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MR. MINSKOFF: Well, that is the purpose of the question that was put
to him. Mr. Witness, just so the record will be clear: After your last
conviction which kept you in prison until 1934, you then remained in prison in
protective custody from 1934 on until 1941, is that correct?
A. Yes,
that is right, until 1941. In 1941, I was transferred into the camp.
Q.
Now, Mr. Witness, have you told the Court all the crimes of which you were
convicted?
A. As far as I remember, yes.
Q. Are you sure you
have told all?
A. As far as I remember, yes.
Q. Mr. Witness,
isn't it a fact that as recently as the 27 of March 1946 you were convicted of
embezzlement?
A. Yes, that was embezzlement; yes, that is right.
MR. MINSKOFF: Thank you very much, Mr. Witness, no further questions.
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
DR. SEIDL (counsel for defendant
Duerrfeld): Witness, Farben is indicted here because in the Auschwitz Plant of
Farben they have employed concentration camp inmates. You testified before that
2,500 inmates were transferred from the Mauthausen camp with you to the
Monowitz camp. My question to you is this: what sort of people were the other
2,500 inmates? Were they the same sort of people as you who had served previous
sentences?
A. Yes, they all served sentences.
MR. MINSKOFF: I
don’t recall asking any questions on cross-examination which would have
anything to do with the line of questioning being pursued by Dr. Seidl at the
present time. He is burdening the record by going on with his own direct
examination.
THE COMMISSIONER: Then you are making an objection, are
you?
MR. MINSKOFF: Yes, the prosecution objects to that line of
questioning.
DR. SEIDL: I believe that this will not burden the record
because we see here for once what sort of inmates were actually employed in the
construction of the buna plant.
MR. MINSKOFF: That has nothing to do
with the redirect examination of this witness.
DR. SEIDL: It is very
important in judging the questions pertaining to this trial what type of
inmates these people were, and it is very important to know that 2,500 of the
inmates, the same way as this inmate, were only in the concentration camp
because they had a certain amount of sentences. We now have to show what sort
of inmates were actually housed in that camp.
THE COMMISSIONER: I
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