We have made no effort to try to analyze the number of Jews, whose nationality was not listed or included in this list. There are a very substantial number of Jews in this list of 214 names, and we have not analyzed it by the birth places, which are given in some instances, to see whether or not there were some non-German Jews among those. Of course, it would be highly coincidential if there were not.
Now, then, the only question open is actually how many people were transported. We had 293 selected, narrowed down to 214 by the doctors' commission, and now the only question is how many went from Gross-Rosen to Bernburg. That information is also contained in the documents. On Page 37 we find a teletype dated 25 March 1942 from Liebehenschel to Gross-Rosen asking how many inmates had been transferred for "special treatment", 14 F 13. The reply is on Page 38, and note that the reply is sent to the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, Section D, so that by 26 March 1942 Amtsgruppe D controlled concentration camps and was under the defendant Pohl and part of the WVHA. The camp commander in this teletype says that 214 inmates were selected for "special treatment." "From this number 70 were transferred on 17 March and 57 inmates on 10 March 1962. Between 20 January and 17 March, 36 of the selected inmates died. The remainder of 51 inmates consists of 42 Jews who are able to work and 10 other inmates, who have regained their strength owing to a temporary cessation of work (camp closed between 17 January and 17 February 1942) and who will therefore not be transferred."
Of course, the addition of the commander was either wrong or they made a mistake in the transcription, because he says 42 Jews plus ten other inmates, which does not add up to 51 but to 52.
In any event we see that 127 inmates were shipped out to Bernburg, 36 died before they could be shipped, and 51 who had a respite from work for a period of 30 days again became able to work and consequently were not shipped.
This shows that the basic consideration in whether or not to subject an inmate to euthanasia was the ability to work.
That conclusion is further borne out by the document on page 40, which is a circular memorandum by Liebehenschel to a number of concentration camps which shows that he was very much nettled by the fact that 51 of the inmates were selected who again became able to work, and he emphasizes again that nobody who is able to work shall be included.
On Page 42, Document NO 1873, which will be Prosecution Exhibit 284, the Tribunal will recall that the Gross-Rosen inmates were shipped out in two groups, one on 17 March with 70 prisoners, and the other on 19 March with 57 prisoners, a total of 127. Prosecution Exhibit 284 constitutes the transport list of 17 March. This is a list of 70 persons who were actually shipped from Gross Rosen to Hamburg, and of the 70 listed, 27 of them are Czechs and Poles.
On Page 46, NO 158, which will be Prosecution Exhibit 285, is the transport list of 19 March 1942, and it accounts for the remaining 57 inmates who were shipped. I have not analyzed in this document the number of non-German nationals.
The last document in this series of proofs is on Page 52, Document 1234-PS, which will be Prosecution Exhibit 286. There is some duplication in the first three pages of this document, so I shall not refer to them. I just want to call the Tribunal's attention to that portion of the document on Page 55. This is a memorandum dated 3 April 1942 from the camp commander of GrossRosen to Amtsgruppe D of the WVHA:
"Subject: Special treatment 14 f 13.
"Headquarters concentration camp Gross-Rosen report that the special treatment of 127 prisoners was concluded on 2 April 1942."
So we knew that these 127 inmates of the concentration camp Gross-Rosen who arrived in Bernburg at the latter part of March were all exterminated by 2 April 1942.
On Page 56, Document NO-907 will be Prosecution Exhibit 287, and this begins a series of documents dealing with the activities of Dr. Mennecke, who was a member of the doctors' commission to visit various concentration camps to make selection of persons to be subjected to euthanasia. On the first page, page 56 - this document, incidentally, constitutes extracts from letters written by Dr. Mennecke to his wifethe second letter is dated Weimar, 25 November 1941. Weimar, if the Tribunal please, is the town near which the concentration camp Buchenwald was located, frequently called Weimar Buchenwald. This letter shows and states that Dr. Memmecke visited the concentration camp Buchenwald at about the time the letter was written where he contacted the Defendant Hoven in the medical case, and subsequently picked out a number of Aryans and 1200 Jews who were subjected to euthanasia.
Page 57, in his letter at the top of the page, Dr. Mennecke tells us about how long the Jews were examined to see whether euthanasia was justified. He says: "Afterwards we continued our examination until about 1600 hours. I myself examined 105 patients, Mueller 78 patients, so that finally a total of 183 reports were ready as a first portion. As second portion a total of 1200 Jews followed, all of whom do not need to be 'examined', but where it is sufficient, to take the reasons for their arrest from the files, often very voluminous and to transfer it to the reports. Therefore it is merely a theoretical work."
