- [last lines]
- Carl Schrade: The Gestapo caught me after I said something against the Hitler government.
- Reporterin: [translating for the defense counsel] But what? That is the question.
- [the witness for the prosecution speaks German now]
- Reporterin: [translating for the witness] What? I can tell you. There was a headline in the newspaper: Germany will be a clean country. Crimes like Al Capone will not be possible. Here you can see, I said, how criminals can gain control of a whole country.
- Reporterin: [translating for defendant 66, secret state police, Gestapo] These were the public enemies of Germany, these were the number one enemies of the state. The camps were a measure of national security, and for this end, the Gestapo's duty was to choose the right persons.
- Reporterin: [translating for defendant 66, secret state police, Gestapo] How much can you get out of a human body? First of all, the system had to be built up. Healthy prisoners who could work like animals were very welcome. The camps promised to become a thriving business. There was a lot of money in it for every one: for the government, for the public outside. And it became a great business, and every one who could joined it.
- Carl Schrade: Of course I know the name of any number, except no. 66. I never saw him, I never met him. And yes, I can tell you about the ideas, about the concepts, about the methods they used.
- Carl Schrade: [about Ilse Koch] Soon she got a special reputation in the camp, because in 1938 and in the years after she created hand cases and lampshades of human skin, from men murdered by her man. She collected only the nice, tattooed ones.
- Reporterin: [translating for Ilse Koch] It required thousands that slaved away, millions of hours, to put up this giant building complex. It was a building perfect in its harmony, in its solidity. Yes, this was my Buchenwald.
- Reporterin: [translating for defendant 66, secret state police, Gestapo] A new generation of concentration camp was born with Sachsenhausen. We had gained a lot of experiences. Foreign delegations often came to visit. Here everything was just perfect, concentrated on most narrow area. A perfect cycle, a triumph for the economy, a triumph that hardly cost anything.
- Carl Schrade: [on KZ Sachsenhausen] We did not only create a camp. No, this hell close to Berlin was built to make a lot of money, and to be the best example of a modern concentration camp.
- Carl Schrade: The concentration camps and their whole organization was the work of the Gestapo, and the SS did the work.