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Testimony of: Pfc. Frank Eggert, 36651586, Headquarters 3rd Bn., 157th Infantry.

Taken at: Munich, Germany.

Date: 5 May 1945. By: Lt. Col. Joseph M. Whitaker, IGD,

Asst. Inspector General, Seventh Army.

The witness was sworn.

375 Q Please state your name, rank, serial number and organization.

A Frank Eggert, Private First Class, 36651586, Headquarters 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry.

(The witness was advised of his rights under the 24th Article of War.)

376 Q Were you with Col. Sparks the day the Dachau Prison or Internment Camp was taken?

A Yes, sir.

377 Q Were you with him when he came to an enclosed yard where some German soldiers were being shot?

A No, I wasn't with him right then. I was near there. I don't know whether I was at the place where they were being shot. I was near there, though.

378 Q Tell me what you yourself saw and heard.

A As it started out we came along these railroad cars approaching the camp there. These boys saw the bodies in the cars and some got pretty excited over it. I heard some had been drinking, I couldn't say for sure, I was not with the company that took it. Well, there wasn't much that a guy could see happened there. These Germans the way it looked to me, they came out of a place that looked like a hospital, at least it had a Red Cross flag. Some looked like they had been wounded or hurt before. I did not see any of them armed. They looked like patients a lot of them did. There were quite a few types of soldiers I didn't recognize them all, but somebody started separating the SS troopers from the rest and they took them into the yard there. I did not go in. I do not know whether Col. Sparks went in or not. They gave me some to guard that they said were not Nazis, about twenty or so, maybe half a dozen women. After the SS'rs were in the yard for awhile there was a bunch of shots went off. It sounded like somebody gave an order to fire because everything went at once. It just lasted a couple of seconds, the shooting. When I went over there why there were I should say about seventy-five or so lying on the ground. It looked like they were pretty badly wounded. I don't see how they got away with it with so many shots fired, but only a small percentage were unable to walk.