" Referring to the visit of your son and conversations with him on the part of our employee, Mr. Schtorl, we notice that it is the intention of units of the Belgrade SS to construct the crematorium designed for a large camp and we understand now also that they have been asked to collaborate with the local architects to design and build this crematorium."
"In order to get the bodies into the furnace, we suggest two wheeled conveyers, on rollers. In these furnaces there is a compartment for ashes since it is not suggested that coffins Will be used, and therefore the width of the compartment should be 600 millimeters and the height 450 millimeters. In order to transport corpses from the place of their storage to the furnaces we suggest using light carts on wheels and we shall send you the blueprints of these carts." Exhibit 225 a new document which will be brought to you now. Due to technical reasons it hasn't been delivered to me yet. May I refer to it now, and it will be presented to you within a few minutes. I submit the new document as Exhibit USSR 225, which also deals with the construction of crematoria for concentration camps in Belgrade. This is correspondence of the firm Korn, Ltd. This is a well-known firm, which considered that every business letter had to be ended with "Heil Hitler!" And this firm knew its clients well and the firm Korn recommended once again to inquire whether two furnaces would be sufficient. furnaces for Dachau and five furnaces for Lublin, and it emphasized that its technically perfected furnaces through practice were greatly remedied. I quote a very short excerpt of this document which the Tribunal will find on page 471 in Volume 2 of the document book. I quote the first paragraph:
"In addition to the negotiations which took place between us, relative to the delivery of the equipment for cremating of the simple construction, we offer our perfected furnaces for cremation, which work on fuel and which have proved to be extremely satisfactory.
"In connection with the intended, construction, we offer two furnaces for cremation, but ones again we request you to inquire whether two ovens will be sufficient."
"As to how big the area should be for the furnaces, it is evident from the attached blueprints. The numbers mentioned in the blueprints illustrate how two of the ovens are built. Blueprint No. 9122 was used for the camp in Dachau for all furnaces in the camp.
"The next blueprint illustrates how the equipment was built in the Lublin camp. There were two furnaces for cremation and there were heating chambers in Lublin."
"Expecting further news, I will be at your service.
"Heil Hitler.
"C. H. Korn Co. Ltd." ovens for the concentration camps.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal would like to know, as they have not these letters before them, to whom they were addressed.
COLONEL SMIRNOV: The letters, Mr. President, were addressed to the SS units in Belgrade. These documents were taken by the Yugoslav Government. The SS units in Belgrade considered that the methods of extermination which were in use in Belsen, which I already stated, to the Tribunal, were not adequate enough and they decided to perfect then and for this purpose they started to design the construction of crematoriums in the camp, and then between the police and the units of the SS in Belgrade and the several German firms they started, this lively business correspondence, part of which I presented to your attention.
THE PRESIDENT: Here the other letters that you referred to also addressed to SS units?
COLONEL SMIRNOV: They were also addressed to the SS units, Mr. Presid The first letter was addressed to the administration in the camp in Auschw the letters of the firm Topf & Sons.
the stationary crematorium, there was also a movable crematorium. The Tribunal already knows about the portable movable gas chambers. Those were murder vans. There were also created transportable crematoriums An SS member, Waldmann, testifies to their existence. He was one of the participants in the crime of the German Fascists when at one time 840,000 Russian prisoners of war in Aschaffenhausen were murdered.
The Tribunal has already Exhibit USSR-52, the documents relative to the Auschwitz Camp. I quote that particular place from the testimony of an SS member, Waldmann, where the mass execution in Auschwitz is mentioned.
