German Court Drops Plan to Hold Trial Sessions at Auschwitz Camp

FRANKFURT (JTA) — A long
pending plan for the court, the 22
defendants, prosecutors and de-
fense counsel to travel to the site
of the former Auschwitz concen-
tration camp in Poland, for some
of the court sessions in the trial
of the 22 men accused of murder-
ing hundreds of thousands of Jews
at Auschwitz, was abandoned.
Instead of moving the entire pro=1

ceeding to Auschwitz, it was an-
nounced, one member of the court
will go there to study the camp
site and all circumstances there
relevant to the trial. The court
representative will then report
back to the full tribunal here.
The Auschwitz trial here has been
under way since last December.
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Hubert Franz, the last command-
ant of the Treblinka murder camp,
reversed himself in trial testimony.
He insisted first that he always left
the camp when a transport of new
victims arrived because he was
"unable to watch" but later ad-
mitted he had seen how the vic-
tims were handled. An estimated
700,000 victims were murdered at
the camp, most of them Jews.
Franz, one of 10 former Treb-
linka personnel on trial, said he
always gave orders to another
camp official and then left the
camp for a horseback ride. Prose-
cution witnesses, however, had
testified that Franz watched every
detail of the killings and he ad-
mitted in new testimony that he
had seen other Jews driven by
Ukranians "with whips when I took
over the job."
Otto Stadie, a former warden,
testified how the victims were
handled on arrival of a transport.
He said the SS men or Ukranians
on the camp staff would get the
Jews who were still alive out of
the trains. "There were always
some dead," he stated.
He recalled a transport of 4,000,
"half of them dead, the others half-
dead from the long journey with-
out foor or even water." He said
he told the newcomers that after
they were bathed and disinfected,
they would be sent to labor camps,
adding "I knew that was a devilish
lie, but they believed me." He
said those who could not under-
stand German were addressed in
Polish or Yiddish.
He was asked by the judge
whether the guards had tried
to separate mothers and chil-
dren and replied that "this was
impossible even for us. You
don't know Jewish mothers." He
broke down at this point and
wept before proceeding with his
testimony.
He said each of the six gas cham-
bers of the camp could "accom-
modate" 200 to 300 victims. who
were marched to the chambers
and pushed in. The iron doors
were locked, and the next group
waiting outside could not hear
them die.
In about 45 minutes. he testified,
the doors were opened and the
bodies removed, the mothers with
babies still held tightly, and tossed'
aside until there was a pile of
about 300 bodies. These were
then burned with wood and gaso-
line, he said.
Willi Mentz, who served in the
so-called camp hospital, testified ,
that those too old or sick to walk I
were killed sitting or lying on the
edge of huge mass graves. He said
he marched down the line, shoot-
ing each victim in the neck.
When the judge asked if any of
the victims cried or begged for
their lives, he replied, "No, most of
them were praying and sometimes
one would say, "kill me first.' " He
added that victims were never
checked to see if they were really
dead.
Franz Suchmomel , a former
Czech tailor who became an SS
sergeant and who was in charge
of the personal effects of the vic-
tims, said their shoes were always

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wanted it all proper.
He described the arrival of a
transport from Bialystok whose
passengers threw hand grenades
and bottles at the waiting guards
when the transport was opened
"and hurt some of them."
Gustav Muenzberger, another
Czech, admitted he had been cruel
and struck prisoners with a whip
but said that he never shot them.
"I hurried because I couldn't bear
to see the poor women and chil-
dren waiting in the cold ", he
stated.
He was asked by the judge as
to how many persons the defend-
ants killed in Treblinka. He esti
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