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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT D-339
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| CONFIDENTIAL REPORT OF THE CAMP AND PLANT PHYSICIAN DR. JAEGER, TO
DEFENDANTS IHN AND KUPKE AND OTHERS, 2 SEPTEMBER 1944, REPORTING ON MEDICAL,
FOOD, AND HOUSING CONDITIONS AT NOEGGERATHSTRASSE PRISONER OF WAR
CAMP |
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Medical Office
Main Administration for Workers’ Camps
2
September 1944,
Dr. Jae/fz |
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Strictly confidential
Special Medical
Report |
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The prisoner of war camp in the Noeggerathstrasse is in a terrible
condition. The people live in ash bins, dog kennels, old baking ovens and in
self-made huts.
The food is barely sufficient. Krupp is responsible for
housing and feeding. The supply of medicine and bandages is so extremely bad
that proper medical treatment was not possible in many cases. For this
condition the [army] PW camp administration is responsible. It is astonishing
that the number of sick is not higher than it is, and it varies between 9 and
10 percent. It is also understandable that there is not much willingness to
work, when conditions are such as are mentioned above. When complaints are made
that many of the prisoners of war are absent from work for 1 or 2 days, the
camp can be blamed to a great extent for having insufficient organization.
I have ordered, with the consent of the camp doctor, Dr. Stinnesbeck,
that from time to time the sick who need special medical treatment be assembled
and brought to one special doctor on 1 day of the week, with the
exception, of course, of urgent cases. Eye, ear, and dental treatment come into
consideration. It happens that people who should go to a specialist hang around
the camp for 4 or 5 days on account of lack of accompanying [guard] personnel,
and the camp commandant declares he has not the accompanying personnel —
that is lack of organization and can no longer be offered as an excuse. In the
meantime, in order to get some sort of arrangement, the camp commandant has to
provide guards on Thursday of each week. For the time being I shall supervise
the measures personally each Friday. In our other camp the measures taken for a
special medical treatment on a certain day have answered very
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(Signed) DR. JAEGER
Camp and Plant Physician |
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