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[con…] firmed, whether or not this took place before offer both
firms were taken over by the Krupp concern.
I seem to remember that
concentration camp prisoners have worked in Wuestegiersdorf. As far as I
remember, the question of the relocation to Wuestegiersdorf was discussed in
the Direktorium. Whether or not, however, on this occasion the employment of
concentration camp prisoners at this plant was discussed, I do not remember.
I do not remember the employment of concentration camp prisoners in a
plant at Geisenheim. In regards to Maehrisch-Schoenberg, I only remember that
the transfer, I believe, of the crankshaft manufacturing plant in Essen al
Hamburg to Maehrisch-Schoenberg, was begun in 1944. Whether or not the plant in
Maehrisch-Schoenberg was ever put into operation I do not remember anymore. I
also do not know anything of the Krupp plant in Maehrisch-Schoenberg employing
concentration camp prisoners.
I also do not know anything about the
employment of concentration camp prisoners in the Krupp coal mines in Essen or
other mines in the Ruhr district, for instance in Bochum. I often visited such
plants, but have never seen concentration camp prisoners at work. Hence, I
regard it as highly improbable that the Krupp coal mines employed concentration
camp prisoners.
5. In regard to the employment of concentration camp
prisoners at plants in Essen itself, I only know one thing that in 1944
approximately 500 female concentration camp prisoners were assigned to us and
that on account of it we were very disagreeably affected and made several
attempts to get rid of them as soon as possible. I personally learned of the
intended allocation of these female prisoners only shortly before their
arrival, that is at a moment when their arrival could no longer be prevented.*
Nothing is known to me of male prisoners having been requested at that time and
of female prisoners having been assigned to us instead. In particular, I do not
know anything about any possible negotiations in this matter by Mr. Lehmann,
with whom I had almost no contact. I admit that presumably Mr. Ihn once told me
that Mr. Lehmann was negotiating with a gentleman from Buchenwald. The gist of
this conference, however, has not become known to me. I do not know anything
about it and would even like to exclude that any, other than the
obove-mentioned female concentration camp prisoners, were ever used in Essen.
In this connection I would like to add, on one occasion when I was present when
visitors inspected the armor construction work- [...shop] |
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* Further evidence
concerning the employment of female concentra camp inmates is reproduced below
in section VIII F.
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