Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Treblinka Defined - Yeger Interrogation Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Archive/File: camps/aktion.reinhard/treblinka yeger.001 Last-Modified: 1994/08/24 Source: United States Department of Justice EXCERPT From the Stenographic Report of the Interrogation of the Defendant Aleksandr Ivanovich YEGER on 7 April 1948. Jr. Lieutenant POPOV, an Investigator of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of State Security of the Ukraine, Molotov Region, interrogated as defendant YEGER', Aleksandr Ivanovich, born in 1918, native of the village of Sbrodovka, Tatishchev district, Saratov Region, a German, citizen of the USSR. The Interrogation began at 9.00 p.m. and ended at 10.00 p.m. Question: On what principle was a company of guards organized and what functions did it perform? Answer: The company of guards consisted of 100 to 120 persons. The company was divided into three platoons. The first platoon was on outside guard duty in the Treblinka camp for 24 hours. The second platoon was subdivided into sections. The first section was called "bereitschaft" or the waking shift. This shift was placed in the guards quarters and was used for work inside the camp, for the unloading of incoming trains, it guarded the people during unloading, chased them into the barracks where they undressed, and escorted the prisoners until these were immured in the gas chambers. The second section of this platoon was called the "Urlopschein" or leave, and the guards in this section were given leave for about eight hours and left the camp to go to nearby villages and populated places. During this 24-hour period, the third platoon rested and so was called the "zugpeifreizeit" platoon, that is the resting platoon. It performed domestic tasks. Thus each platoon spent 24 hours on the outside guarding of the camp, the next 24 hours a part of the platoon went on leave, the second part of the platoon took part in the unloading of the railroad cars and escorted the prisoners to the gas chambers and during the third 24-hour period the platoon rested and performed domestic tasks. In the space of three to six 24-hour periods, all the guards of the company of guards took direct part in the extermination of citizens of Jewish nationality and personally shot them. Question: Where were the citizens of Jewish nationality shot? Answer: The citizens of Jewish nationality were savagely beaten by us and shot during the unloading of the trains, in the undressing places, during the passage from the undressing place to the gas chambers and in the "infirmary". Question: What was the purpose of the "infirmary"? Answer: The "infirmary" only bore the name of infirmary. In reality it was a place where citizens of Jewish nationality were shot. In this "infirmary" were shot those who resisted during unloading and undressing, and also people who were unable to walk on their own to the gas chambers. In this "infirmary" there was a Physician in a white coat, who received the "sick" brought by the guards and examined them, and then they were taken out from the infirmary and killed. All the guards, the Germans, also the service personnel including the cooks and the drivers took part in the shooting of prisoners in the "infirmary". The sick brought to the "infirmary" were undressed, laid near a pit, the guards shot them and the bodies were shoved into the pit. A fire burned at the bottom of the pit and the bodies were burned right there. Women, children and old people were exterminated together with men in this "infirmary". The special "working crew" was also exterminated in the "infirmary". Question: Of what individuals was the "worker crew" composed? Answer: The "working crew" was made up of the healthier citizens of Jewish nationality from the incoming trains. It comprised about 300 persons and consisted of two companies. The first company of 200 men unloaded the trains, undressed the prisoners and took away their belongings. The second company of 100 men unloaded the bodies from the gas chambers and hauled them away to the pits. The composition of these companies changed constantly. Roughly every 15-20 days all previously working companies were exterminated in the "infirmary", and new companies formed from among the incoming trains, and these in turn had the same fate as that of all citizens of Jewish nationality. Question: What part did you take in the atrocities and the shooting of citizens of Jewish nationality? Answer: Like all the guards of the company of guards, I took a part in the beating up and the shooting of citizens of Jewish nationality during the unloading of trains, in the undressing places, on the way to the gas chambers, shot them in the "infirmary", I personally shot about 200 people. Written down from my words correctly, read by me and signed - (Signature) Interrogation Made By: Investigator of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of State Security of the Ukraine, Molotov Region Jr. Lieutenant POPOV. Stenographic report made by: ANTIP'YEVA The excerpt is true: First Deputy Procurator of the Crimean Region, Senior Councillor of Justice, KUPTSOV "28" February 1978
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