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| EXTRACT OF TESTIMONY OF THE PROSECUTION WITNESS PAUL STARK CONCERNING
HIS AFFIDAVIT¹ |
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CROSS-EXAMINATION
DR. PESCHKE (counsel for the
defendant Houdremont): Mr. Stark, you state in your affidavit (NIK-12917,
Pros. Ex. 1164)² that the groups subordinated to you, worked in
welding together tank parts, is that right?
WITNESS STARK: Yes.
Q. Would you please explain to us welding together of tanks?
A.
The individual tank components were assembled in the forge shop, and then they
were taken to another plant where they were electrically welded together by
means of electrodes.
Q. What do you mean by the individual component
parts?
A. The tank hull consisted of various individual parts that were
fitted together in the forge, then they were taken to the welding shop, and
then they were welded together.
Q. What do you mean by tanks? Are they
armored vehicles?
A. Yes, they are armored vehicles in unfinished
construction, without any machine parts built into them yet.
Q. What do
you mean when you say unfinished armored vehicles?
A. That is a tank on
which the first jobs had been done, without any transmission and without any
guns. It's the first job to fit these tank pieces together.
Q. And the
further development of the tanks was not undertaken in your plant?
A.
No, we only fabricated the hull, and the inner parts and the machinery were
built into this tank in another place.
Q. How many stages did this work
pass through before the tank was completely finished?
A. I don’t
know. I merely know that the tank parts that had been fitted together were sent
away to other places where they were worked on some more.
Q. Then the
firm of Krupp did not produce finished tanks?
A. Not in our plant.
Q. You said that they were sent to other places, other cities.
A. I only know that they were sent to Magdeburg.
Q. You said
that in your column 13 to 20 Russian prisoners of war and so-called Italian
military internees have been working in your group? |
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¹ Complete testimony
is recorded in the mimeographed transcript, 31 January 1948. pp. 2896-2899.
² Reproduced immediately above.
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