Q. I asked you whether the Russian woman workers were employed exclusively in the villa in the Koziy Hills where the staff headquarters were located? Is that right?
A. The woman workers worked for the regimental headquarters as kitchen help, and as kitchen helpers they worked on our premises, and by our premises I mean this particular house with the adjoining buildings; for instance, the stables, the garage, the cellars, the central heating plants; that is where they worked.
Q. I will give you a few names -
THE PRESIDENT: Wait a minute. The translation was coming through very faintly then. I do not know whether -
Now, go on.
BY COLONEL SMIRNOV:
Q. I will mention a few names of German military employees. Will you please tell me whether they belonged to your unit? First-Lt. Rex.
A. First-Lt. Rex was my regimental adjutant.
Q. Please tell me, was he already assigned to that unit before your arrival in Katyn?
A. Yes, he was there before I came.
Q. He was your adjutant, was he not?
A. Yes, he was my adjutant.
Q. Lt. Hodt? Hodt or Hoth?
A. Lt. Hodt is right; but what question are you putting about Lt. Hodt?
Q. I am only questioning you about whether he belonged to your unit or not.
A. Lt. Hodt was a member of the regiment. Whether -
Q. Yes, that is what I was asking. He belonged to the regiment which you commanded, to your army unit?
A. I did not mean by that that he belonged to the regimental staff, but that he belonged to the regiment. The regiment consisted of three units.
Q. But he lived in the same villa, did he not?
A. That I do not know. When I arrived he was not there. I ordered him to report to me there for the first time.
Q. I will enumerate a few other names. Corporal Rose, Private Giesecke, Staff-Sergeant Lummert, a cook named Gustav. Were these members of the Wehrmacht who were billeted in the villa?
A. May I ask you to mention the names individually once again, and I will answer you individually.
Q. Sergeant Lummert?
A. Yes.
Q. Corporal Rose?
A. Yes.
Q. And I believe, if my memory serves me correctly, Storekeeper Giesecke.
A. That man's name was Giesecken.
Q. Yes, that is right. I did not pronounce this name quite correctly. These were all your people or at least they belonged to your unit, did they not?
A. Yes.
Q. And you assert that you did not know what these people were doing in September and October, 1941?
A. As I was not there, I cannot tell you for certain.