“Owing to the rapid advance of the allies, who were approaching Aachen, all the prisoners of Brauweiler were taken to Cologne. . . .”

[Dr. Stahmer approached the lectern.]

M. DUBOST: Mr. President, before allowing the Defense Counsel to interrupt, permit me to finish reading this document.

THE PRESIDENT: Continue.

M. DUBOST: Thank you, Mr. President. With the end of this paragraph the Tribunal learns that the German military authorities themselves took steps in order to learn the fate of these prisoners:

“The military authorities having no knowledge thereof, immediately undertook correspondence with Buchenwald, correspondence which remained without answer.”

And again:

“At the beginning of March, Major Bramkamp, chief of the Abwehr group, had to go personally to Buchenwald. . . .”

On Pages 120-121 the Tribunal will find the list of the prisoners who thus disappeared.