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A. No, at the Kraemerplatz the food was much better. In addition the
people had their heavy and very heavy workers rations.
Q. Yes, I know
that. Now, Witness, I want you to tell the Tribunal what you mean when you say
that this food you regarded as insufficient was the normal food of eastern
workers?
A. Yes. At the Dechenschule it was insufficient for the heavy
work the people were expected to do, that was definitely insufficient.
Q. That is not what I asked you. You said that this food that you
regarded as insufficient was the normal food of eastern workers. Now, what did
you mean by the normal food? Did you mean the food that they normally and
ordinarily gave to eastern workers?
A. Yes, it was that.
Q.
Where were the eastern workers employed that got this normal food which you
regarded as being insufficient?
A. That varied. The eastern workers
were employed in various plants and almost all of them received additional
ration cards.
Q. Well, when you got Kupke interested in this matter, he
was successful in improving the food for the inmates of the Dechenschule camp,
as I understand it?
A. Yes.
Q. Were you at Dechenschule camp
when these Belgians were brought there?
A. Yes.
Q. And what
were they brought there for?
A. The Belgians told me or rather the
regulations was in existence that any of those who had been guilty of breach of
contract or had been picked up after escaping in their own countries should be
transferred to the Dechenschule camp.
Q. These Belgians hadn’t
ever escaped had they? They had never been at Krupp before?
A. I asked
some of them and they said no, they hadn’t escaped.
Q. Didn't you
say yesterday that these people or some of the inmates of that camp told you
that they were picked up on the streets and brought in?
A. Yes, that is
correct.
Q. Now did I understand you to say also regarding these slit
trenches that you regarded them as being insufficient as air raid shelters?
A. That was at the Kraemerplatz.
Q. Yes, that is true, but that
is the kind of shelter you regarded as insufficient, isn't it?
A. Yes,
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