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When I pointed out that the Duesseldorf Regional Office would not
accept these arguments, Mr. von Buelow promised to take the matter up with the
firm’s executives. Both Mr. von Buelow and the directors of Krupp quite
obviously put up a fight against the establishment of the special camp, and
actually managed to postpone a final decision. I had to report on my discussion
with Mr. von Buelow to the Duesseldorf Regional Office. Mr. von Buelow’s
objections were dismissed, and again the immediate establishment of the special
camp was demanded.
Yet the firm of Krupp put the matter off again,
declaring that they still had no material. Thus they won a temporary delay, but
Duesseldorf persisted. Some time later when I reported in reply to a new
inquiry from Duesseldorf that Messrs. Krupp had not yet started to build the
camp, I was instructed to tell Mr. von Buelow the following: All large firms in
the Duesseldorf Regional Office district having complied with the request to
establish special camps, it was now presumed that Messrs. Krupp refuse
compliance on purpose, especially as they were the only large firm which had
failed to date to obey the order. Should Krupp persist in this attitude,
“State Police action” would be taken against the responsible persons.
Only then did the erection of the special camp Dechenschule materialize. Its
completion, however, was delayed for a considerable time, and only months after
others had finished theirs, did the firm of Krupp, after further urging,
finally complete its special camp.
I have carefully read the two pages
of my affidavit and hereby affix to it my personal signature: |
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| [Signed] NOHLES |
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| Nuernberg, 29 April 1948 |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENSE WITNESS PETER NOHLES BEFORE
COMMISSION II ¹ |
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| CROSS-EXAMINATION |
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MISS GOETZ: Wasn’t the Dechenschule camp² a camp for the
punishment of slackers among domestic and indigenous workers?
WITNESS
NOHLES; No, it was primarily intended for eastern workers. |
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¹ Complete testimony
is recorded in the mimeographed transcript 22 and 24 May 1948, pp. 9136-9210,
9301-9316. After Nohles had given his testimony and while the Krupp trial was
continuing, he committed suicide in Nuernberg Prison.
² Nohles’
affidavit concerning the Dechenschule camp (von Buelow 542. Def. Ex. 1362) is
reproduced immediately above.
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