VEITH: Certainly I saw prisoners of war. Their arrival at Mauthausen
Camp took place, first of all, in front of the political section. Since
I was working at the Hollerith I could watch the arrivals, for the
offices faced the parade ground in front of the political section where
the convoys arrived. The convoys were immediately sorted out. One part
was sent to the camp for registration, and very often some of the
uniformed prisoners were set aside; these had already been subjected to
special violence in the political section and were handed straight over
to the prison guards. They were then sent to the prisons and never heard
of again. They were not registered in the camp. The only registration
was made in the political section by Müller who was in charge of these
prisoners.