“Mr. Hardy: Do you know the nationality of the various subjects?
“Witness Vorlicek: For the most part I do.
“Q. Can you tell the Tribunal the nationality of the various subjects, as near as you can recollect?
“A. There were Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, Austrians, and Germans.”
During direct examination the witness Vorlicek stated (Tr. p. 9388):
“Mr. Hardy: Well, did they ever volunteer for any special detachment or some such thing?
“Witness Vorlicek: Well, this is how it happened. Since I know the Slavonic language, and there were some Czechs among them, I spoke to them.”
Therefore, the defendant’s statement, that the persons concerned were Slovaks from the Bratislava area (Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia) is not without foundation.
The Rations of the Gypsies
The defendant states that the persons subjected to the experiments got the Luftwaffe flight rations before the experiments, and the same rations after the experiments, and that there was a hitch only once due to the bombing of the provisions warehouse. During the experiments, the persons got shipwreck rations. The Englishman, Ladell also says that he gave his soldiers shipwreck rations during the experiments. On this point, see extract from Beiglboeck 20, Beiglboeck Exhibit 8: