KIVELISHA: In the camps we were not employed by the Germans on any work connected with the prisoners. All the Germans were interested in was the separation of people who could work from those of the prisoners who were incapable of working. We could not render the prisoners any purely medical services because of the conditions in which we ourselves existed.
COL. POKROVSKY: Did your duties in any of these camps include sanitary supervision? And what exactly was understood by sanitary supervision?
KIVELISHA: The duties of sanitary supervision were entrusted to us in the camp of the town of Gaisen. It only meant that we, the captured military doctors, had to be on duty in the vicinity of the general latrine in the camp, which was nothing more than a ditch dug for this purpose, and as and when the ditch was filled up with excrement, we were forced to clean up the ground.
COL. POKROVSKY: The doctors?
KIVELISHA: Yes, the doctors.
COL. POKROVSKY: Did you really consider this function as a form of sanitary supervision, or did you consider it as straightforward mockery by the Germans at the expense of the captured Soviet army doctors?
KIVELISHA: I consider that it was straightforward mockery at the expense of the captured Soviet doctors.
COL. POKROVSKY: Mr. President, I have no more questions to ask this witness.
THE PRESIDENT: Have any of the other prosecutors got any questions to ask?
COL. POKROVSKY: No, Sir.