"The war prisoners murdered in this way were cremated in four movable crematoriums, which were transported on truck trailers." chambers and crematoriums. I think the Tribunal already has a clear idea of this question. But I ask the Tribunal to pay particular attention to the repulsive methods of process which were introduced by the German Fascists which relates to industrial usage of the korpses of murdered people. I shall further present to the Tribunal evidence which should testify as to even more repulsive utilization of corpses of the victims, and now I shall go on to a report relative to Auschwitz, which the Tribunal will find on page 333, reverse side, in the document book. I ask the Tribunal to refer to the Auschwitz album, where on page 34, 35, and 36 they will find the pictures of seven tons of hair which was taken from dead women. I begin the quotation:
"From 1943 on the Germans, in order for industrial utilization of bones that were not burned, started to grind bones and to sell them to the firm Topf in order to manufacture sulphur phosphate. In the camp there were found bills of lading to Topf of 112 tons and 600 kilograms of bone meal from human corpses. For industrial usage, the Germans also used hair cut off of women who were doomed for extermination."
I omit the next page of my presentation and I want to draw the Tribunal's attention to the findings of the Medical Commission of Experts which the Tribunal will find on page 365 in the second paragraph.
Special experiments took place in the gas chambers. On the basis of exact chemical reactions it was established and found that poisoning in gas chambers was done with Cyclone "A" and Cyclone "B", which was acid, and also carbon monoxide.
"Technical and sanitary chemical analysis of the gas chambers in the concentration camps in Majdanak" -- that's on page 315, third paragraph -
"confirms and proves that all those chambers, especially first, second, third, and fourth, were designed and used for mass and systematic extermination of people by means of poisoning with gasses, such as the carbon monoxide and Cyclone." camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek. I consider that the Tribunal has already a very clear idea as to what kind of regime that was. In fact, part of the people were sent directly to gas chambers and one-fifth or one-sixth was left in the camp and those who exhausted were killed afterwards. I have in my possession plenty of documents, but in order to save time, I omit them. I pass to page 324, which I mention for the convenience of the interpreters. I quote several excerpts which deal with cynical and dastardly plundering of inmates who were doomed to die in Majdanek and Auschwitz, and I ask the Tribunal simultaneously to refer to the Auschwitz album, where on page 27 you will find a number of suitcases belonging to inmates, and on page 28 suitcases with labels of different countries and on page 39 a colossal warehouse of children's clothes, and on page 33 the sar the firm of Topf was presented is presented now, and once again I ask to be excused for the fact that it was not presented in time. I quote only that particular part of the report on Auschwitz, which the Tribunal will find on page 355, on the reverse side, where it is stated what was discovered by the Commission at the warehouse of this camp. I quote one paragraph. I quote page 325, second paragraph.
"On the grounds near the Auschwitz Camp there were thirty-five special warehouses for sorting and packing the belongings and clothes in these warehouses of which twenty-nine warehouses were burned together with the things stored before the retreat after the attack. In the remaining six warehouses there were discovered: 1. Men's clothes and underwear 348.820 sets 2. Female clothes and underwear 836,235 sets 3. Women's footwear 5,525 pairs 4. Men's footwear 38,000 pairs 5. Rugs and carpets 13,964 pieces" and quote -THE PRESIDENT:
It is time to adjourn.
(A recess was taken from 1245 to 1400 hours.)
COLONEL SMIRNOV: Gentlemen, the same picture of organized plundering of the murdered persons was ascertained by the commission during the investigation of Maidanek. I will not quote in full this part of the communique of the PolishSoviet Extraordinary Commission, and will quote only one excerpt of the administration of the SS which is contained in the communique of the PolishSoviet Extraordinary Commission, and which the Tribunal will find on page 66 of the document book, first column of the text, third paragraph. I quote:
"To all the commandants of concentration camps:
"According to the declaration of the chief board of state security, al packages of el thing, were sent from the concentration camps mainly to the director of the Gestapo of the town of Brudno, and it appeared that in several cases these articles of clothing were shot through and spattered with blood. A part of these packages was damaged, and that is how strangers had the possibility of ascertaining the contents of these packages. As the chief board of state security will, in the near future, promulgate a charter regulating the problem of articles remaining after the death of internees, it is ordered to stop immediately the sending of these articles until this problem is definitely, solved -- the problem of articles of clothing remaining after the execution of the internees.
