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Q. How many cases of death did you have?
A. I’m afraid I
can’t give you figures for that. At the beginning, because of extreme
weakness and exhaustion and because of tuberculosis, many of them died, but
that, too, later was reduced to a normal rate.
Q. Is it, therefore,
correct to assume that part of this reduction of illnesses, in the case of
Russian prisoners of war, might also be caused by death?
A. Yes, of
course; I said before, as far as there was space available, we transferred the
serious cases from the camps into the sick camps, and after they were cured we
sent them back. Of course, some of these people died, but a large part were
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TRANSLATION OF
KUPKE DOCUMENT 53
DEFENSE EXHIBIT
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| AFFIDAVIT OF EUGEN LAUFFER, TECHNICAL MANAGER IN KRUPP'S HOUSING
ADMINISTRATION, 5 MARCH 1948, CONCERNING KRUPP’S EFFORTS TO PROVIDE BETTER
AIR RAID SHELTERS THAN PERMITTED BY THE AUTHORITIES* |
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I, Eugen Lauffer, resident in Dortmund, Damaschkestrasse, 11/2,
herewith declare the following on oath for use in court and in particular
before the American Military Tribunal in Nuernberg, having been instructed as
to the meaning of the oath and as to the fact that I shall render myself liable
to punishment by making a false affidavit:
I was technical manager and
group chairman in the Krupp housing administration in Essen. In constructing
air raid shelters in the camps for foreign civilian workers we did far more
than was allowed for by the authorities. Our efforts were directed towards
providing at least the same shelter for the inmates of these camps, insofar as
it was possible, as the German civilian population had.
Very detailed
instructions had been issued by the Reich Armament Ministry for the
construction of barrack camps and their supplementary equipment, including air
raid shelters. According to these directives, at least up to the end of 1943,
only the preparation of so-called open shelter trenches was permissible. These
are shelter trenches such as were largely prepared at the begin- […ning]
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* Testimony of Eugen
Lauffer is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 5 June 1948, pp. 11472-11478.
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