us-005578-irn1004908
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date: 1987 June 04
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note: The next tape chronologically has already been described: FV 2825, RG-60.4549 Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
scope and content: 13:36 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:37 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:39 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:02 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear 14:05 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks that the Floreck Report be read into the court proceedings: Vergès had referenced the report in response to the testimony of Alex and Ita Halaunbrenner, using the report as proof that Barbie was not in Lyon on the day they said he arrived in their home; President Cerdini grants permission and Klarsfeld reads the report 14:14 Vergès explains that Floreck's signature on the deportation order proves that Barbie was not in Lyon, because Floreck was a deputy of Barbie; Vergès, Prosecutor Klarsfeld, President Cerdini, and the Attorney General discuss particularities of the Gestapo signatures on several documents, and debate the respective roles within the Gestapo of Barbie, Floreck, Hollbert, and Knab 14:24 President Cerdini, Vergès, and the Attorney General discuss whether the document should be allowed into evidence 14:25 President Cerdini calls the first witness, Mr. Benjamin Kaminski, to the stand; the witness presents himself to the court and is sworn in 14:30 The witness testifies, describing his arrest on August 1, 1944 in his tailoring shop; the witnessed recounts being interrogated and tortured at the Gestapo headquarters at Place Bellecourt by Barbie and his deputies; his imprisonment at Montluc and departure on the transport of August 11, 1944; his arrival at Auschwitz; his forced evacuation to the Flossenburg camp and liberation by the American army 14:41 President Cerdini asks the witness to share the fate of other members of his family; his father died in the Gross-R…
title: Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- Discussion of the chain of command in the Lyon Gestapo; a witness testifies