VEITH: Yes, I have a copy of the names of these prisoners.
[_The Tribunal recessed until 1400 hours._]
_Afternoon Session_
MARSHAL: If the Court please, it is desired to announce that the
Defendant Kaltenbrunner will be absent from this afternoon’s session on
account of illness.
THE PRESIDENT: You may go on, M. Dubost.
M. DUBOST: We are going to complete the hearing of the witness Veith, to
whom, however, I have only one more question to put.
THE PRESIDENT: Have him brought in.
[_The witness, Veith, took the stand._]
M. DUBOST: You continue to testify under the oath that you already made
this morning.
Will you give some additional information concerning the execution of
the 47 Allied officers whom you saw shot in 48 hours at Camp Mauthausen
where they had been brought?
VEITH: Those officers, those parachutists, were shot in accordance with
the usual systems used whenever prisoners had to be done away with. That
is to say, they were forced to work to excess, to carry heavy stones.
Then they were beaten until they took heavier ones; and so on and so
forth until, finally driven to extremity, they turned towards the barbed
wire. If they did not do it of their own accord, they were pushed there;
and they were beaten until they did so; and the moment they approached
it and were perhaps about one meter away from it, they were mown down by
machine guns fired by the SS guards in the watchtowers. This was the
usual system for the “killing for attempted escape” as they afterwards
called it.
Those 47 men were killed on the afternoon of the 6th and morning of the
7th of September.