A. I did not know that for we in Rechlin had hardly any contact with the Party.
Q. Therefore, you never corrected orders from the Party? Or would you have done this?
A. No. We were subordinate to the GL, and, therefore, we could only take orders from that superior office.
Q. Witness, what do you know within your office as to how concentration camp inmates were treated?
A. I should say this: When labor was requested for the building of a pillbox, we were given a detachment from Oranienburg. These prisoners were housed by the evacuating of our testing station, that means our German soldiers, in Laerz, and prisoners from the concentration camp at Oranienburg were moved into the billets of the German soldiers. There were about a thousand of these.
Q. Were the barracks in good condition?
A. They were not barracks in the bad sense of the word. They were the best billets which we had at our disposal in Laerz. They were new buildings and contained, apart from the living rooms, a theater room, and a big kitchen with, I believe, four stoves. I know the camp because I visited it repeatedly.
Q. Witness, what orders did you receive for treating of those people by the GL?
A. I remember two orders that were to the effect that all those who actually worked, whether foreigners or concentration camp inmates, should be treated well in order to save their good health and in order to increase their production.
Q. What has been done for that purpose?