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Q. Out of those, there were about 2,000 women, is that correct?
A. That might be correct.
Q. Of those, 50 babies died daily?
A. Well, that I was told, they were supposed to have died.
Q.
You say they were supposed to have died?
A. Yes, that is what I said.
Q. That would mean that 1,500 children died every month?
A. I
don't know whether it always happened regularly, but I was told by the female
eastern workers that daily about 50 children died, but I don't know for how
long that went on.
Q. It would also mean that 18,250 children died per
year?
MR. MANDELLAUB: I think defense counsel is drawing conclusions
and trying to get the witness to accept them.
JUDGE DALY, Presiding:
The witness has stated, Doctor, that he didn’t know how long that death
rate continued.
DR. WECKER: Witness, you said the babies were separated
from their mother, is that correct?
WITNESS WIRTZ: Yes.
Q. Did
the German female workers when they had to go to work, did they like Japanese
women, carry their children with them?
A. No, they didn’t.
Q. So they only saw their babies in the evening?
A. Yes.
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| 3. AFFIDAVIT OF DEFENDANT KUPKE |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NIK-10766
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| AFFIDAVIT OF THE DEFENDANT KUPKE, 27 JUNE 1947, CONCERNING THE
ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE VOERDE CHILDREN’S
CAMP |
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I, Hans Kupke, Nuernberg, after having been duly warned that I
render myself liable to punishment by making a false statement, herewith
declare the following on oath, of my own free will and without coercion:
With reference to the children’s camp in Voerde, I have to make
the following statement:
When female eastern workers employed at
Krupp's were expecting a child the confinement took place in one of the
hospitals of Krupp. One part of the hospital was fenced off, there the women
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