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A. The plant squad was affiliated with the German Labor Front, and as
such it had to recruit for this organization and its aims, and had to support
the carrying-out of such aims.
Q. Can you tell the Tribunal of what
nature these tasks were you talk about?
A. The tasks of the plant squad
were manifold. It was to create one’s work more beautifully, and
one’s free time, healthy living, comradeship in the plant, etc.
Q.
Did these tasks of the plant squad change during the war?
A. No. In the
main these tasks remained the same, but there were a number of additional
tasks, for instance in the plant police, and also in the air raid protection.
Q. Did you have any additional tasks in the so-called EWS-I?
[Erweiterter Werkschutz — plant police and auxiliaries]
A. The
plant squad was part of the EWS-I as a unit, but as far as discipline was
concerned it was still subordinated to Mr. Keul, that is, therefore to the
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Q. Who was in charge of the EWS-I?
A. The chief
counterintelligence official [the defendant von Buelow] was the chief of the
EWS-I.
Q. Do you know why that was so?
A. The EWS-I as such,
had a military character and for this reason I suppose it was supervised by the
official in charge of the military intelligence because he was in contact with
the Wehrmacht —
Q. Did you have any assignments of leadership in
the EWS-I?
A. In the “Werkschar” which was affiliated with
the EWS-I, I was an administrative leader.
Q. Do you know at all
whether this EWS-I was to be billeted in barracks?
A. Yes, that project
was talked about, but it could not be carried out because these people would
have had to be withdrawn from their actual place of work.
Q. Then they
were never actually billeted in barracks?
A. Yes, eventually it did
come to that.
Q. Would you give us an explanation of how this happened?
A. Part of the people concerned were combined and were stationed in the
basement of the main administration building, in order to be at the disposal of
the enterprise for cases of emergency.
Q. Were they always the same
people who were billeted there?
A. No, there was only a small unit on
duty there permanently. The others were changed from time to time.
Q.
What was the number of this unit? |
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