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advance developed into a pincer movement. I believe that they fought
for some time for Mulhouse proper.
Q. Where did you cross then,
immediately across the Rhine at Mulhouse or did you go up to Kolmar?
A.
I went to Kolmar, Strasbourg and cross the Rhine at Strasbourg.
JUDGE
WILKINS: Yes, thank you.
MR. MANDELLAUB: One or two more questions.
When was Mulhouse occupied by the Allies in effect, on the 20th you say?
WITNESS BIEGI: The pincer movement around Mulhouse was closed on the
20th. The tanks were on the heights above Mulhouse the name of which I have
forgotten, shooting into the town and our truck which was to fetch the last
remaining Germans was not able to get back over the railroad bridge.
Q.
When did you leave Mulhouse?
A. In the night of the 20th to the 21st,
that is, from Monday to Tuesday.
Q. And the city was surrendered by the
Germans only on the following day?
A. When the Germans finally
surrendered the city I do not know. At any rate, on Monday the first Allied
tanks were entering Mulhouse.
Q. Was the Deutsche Bank in Mulhouse open
on Monday?
A. Dr. Mandellaub, I am afraid you have an erroneous
impression of what happens in a factory when contradictory orders are coming
continuously from the Gauleiter and everything is in a state of confusion. I
can't tell you whether the Deutsche Bank was still open.
Q. You
didn’t inquire as to that?
A. I asked about various offices. They
were all already gone, for instance, the courts were already gone.
Q.
And you inquired then about the bank?
A. Yes, I did.
DR. WEIZ
(for Eberhardt) : May I ask one brief question?
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
DR. WEIZ: In connection with the questions just asked, Judge Daly
brought to your attention the fact that the transfer order was dated as of
September and that you might have had that money for the wages in readiness
since you knew that sooner or later you would have to leave. Was it not so,
Witness, that after the Krawa manufacture was evacuated and after the machines
were transported to Groeditz, the remaining part of the enterprise in Alsace
was to continue manufacture with the workers in Alsace and to continue to pay
wages in a normal fashion as long as military developments permitted?
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