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tours of inspection made by the SS Hauptsturmfuehrer the supervisors
have been found asleep on repeated occasions. The doors of halls stood open, so
that the danger of escape was very great. It was also mentioned in this
connection that an order had been issued by the works management to their
personnel about a week previously that they should pass through the doors of
the halls without headgear so that the inspecting personnel would be able to
recognize concentration camp prisoners who have large parts of their heads
shaved.
This instruction is not being complied with on the grounds that
“the German members of the complement did not need to raise their hat to
the inspecting personnel.”
It was also observed by the
concentration camp headquarters that, to their regret, there was no personal
connection with the plant managers. For the opening of the administration and
supply building of the camp management and for the guards a kind of
entertainment evening with KdF [strength-through-joy] performances was
arranged, for which the executives of the machine plants of the Bertha Works
had been sent invitations, but nobody turned up. It had further been arranged,
at Mr. Girod’s sick bed, that an inspection of the concentration camp by
the executives of the Bertha Works was to take place on a certain date (8
August 1944), but the only person who turned up was Mr. Mellentin with some of
the staff of the office for labor allocation and the workers relations office,
but not one single member of the plant staff made an appearance.
I have
given you such a detailed description because you asked me to find out what was
the matter. I have informed Mr. Siekmann of the contents of my conversation
with the two Hauptsturmfuehrer |
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| [Signed] KORSCHAN |
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| 2. TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESSES JOSEF DAHM AND FRITZ
FELL |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS JOSEF
DAHM* |
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DIRECT EXAMINATION
MR. RAGLAND: Witness, will you
state your full name and present residence?
WITNESS DAHM: Josef Dahm,
Essen-Borbeck, Borbeckerstrasse 130. |
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* Complete testimony is
recorded in the mimeographed transcript, 3 and 4 February 1948, pp. 8080-8108.
Dahm also signed a joint affidavit (D-382. Pros. Ex. 864. not reproduced
herein) with two other Krupp workers concerning the matters taken up in his
testimony.
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