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Testimony of: Sgt. Robert Killiam, 20755900, Company "C", 222nd Infantry, 42nd Division.

Taken at: Worgl, Austria.

Date: 15 May 1945. By: Lt. Col. J. W. Whitaker, IGD,

Asst. Inspector General, Seventh Army.

The witness was sworn.

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

A Sgt. Robert Killiam, 20755900, Company "C", 222nd Infantry, 42nd Division.

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

638 Q What are your duties in the regiment?

A My duties are to stay with the colonel and protect his welfare wherever he goes.

639 Q Which colonel?

A The regimental commander, Lt. Col. Buldoc.

640 Q Were you with him the day the Dachau Concentration Camp was taken?

A Yes, sir, I was.

641 Q After the entry of your party into the camp area did you go to the main gate of the fenced in enclosure?

A No, sir, not directly. We stopped at the outside gate I would say about two and a half blocks, where the prisoners were held. There we were collecting guards and assembling them at the main gate outside.

642 Q Did you go inside?

A Yes, sir.

643 Q Where did you go when you went inside?

A We went directly to the main entrance to the big pen where the prisoners were held.

644 Q To the left of this main entrance to the pen proper and along the side of the stockade they had a canal paralleling it, and there was a tower for guards at which there was some shooting. Do you know which tower I mean?