Dropping down also on Page 57 to the letter, 12 January 1942, the Tribunal will see the name Dr. Schidlausky mentioned in the letter. The mention of that name plus the date line on the letter proves that Dr. Mennecke was on that date at the concentration camp Ravensbruck, because Schidlausky was the chief doctor at Ravensbruck, which was located near the town of Fuerstenberg.
On Page 58, in his letter of 14 January 1942, in the last paragraph on the page where it starts off, "21.40 hours Cafe Exelsior. After having written a letter of three pages to Karl and also a copy (enclosed) I am able to continue to inform you, Mummy:
Now we will still go to Gross Rowen." The Tribunal will recall that our previous document mentioned that Mennecke did appear in Gross Rosen on the 16th or 17th of January, 1942.
Turn now to Page 62, Document NO-2635 which will be Prosecution Exhibit 288, Page 62, Document NO-2635, Prosecution Exhibit 288. This is a copy, extract of the testimony of Dr. Fritz Mennecke on his activities in the euthanasia program. It runs for a number of pages, from Page 62 to Page 109. It gives the Tribunal a very good picture of the operation of the program as a whole. I want to point up some language on Page 74 if his testimony of direct examination towards the bottom of the page. Mennecke was asked the question:
"Q. Doctor, was the personal data of the concentration camp inmates already filled out when you arrived at the concentration camp?
"A. Yes.
"Q. Was that done by the camp doctor?
"A. He probably ordered it. The office no doubt did it." He goes on to state that he dealt with the camp doctor on his visits there, that the camp doctor had previously selected the group of inmates eligible, that he surveyed that group initially selected by the camp doctors. On the next page, Page 75 of the English, Mennecke was asked the question:
"Q. Doctor, were all of the concentration camp inmates selected, actually insane?
"A. No.
"Q. Will you explain your answer, please?
"A. By insanity we mean a disease which shows characteristic interferences with the mental activity which I will not describe but I will call them characteristics. That is what we mean by insanity. That condition, in the majority of cases of inmates in the concentration camps, was not true.
"Q. Were any inmates selected only for the reason that they were unable to work?
"A. That is possible.
"Q. Were people selected who had diseases other than those of the mind, such as tuberculosis?
"A. Yes, Such people were also included."
On Page 76 at the middle and the bottom of the page Dr. Mennecke was taken over some of the letters which we have also introduced, and he testified that he actually made no examination of the Jews, that he took the Jews who were presented to him, filled out the questionnaires on the reasons for their arrest, and that was that. He said in the second answer from the top of the page, "Well, it wasn't important to examine the Jews. The important fact was for the leadership of the program to find out what the reasons for their arrest were. The situation was that these Jews, in every case, were healthy, physically and mentally."
I think that is all I wish to bring the Tribunal's attention to in Dr. Mennecke's testimony.
I come now to Page 113. The Tribunal will find there a series of pictures. These are pictures of Jews who were selected for the euthanasia program. On the back of each picture is written the reasons for the arrests of the Jews. Now, in order to verify these pictures, which, of course, are not self-proving, the certification appears at Page 113 and is identifying document NO- 3060. Now, the pictures themselves also bear the document number NO- 3060 and are offered now as Prosecution's Exhibit 289.
This authentication shows these pictures were supplied to us by a Tribunal before which Dr. Mennecke was tried and sentenced to death for his part in the euthanasia program.
Also part of the same document, beginning on Page 115, the Court will find the translation of the notations which appear on the back of these pictures. I quoted from several of them in that part of the opening statement dealing with euthanasia, or rather Mr. Hardy did, and I shall not repeat them here. The Tribunal will find that a great number of these Jews were arrested for rassenchande, others were said to have dealt in the black market, others were listed as simply Talmudic Jews. I am sure the Tribunal will find it interesting to see the reasons why these Jews were arrested, which reasons were considered sufficient to exterminate them, to justify exterminating them.
The Tribunal may find some confusion in the arrangement of this document. On page 110 in the document book do you find Document NO-3060 continued? Pages 110, 111 and 112 should actually follow page 121. In other words those pages, 110, 111 and 112 are translations of the comments on the backs of these pictures.
