Real History and Dieter Wisliceny The Dieter Wisliceny Heinrich Himmler Adolf Eichmann your Dachau index your Buchenwald index your Treblinka index your newsletter Alphabetical index (text) Testimony of Dieter Wisliceny at Nuremberg

on January 3, 1946 A warning note . . . Title: “Twenty-Sixth Day, Thursday, 1/3/1946, Part 30”, in Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. Volume IV. Proceedings: 12/17/1945-1/8/1946. [Official text in the English language.] Nuremberg: IMT, 1947. p. 355. COL. AMEN: The next witness to be called by the Prosecution is Dieter Wisliceny . That witness will be examined by Lieutenant Colonel Smith W. Brookhart , Jr. [The witness, Wisliceny, took the stand.]

THE PRESIDENT: What is your name? DIETER WISLICENY (Witness): Dieter Wisliceny. THE PRESIDENT: Will you repeat this oath: “I swear by Godthe Almighty and Omniscientthat I will speak the pure truthand will withhold and add nothing.” [The witness repeated the oath.] THE PRESIDENT: Please speak slowly and pause between questions and answers. LIEUTENANT COLONEL SMITH W. BROOKHART, JR. (Assistant Trial Counsel for the United States): How old are you? WISLICENY: I am 34 years old. LT. COL.

BROOKHART: Where were you born? WISLICENY: I was born at Regulowken in East Prussia. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Were you a member of the NSDAP? WISLICENY: Yes, I was a member of the NSDAP. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Since what year? WISLICENY: I entered the NSDAP first in 1931, was then struck off the list and entered finally in 1933. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Were you a member of the SS? WISLICENY: Yes, I entered the SS in 1934. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Were you a member of the Gestapo?

WISLICENY: In 1934 I entered the SD. LT. COL. BROOKHART: What rank did you achieve? WISLICENY: In 1940 I was promoted to SS Hauptsturmfuehrer. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Do you know Adolf Eichmann? WISLICENY: Yes, I have known Eichmann since 1934. LT. COL. BROOKHART: Under what circumstances? WISLICENY: We joined the SD about the same time, in 1934. Until 1937 we were together in the same department. [=] [