way the Kapos were forced to make the
people work hard so that they themselves would not have to suffer.
Q.
You testified before that inmates were shot while trying to escape, while
marching from the camp to the plant on the open road. Can yon tell me the time
when this occurred?
A. It was early, about seven o'clock, about one
hour before we started to work.
Q. And how often did you see that?
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