Now, there is one open element in the proof with respect to these pictures, and that is the proof as to the handwriting on the back of these pictures. It is actually the handwriting of Dr. Mennecke which is proved by Document NO-2436 on page 139 of the document book. That document also was out of order. In order to avoid confusion I will give it a new document number, a new exhibit number, although in fact it really simply authenticates these pictures. I shall offer it as Prosecution's Exhibit 290.
Going back now to Page 122 we have Document NO-429 which I offer as Prosecution Exhibit 291. This is an affidavit by the Defendant Hoven in the medical case. He makes reference in Paragraph 9 on page 125 to the shipment of Jewish prisoners to the euthanasia station at Bernburg for extermination. That is on page 125. I shall not read from it.
The next document is on page 127, Document NO-2636, which will be prosecution's Exhibit 292. The following series of documents, there are about three, are included merely to show the systematic selection of inmates from various concentration camps and their extermination under the euthanasia program. Now, we have covered Gross Rosen. We have also covered Buchenwald, both in the testimony of Mennecke and in the affidavit of Hoven. I might also say the affidavit of Hoven mentions a number of other concentration camps visited. Buchenwald is further covered by this affidavit on page 127, which is an extract of the testimony of Ferdinand Roemhild in the medical case. That is Prosecution's Exhibit 292.
On page 131 is Document NO-2635 which will be Prosecution's Exhibit 293. This is an extract from the testimony of Walter Neff in which he states he heard of the Action 14 F 13, that it constituted the shipment of invalids to a place near Linz, which in fact was Hartheim. I have stated it was located near Linz in Austria.
THE PRESIDENT: It is time for adjournment.
MR. MC HANEY: We have two documents, your Honor. If I can just offer them, I have no comment.
On page 138, Document NO-2638 will be Prosecution's Exhibit 294. It is an extract of testimony of Ferdinand Holl as to Action 14 F 13in Natzweiler.
On page 141, Document NO-1007, Prosecution's Exhibit 295, is a direction order by Gluecks, Chief of Amtgruppe D of the WVHA, to a whole series of concentration camps, dated 27 April 1943, concerning 14 F 13, and directing that only insane persons shall be selected henceforth. This document proves that the action continued after the concentration camps came under the control of the WVHA and the Defendant Pohl in March, 1942.
The next document in the book is on page 142, Document NO-2333, Prosecution's Exhibit 296, an affidavit of Gerhard Schiedlausky, the concentration camp doctor at Ravensbruck, who reports on the participation of Lolling, Amt D-III in the program. It also states that Pohl accompanied Himmler in a visit in 1941 when an order was given to kill a man who had been injured in Mauthausen.
THE PRESIDENT: This Tribunal will recess until two o'clock when it convenes in Courtroom No. 1. This case, however, will be resumed tomorrow afternoon at one-thirty.
(The Tribunal adjourned until 17 April 1947, at 1330 hours.)
Case 4 Court 2 Official Transcript of the American Military Tribunal 2 in the matter of the United States of America against Oswald Pohl, et al, Defendants, sitting at Nurnberg, Germany, on 17 April 1947, 1330 hours, Justice Toms Presiding.
THE MARSHAL: Persons in the court room will please find their seats. The Honorable, the Judges of Military Tribunal 2. Military Tribunal 2 is not in session. God save the United States of America and this honorable Tribunal. There will be order in the court room.
MR. ROBBINS: May it please the Tribunal, the Prosecution proposes to present documents in Document Book 11 at this time. The documents in this book and the next two books, I believe, concern slave labor.
The first one is on page 1 of Document Book 11. It is NO-034, which I offer as Exhibit 297. This is on affidavit of Rudolf Hoess, one-time chief of Amtsgruppe D-1. He states in paragraph 2 of the affidavit and part of paragraph 3:
"Since 1934 I was continuously active in the administration of concentration camps and was on duty in Dachau until 1938. Then I became adjutant in Sachsenhausen from 1938 until 1 May 1940, at which time I was appointed commandant of Auschwitz. I was commandant of Auschwitz until 1 December 1943 and I estimate that at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminated there in gas chambers and crematories. At least a further half million people died from hunger and sickness, which adds up to a total amount of about 3,000,000 deaths. This figure represents about 70 to 80 per cent of all persons who were sent to Auschwitz as prisoners. The remaining were picked out and used for slave work for the industries located in and surrounding the concentration camp.
"From 1 December 1943 until the collapse I was chief of Bureau No. 1 in Work Group D (Amt I of Amtsgruppe D) of the Economics and Administration Main Office.
