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1963-65 Testimony of Officers at Auschwitz

FRANKFURT TRIAL

A trial… of the chief SS officers who worked at the extermination camp of Auschwitz. Also known as the Auschwitz Trial, it took place from December …

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Excerpts from Testimonies of SS men

Testimony of SS Scharfuhrer Erich Fuchs, in the Sobibor-Bolender trial, Dusseldorf:

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I.G. Farben: Testimony at Nuremberg

– Part 1 –

“It was not until the prosecution staff reached the charge of slavery and mass murder that the critical point of the trial was reached…. The

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Rudolf Hoess Testimony

(English Translation)

I, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, having been duly sworn in, state and declare as follows:

1. I am 46 years old and member of the Nazi party since 1922,

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The Gas Chambers

At the fulcrum of the extermination system in Poland were the camps at Auschwitz, Maidanek, Treblinka, Chelmno, Belzec, and Sobibor…. Auschwitz was the most notorious of the extermination centers. At the …

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Zyklon B Companies

Two German firms, Tesch/Stabenow and Degesch, produced Zyklon B gas after they acquired the patent from Farben. Tesch supplied two tons a month, and Degesch three quarters of a ton. The …

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Eichmann On Medical Experimentation

Summary: Eichmann discusses Ahnenerbe and medical experimentation with Captain Avner Less, of the Eichmann interrogation team, along with the acquisition of skulls and skeletons for ‘research’ purposes.

LESS: Did your …

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From the testimony of SS-Unterscharfuehrer Wilhelm Bahr in his trial at Hamburg

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Rudolf Hoess

“a member of the NSDAP since 1922; a member of the SS since 1934; a member of the Waffen-SS since 1939” and “a member from 1 December 1934 of the SS Guard Unit, the so-called Deathshead Formation [Totenkopf

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Josef Kramer (Birkenau)

“Josef Kramer was the commandant of the camp of Birkenau; the face he showed when he came to listen to the orchestra was certainly not that known to the other men and women …