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WITNESS WIRTZ: Yes.
Q. What did he answer?
A. That he
did not receive sufficient food for that. He could only distribute what he had.
Q. You also said that female eastern workers who had been looking after
the children told you that the children received too little food?
A.
Yes, that is right.
Q. Did your answer also apply to babies?
A.
Most of them were babies and small infants.
Q. How do you explain the
fact that they were undernourished because babies are usually fed by their
mothers?
A. No, not in the camp. They were fed by bottles with things
like gruel.
Q. Do you know about the rations which camp Voerde
received?
A. No. All I knew was that in my camp in Mulhouse I received
the same rations as a young German mother, and I think the same should have
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Q. Did you know that there was a diphtheria epidemic in camp Voerde?
A. No. I know that during the period I was there, there was no
epidemic. |
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Q. Do you know anything about the fact that in Voerde a doctor was
there for the constant care also of these infants, too?
A. No. I know
nothing about that.
Q. Do you know that particularly for the care of
small infants a fully trained German nurse was available?
A. No. All
the people I met in the hospital were workers from the Ukraine, the nurses,
orderlies, and doctors, who looked after the babies.
Q. So you know
nothing of the fact that a German fully trained nurse was particularly
appointed for that job?
A. No.
Q. Do you know that beyond this
there were also a number of girls from the East, from the Ukraine, etc., who
were employed as additional laborers for looking after the children?
A.
No. I didn’t know that. |
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Q. Witness, you said that there were 4,000 inmates in that camp?
A. Yes, I was told so. |
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