"The WVHA, the chief of which was SS Lieutenant General Oswald Pohl, was responsible for all administrative matters such as housing, feeding and medical care in the concentration camps."
And turning to page 3 of the affidavit, paragraph numbered "B.1," he states:
"From 1940 on, in the entire Reich Territory as well as in the German-occupied territories, so-called outside work camps were set up. They were attached to plants mainly of the armement industry, some of which were government woned, the majority of which however, were in the hands of private industry. These camps were created for the housing of concentration camp inmates employed as work details by the respective industrial concerns. In all cases known to me from the time I was camp commandant of the Auschwitz complex, and later as chief of Bureau No. 1 of work Group D in the Economy and Administrative Headquarters, inmates of concentration camps had been requested through the industrial plants directly from camps respectively from the inspection officials of the concentration camps. On the list marked Appendix I -'Explanation of the Markings' -- (Seven pages), I designated the 59 work camps or outside work camp complexes known to me which I included in chart 'Concentration Camps' marked Appendix II, according to their approximate location, as the plants in which concentration camp inmates were employed."
And then I would like to read, as an example of the procedure which was followed in supplying inmates to private concerns, Hoess's description of I.G. Farbenindustrie. He says:
"Labor detachments formed of concentration camp inmates were assigned to innumerable plants of this combine throughout the entire German Reich. A big plant of the I.G. 'BUNAWERKE' was to be erected near the Auschwitz concentration camp. In spring 1941, the Reichsfuehrer of the SS, in company with SS Lieutenant General Wolf, inspected the Auschwitz concentration camp. On this occasion he gave me the order to keep 10,000 camp inmates ready for the construction of the Bunawerke. Shortly afterwards, the Auschwitz camp was visited by a commission of the I. G. Farben, carrying the plans for the construction of the Buna plants. The committee was formed of Dr. Ambros, Dr. Duerrfeld, Dr. Lisfeld and Dr. Santo. During the summer of 1941, I was invited by the I.G. Farbenindustrie to visit their installations at Leuna and at Ludwigshafen, in order to get acquainted with the manufacturing procedure of synthetic gasoline and to see how such a plant was working, so that I would be in a better position to utilize the labor of concentration camp inmates in such a plant. I spent a day in Leuna and a day in Ludwigshafen. At that time I.G. Farben had already employed in different plants six to eight thousand concentration camp internees; The utilization of inmates, as such, was discussed there by the I.G. Farben people and myself, the supplementary employment of inmates, for instance in the sheet metal forge plants, was not the subject of the discussion at that time. The Buna plant was about seven kilometers from Auschwitz; its construction was finished at the beginning of 1943."
And the remainder of that paragraph continues to describe the procedure at I.G. Farben. The rest of the affidavit refers to the Hermann Goering Works, SiemensSchuckert, Krupp and other private industries.
I might state that another affidavit of Hoess was introduced at page 35 of Document Book No. 3. That was NO-3868-PS and was Exhibit 51. This, however, is a different affidavit of Hoess. Next I offer-
THE PRESIDENT: Did you give this document an exhibit number, Mr. Robbins?
MR. ROBBINS: I believe this is 297, Your Honor. I next offer NO-2126 as Exhibit 298. This is an affidavit by Phillipp Grimm, who was a labor allocation officer of Buchenwald.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Before you leave this document which you just offered in evidence NO-034, on page 4 right under the lettering page 6, my copy is not very distinct and I want to see if I read a word correctly. "Upon invitation of Dr. -
MR. ROBBINS: Ambrose - A-m-b-r-o-s-e.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: And right on down a little bit further, "during which a long conference took place between Pohl, SS Lt. General Gluecks, and Frank." What Frank is that?
MR. ROBBINS: I am sorry to say that I cannot tell from this affidavit what Frank this is.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: You don't know whether it is the Defendant Frank in this case or not.
MR. ROBBINS: I cannot say.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: All right.
DR. SEIDL: (For defendant Oswald Pohl): I make the proposal that the next document, NO-2126, be admitted only on condition that the prosecution will be in a position to supply this witness for crossexamination. This is an affidavit by a certain Phillip Grimm. In order to go into the evidence here, it is essential to be able to examine this witness before this court. I would therefore ask the prosecution to tell me whether the prosecution knows the present address of this witness. In the event that they do not know the address I suggest not admitting this affidavit as evidence.