"Signed: Gluecks, SS Brigadefuehrer and Major General of the Waffen SS." committed.
In two camps of death alone the criminals annihilated 5 1/2 million people. I quote the conclusions of the Extraordinary State Commission for Auschwitz. I will quote only a short excerpt, which is preceded by a detailed enumeration. The Tribunal will find this reference on page 356 of the document book, second column of the text, fourth paragraph. I quote:
"However, adopting corrective coefficients for the non-filling of the crematorium ovens, the technical expert commission has ascertained that during the period of existence of the Auschwitz camp the German henchmen exterminated in it no less than 4 million citizens of the USSR, Poland, France, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Holland, Belgium, and other countries." Maidanek. The Tribunal will find this reference on page 66 of the document book, second column, sixth paragraph:
"The Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission has ascertained that during the four years' existence of the extermination camp at Maidanek the Hitlerite henchmen, following the direct order of their criminal government, have exterminated by mass shooting and mass killing in gas chambers approximately 1 1/2 million persons, Soviet prisoners of war, prisoners of war of the former Polish Army, and citizens of various nationalities -- Poles, Frenchmen, Italians, Belgians, Dutch, Czechs, Greeks, Croats, and a large number of Jews."
I conclude by these documents the count entitled "Concentration Camps", and pass to the last part of my statement, which concerns the concealing of the traces of crimes. did not occupy themselves very much with the concealing of their crimes. They did not even consider it necessary to camouflage the burial grounds in which they hurled the bodies of the murdered persons after the shootings. But after the defeat which the Hitlerite war machine suffered at Stalingrad, the situation changed. to conceal the traces of their crimes. Wherever it was possible they burned the bodies. Where this could not be done, the burial grounds were carefully camouflaged with moss or green foliage. The earth which covered the graves of those shot was smoothed out with special machines and with tractors. However the main method adopted by the German fascist criminals for the camouflage of their crimes was certainly the burning of the corpses. The bones which had not been calcinated by the flames were crushed in special machines and mixed with manure for the preparation of fertilizing products.
In large camps the crushed bones of the dead were sold to German firms to be transformed into phosphate. the criminal activity of the Hitlerites, in view of the concealing of the trace of their crimes, a series of documents. I will refer, first of all, to the communique of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Maidanek. This document is submitted to the Tribunal as USSR Exhibit 29. The part of the communique to which I refer will be found by the Tribunal on page 65, second column of the text, last paragraph. In order to shorten my statement, I will allow myself to summarize the contents of this communique. built. I quote:
"As there were a great many corpses, the Germans, in 1942, began building, and by autumn of 1943 had concluded the building of powerful crematoria consisting of five ovens. These ovens burned unceasingly. The temperature in these ovens could reach 1,500 degrees. In order to be able to put as many bodies as possible into the ovens, the latter were dissected, and onehacked off the members." I skip the next paragraph and beg the Tribunal to pay attention to that part which is three paragraphs away. to special primitive crematorium, installations, which were organized in the following way: one placed boards; then on the boards, corpses; then again boards; and then again corpses. Thus, 500 to 1,000 corpses could be laid on one pile. All that was covered with liquid fuel and lit up.
I quote a short excerpt which ascertains the scale of these crimes:
"The Commission has ascertained that alone in the ovens of the crematoria more than 600,000 corpses were burnt. On the gigantic bonfires in the Krimpetz Woods more than 300,000 corpses were burnt. In the two old ovens more than 80,000 corpses were burnt. And finally, on the bonfires in the camp itself, near the crematoria, not less than 400,000 corpses were burnt."
criminal activity of the Hitlerites in Europe concealing the trace of their crimes, I refer now to the report of the Extraordinary State Commission for the town of Minsk. The Tribunal will find this quotation on page 215, second column and fourth paragraph of the document book. I quote a short excerpt:
"In the hamlet of Glagovtchina, 34 ditch burial grounds were discovered. They were camouflaged with twigs and branches. Some of the graves reached a length of 50 meters. During a partial excavation of five of these graves, at a depth of 3 meters below the surface of the ground calcinated corpses and a layer of cinders 50 centimeters or 1 meter thick was discovered. Near the graves the Commission discovered a great number of small human bones, hair, false teeth, and a number of small articles of personal use. The investigation has ascertained that here the fascists exterminated up to 150,000 persons.
