ROSER: Yes, French prisoners of war, so far.
Going along a wood, the German noncommissioned officer, who for some
time had been annoying two of them, Pierrel and Ondiviella, directed
them into the woods. A few moments later the others heard shots. Pierrel
and Ondiviella had just been killed.
On 20 September 1942, at Stryj once again, a Kommando was at work under
the supervision of German soldiers and German civilian foremen. One of
the Frenchmen succeeded in escaping. Without waiting, the German
noncommissioned officers selected two men, if my memory is correct,
Saladin and Duboeuf, and shot them on the spot. Incidents of this type
occurred in other circumstances. The list of them would be long indeed.
M. DUBOST: Can you speak of the conditions under which the refractory
noncommissioned officers who were with you at camp at Rawa-Ruska lived?
ROSER: The noncommissioned officers who refused to work were grouped
together in one section of the camp, in two of the large stables which
served as billets. They were subjected to a regime of most severe
repression; frequent roll calls for assembly; lying-down and standing-up
exercise which after a while leaves one quite exhausted.
One day, Sergeant Corbihan, having refused Captain Fournier—a German
captain with a French name—to take a tool to work with, the German
captain made a motion and one of the German soldiers with him ran
Corbihan through with his bayonet; Corbihan by miracle escaped death.