“I only know an order existed that only officers, and, I believe, only those who were caught by the Gestapo, should be handed over to them.”
Then you say—you talk about intelligence—I don’t want to trouble you about that. Then, if you would look at the next paragraph:
“I received a report from the camp saying so-and-so many men had been shot whilst attempting to escape. I did not hear from the Gestapo at all. It is like this. The reports are sent to the camp. Then the camp informed us that a certain number of men had been recaptured and a certain number shot. Things are reported in that way. The Gestapo sent me no information whatsoever; they merely told us casually whenever we made inquiries, that they had recaptured a certain number.”
Now the next sentence I want you to look at carefully:
“The Field Marshal gave us detailed instructions to publish a list at the camp, giving the names of those shot, as a warning. That was done. That was a direct order which we could not disobey.”
Is that correct?
WESTHOFF: It was ordered that a list of all those who were shot be posted up in the camp as a warning.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: And then the next sentence says:
“Apparently the bodies were burned and the ashes put into urns and sent to the camp.”
And then there is arrangement about the burial.