Nuremberg Tribunal

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Nuremberg Tribunal Interrogation of Erich Kempka

Dodd: You are the only man who has been able to testify that Hitler is dead and the only one who has been able to testify that Bormann is dead; is that so, so far as you know?
Kempka: I can state that Hitler is dead, and that he died on the 30th of April in the afternoon between two and three o'clock.
Dodd: I know, but you did not see him die either, did you?
Kempka: No, I did not see him die.
Dodd: And you told the interrogators that you believe you carried his body out of the bunker and set it on fire. Are you not the man who has said that?
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Nuremberg Tribunal Interrogation of Erich Kempka

Then the armoured vehicles pushed their way through the anti-tank trap and afterwards the leading tank, beside which Martin Bormann was walking along about at the middle of the tank on the left-hand side, suddenly received a direct hit, I imagine from a bazooka fired from a window, and was blown up. A flash of fire suddenly shot up on the very side where Bormann was walking, and I saw -
Judicial President Lawrence: You are going too fast. You are still going much too fast. The last thing I heard you say was that Bormann was walking in the middle of the column.
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Nuremberg Tribunal Interrogation of Erich Kempka

You were with Bormann, were you, at 9 o'clock in the bunker in the Reich Chancellery, on that night?
Kempka: Yes, indeed. I saw him for the last time about 9 o'clock in the evening. When I said farewell to Dr. Goebbels, I also saw Martin Bormann down in the cellar and then I saw him again during the night about two or three o'clock in the morning.
Dodd: Well, maybe you said so but I did not get it if you did. Where did you see him at two or three in the morning prior to the time that you started to walk with him along with the tank?
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