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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
NIK-11233
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1259
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| EXTRACTS FROM AN AFFIDAVIT BY DEFENDANT VON BUELOW, 7 JULY 1947,
CONCERNING KRUPP’S RELATIONS TO THE GESTAPO AND THE DECHENSCHULE
CAMP* |
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| I, Fritz von Buelow, Nuernberg, after having been warned that I am
liable to punishment for making a false statement, state herewith under oath,
of my own free will and without coercion, the following: |
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3. Concerning the so-called Dechenschule punitive camp in Essen, I
state as follows:
Frequently we had occasion to denounce foreign
workers, especially Russians, to the Gestapo, for criminal offenses,
particularly thefts, also because of absenteeism. These workers were
transferred in many cases by the Gestapo to a punitive camp and they were never
sent back to us for work. One day we were informed by the Gestapo (Kriminalrat
Nohles) that the prisons and penal camps selected for this purpose were so
overcrowded that they could no longer accommodate the workers thus denounced,
and that we should set up a separate penal camp in which the Gestapo could
imprison the workers who were denounced by us, and also others due for
punishment.
After the necessary negotiations between Kriminalrat
Nohles, and myself, the separate penal camp was built at the end of 1943 or at
the beginning of 1944. This penal camp was not identical with a similar camp
built by the town council of Essen or with a possibly already existing penal
camp. However, Krupp workers were occasionally transferred to the penal camp of
the Essen town council by the Gestapo. Our penal camp Dechenschule at first was
under the management of a Krupp man by the name of Fuehrer, whose successor was
Mr. Rath. When this camp was already established, the internment was not
effected by us but by the Gestapo on the basis of our reports.
The
actual development differed from the original plan. According to my knowledge,
hardly any of the foreign workers reported by us to the Gestapo, especially no
eastern workers, were transferred to the Dechenschule. The Gestapo incarcerated
there the so-called French and Belgian refractaires and perhaps also, by
way of punishment, criminals. The above-mentioned refractaires were men
who had been sentenced by German mili- […tary] |
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*Another affidavit by
defendant von Buelow (NIK-12613, Pros. Ex. 865), dealing principally with
Krupp’s plant police, is reproduced in section VIII C 2.
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