I had no authority to intervene in his affairs before these guests. Q. I just want you to look at what the regulations were as early as May, 1933. I put the Document D-922, my Lord, which will be Exhibit GB 548. This kind of punishment is generally carried out in solitary confinement. In the case of medium cells, the person undergoing punishment receives a hard bed and only bread and water for food.
Severe cells are the same as the medium, but the cell is completely dark.
And then, if you will look at paragraph 8 of the regulations, you will see that there is given power of life and death to the camp commandant of Dachau and his staff. And paragraph 18 sets out the procedure to be followed in the event of charges of disobedience for which a death penalty is decided by a camp court, which consists of the camp commandant, one or two officers, to be nominated by the camp commandant, and an SS man belonging to the guard personnel. The prosecution is also to be undertaken by an SS man belonging to the camp commandant's office who is to be nominated by the camp commandant. In the case of an even vote, the president of the camp court has the casting vote. This document has no heading and no signature.