SS On trial by Carruthers Bob;

Author:Carruthers, Bob;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / World War II: HIS027100
ISBN: 1925213
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

I do not think I need trouble with the rest of that letter. It states that the inhabitants of the concentration camp are almost exclusively criminal types.

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Elwyn Jones, the document you have just been reading from, which is on Page 9 of the English text, is dated the 29th of November, 1933. Is that a misprint?

MR. ELWYN JONES: No, my Lord, that is correct.

THE PRESIDENT: The document on Page 5 which you read before, from the Public Prosecution, is dated 26th September, 1936. Is that correct?

MR. ELWYN JONES: No, my Lord, that is a misprint and I should have called your Lordship’s attention to it. That should be 1933, my Lord, and I am much obliged.

THE PRESIDENT: That is Page 5. In referring to the document, you should state that the pages which you did not refer to, Pages 3 and 4, show that the other dossiers, in connection with the Public Prosecutor, Provincial Court, Munich, were apparently lost and were not forthcoming and that inquiries were going on about them until 1935.

MR. ELWYN JONES: Yes, my Lord. Much obliged. I was trying to deal with the essential contents of the file.

THE PRESIDENT: Go on, then.

MR. ELWYN JONES: I want you, witness, to look at Page 6 of the English text and Document 10 of your file. That is a memo from Dr. H. Frank, the defendant, dated 2nd July, 1933, to the Prime Minister, and the subject is “Quashing of Criminal Proceedings.”

“A merchant’s wife, Sophie Handschuh, of Munich, in a written statement received by the Public Prosecutor at the Provincial Court, Munich II, on the 18th of September, 1933, stated that her son, Hugo Handschuh, taken into protective custody on the 23rd August, 1933, died of heart failure in Dachau camp on the 2nd of September, 1933. In the inquest certificate, heart failure following on concussion of the brain was given as the cause of death. The body was not shown to the relatives and was handed over only after great difficulties and on condition that the coffin would not be reopened. The coffin was so firmly nailed down that it was impossible to reopen it. The writer asked that the coffin be opened and a judicial post-mortem held, as she wanted the body identified and the cause of death established.

In order to clear up the state of affairs, the Provincial Court Public Prosecutor at the Provincial Court, Munich II, at first, personally questioned the plaintiff, Sophie Handschuh, and the fiancee of the deceased, Thea Kink. From their evidence, the assumption seemed justified that already on the day of his arrest Handschuh was badly physically treated in the Braune Haus in Munich, and in connection with the further established fact that the relatives of the dead man were expressly refused permission to view the body, sufficient grounds were given for the suspicion that Handschuh did not die a natural death. In order to establish the cause of death without any doubt, the body was exhumed in

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