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A. These are hinges by which the doors are fixed.
Q. Was
there any way in which the cupboard could be locked?
A. Yes.
Q.
Will you describe the way in which it could be locked?
A. In front
there are two bolts in the door, and one could lock these bolts and could thus
lock the cupboard.
Q. Did you ever see anyone put in the steel cabinet
or cupboard?
A. Yes.*
Q. What was the date of this occurrence?
A. From the 31st of December to the 1st of January, 1944 to
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t Q. Witness, I understand that you have seen a person or persons
put in the steel cupboard and you saw such an occurrence on New Year's Eve
1944, in the morning of January 1945. Will you describe the circumstances
surrounding this event? Witness, may I suggest that you tell the Tribunal
concerning this occurrence?
A. In the night of 1944-1945 — that is
New Year’s Eve — I was in tank construction IV and I was on air raid
duty. I saw how three eastern workers were put into the cupboard by the
Unterfuehrer Gerlach. The eastern workers had had some kind of festivity, and
at about 1 o’clock in the morning Unterfuehrer Gerlach said they must
stop, and all of them went home, and everyone went to bed. Around about 2
o’clock he made an inspection of the camp, and he found three eastern
workers with the female eastern workers, and he took them to the guard room and
beat them up with a rubber truncheon.
Q. Let me interrupt you a moment.
Were they the female workers who were beaten, or were they the male eastern
workers?
A. No, the three male eastern workers whom he took to the
guard room. Then he put one into the left corner of the cabinet and two into
the right side, and then he locked the door.
The men —
Q.
Let me interrupt-
A. — on the right side were beginning to moan
—
Q. Before you finish the story may I inquire whether these
eastern workers — were any beatings administered to them before they were
put in the cupboard?
A. Yes.
JUDGE ANDERSON: Who administered
the beatings? Did the |
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* Willi Loewenkamp, a
defense affiant, declared that this cupboard was not used for confining eastern
workers. His affidavit (Lehmann 565. Def. Ex. 2275) is reproduced below in
section VIII C 4.
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