For months, for years we had one wish only: The wish that some of us would escape alive, in order to tell the world what the Nazi convict prisons were like everywhere, at Auschwitz as at Ravensbrück. And the comrades from the other camps told the same tale; there was the systematic and implacable urge to use human beings as slaves and to kill them when they could work no more.
M. DUBOST: Have you anything further to relate?
MME. VAILLANT-COUTURIER: No.
M. DUBOST: I thank you. If the Tribunal wishes to question the witness, I have finished.
GEN. RUDENKO: I have no questions to ask.
DR. HANNS MARX (Acting for Dr. Babel, Counsel for the SS): Attorney Babel was prevented from coming this morning as he has to attend a conference with General Mitchell.
My Lords, I should like to take the liberty of asking the witness a few questions to elucidate the matter.
[Turning to the witness.] Madame Couturier, you declared that you were arrested by the French police?
MME. VAILLANT-COUTURIER: Yes.
DR. MARX: For what reason were you arrested?