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A. The train was prepared of go to Weimar. I had to tell that to the
German Reichsbahn.
Q. How many sick girls were there on the train?
A. I can’t tell you the number.
Q. How many sick girls
were there in camp before you left for the train?
A. Well, the sick
ones were placed on a truck. I know that.
Q. That is one truck? A. Yes,
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Q. You mean to say you had a train made up, you made arrangements
for getting coaches, you notified the station master where it was to go to, but
you don’t know how many people were to go on the train?
A. I knew
the entire figure, of course. I ordered the coaches.
Q. What was it?
A. Five hundred, I believe, 500 or 550, something like that. Some more
joined later.
Q. How many did they take from the Bochumer Verein?
A. If I remember, according to what the SS men told me at the time,
there were something like 1,800. I seem to remember something like that.
Q. Didn’t you make arrangements for all of these girls, 500 plus
1,800?
A. Yes.
Q. So there were about 2,300 on this train?
A. Approximately two thousand, or two and a half thousand persons were
being moved.
Q. Those were both men and women?
A. Men and
women, of course.
Q. And you made the arrangements for all of them?
A. Yes.
Q. Why did you just say that there were only 500 who
went?
A. Well, when I said 500, 1 was talking only about the Jewesses
coming from Essen; and the other number was taken along from Bochum.
Q.
And can you estimate again how many coaches would you have on the entire train
for the entire 2,500 people?
A. Well, at the time I had worked it out
with the SS men, and I said before —
Q. Please, if you can
remember, please answer the question without taking a long time to reconstruct
an answer which might be reasonable.
A. About 50 coaches. |
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