Matt Giwer wrote;
>When you idiots have an autopsy
>identifying cyanide as a cause of death
>you be sure to get back to me.
How do you get 'cause of death' autopsy results from Hoess' quote below;
>"the foul and nauseating stench from the
>continuous burning of bodies permeated
>the entire area and all of the people living
>in the surrounding communities knew that
>exterminations were going on at
>Auschwitz."
Please post your usual BS rebuttal and show *once* again who is the real
Idiot.
"This is excerpts from Hoess' signed testimony given at the Post-War
Nuremberg War Crime trials:
RUDOLF FRANZ FERDINAND HOESS, being first duly sworn, depose and say as
follows:
"I am fortysix years old, and have been a member of the NSDAPI since
1922; a member of the SS since 1934; a member of the WaffenSS since
1939. I was a member from 1 December 1934 of the SS Guard Unit, the
socalled Deathshead Formation (Totenkopf Verband).
I have been constantly associated with the administration of
concentration camps since 1934, serving at Dachau until 1938; then as
Adjutant in Sachsenhausen from 1938 - 5/1/1940, when I was appointed
Kommandant of Auschwitz.
I commanded Auschwitz until 12/1/1943 and estimate that at least 2.5
million victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and
burning, and at least another half million succumbed to starvation and
disease making a total dead of about 3 million.
This figure represents about 70-80% of all persons sent to Auschwitz as
prisoners, the remainder having been selected and used for slave labor
in the concentration camp industries; included among the executed and
burned were approximately 20,000 Russian prisoners of war (previously
screened out of prisoner-of-war cages by the Gestapo) who were delivered
at Auschwitz in Wehrmacht transports operated by regular Wehrmacht
officers and men.
The remainder of the total number of victims included about 100,000
German Jews, and great numbers of citizens, mostly Jewish, from Holland,
France, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Greece, or other
countries.
We executed about 400,000 Hungarian Jews alone at Auschwitz in the
summer of 1944.
Mass executions by gassing commenced during the summer of 1941 and
continued until fall 1944.
I personally supervised executions at Auschwitz until 12/1/1943 and
know by reason of my continued duties in the Inspectorate of
Concentration Camps, WVHA, that these mass executions continued as
stated above.
All mass executions by gassing took place under the direct order,
supervision, and responsibility of RSHA.
I received all orders for carrying out these mass executions directly
from RSHA.
The 'Final Solution' of the Jewish question meant the complete
extermination of all Jews in Europe.
I was ordered to establish extermination facilities at Auschwitz in
6/1941.
At that time, there were already in the General Government three other
extermination camps: Belzek, Treblinka and Wolzek.
These camps were under the Einsatzkommando of the Security Police and
SD.
I visited Treblinka to find out how they carried out their
exterminations.
The camp commandant at Treblinka told me that he had liquidated 80,000
in the course of one-half year.
He was principally concerned with liquidating all the Jews from the
Warsaw Ghetto.
He used monoxide gas, and I did not think that his methods were very
efficient.
So when I set up the extermination building at Auschwitz, I used Zyklon
B, which was a crystallized prussic acid which we dropped into the death
chamber from a small opening.
It took from 3-15 minutes to kill the people in the death chamber,
depending upon climatic conditions.
We knew when the people were dead because their screaming stopped.
We usually waited about one-half hour before we opened the doors and
removed the bodies.
After the bodies were removed our special Kommandos took off the rings
and extracted the gold from the teeth of the corpses.
Another improvement we made over Treblinka was that we built our gas
chamber to accommodate 2000 people at one time whereas at Treblinka
their 10 gas chambers only accommodated 200 people each.
The way we selected our victims was as follows:
We had two SS doctors on duty at Auschwitz to examine the incoming
transports of prisoners.
The prisoners would be marched by one of the doctors who would make
spot decisions as they walked by.
Those who were fit for work were sent into the camp.
Others were sent immediately to the extermination plants.
Children of tender years were invariably exterminated since by reason
of their youth they were unable to work.
Still another improvement we made over Treblinka was that at Treblinka
the victims almost always knew that they were to be exterminated and at
Auschwitz we endeavored to fool the victims into thinking that they were
to go through a delousing process.
Of course, frequently they realized our true intentions and we
sometimes had riots and difficulties due to that fact.
Very frequently women would hide their children under the clothes, but
of course when we found them we would send the children in to be
exterminated.
We were required to carry out these exterminations in secrecy but of
course the foul and nauseating stench from the continuous burning of
bodies permeated the entire area and all of the people living in the
surrounding communities knew that exterminations were going on at
Auschwitz.
We received from time to time special prisoners from the local Gestapo
office. The SS doctors killed such prisoners by injections of benzine.
Doctors had orders to write ordinary death certificates and could put
down any reason at all for the cause of death.
From time to time we conducted medical experiments on women inmates,
including sterilization and experiments relating to cancer.
Most of the people who died under these experiments had been already
condemned to death by the Gestapo.
I understand English as it is written above.
The above statements are true; this declaration is made by me
voluntarily and without compulsion; after reading over the statement I
have signed and executed the same at Nuremberg, Germany, on the
4/5/1946. - Rudolf Hoess."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Rudolf Hoess related before his execution how he often felt weak-kneed
at having to push hundreds of screaming, pleading children into the gas
chambers:
"I did, however, always feel ashamed of this weakness of mine after I
talked to Adolf Eichmann.
He explained to me that it was especially the children who have to be
killed first, because where was the logic in killing a generation of
older people and leaving alive a generation of young people who can be
possible avengers of their parents and can constitute a new biological
cell for the reemerging of this people."