373. 10/1/45-Germany. Discussion of point system and new Commander. 374. 10/2/45-Germany. Captain told him that tomorrow he would be relieved of the supply "problem" and "would officially become the Investigating Officer and the Defense Council for Special Court Martials." No longer in envelope: Life Magazine article on sleeping on the Queen Mary. 375. 10/7/45-Germany. He's been at Battalion Headquarters in Nuremburg trying cases. 376. 10/8/45-Germany. Went on a tour of the Dachau Concentration Camp and took 36 photos. No longer in envelope: comics. 377. 10/9/45-Germany. Saw a movie in the Theater at the Dachau Concentration Camp. Bought some Shuko cars (like in the article) that he will be sending home, along with some perfume from Paris. He's having a pair of riding boots made at the Camp by a PW. No longer in envelope: photos of the main stadium at Nuremburg taken before the swastika was blown off. Also no longer in envelope, article about Nuremburg toys. 378. 10/10/45-Germany. Watched a movie. No longer in envelope: photos from his trip to the Finance Office in Rosenheim, Germany. The photo of the little girl is taken outside the Finance Office. Photo of door that says "Gemeinde Hausham" on it is the entrance to the City Hall of that community and is "where I performed my duties when I was there." Photo of Burger Brau Keller where the attempt was made on Hitler's life. It's now an American Red Cross canteen. Photo of Dachau Officers' Mess and a waiter. Photo of the autobahn. Photo of the outside of the War Crimes Court. Interior shots didn't turn out well. 379. 10/12/45-Germany. They have started a Summary Court on the post to try men for infractions of the uniform regulations, speeding, etc. 380. 10/13/45-Germany. Men shot a deer and they ate it for dinner. 381. 10/14/45-Germany. More discussion on the points system. 382. 10/15/45-Germany. Took the Chaplain on a tour to the solitary confinement cells that are housing the Commander of Auschwitz, the "bone crusher" and the head of the crematory. 383. 10/16/45-Germany. Riding boots almost ready. He might have a pair of riding breeches made. Went into Munich to take photos of the mausoleum of the first Nazi party members killed. No longer in envelope: article about the wax figures. 384. 10/17/45-Germany. Didn't get to go to Switzerland. 385. 10//19/45-Germany. Saw the New York Rockettes perform in Munich. 386. 10/20/45-Germany. Another officer leaves to go home, which puts him at the top of the list. No longer in envelope: pictures of camouflaged German planes that he says she should use a magnifying glass to see the planes hidden in the trees. Other pictures are self-explanatory or have notes on the back. 387. 10/22/45-Germany. Tonight O.D. again, where he has the responsibility for all "these thousands of PW's and SS troops." "A PW hung himself the other day and last night a number of them were shot trying to escape". "Last week an SS prisoner got away somehow or another and came back with a civilian presumably his brother. His explanation was that he went to check on how his brother would fare for the winter months." He brought the brother back to the prison so he could have food and shelter! The prisoner was locked back up and they sent the brother on his way. In the past few days, several thousand more SS men have been shipped to the prison. 388. 10/23/45-Germany. There are now around 30,000 people at the camp. German girl asked to see him personally and told him that her mother had just died and her father was an SS prisoner and she wanted Dad to release her father so he could go with her. Dad commented that had she asked an SS officer for such a request, she would have been placed in arrest or the father would have been killed in cold blood. But since he was an American and being "somewhat" human, he recommended that the father be permitted to attend the funeral under guard. The Colonel approved this recommendation. No longer in envelope: pictures of a square in Munich where the two mausoleums' of the bodies of the 16 original Nazis killed in the first Putsch, which failed. The bodies are no longer there since they were buried in steel coffins with swastikas on top and this represented a Nazi shrine. In one of the buildings, the Munich Pact was signed by Chamberlain. 389. 10/24/45-Germany. New Commanding officer has relieved him as Defense Counsel and made him TJA. He has a trial to prosecute next week in Nuremberg. 390. 10/25/45-Germany. Has to go up to Headquarters next week for the court martial. Received an order that they have to turn in some of their horses. They are supposed to only have 25 and they have 40. Will go out riding tomorrow and try out his new riding boots. 391. 10/26/45-Germany. O.D. again. Approximately 30,000 prisoners. Prisoners escape, even when he has been O.D. But the O.D. is relieved of the responsibility for their escape. No one knows how the prisoners escape. 392. 10/27/45-Germany. Has to go up to Battalion to sit on a Board of Officers to determine whether one of the men from another Battery is a "mental case" and should be sent to a mental institution and discharged from the Army. Seems he got drunk, "went out of his head and shot at several of the boys as well as others and then hit somebody over the head with a hammer." Men want him to organize a dance for them, so he has to find a place and an orchestra. Another service man asked him to represent him in his court martial. No longer in envelope: Said he enclosed in letter #391 photos of the camp. Photo was of the pill box which the SS used to guard prisoners in the enclosure. That enclosure is now the SS compound. No longer in this envelope: pictures of Nuremberg and the walled inner city.