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by the Vorstand. Personally, I objected to the employment of
these women. However, the gentlemen of the plant management were obviously
under pressure from government agencies as regards the fulfillment of the
programs.
About the deportation, the following is known to me: One day,
while we were in the cellar during an air raid alarm, Dr. Lehmann told me that
the women in the concentration camp were in danger, because he had heard that
their lives were threatened, and he wondered whether it was not advisable,
under these circumstances to transfer the girls. I know that all foreign
workers were supposed to leave Essen and were to be collected east of the Ruhr
district. I said to Mr. Lehmann, that if the girls were in danger it would
certainly be better if they were taken away from Essen. This question was also
discussed between Mr. Houdremont, the gentlemen of the Vorstand and myself.
These gentlemen, too, were of the opinion that it would be wiser if the girls
left Essen, for their own safety. Mr. Lehmann was in charge of the removal. As
far as I know, he got in touch with Mr. Houdremont for a decision whether the
girls really should be sent away.
I have carefully read the two pages
of this affidavit, have made the necessary corrections in my own handwriting
and initialed them, and I herewith declare under oath that in this statement I
have told the absolute truth to the best of my knowledge and
belief. |
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| [Signed] DR. FRIEDRICH JANSSEN |
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| 4. DEFENSE TESTIMONY AND AFFIDAVITS |
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TRANSLATION OF
LEHMANN DOCUMENT 76
DEFENSE EXHIBIT
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| AFFIDAVIT OF ADOLF TROCKEL, 30 DECEMBER 1947, CONCERNING HIS EARLIER
AFFIDAVIT, PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1034, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO KRUPP'S
EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALE CONCENTRATION CAMP INMATES* |
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I, Adolf Trockel, department director, residing in
Essen-Margarethenhoehe, Im stillen Winkel 4, make the following affidavit for
the use of the Military Tribunal in Nuernberg. I know I shall render myself
liable to punishment if I make a false affidavit.
In September 1947 I
signed an affidavit drawn up by the prosecution on the basis of an earlier
cross-examination concerning the |
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* Trocke’s earlier
affidavit (NIK-11670, Pros. Ex. 1034) is reproduced above in section VIII F
2.
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