"At a distance of 450 meters from the former hamlet of Petrashkevechi eight graves have been discovered. Their size is 21 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 5 meters deep. Before every ditch or grave there are enormous piles of ashes remaining from the burning of the corpses." concerning the Crimes of the German Fascist Usurpers in the Lvov region. This document has already been submitted to the Tribunal as Soviet Exhibit 6. I quote a very short excerpt from this document. The part which I will quote will be found by the Tribunal on page 60, second column, fourth paragraph of the document. I begin my quotation:
"Upon the order of the Reich Minister Himmler and of Major General of the SS Police Katzmann, in the month of June 1943, special measures, in view of the exhumation and burning of the corpses of murdered peaceful citizens, were carried out. In Lvov the Germans created a special Sonderkommando No. 1005. The chief of this kommando was Hauptsturmbannfuehrer Scherlack. His assistant was Hauptsturmbannfuehrer Rauch. The duty of this Sonderkommando was to exhume the corpses of the shot civilians and prisoners of war and the burning of these corpses." number, Sonderkommando No. 1005. This kommando was the prototype of similar sonderkommandos created by the Germans. Later, the sonderkommandos created in view of this objective received the numbers of 1005A, 1005B, etc. experts, page 340 of the Russian text:
"Thus the Hitlerite murderers on the territory of the Lvov District adopted the same methods of concealing their crimes which they began earlier upon murdering the Polish officers in the Katyn Wood." of the graves which were in the Lisenitzki Forest and of those of the Polish officers at Katyn. corpses, the Germans created in Lvov, in the Yanov Camp, a special school for the preparation of so-called qualified murderers. The commandants of the camps of Lublin, Cracow and other towns, underwent a short course instruction in these camps.
The chief of the Sonderkommando No.1005, Scherlack, taught the commandants on the spot how to organize the exhumation of the corpses from the graves, how to pile them on stacks, how to burn them, how to spray the ashes, how to squash the bones, how to camouflage the graves, and how to grow green foliage on these graves. Tribunal, USSR Exhibit 61, which is the act of the examination after the crushing of bones in the town of Lvov. This act will be found by the Tribunal on page 473 of the document book. As I have very little time left at my disposal, I will only quote very short excerpts. I quote:
"The machine for the crushing of calcinated bones was fitted together upon a special order. The machine is easily transported to any point without there being a need to take it to pieces, with the aid of a car or some other transport means." I skip the next paragraph.
"The machine can work in any chosen spot and need not be specially prepared to that effect. The transportation is carried out by car or by tractors. The machine of these dimensions can produce 3 cubic meters of calcinated bone powder." I skip the next four pages of the document, and submit to the Tribunal as evidence the original protocol of the examination which was carried out by American Army Lieutenant Patrick McMahon.
The examined witness was Gerhart Adamitz. I dwell on this document, which has been put at our disposal by our American colleagues. The statement of Adamitz constitutes corroborating evidence with regard to our documents and evidence. This statement is very lengthy, and I will only make a few short quotations.
Gerhart Adamitz was a member of Sonderkommando 1005 A. I draw the attention of the Tribunal to the fact that the first sonderkommando was simply 1005, and this one is kommando 1005A. The name is Adamitz. The excerpt which I shall quote will be found by the Tribunal on page 480 of the document book, beginning with the second paragraph. Gerhart Adamitz said that, together with four other members of the Schutzpolizei, he left today for Petrovsk and was sent to Kiev. I remind the Tribunal of the name of Bashiar, which the Tribunal has already heard.
