This purpose of extermination, moreover, does not need to be proved by this document. It is sufficiently established by the testimony which we have submitted to the Tribunal. The witness, Boix, spoke these words: “No one is allowed to leave this camp alive . . . . There is only one exit, and that is the chimney of the crematorium.”
In Document F-321, Exhibit Number RF-331, Page 49, at the top of the page, we read:
“The only explanation which the SS men made to the prisoners was that no captive should leave the place alive.”
On Page 179, the paragraph before the last of the French text:
“The SS told us there was only one exit—the chimney.”
On Page 174, the last paragraph before the heading “Gassing and Cremation”:
“The essential purpose of this camp was the extermination of the greatest possible number of men. It was known as the extermination camp.”
This destruction, this extermination of the internees, assumed two different forms. One was progressive; the other was brutal.
In the second document book which is before the Tribunal, we find the report of a delegation of British Members of Parliament, dated April 1945, submitted under Exhibit Number RF-351, from which we quote these words (the third paragraph on Page 29):
“Although the work of cleaning out the camp had gone on busily for over a week before our visit . . . our immediate and continuing impression was of intense general squalor. . . .”