THE PRESIDENT: Do you know the address of this witness, Mr. Robbins?
MR. ROBBINS: No, Your Honor, I don't know the address.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you turn over to Dr. Seidl any information that you have or can get?
MR. ROBBINS: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: As to the whereabouts of this witness and then upon the request of the defense the Tribunal will order his production as a witness.
MR. ROBBINS: I should like to suggest to the Tribunal and defense counsel if there is a regular procedure that is set up for procurement of witnesses. OCC has a special division that does nothing else but procure witnesses and I understand the proper procedure to be to make written application to the Tribunal for procuring witnesses and then we will do everything in our power to cooperate with them.
THE PRESIDENT: That is the procedure we suggest.
MR. ROBBINS: I offer Document NO-2126 as Exhibit 298. This is an affidavit by Phillip Grimm who was the labor allocation officer of Buchenwald, later at Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme, and he was also an official at Dachau, and the concentration camp at Cracow. He also worked in Amtsgruppe C and D and in the precursors of Amtsgruppe A. He states in the third paragraph that "On 18 October 1939 I was drafted in Berlin for a course for administration conducted by the Waffen-SS, and designated as the Waffen-SS Administration Course Berlin-Lichterfelde-West. This school was under the command of Hans Baier," who is the defendant in this case, "in those days Obersturmbannfuehrer. There they taught the basic principles of administration in the Waffen-SS. Among other things, they taught there everything in connection with the administration of troops in a concentration camp, not however the administration of prisoners. After successful completion of the course on 2 November 1939, I was transferred to the 3rd SS-Recruit-Regiment, Administration, WeimarBuchenwald, where I remained until 15 December 1939. In this unit I was Second Administration Officer.
From 16 December 1939 till 31 April 1940 I remained in the same unit, which was however transferred to Dachau. From 1 May 1940 to 31 August 1940 I was Administration Officer in Prague in the administration of the 1/16 SS-Regiment. On 1 September 1940, I was transferred to the SS Main Office for Budget and Construction, Main Division 1/5, Labor Assignment," which was a precursor of Amtsgruppe A, "During the dissolution of the regiment in Prague I fell ill, and had to report after recovery at the Main Office for Budget and Construction to Georg Loerner;" who is a defendant, "there I received an order to transfer, according to which I was transferred to Flossenbuerg. I believe, this order of transfer was signed by Georg Loerner. My transfer was canceled when I was already due to leave, and I was informed by Untersturmfuehrer Lange, at that time adjutant, that I had been transferred to Buchenwald." He states then that he was transferred to Buchenwald in October 1940 and then on page 3 of the original he states, "Pohl thereupon wired to Koch, whereupon I was immediately placed in my position as Labor Assignment Officer, had my work allotted to me and began my regular work. I remained in Buchenwald till 30 November 1942.
"On 1 December 1942 I entered my new office, the Concentration Camp of Sachsenhausen, as Labor Assignment Officer. On 1 September 1943, I was transferred to the SS-Main Economic Administrative Office D II, Oranienburg, where I worked till 31 May 1944. On 1 June 1944 I was transferred to the Concentration Camp Cracow-Plaszow, where I stayed until 31 August 1944." In 1944." In 1944 he states that he was transferred to Neuengamme where he stayed until January 1945. In Cracow he says they appointed him as "labor assignment officer and camp commander in Hamburg-Neuengamme as Labor Assignment Officer only. I was transferred by Standartenfuehrer Maurer personally to Cracow-Plaszow and he appointed me Camp Commander and Labor Assignment Officer. From 1 February 1945 till 7 May 1945 I was transferred to the Army Corps under the command of SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Kamler (of Amtsgruppe C) for assignment.
In the last mentioned office I was assigned to the Corps Administration Office. The Corps Administration Officer was SS-Standartenfuehrer Maurer.
"Through my activity as Labor Assignment Officer I knew that in 1942 an order by Pohl was sent to the Concentration Camps which authorized the Camp Commanders to retain prisoners who had been released for discharge by the Reich Security Main Office, but were important for the organization of labor in the camp. The duration of this illegal imprisonment could be extended to the end of the war.
"I also knew through my activity in 1/5 and B II that at the time I was working in the above-named Concentration Camps there was never any differentiation between the various categories of prisoners and that prisoners of war as well as prisoners of any other category were ruthlessly assigned to armament plants or any other outside labor detachments."
