Remarkable nonsense

Adolf Hitler

Copyright 1990 Gary M. Grobman

www.remember.org/guide/Facts.root.hitler.html

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CHAPTER CONTENT

Hitler’s Early Life

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Following another family move, Adolf lived for six months across from a large Benedictine monastery. The monastery’s coat of arms’ most salient feature was a swastika. […]

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Found in: Carlo Mattogno, “The First Gassing at Auschwitz: Genesis of a Myth,” The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 9 number 2.

“3. The Duration of the Gassing

“Rudolf Höss declared that, on the occasion of the first gassing accomplished by his deputy Fritzsch, the Zyklon B provoked ‘the immediate death’ (den sofortigen Tod) of the victims. (fn 20) The article in the Polish Fortnightly Review reports instead that ‘all the prisoners died during the night. All night the rest of the camp was kept awake by the moans and screams originating from the shelter.’ Finally, the Polish Investigation Commission asserts that ‘next afternoon’ some prisoners were still alive, ‘therefore further cyclon was poured out and the doors again tightly closed, to be reopened the next evening, when all the prisoners were dead.’ Therefore, all the victims died immediately, or during the night, or two days later.”

AUSCHWITZ: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers

Jean-Claude Pressac

Page 537

www.mazal.org/Pressac/Pressac0537.htm

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Any normal human being, visiting the Auschwitz camp for the first time, feels a deep emotional shock. The weight of history allows of no other response. An ordinary but motivated tourist, I nearly did away with myself one evening in October 1979 in the main camp, the Stammlager, overwhelmed by the evidence and by despair. […]

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© 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation

Time ‘Too Painful’ to Remember

The Golden Age Club in the basement of an upper Manhattan synagogue was abuzz with gossip, laughter and the shuffle of cards when the rabbi, himself 79 years old, struck a spoon against a metal ash tray to get everyone’s attention.

In the [Buchenwald] camp there was a cage with a bear and an eagle. Every day they would throw a Jew in there. The bear would tear him apart and the eagle would pick his bones.”

Source:

ARI L. GOLDMAN
New York Times New York, N.Y.
Nov 10, 1988
pg. A10, 1 pgs

Webmaster note: This story was revealed by Morris Hubert, who claims to have been an internee at Buchenwald (November 10, 1988). Perhaps he was thinking of the zoo at Buchenwald.

Found in: Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron. London: Cape, 1979.

“The Russians were coming [toward Auschwitz/Birkenau] and the SS wanted the children destroyed. Most of them were Polish; the Jewish children were already dead. They thought of burning them alive in a pit, or shooting them, but they decided to do something that wouldn’t show too many marks and evidence. So in the freezing cold they marched the children down to the river and made them take off their clothes and soak them in the water as if they were washing them, and then made them put on these wet clothes again. Then they marched them back to the area in front of the barracks where they had been living and had a roll call. Standing in their wet clothes. The roll call lasted for many, many hours while the children stood wet and freezing and night came. All of the children died of being exposed that day. They died of exposure and pneumonia, very fast.”

“I stayed in the hospital [At the Flossenburg camp] for three days and had good food and a rest. The S.S. would come in twice a day and take away some men. A few times they would come past my bed, but they would take the man next to me. Then one evening, a lot of S.S. walked into the room and they ordered us to follow them. They ordered us into a room and locked the door. I heard a noise like a snake hissing, and then I heard the slave laborers shouting, “They are gassing us!” I smelled an awful odor. Some of the men dropped dead. The rest of us ran around the room cursing the Nazis.

I couldn’t take it much longer and ran to the door and took hold of the knob and tried to open it. The door was locked. The smell of the gas got stronger. I coughed, and choked, and put my face to the keyhole and kept inhaling a little air from the outside.

We had been in the room for about five minutes when I heard them outside the door talking in German. “Let’s see if some of them are still alive.” I went away from the keyhole and the door opened. For some reason which I could never figure out, God had saved me from the gas chamber. The S.S. shouted for us to go out. There were only five of us still alive; sixty lay behind, dead.

As soon as we came outside and breathed the fresh air, the S.S. started to beat us. They chased us to a railroad station into boxcars and closed the doors on us. In the boxcar I lay down on the floor. I was bewildered. I couldn’t figure it out. Why hadn’t the S.S. murderers finished the job in the gas room? No, I couldn’t figure these things out”.

Source: ‘Death Was Our Destiny’, p. 49-50, by Arnold Friedman, Vantage Press, 1972.

Webmaster note: Pretty clever of the S.S. to allow Friedman to recuperate in the hospital for days before gassing him. It was also nice of the S.S. to allow the condemned room to walk and run around inside the gas chamber. Now we just need to find a gas chamber at Flossenburg that has five keyholes with a bunch of lip marks on them.

(18) Deposition of Regina Bialek (Pole, aged 28)

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3. On 25th December 1943, I was sick with typhus and was picked out at a selection made by doctors Mengele and Tauber along with about 350 other women. I was made to undress and taken by lorry to a gas chamber. There were seven gas chambers at Auschwitz. This particular one was underground and the lorry was able to run down the slope and straight into the chamber. Here we were tipped unceremoniously on the floor. The room was about 12 yards square and small lights on the wall dimly illuminated it. When the room was full a hissing sound was heard coming from the centre point on the floor and gas came into the room. After what seemed about ten minutes some of the victims began to bite their hands and foam at the mouth, and blood issued from their ears, eyes and mouth, and their faces went blue. I suffered from all these symptoms, together with a tight feeling at the throat. I was half conscious when my number was called out by Dr. Mengele and I was led from the chamber. I attribute my escape to the fact that the daughter of a friend of mine who was an Aryan and a doctor at Auschwitz had seen me being transported to the chamber and had told her mother, who immediately appealed to Dr. Mengele. Apparently he realized that as a political prisoner I was of more value alive than dead, and I was released.

4. I think that the time to kill a person in this particular gas chamber would be from 15 to 20 minutes.

5. I was told that the staffs of the prisoners who worked in the gas chamber and crematorium next door changed every three months, the old staff being taken to a villa in the camp to do some repair work. Here they were locked in the rooms and gas bombs thrown through the window. I estimate that in December, 1943, about 7,000 people disappeared from Auschwitz by way of the gas chamber and crematorium.

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Source:

Raymond Phillips, ed.

Trial of Josef Kramer and Forty-Four Others (The Belsen Trial)

London: William Hodge, 1949

Appendix III, p. 657.

Webmaster note: This postwar affidavit was entered as prosecution evidence in the British military court trial at Lüneburg, Sept.-Nov. 1945, of former Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camp personnel.