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| Evidence for the
Defendant Klippel |
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| Josef Klippel |
Major
CRANFIELD — I think this would be a convenient time to put certain
affidavits in. They are affidavits about which a passage was put to the witness
in cross-examination. I do not propose to read them, but just to put them in.
The following affidavits
were marked as Exhibits and attached to the proceedings: - |
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| Exhibit |
No. 128. |
ADA BIMKO |
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No. 129. |
ESTERA
GUTERMAN |
| ” |
No. 130 |
HELEN
HAMMERMASCH |
| ” |
No. 131 |
SOPHIA
LITWINSKA |
| ” |
No. 132. |
HANKA
ROZENWAYG |
| ” |
No. 133 |
ILONA
STEIN. |
| ” |
No. 134. |
DORA
SZAFRAN |
| ” |
No. 135. |
EWA
GRYKA |
| ” |
No. 136 |
Sgt.
DINSDALE. |
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| EVIDENCE FOR
THE DEFENDANT JOSEF KLIPPEL¹ |
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| 1 JOSEF
KLIPPEL, sworn, examined by Major CRANFIELD — I was born on 4th
November, 1909, in Vukovar, Yugoslavia, and am what is called a Volksdeutscher.
In 1943 I owned a grocery shop at Neusatz, Yugoslavia, and in October all
Volksdeutsche up to the age of 35 were taken into the S.S., and I was posted to
the concentration camp at Mittelbau, three kilometres from Nordhausen, where I
stayed until 5th, April, 1945. At first I was a clerk until June, 1944, when I
became a runner for the adjutant. At the end of November l went into the food
store of the administration until 5thApril, 1945. We evacuated the camp on
account of air raids, and I left in the evening, with a transport of about 4000
prisoners and the remainder of the S.S., for Neuengamme. We left about 2000
hours when it was quite dark and travelled by train. I had to look after two
wagons with food. At Osterode we found that the rails had been damaged by bombs
so the train could not go on, and the prisoners had to march off under a guard.
I stayed behind with five men to look after the food stores, and distributed as
much food among the prisoners as they could carry before they left. Then I
requisitioned two farm carts, loaded food upon them and sent them off to the
transport. The remainder of the food was given to the local hospital. The
prisoners had left Osterode about half-past seven in the morning and we, the
six of us, started from there about 1500 hours on foot. It was
Sunday, |
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Major Cranfield said that the case of Klippel was different from the others of
his accused. He was only arraigned on the Belsen charge. His defence was that
he had not arrived at Belsen until 11th April; that he then went to No. 2 Camp,
and was never in No. 1 Camp at the material time. In short, his defence was an
alibi. |
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