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[rela…] tively small number was then in question. I recollect
that the Main Camp Administration, also being afraid that riots might occur,
wished to activate troops like the reinforced plant police II, and requested
firearms for them. After long deliberations for and against, the Main Camp
Administration received a number of firearms from the plant police. It is
possible that also at the same time or before the Main Camp Administration
received steel truncheons for the same purpose. I do not recollect any more
whether they were supplied by the plant police.
I have carefully read
each of the 8 pages of this affidavit, made the necessary corrections in my own
handwriting and initialed them, and I declare herewith under oath that in this
affidavit I have told the full truth to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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| [Signed] FRIEDRICH VON BUELOW |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NIK-6812
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| STATEMENT OF DEFENDANT KUPKE, 21 SEPTEMBER 1945,* CONCERNING HIS
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR FOREIGN WORKERS CAMPS, AND THE RELATIONS OF KRUPP WITH THE
GESTAPO |
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| Essen, 21 September 1945 |
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The following statement is made by me voluntarily and without any
duress:
I would like to repeat that I do not know of any complaints by
foreign laborers about insufficient food or ill-treatment in the camps. The
documents presented to me here, in which foreign laborers complain about food
and ill-treatment, are most likely correct, even if I am not able to remember
all that happened during that time. Foreign workers used to work only 10 hours
per day. I recognize the document shown to me according to which eastern
workers had, in principle, to work 12 hours per day.
In my field of
activity in connection with the camp management, I had to take care of food,
lodging, organization of the camps, and security measures, such as, for
instance, the supply of the necessary personnel, supervision, and care of
foreigners, and similar duties. I was in charge of the supervision of all the
Krupp camps, except prisoner of war camps, concentration camps, and special
camps. Moreover, I used to report to Mr. Ihn or von Buelow on financial
matters. This concerned one of our deputy camp |
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* This statement was given
to Allied investigators during the preparation of the trial before the
International Military Tribunal in which Gustav Krupp was indicted.
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