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and put into concentration camps.
1:43:04
I also offer a group of orders
issued under that decree...
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each one signed by one of the defendants...
1:43:12
by which hundreds of persons were arrested
and placed in concentration camps.
1:43:17
Signed by Friedrich Hoffstetter...
1:43:21
Werner Lammpe...
1:43:23
Emil Hahn...
1:43:26
Ernst Janning.
1:43:30
Your Honors...
1:43:33
the defendants on trial here today...
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did not personally administer
the concentration camps.
1:43:40
They never had to beat victims...
1:43:43
or pull the lever that released gas
into the chambers.
1:43:48
But as the documents we've introduced
into this case have shown...
1:43:53
these defendants fashioned
and executed laws...
1:43:57
and rendered judgments...
1:44:01
which sent millions of victims to their...
1:44:04
destinations.
1:44:06
Maj. Radnitz?
1:44:09
Your Honors, I would like to request that
Col. Lawson be sworn in as a witness.
1:44:14
- Granted.
- Thank you.
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Will you raise your right hand?
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I swear by God,
the Almighty and Omniscient...
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that I will speak the pure truth
and withhold and add nothing.
1:44:28
I do.
1:44:32
Were you active in the United States Army
in 1945 at the close of the war?
1:44:36
Yes, I was.
1:44:38
Were you in command of troops
liberating concentration camps?
1:44:42
I was.
1:44:43
Were you in Dachau and Belsen?
1:44:46
Yes.
1:44:47
Were you present when the films
we are about to see were taken?
1:44:50
Yes, I was.