THE DACHAU TRIAL
PRISONER CLAIMS LOSS OF MEMORY
(Rec. noon) LONDON, April 22. Leopold Trauner, aged 63, the oldest man among the 60 members of the staff of the Mauthausen concentration camp, told the war crimes trial at Dachau that he was too old to remember anything. He declared that the figure he gave under interrogation, that 350 prisoners were killed in the quarry where he was supervisor, should have been five or six.
Another prisoner, Elkert, a camp laundryman, confessed to mild beatings but denied killing a legless man. He alleged that his own written confession was forced from him while he was in custody when the only food was a fifth of a loaf of bread daily.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1946, Page 7
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