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| 2. PROSECUTION TESTIMONY AND AFFIDAVITS |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NIK-12917
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1164
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| AFFIDAVIT OF PAUL STARK,* KRUPP FOREMAN, l8 NOVEMBER 1947, CONCERNING
THE USE OF RUSSIAN PRISONERS OF WAR AND ITALIAN MILITARY DETAINEES ON TANK
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I, Paul Stark, Essen, Papenberghang 52, after having been duly warned
that false statements on my part will render me liable to punishment herewith
declare the following under oath, voluntarily, and under no duress:
I
have been employed since 1938 up to the end of the war in armor construction
plant 4 of the Cast Steel Works of the Fried. Krupp in Essen, first as electric
welder, then as foreman and from 1943 as master foreman. I had to supervise a
group of workers of about 90 to 100 men. The work of my group consisted of
welding together tank hulls in the first years tanks III and IV and later Tiger
tanks.
As from 1943 approximately 80 Russian prisoners of war and
Italian military internees came into the plant. They were first trained in a
training workshop and examined as to their suitability and after their training
was completed, around 15-20 Russian prisoners of war and Italian military
internees were assigned to my group for work. They worked with the other
workers, Germans and foreign, of my group on welding of tanks, further they
were employed on smaller jobs which did not belong to the regular work program.
I have carefully read the above page of this affidavit, have made the
necessary correction in my own handwriting, and countersigned same with my
initials, and herewith declare under oath that this statement contains the pure
truth to the best of my knowledge and belief. |
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| [Signed] PAUL STARK |
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* Stark, cross-examination
concerning this affidavit is reproduced immediately below.
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