I quote the statements of Adamitz, page 347 of the Russian text:
"Our Lieutenant, Vinitzi, told about our column to Oberleutnant Hanisch, who was the troop fuehrer of the Schutzpolizei of the group 1005A. This place smelled of corpses. We felt faint and closed our noses and tried not to breathe. Oberleutnant Hanisch made a speech."
I read excerpts of this speech:
"'You have come to this place where you will have to serve and support your comrades. You already smell this odor, which originates from the kitchen, which is behind us. you must all be used to this, and you must fulfil your duties. We will have to guard internees and do so very strictly. Everything that takes place here is the secret affair of the empire of the Reich. Everyone of us answers with is head if ever an internee succeeds in escaping, and, besides t is, this man will be submitted to a special regime. The same fate awaits anyone who blurts out anything or who is not careful enough as to what he says.'" I skip a few paragraphs and continue:
"After this speech of Lieutenant Hanisch, we were led out so as to acquaint ourselves with the place where we were to serve. We left the cemetery and were brought to a neighboring field. The road which crossed this field was guarded on both sides by policemen, who chased away all those who sought to approach it. In the field we saw about 100 internees resting from work. The legs of each internee were chained with chains about 3 1/2 meters long. The internees were dressed in civilian clothes."
I skip the third paragraph of the report and continue:
"The work of the internees consisted, as we found out later, in exhuming corpses which were buried here in two common graves, to transport them, and to pile them up in enormous piles and burn them. It is difficult to ascertain; however, I believe that in this spot were buried from forty to fifty thousand persons. In one anti-tank ditch they had dug out a grave which was partially filled with corpses. This ditch was 100 meters long, 10 meters wide, and 4 to 5 meters deep." I interrupt my quotation, and continue with the last paragraph of the Russian text:
"On the day that we arrived, that is to say, on the 10th of September 1943, there were three or four small piles of corpses on the field." It is interesting to see what this fascist expert understood by the words 'small piles'.
"Every such pile consisted of about 700 corpses. It was about 7 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 2 meters high." I interrupt my quotation and continue on the next page of the Russian text:
"Here and in other places I observed the following methods of burning the corpses which were adopted:
"With the aid of iron hooks, the corpses were dragged to certain spots and then piled on a wooden platform. Then the pile of corpses was surrounded with logs. One poured benzene on it and then they were burnt.
"The policemen of our detachment were then led back from the cemetery to the kitchen. However, not one of us could sit down and eat because of the terrible smell and because of all we had seen." quotation and continue it on page 351, second paragraph of the Russian text. I quote this excerpt, as in the report of the Kiev Extraordinary Commission I already had the honor to report to the Tribunal about the statements of internees who had fled from these kommandos. internees' statements. I only bring a short quotation:
"About the 29th of October, 1943, at 4.45 a.m., during dense fog, 13 internees escaped. They tore off their foot chains, rushed out of their barracks with shouts, and ran away in different directions. Six of them were shot; the others succeeded in escaping, thanks to the fog." I interrupt my quotation. work was concluded the internees were murdered. as confirmation of this I note another excerpt from Adamitz statement, page 352 of the Russian text:
"In other places where I serve" as guard the internees, after work had been concluded, were murdered after they had been brought under the escort of the SD to a determined spot in groups or alone. Then the policemen sent back to bring along further internees. After this the members of the SD compelled the internees to lie, face down, on a wooden platform, and were shot in the nape of the neck. The internees in doubtful cases obeyed this order without resistance, lying down next to their comrades who had already been shot." sondercommando, 1005-B. You will find a confirmation of this in the same statement. This sondercommandant served in Karoylov, in Nickoliav, at Breznikenz, an in Riga; That is to say, she followed the route from the Black Sea to the Baltic countries: that is to say, a distance of 7,000 kilometers. Everywhere she carried out the same duties and carried out the same work. In confirmation of this I will quote only a short excerpt regarding the last stage of the commander's work in Riga. Page. 357 of the statement.
