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2. EXTRACTS FROM TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION
WITNESS ARTHUR RUEMANN* |
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MR. MANDELLAUB: Witness, you are Arthur Ruemann?
WITNESS
RUEMANN: Yes.
Q. What is your profession?
A. Art historian,
doctor of philosophy and at present director of the Municipal Art Collections,
Munich.
Q. When did you see the defendant Alfried Krupp von Bohlen?
A. 18 May 1940.
Q. Did you see him then for the first time?
A. Yes, for the first time.
Q. Have you seen him since?
A. No, not until today or yesterday.
Q. Why do you remember the
exact date?
A. I can prove it from my diary which I have been writing
since 1908 where I recorded this meeting.
Q. You have a regular diary
of the past few years?
A. Yes, about every day.
Q. And on the
date concerned which you just now mentioned, you find the notation that you saw
Alfried von Bohlen?
A. Yes.
Q. Can you give us a short reading
from your diary?
A. I arrived in Duesseldorf early in the morning. At
noon and in the afternoon I visited an acquaintance named Luebs together with a
director — I wrote K and a question mark after it because I often didn't
understand the name when we were introduced. He was director of Henkel. Further
a Mr. Kevenaar was present and A. Bohlen. That is all I wrote down on this
matter.
Q. You didn’t know that you would meet Mr. von Bohlen on
this date in Duesseldorf?
A. No, I learned that only when, during the
noon meal, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen apparently telephoned and Mr. Luebs told
me, “The young Krupp will come here.” He may have said, “The
young Krupp von Bohlen will come later,” I don't remember exactly.
Q. Had you been asked to lunch by Mr. Luebs?
A. Yes, together
with the other two gentlemen.
Q. Did Alfried Krupp come during lunch?
A. No, shortly afterwards. |
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* Complete testimony is
recorded in mimeographed transcript, 22 January 1948, pp. 2008-2084.
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