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Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses Speech by Frank [Governor of occupied Poland], December 16 1941 [DotH, p. 247]- One way or another – I will tell you quite openly – we must finish off the Jews. The Fuehrer put it into words once: should united Jewry again succeed in setting off…
Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses From Goebbels Diaries (Quoted in “The Goebbels Diaries” Doubleday, 1948 – Louis P. Lochner, Editor. Copyright 1948 by the Fireside Press, Inc. The publishers note that the materials used in the book would be deposited with the Hoover Library at Stanford University to encourage further study.)…
Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses Himmler Speech Let me quote Heinrich Himmler speaking on October 6, 1943 to a meeting ofGauleiters and Reichsleiters in Poznam. The quote was recorded by Erich Goldhagen “I must ask you only to listen to what I tell you in this group and never to speak…
Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses Martin Niemöller Poem They came for the Communists, and I didn’t object – For I wasn’t a Communist; They came for the Socialists, and I didn’t object – For I wasn’t a Socialist; They came for the labor leaders, and I didn’t object – For I…
Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses Letters on Sterilization Letter from SS-Oberfuehrer Brack to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, June23, 1942 [DotH, p. 272] Honorable Mr. Reichsfuehrer!According to my impression there are at least 2-3 million men and women wellfit for work among the approx. 10 million European Jews. In consideration of theexceptional difficulties posed…