"We members of commando 1005-B received an order to go to several newly built barracks which were situated about 250 meters from six or seven mass graves." I quote precisely this part, as the Tribunal will see this scene in the documentary film. The latter were situated about four kilometers from the suburbs of Riga. The publication mentioned the Bikernest Forest where there was about ten to twelve thousand corpses. A fresh group of fifty or sixty internees was brought there, and in the beginning of June 1944 work began; the exhumation and burning of corpses in the same way as I described at the beginning of my statement, and this work was concluded at the end of July 1944. I believe the at that period the front was only about 300 kilometers away. These ten to twelve thousand corpses were those of men, women, and children of all ages, and were buried about two years ago. Commission, which I quoted, mentioned, the date of the shooting as the beginning of 1942, and this proves that this evidence is corroborating evidence "We policemen in general thought that these people had been shot by the SS.
However, it was only a supposition, for a fresh group of fifty to sixty internees were murdered at the end of July 1944." which is the conclusion of Gerhard Adamitz's statement. Page 159 of the Russian text.
"We thought subsequently that in reality the Nazis were afraid that the discovery of the mass graves discovered by the victorious Russians, -that these mass killing would become known to the civilized world. I believe that about 100,000 corpses from mass graves were exhumed by the liberators from the SD, sonderkommando 1005-A and B. I believe that also other similar commandos fulfilled the same work, but they do not know how many. If I had thought or known that I would ever be compelled to carry out this dirty and humiliating work I would have probably immigrated somewhere." "Gerhard Adamitz" the Tribunal to allow me a few introductory words. The murder of several million people was carried out by the German-Fascists out of motives which were dictated by their mankind-hating theories of Naziism and of the right of domination over and the extermination of peoples. All these killings were carefully thought out. All the precedents were carried out at determined dates. Moreover as I showed many times before, for the mass killings and for the concealing of the traces of their crimes there was created a special technique. But except that, in many crimes carried out by the GermanFascists there is one common trait which makes them even more hateful. In many cases the Germans, after having exterminated their victims, did not cease the crimes thereupon; but pursued them, making the corpses objects of their criminal jeering and mockery. Mockery of the corpses of their victims was a characteristic trait. calcinated were sold by the German-Fascists to the firm Stremm. The hair of the murdered women was cut off, packed into sacks, and sent to Germany.
Among these crimes we find those which I will now submit as evidence. concealing the traces of their crimes was the burning of the corpses. Then the fiendish SS technical minds which created the gas wagons and wagons of death began working upon the creation of such methods of complete extermination of human bodies according to which the concealing of traces of the crimes would coincide with the production of certain products. In the Danzig laboratories were already carried out semi-industrial skin experiments in view of the production of soap made out of human bodies and the utilization of human skin for industrial purposes. immediate eye-witness of the fabrication of soap from human fat; an assistant of the Danzig laboratory, Sigmund Mausel. It is a rather long excerpt, but I think I will have time to read it before the end.
"Q Tell us how soap was cooked out of human fat at the Anatomical Institute of the town of Danzig.
"A Near the Anatomical Institute, in the courtyard, during the summer of 1943, a one-story stone building of three rooms was built. This building was built for the utilization of human bodies and for the boiling of bones. This was officially proclaimed by Professor Spanner. This laboratory was called a laboratory for the fabrication of skeletons and for the burning of meat and unnecessary bones. But already during the winter of 1943-44 Professor Spanner ordered us to collect human fats and not to throw it away. This order was given to Reichert Borgmann. The month of February 1943 Professor Spanner gave me the recipe for the preparation of soap from human fat. This recipe ordered the collection of five kilos of human fat which was mixed with ten litres of water and 500 or 1,000 grams of caustic soda. All this was to be boiled two or three hours and then cooled. The soap floats to the surface and the water remains in the bottom of the pail. To this mixture was added a pinch of salt and soda. Then fresh water was added, and the mixture was again boiled two or three hours. After having cooled off the soap was poured into shape."
for this soap. I submit to the Tribunal this mold as USSR Exhibit 193. I continue the quotation.
