A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, now Minister of Education in the East German Cabinet, testified today at the “small Auschwitz trial” here that one of the defendants selected inmates for gassing when camp doctors were absent.
The charge was made by Erich Markowitsch against Gerhard Neubert, 56, a former SS medical assistant. He and Wilhelm Burger, 61, and Joseph Erber, 69, are on trial on charges of murder and conspiracy. Last August, another Frankfurt court sentenced 17 other former Auschwitz personnel to varying prison terms after a 30-month trial.
Markowitsch, who was sentenced to Auschwitz in 1942 as a Communist, testified he had worked in a building housing sick inmates. He said he had witnessed “selections” at which Heubert was present.
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