I next offer Document NO-2125 as Exhibit 299. This is an affidavit of Schwartz, who was a concentration camp official in Danzig and Buchenwald. In the paragraph just at the end of page 2 of the original he states, "In all external detachments newly to be established which worked under the Amtsgruppe W, the respective chief of the office had to apply for these prisoners to D II (MAURER). In my capacity as leader of labor assignment of D II I was instructed to dispose of these prisoners, as far as contingents were concerned which had to come from Buchenwald. If an increase of a labor contingent became necessary, the respective Chief of the W-office had also to apply for such an increase to D II."
On page 4 of the original he states, "Karl Sommer visited Buchenwald at the end of 1944. The reason for this visit was to get all available labor for the construction of a secret Fuehrerquarter in the proximity of Ohrdruf. This building was repaired in greatest haste, though all authorities knew that such a project would take a longer time."
He goes ahead to state that many prisoners died from over-work and undernourishment. On page 4 of the affidavit he gives the code names of various projects under Amtsgruppe B, or the A Projects, B Projects, S and V Projects.
On the last page Schwartz says "I know that transports of free Eastern workers arrived by mistake at Buchenwald and were treated as concentration camp prisoners immediately after their arrival. In one case Eastern-Workers were released later on by order of Amtsgruppe D and placed at the disposal of the free labor market. But it took 8 weeks until they were released and in the meantime they were treated and employed as all other concentration camp prisoners. I know of a second case where a transport of the firm Hassage, consisting of free Polish workers, arrived by mistake from Lodz at Buchenwald. Though the camp-administration knew that these workers were also not concentration camp prisoners, these free Polish workers were not released by order of Amtsgruppe D, but registered as regular concentration camp prisoners and placed as such with external detachments by the labor office."
We turn to page 21 of the Document Book, NI-091, which will be Exhibit 300. This is an affidavit of Fritz Suhren. He states in the second paragraph "From the beginning of 1942 till about October 1942, I was in active training at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
"From about November 1942 until the collapse, I was commandant of the Ravensbrueck concentration camp as successor to the camp commandant SS Oberstrumbannfuehrer Koogel."
And then the second paragraph of No. 4 states, "During my time of service in Ravensbrueck, Obergruppenfuehrer Oswald Pohl inspected the concentration camp twice. The first time, in 1943, he came alone and inspected the camp with me; the second time, in 1944, he was accompanied by SS Gruppenfuehrer Loerner, chief of the W-industries." That is Georg Loerner.
Paragraph 6 states, "Commissioned by my head office: Administrative Group D of WVHA, I had visited all those firms employing prisoners from the Ravensbrueck concentration camp or planning the employment of such, in order to negotiate with them on the employment conditions as well as the establishment of outside employment centers where these did not already exist."
Then Paragraph No. B, where he gives various firms using concentration camp inmates.
On page 23 of the same affidavit - - - we of the Document Book, that has lists of concerns, and in the fourth column there are the managers of these concerns. The Court will note that George Loerner is indicated as managing two of those, on page 23.
On page 24 Amtsgruppen C is listed as using 150 inmates in certain building construction.
On page 25 he states; "The following private firms, also entered by me in the enclosed lists, employed concentration camp prisoners." In paragraph No.1 he said that the Brick-works under Amtsgruppen W employed 2000 male prisoners. The balance of that affidavit is taken up with most of the concerns employing concentration camp inmates.
I next offer Document NI-310 as Prosecution's Exhibit No. 301. This is on page 31, which is the affidavit of Kurt Pany, and he states that he is now Secretary of the Central Association of the Czechoslovak industry, and that he says; "I was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp from the 6 February 1942 until 5 May 1946 for resistance and sabotage against the Third Reich."
And in the following paragraph he states his duties in that camp. In the paragraph towards the bottom of the page, he says: "In 1942 only the following Outside Working Groups were in Mauthausen: Gusen, instituted in 1939 where work was done for the Deutsche Erd - und Steinwerke. The prisoners of the Mauthausen Camp also worked at first exclusively for this firm. Dest was a joint stock company, instituted by the SS-Kantinengemeinschaft." Dest - it is the same "Deutsche Erd Und Steinwerke". And this corroborates the testimony of the witness Krysiak.
I now turn to page 35 of the Document Book, and offer NO-1949, as Prosecution's Exhibit No.302. This is an affidavit of van Velsen made in Sachsenhausen-Auschwitz camps, and he describes the conditions in these camps, and any work details in those camps.