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…
Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses Killer Vans Letter to SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff Just, Willy. “Letter to SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff, June 5, 1942.” in: Nazism: A History in Documents and Eye Witness Accounts, 191-1945, vol. 2, document 913RE: Technical alterations to the special vehicles already in operation and those in production. Since…
Return to the Witnesses | The Cybrary of theHolocaust Perpetrators Per-pe-trat-or: To do, perform, or commit (a crime, etc.) From the Latinperpetratus, to carry through. Literally, per-thoroughly + patrare-to accomplish. Letters Letters on Sterilization Letters on Euthanasia Killer Vans Nazi Letters on Execution of Jews Niemoller Poem Speeches A “Page of Glory” Speech by Frank…