Rudolf Kauer "Lied About
Auschwitz" at the West German
Frankfurt Auschwitz Show Trials
'Lied About Auschwitz'
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In the i rimner •«tlon. Soon •Y.
but he also did
death ean» aplogized tn court
other defead.hi• to
Mthlng," gaid Kmpr.
for making "nasty accusatione
grin.
"And -ex-Auschwitz SS medic
against his onetime NAZI
"You Eid (detendant Klaus) Josef K]ehr? %ece were stories
"I was drunk when I made Dylemkl was one ot the wont be -gave inkcUm•" "L
those .nuty pc«jsat.ions.," killers." the judge prodded never saw it," aid the witness
elalmed Rudolf Kauer. 62. caned Kauer.
ex-SS medlc Herbert
to re*at et the trial ot 21
former Auschwitz rrsonne) the
charges he made in pre.trial
testirnony.
*Iher was ixked silence in
the courtrodm-
easy . . . you
kno* yoa be pun-
IAhed tor
c h e f Hans
Ho tmeyør.
• "I'm or" abmit this. But,
okay 'then me. I •m
used to H," retorted Kguer. The
judge stared at him grimly end
began to read from Kauer•s pre-
trial transcript.
' 'You said you could niver
tm•get (defendant Wilhelm )
Boger mistreating a 23 or 24•
year-cld Polish girl from Cra-
cow. You said he beat her on
the breasts with a bullwhl*
You said ghe was eover€ with
blood and one breast was rip.
Ou mid-there w-a
sea of blmd in the interroga-
ilon room." Intoned the judge.
"I lied. That was just a tyam
going about the carnWI never
saw it," Kauer. a p«twar
struction engineer said.
Boxer. decribed by numer-
"Dylewski was harmless. I &berpo, *han tn
p ret r I •I quadon selected
may have said somethvug
Ülat. But It wasn't true. Every- •IH.ng prisoners ror
thing I said then i: worthks•," don't anym«••
did that. poon-
the witness Wid..
"bid you •••tderendant .
Rudolf Kauer testified before court that he was drunk when he gave
his testimony about Auschwitz. Who gave him the liquor? And how
many others who stood as accusers were drunk? Maiami Herald, July
7, 1964. Picture not in original article.
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