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Q. Is it correct, as the witness Wirtz says, that the children were
lying on prison benches?
A. No.
Q. What kind of beds did they
have?
A. They had two-part mattresses. The beds were partitioned into
two parts, and there were two children in one bed. They had rubber sheets and
proper linen and everything that is necessary for a bed.
Q. The witness
Wirtz says that the children had to lie naked on the prison benches. Now, what
do you know about that?
A. That is not correct.
Q. Were they
properly dressed — did they have linen and underclothes?
A. Yes.
Q. Were there children who had nothing on?
A. No. It never
happened that they had nothing on at all. They had at least little shirts and
little jackets and after all, a child has to have freedom of movement and
because many had sore patches, we left their legs free so that the air would
get at the soreness.
Q. Were the rooms heated when the children were
left uncovered?
A. Yes.
Q. The witness Wirtz says that the
children were hydrocephalic?
A. I have not seen a child with
hydrocephalus, I don’t know what it looks like, as a matter of fact.
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Q. Fifty to sixty children are supposed to have died daily. What do
you know about that?
A. I know nothing about that.
Q.
Furthermore, the dead children are supposed to have been cremated. What is your
comment on that?
A. No child was cremated. They were always put in nice
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Q. Do you know Mr. Wirtz?
A. No.
Q. But he says that
in January 1945 he was in this children's ward?
A. I do not remember
ever having seen a gentleman called Wirtz at that place. Since I was one of the
matrons of that station, I should have seen him. |
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