"The soap had a disagreeable odor. In order to destroy this disagreeable odor, Bilzo was added. The preparation of this soap from human fat began in the month of January 1944."
"The bodies were brought from Koenigsberg Prison; from the psychiatric hospital. I do not remember the number of persons. Besides, there was a large stock of bodies in the Anatomical Institute; about four hundred of them. The greater part of these bodies were decapitated. The beheaded bodies originated from the prison where they had been guillotined." brought. This is of no importance. I continue the quotation on page 1063 of the Russian text.
"The fat was collected from the human bodies and brought to me and Reichert I boiled the soap out of the bodies of women and men. When this was cooking -it took about three to seven days. Out of two processes in which I took a personal part, more than twenty-five kilograms of soap were fabricated. And moreover, from these processes we had collected seventy to eighty kilograms of human fat from about forty bodies. The soap then went to processer Spanner, who kept it personally. The work for the production of soap from human bodies has, as far as I know, commenced for the Hitlerite Government in the Anatomical Institute. The Anatomical Institute was visited by the Minister of Education, the Minister of Health, Doctor Conti, the gauleiter of Danzig, Albert Forster, as well as professors from other medical institutes. For my personal needs, for toilet and for laundering, I used this human soap. I took personally four kilograms of this soap."
I skip the paragraph and continue. "Reichert, Borgmann, Conran Stein, and our chief professor, Spanner, also personally used this soap."
And I end this quotation on page 365 of the Russian text. I quote you one paragraph which concerns the industrial exploitation of this process." In the same way as they treated human far, Professor Spanner ordered us to collect human skin, which after having been cleaned of fat was submitted to the effect of certain chemical products. The production of human skin was carried out under the direction of the chief assistant, von Baden, and Professor Spanner himself. This skin was packed in a box and was used for experimentation which I do not know." the production of human fat for soap. I will not dwell on this recipe which is identical to that which has already been described, in Mausel's testimony. But the proof that this testimony was exact the Tribunal will find in Mausel's statement, which has already been submitted to the Tribunal, and which is USSR 197.
I will not mention it.
"I now submit to the Tribunal two documents which have only been given to us by the British prosecution; two statements given under oath; statements of two British soldiers; one a soldier of the Essex Regiment, John Picken. This is Soviet Exhibit Nos. 263 and 264. The Tribunal will find this in the document book on page 395. I quote a very short excerpt from this article as time allows me.
"The corpses were brought to us, seven to eight every day. All of them were decapitated and stripped. Sometimes they were brought to us in Red Cross cars, in wooden cases, which contained five to six corpses. Sometimes three to four corpses. They were brought to us in small trucks." into the cellar, which was entered from a side door to the main entrance hall of the institute."
"Then they were put into large metal containers where they were then left for approximately four months.
"Owing to the preservative mixture in which they were stored, the tissue come away from the bones very easily. This tissue was then put into a boiler about the size of a small kitchen table. After boiling the liquid it was put into white trays about twice the size of a sheet of foolscap and about three centimeters deep. Like these which I have shown the Tribunal, usually three to four trayfulls were obtained per day from the machine." This witness did not see himself the utilization of the soap, but I am submitting to the Tribunal as USSR Exhibit 722 the written statement of the British Government, a corporal of the Royal Signals, William Anderson Nealey. The Tribunal will find this excerpt on page 498 of the document book.
"The corpses arrived at the rate of two or three per day. All of them were naked and most of them had been beheaded." I submit this quotation and skip two two paragraphs and continue the quotation.