DUPONT: I shall answer it later. I have omitted one detail. The
internees were also used to a certain extent after death. The ashes
resulting from the cremations were thrown into the excrement pit and
served to fertilize the fields around Buchenwald. I add this detail
because it struck me vividly at the time.
Finally, as I said, work, whatever it might be, was the internees’ only
chance of survival. As soon as they were no longer of any possible use,
they were done for.
M. DUBOST: Were not internees used as “blood donors,” involuntary of
course?
DUPONT: I forgot that point. Prisoners assigned to light work, whose
output was poor, were used as blood donors. Members of the Wehrmacht
came several times. I saw them twice at Buchenwald, taking blood from
these men. The blood was taken in a ward known as CP-2, that is,
Operation Ward 2.