TRIAL OF NUREMBERGTestimony of Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturierof Auschwitz and RavensbrückFORTY-FOURTH DAYMonday, January 28, 1946Morning Session

Q. - With leave of the Tribunal, we will continue this part of the presentation of the French case by examination of a witness who has lived for more than three years in German concentration camps.

(We introduce Madame Claude Vaillant-Couturier.)

THE PRESIDENT: - What is your name? Will you stand up, please? Will you swear in French?

Madame Vaillant-Couturier : - Claude Vaillant-Couturier.

THE PRESIDENT: - Repeat the oath with me: "I swear to speak without hatred or fear, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."

Raise your right hand and say, "I swear".

Madame Vaillant-Couturier : - I swear.

THE PRESIDENT: - Sit down and talk slowly. Your name is?

Madame Vaillant-Couturier : Vaillant-Couturier, Marie, born Claude Vogel.

Q. - Your current name is Madame Vaillant-Couturier?