And then it says:
“I was Naval Administration Inspector and officer in charge of the Naval Clothing Depot at Libau in Latvia.
“I held this position from the beginning of August 1941 to the end of March 1942.
“The Jewish population of Libau at that time was supposed to be about 7,000 people.
“Up to the end of March 1942 many thousands of them had already been ‘evacuated’ by the Gestapo and the Latvian Police.
“ ‘Evacuated’ was the local expression for the annihilation of these people.
“All Jews were registered. When a new lot was to be evacuated it happened in the following way:
“The Latvian Police fetched the Jews out of their houses, put them on lorries and drove them to the Naval Port about six to seven kilometers outside the town. Later on these people had to march and were not taken there in lorries.
“In the Naval Port these people were then shot with machine guns. This was done by the Gestapo and the Latvian Police. The police, of course, got their orders from the German Gestapo.
“I personally did not witness these incidents, but comrades told me all about them.