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complained to him how difficult it was to have the sick recognized as
unfit for work when we came to him.
Q. You related to us the death of
the young Poncard. Do you know into what hospital he was taken?
A. Yes,
to the Kupferdreh hospital.
Q. Was he brought there by you or by fellow
workers?
A. I didn’t take part in this transport.
Q. You
told us that you talked with the nuns about this case. Where did the sisters or
nurses meet?
MR. KOESSLER: I object to this question. It is not a
correct quotation of what the witness said. The witness didn't say he had a
conversation with these nurses. He said only that his comrades had the
conversation.
JUDGE WILKINS, Presiding: I think your point is right,
but the witness can answer accordingly.
WITNESS LEDOUX: I was just
about to correct counsel in his question. I never said that this German nun who
acted as a nurse told me anything. What I said is that the person who gave the
information was a German nun who acted as a nurse. I never said that she gave
that information to me. The situation was that some time after the bombing one
of my fellow workers went to the Kupferdreh Hospital to visit one of my
comrades who was hospitalized there. Also, at that time we were very much
afraid and very worried about the fate of those comrades of ours who after the
bombing had been taken into the hospital in the region of Essen, and we were
chiefly worried about the fate of Raymond Poncard who had been taken to the
hospital in a very serious condition; and those comrades of ours who went to
the hospital to see the sick inmate came back and told us that one of the
German nurses, one of the nuns, had told him that Raymond Poncard had died and
that he had died because he had been brought to the hospital too
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DR. POHLE: Witness, after 23 October Mr. von Buelow made a speech at
the Dechenschule. Why did you not tell him then that you needed medical care
for the victims?
WITNESS LEDOUX: First of all, during that period when
Mr. Von Buelow came to make a speech at the Dechenschule I had no capacity
warranting me to ask for anything; and secondly, no inmate could have
approached Mr. von Buelow because we were just beings who were being ordered
around. We had nothing to ask.
Q. Do you not remember that one of your
fellow workers did ask for something, and he approached Mr. von Buelow with a
request? |
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