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and if he does, then counsel for the defense can go into the basis of
it on cross-examination.
MR. MANDELLAUB: I shall rephrase the question
in a way I think will be acceptable to the Court. I shall restate that
question. Witness, do you know what happened to the children of a female worker
who worked for Krupp?
WITNESS WIRTZ: As soon as the eastern worker had
given birth to the child, she was allowed 6 weeks; and after these 6 weeks, she
went back to work; and the child was kept in the camp so that the female worker
could go to work again. She saw that child only after work.
Q. Was this
child separated from the mother?
A. Yes. |
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Q. Mr. Witness, you have told the Court from your experiences the
conditions during the period when you were camp leader or rather deputy camp
leader at Krupp. Did you act as the private person Wirtz when you beat people
or as the deputy camp leader of Krupp whose function was to beat people?
A. I was asked by the plant management to beat people. On my own
initiative I wouldn't have beaten people.
Q. You can state here under
oath that you personally on your own initiative would not have committed acts
of brutality?
A. Yes.
Q. If you hadn’t been asked by the
plant management to do this?
A. Yes.
MR. MANDELLAUB: I have no further
questions, Your Honor.
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DR. STUEBINGER (assistant counsel for defendant Kupke): How could you
find in the Voerde camp that the children were undernourished?
WITNESS
WIRTZ: Because I could see them with my own eyes.
Q. Did you see them
naked?
A. Yes.
Q. Perhaps you can tell the Tribunal what
special observations you made, because when you say they were undernourished
that was a conclusion which you drew because of your observations. Please tell
us of your observation?
JUDGE DALY, Presiding: Well, Doctor, had not he
already said that their legs and arms were the size of his thumb. He has
already given some definite description, hasn’t he?
DR.
STUEBINGER: Did you discuss this condition with the camp leader? |
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