Significant is the statement in many affidavits that the relationship between the guards and the command personnel was not only cool but even tense. Prisoners themselves, whose affidavits are presented, state that a great part of the responsibility for the conditions belongs to the internee-Kapos, who were often, criminals. The question of the participation of SS members in so-called mass exterminations in extermination camps, which are to be distinguished from the concentration camps, is not mentioned at all in the affidavits. We have heard from various witnesses that these camps had a routine of their own, and only a few SS men or men in SS uniforms were stationed there. Now, I come to another point.
Numerous affidavits give examples of especially good treatment of prisoners of war.
There are 13,613 affidavits dealing with the question of treatment of the civilian population in the occupied territories contrary to International Law. The majority of SS members can report only of good relations with the civilian population in the occupied territories. There is no mention in any affidavit of the participation of the SS in resettlement or in deportation for slave labour. Only a very few affidavits touch upon biological experiments. They come from men who had to do with concentration camps.