DEPOSITION OF KARL REIF
Deposition on oath of Karl REIF, male, German nationality, of Lubeck-Travemunde, Fehlingstrasse 71a, sworn before Captain Duncan ELLIS-, East Surrey Regiment, Investigating Officer, of War Crimes Investigation Unit, HQ British Army of the Rhine, at Lubeck on the 29th day of May 1946.
1. I was arrested in Munich by the Gestapo in August 1936 as I had brought anti-Nazi leaflets and newspapers from Switzerland to Munich. After my arrest I was placed in the concentration camp at Dachau. On the 29th of September 1939, I was sent from Dachau to Mauthausen where I was interned until the 22nd of June 1942.
2. I cannot remember the exact date, but one day at one o'clock in the afternoon in May or June 1942 HIMMLER came with a
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party of thirty to thirty-five high-ranking officers of the SS, the Wehrmacht, and the Nazi Party and with them was also Ernst KALTENBRUNNER.
3. When they arrived I was working in the "Wiener Graben" quarry where the party parked their cars. I immediately recognized KALTENBRUNNER from the photographs of him which -I had seen in the newspapers and KALTENBRUNNER was also recognized at once by many other Austrians who were working there in the quarry.
4. I was carrying stones from the quarry into the camp and saw the party inspecting everything in the camp under the guidance of Commandant ZIERREISS. They began with the hospital, then went to the scullery and the prisoners' cook-house and afterwards into the cells, in the cellar of which was situated the crematorium, the morgue, and the gas chambers connected with the crematorium by a special entrance. The party left the camp at about 18.30 hours.
' [signed] Karl REIF
Sworn by the said Deponent, Karl REIF, at Lubeck, on the Twenty-Ninth Day of May, 1946, before me,Captain Duncan ELLIS, East Surrey Regiment, Investigating Officer, War Crimes Investigation Unit, HQ, British Army of the Rhine, detailed by C-in-C British Army of the Rhine.
[signed] D. ELLIS, Captain
East Surrey Regiment
Affidavit certifying deposition, and deposition concerning an inspection of Mauthausen, including the gas chamber and crematorium, by Himmler and Kaltenbrunner in 1942
Authors
Duncan Ellis (captain, British Army, interrogator (1946))
Duncan Ellis
- Additional details not yet available.
Karl Reif (inmate, Dachau and Mauthausen)
Karl Reif
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 30 May 1946
Literal Title: Affidavit
Defendant: Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-4032
HLSL Item No.: 451774
Notes:Ellis certified Reif's deposition.
Document Summary
PS-4032: Affidavit by one Karl Reif on a visit by Himmler and Kal-tenbrunner to the CC Mauthausen
PS-4032: Affidavit by Karl reif, 29 May 1946, to the effect that he recognized Kaltenbrunner on the occasion of the latter’s visit to the concentration camp Mauthausen in the year 1942