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| 2. PROSECUTION TESTIMONY AND AFFIDAVIT |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS JAROSLAV BRANDEJS*
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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MR. MYERS: Witness, will you state your full name and present
address?
WITNESS BRANDEJS: Jaroslav Brandejs, Cecelice No. 140,
District Melnik [Czechoslovakia].
Q. What is your present occupation or
business, Witness?
A. Electromechanical engineer.
Q. What was
your business or occupation in 1941 or 1942?
A.
Machinist. |
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Q. Were you, Witness, ever called to the labor office in Melnik?
A. Yes, I was called there.
Q. About what date was that?
A. In October 1942.
Q. And you say that you were called to the
labor office?
A. Yes.
Q. By whom?
A. By the labor
office.
Q. What was said to you then?
A. They told me I was
assigned to work in the Reich.
Q. Were you offered a contract?
A. No.
Q. What did you say?
A. I told them I would not
go; there was enough work at home.
Q. What was your physical condition
at that time?
A. A doctor told me I was unfit for work because of
stomach trouble.
Q. But you did go to work, didn’t you?
A.
Yes.
Q. Where?
A. To Prague-Lieben.
Q. After going to
the labor office, did I understand you to say you were sent to a plant or
factory or some place to work?
A. Yes.
Q. Where did you go?
A. I was sent to Essen.
Q. Where did you work in Essen?
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* Complete testimony is
recorded in mimeographed transcript, 29 January 1948, pp. 2643-2677.
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