Remarkable nonsense

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.

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

AUSCHWITZ: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers

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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Source: Jean-Claude Pressac, AUSCHWITZ: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, page 537, mazal.org/Pressac/Pressac0537.htm

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, The New York Times New York, N.Y., 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.

“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.”

Source: William Styron, Sophie’s Choice, London: Cape, 1979.

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.

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

The fourth day of the trial, 15 March 1947.

The witness stated the following with regard to his person:

Bernard Czardybon, 45 years of age, Roman Catholic, married, union secretary, no relationship to the parties.