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Q. You also testified that the inmates talked to civilians. Do you
know that it was strictly prohibited that inmates should talk to civilians or
the other way around
A. Yes, we did know that it was strictly
prohibited to talk to civilians.
DR. SEIDL: No further questions.
MR. MINSKOFF: No further questions. |
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6. AFFIDAVIT AND TESTIMONY OF FRITZ SCHERMULY, A
GERMAN CONVICT
INTERNED AT AUSCHWITZ
CONCENTRATION CAMP |
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| a. Affidavit |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT DUERRFELD 402
DUERRFELD DEFENSE
EXHIBIT 103 |
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AFFIDAVIT OF FRITZ SCHERMULY, 16 SEPTEMBER 1947, CONCERNING THE
TREATMENT OF CONCENTRATION
CAMP INMATES IN THE
MONOWITZ CAMP OF
AUSCHWITZ AND RELATED
MATTERS* |
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I, Fritz Schermuly, born 21 July 1897 at Munich, residing there,
Herzogstrasse 81, chimney-sweep by profession, have been duly warned that I
make myself liable to punishment if I make a false affidavit. I declare under
oath that my statement is true and was made in order to be submitted in
evidence to Military Tribunal No. VI in the Palace of Justice, Nuernberg,
Germany.
After serving a term of imprisonment for trade in narcotics, I
was sent to concentration camp Mauthausen in November 1941 on preventive
custody. I was in the following camps: Mauthausen, Gusen I, Steyr, and from
April 1943, Monowitz.
As a worker, I went through various blocks, and
from the beginning of 1944 until the evacuation of the camp, was Block Elder of
blocks 11 and 12.
In my opinion, I cannot hold I. G. Farben responsible
for our condition in Monowitz. I. G. Farben made the most humane treatment
possible available to the camp. For the conditions in the camp, the SS alone
— and, in part, the prisoners themselves — were responsible. I. G.
Farben had nothing to do with the camp administration. Until the middle of
1944, accommodations in the camp were good. By this I mean to say that every
man had his own bed. The camp was spacious and laid out with lawns. After the
mass transports began to arrive, some time about the middle of 1944, two men
had to share one bed. In my block, and as far as I know in the others as well,
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* Schermuly's examination
before a commissioner of the Tribunal concerning this affidavit and related
matters is reproduced immediately below.
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