The excerpt is from witness testimony at the Nuremberg Trials. DR. MARX:You said before that the German people must have known of the happenings in Auschwitz. What are your grounds for this statement?VAILLANT-COUTURIER:I have already told you: To begin with there was the fact that, when we left, the Lorraine soldiers . . . who were taking us to Auschwitz said to us, "If you knew where you were going, you would not be in such a hurry to get there.”–Testimony of Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier