A. Yes, my fiancee, Ida Schmidt. She was gassed. She was burned to death. I never saw her again.
Q. Didn’t you once beat your wife until the blood spurted out on to the wall?
A. No.
Q. Did you ever beat her?
A. No.
Q. I asked you whether what I have just read to you is true, that you were divided up and your numbers were called out, etc.?
A. We weren’t asked at all. Forty of us were collected together and we were sent to Dachau.
Q. Now, I have to tell you that your countryman—he is from Fuerth too, called Mettbach—said that he talked to you and particularly said that he wanted to go to Dachau because it was nearer Fuerth than Buchenwald; is that true?
A. That might be. I didn’t mind going to Dachau either because my brother lived in Munich.