AFTERNOON SESSION (The hearing reconvened at 1330 hours, 24 June 47) THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is again in session. [ ... ]
THE PRESIDENT: Counsel must prepare the usual written application. It will be considered by the Tribunal and passed on [ ... ]
Q Who else was there? A Members of the Kommandantur staff. How many there were and who [ ... ]
Q.- Never did that? A.- No. Q.- You know a man named Josef Ackermann? A.- Yes. Q.- Who was Josef Ackermann? A.- A political prisoner. I don't k [ ... ]
have that? A.- Yes. Q.- And I quote therefrom: Dr. Hoven stood once together with me at the window of the pathological section and pointed to a pr [ ... ]
However, this order was never observed by my predecessors. I was the first doctor to require that the prisoners who were beaten should first be phys [ ... ]
which I offer as Prosecution Exhibit 523 for identification, which apparently, Dr. Hoven is the slip necessary to be filled out and the approvals ma [ ... ]
never previously paid any attention to. This certificate went to Berlin and came back signed and the prisoner was flogged and then after he w flogge [ ... ]
Q. Would it make a difference if he was a political prisoner or a criminal prisoner? A. [ ... ]
than I was and, thirdly, they know their cases better than I did. If for instance ten blows were ordered and they managed to reduce it by six, then [ ... ]