Trial of the Major War Criminals before International Military Tribunal ...

DOCUMENT KALTENBRUNNER-8
AFFIDAVIT BY WANECK, FORMER GROUP LEADER IN THE REICH
SECURITY MAIN OFFICE, 15 APRIL 1946, CONCERNING QUESTIONS
PUT TO HIM BY KALTENBRUNNER'S DEFENSE COUNSEL AND BY
THE PROSECUTION: KALTENBRUNNER CONSIDERED HIS MAIN
TASK IN THE REICH SECURITY MAIN OFFICE TO BE THE DEVEL-
OPMENT OF A CENTRAL INFORMATION SERVICE; EICHMANN
HAD SECRET AUTHORITY IN THE "JEWISH SECTOR" AND WAS
DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE TO HIMMLER; IN 1945 KALTENBRUNNER
HAD CONFERENCES WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNA-
TIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS CONCERNING THE
RELEASE OF CIVILIAN INTERNEES OF FOREIGN NATIONALITY;
SHORTLY BEFORE THE CAPITULATION, KALTENBRUNNER GAVE
ORDERS TO THE COMMANDANT OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP
MAUTHAUSEN TO SEE THAT NO INMATES WERE KILLED; KAL
TENBRUNNER ADVISED THE AUSTRIAN GAULEITERS TO OFFER
NO RESISTANCE TO THE TROOPS OF THE WESTERN POWERS;
OTHER MATTERS (EXHIBIT KALTENBRUNNER-8)
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HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
JUDGE ADVOCATE SECTION
War Crimes Group
12 April 1946
The testimony of Wilhelm Bruno Waneck, which follows, was
secured after the witness had been sworn by me, and through the
use of an interpreter, under the authority of Article of War 114
(Sec 1586, Title 10, iJ S Code) in the following form: "You swear
that the evidence you shall give in this investigation now being
conducted by me shall be the truth, the whole tmth, and nothing
but the truth, so help you God'?" The witness signed his testimony
in my presence.
The stenographic reporter, Tec 3 Carlos Rivera; the interpreter,
2d Lt Janusz Fragstein-Niemsdorff; and the German Civilian
Shorthand reporter, Wilma Schrnitt; were also sworn in the
following form respectively: