ARREST OF DEFENCE WITNESS
Demand At Belsen Trial LONDON, October 25. The prosecutor, Colonel Backhouse, at the trial of the Belsen guards at Luneburg, demanded the arrest of a witness for the defence. He said the witness was connected with the Maidanek extermination camp and was wanted by the Russians. The witness, Dr. Henrich Hans Schmidt, aged 33, a Wallen SS medical officer, who has been working under British supervision in the Belsen hospital, where several thousand displaced persons are housed. An officer of the British War Crimes Branch said that Schmidt came within the category of people liable to automatic arrest because of his SS rank. He was not take ninto custody when Belsen was liberated because of the need for doctors. Schmidt was called to give, evidence supporting an alibi advanced in defence of the accused Barsch. Schmidt denied that he had ever heard of Maidanek. The prosecutor arranged for his detention and opened investigations' with the Russians to establish whether Schmidt is a wanted man.
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Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 28, 27 October 1945, Page 7
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