Dr. Philip S. Auerbach, Commissioner for Persecutes in the Bavarian Government, who was confined in the Oswiecim death camp for two wars, today told the war crimes court here trying 21 top Nazi diplomats and ministers that he knew from official records that 4,800,000 persons were exterminated in the ##mp.Auerbach said he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1940 in France after the Germans overran that country and was sent to Berlin where he remained under arrest until 1943 when he was transferred to Oswiecim. He was assigned to disinfecting fellow in?tes, he said.
Another prosecution witness, Mrs. Jeanette Wolf, who is at present a member of ##e Berlin city council, testified on the terrible conditions in the Riga Ghetto, hero 20,000 Jews were held, to which she was sent in 1946. The 60-year-old witness aid that on an extremely cold November day, the Nazis rounded up hundreds of children and took them away from the ghetto in open trucks. They were never seen again,? added.
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