“The German Army Command used to send their own agents to the camps near the front line to observe how the typhus was spreading among the inmates and also among the Red Army units.”
Next there is the testimony of one of such agents, the traitor Rastorguev. I omit this quotation.
To conclude the presentation of evidence relative to this matter, I shall only quote a few excerpts from the findings of the medical experts of epidemical diseases. The Tribunal will find it on the back of Page 454, second column of the text. This is Page 274 of the Russian text. I begin the quotation:
“(a) The German authorities placed together in concentration camps both the healthy and the typhus-stricken Soviet citizens.
“(b) In order to expedite the dissemination of typhus in the camps, the Germans used to transfer the typhus patients from one camp to another.
“(c) On many occasions when typhus patients refused to go into the camp, the German authorities used force.
“(d) German aggressors used to move typhus patients from hospitals into the camps and mixed them with the healthy camp inmates.”
And the last paragraph:
“(e) The infecting of the Soviet population with typhus began in second half of February and was practiced to the middle of March.”
The result of it was mass infection of the people interned in the camp, and the members of the Tribunal will find proof of this in the next paragraph where it is said that the Red Army Command sent 4,052 Soviet citizens to the hospitals, among them 2,370 children below 13 years of age, all liberated just from one hamlet of Ozarichi, in the Poless region.