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feeding these women should be carried out by them, we finally made an
agreement that this should be done under the supervision of the main
administration for labor camps in accordance with rations prescribed by the SS
for which they would send us coupons from Weimar. We paid a daily rate of RM
4.00 to the SS per day for each of these women employed at Krupp.
As to
guarding these women I should like to state the following: One of the
conditions made by SS Standartenfuehrer Pister or SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Schwarz
in the discussions in Essen was that the firm should engage 45 women who should
join the SS to be trained by them as guard personnel and subsequently returned
to Essen. We then made inquiries in the various plants whether anyone would be
willing to make applications to the SS for this purpose at the quite favorable
terms offered. Upon our invitation approximately 50 women declared their
readiness to join the SS. They then left the employment of Krupp and were sent
to the women’s concentration camp Ravensbrueck to enter a training course
of 3 weeks duration. A part of these women then returned, dressed in SS
uniforms, to us to Essen and took part in guarding the Jewesses. The officer in
charge of Humboldstrasse camp was SS Oberscharfuehrer Rieck.*
At the
time these women worked for us a Mr. Dolhaine from the labor allocation unit
“A” concerned himself with questions in connection with the SS. I
also know that Mr. Ihn had charged Lehmann to see to it that everything
pertaining to the camp was in order. The camp completely burned down at an air
raid in December 1944, however, the women were not returned to Buchenwald but,
on their own request, built new sleeping quarters in the cellar of the
Humboldtstrasse camp.
As to the removal of the Jewesses, which took
place in March 1945, I should like to state the following: SS Hauptsturmfuehrer
Schneier arrived in Essen one day, saying he had orders to remove all the
concentration camp inmates, employed in the Ruhr district, to Buchenwald. As we
were better acquainted with railroad connections, he requested us to appoint a
man to aid him in making up a special train. We let him have Mr. Sommer for
this purpose. These women were finally removed to Bochum in the middle of March
1945, over which route I do not know, where it was intended to make up the
train to Buchenwald.
I have carefully read the foregoing four pages of
this affidavit, I have made the necessary corrections in my own handwriting and
countersigned them with my initials and I declare upon oath that in this
affidavit I have said the full truth to the best of my knowledge. |
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| [Signed] ADOLF TROcKEL |
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* Sometime spelled
“Rick” in the following material.
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