Return to The Aftermath | Facts Command Staff At Auschwitz Fritsch, Hauptsturmführer (Credited with the first use of Zyklon-B as means of exterminating human subjects. See Breitman, 202) Grabner, Maximillian. Head of Political Department Hoess, Rudolf Franz (1900-1947). Hoess joined the Nazi party in 1922. In 1923, he was implicated in a murder and imprisoned…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts I.G. Farben Embraces Nazi Anti-Semitism Summary: Farben purges Jewish management, takes over Austrian chemical industry through campaign of fear and intimidation: “…As country after country collapsed in the face of Hitler’s `Operation Terror,’ I.G.’s embrace of the Nazis became progressively more passionate. As country after country fell to the…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts I.G. Farben’s Pact With the Devil The following citation addresses the issue of the impact financial and economic considerations had on I.G. Farben’s decision to build I.G. Auschwitz… “The Soviet Union and Asia represented a potential market to challenge even the commercial imagination of I.G.’s directors. For I.G., Hitler’s…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts Dr. Karl Gebhardt “Dr. Karl Gebhardt, Himmler’s childhood friend, had a green light from him for his vivisection of women at both Ravensbruck and Auschwitz. In the former camp, he admittedly operated on 60, but survivors of Ravensbruck put the number closer to 100, mostly Poles between the ages…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts A U.S. Soldier’s Testimony “I, personally, was the first Allied soldier to enter the city square of Witten, a large city on the Ruhr River. I led a patrol through the city, and incidentally, passed a slave camp that occupied the entire city square. Behind the barbed wire of…