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"The Good old days": the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders
Publisher
Free Press
Publication Date
1991
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st American ed.
Acts of violence; carried out quite openly
The brutalization of precious German manpower
Notes of eastern territories commander Johannes Blaskowitz
Bloody Wednesday in Olkusz / Ilkenau
Foreign Service
Each time a victim was beaten to death they started to clap
Initially difficult to set a pogrom in motion
Cheers and laughter
If they get their revenge, we're in for a hard time
Total 137,346
Pushed to their psychological limits
If the victims didn't o as they were told
It took nerves of steel
A new and better method of killing had to be found
Quite happy to take part in shooting
Once again I've got to play general to the Jews'
Execution as popular entertainment
Soldiers sitting on rooftops and platforms watching the show
Scores of soldiers, some in bathing trunks, watching the proceeding
When the Jews saw how easy it was to be executed
Present at the execution with heads of other authorities
The twelve toppers and a little hat
The execution area was visited by scores of German spectators
In the interest of maintaining military discipline
An officer cadet n the killing of the adults
Report by the military chaplain, Dr. Reuss, to Lieutenant-Colonel Groscurth
Report by Wehrmachtoberpgarrer Kornmann
Lieutenant-Colonel Groscurth's report to C.-in-C. sixth army, Field Marshall von Reichenau
Report by military chaplains Tewes and Wilczek
Statement by C.-in-C. sixth army, Field Marshall von Reichenau
SS-Obersturmfuhrer August Hafner on the killing of the children. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Practical work for our Fuhrer
Letter by Gendarmerie chief Fritz Jacob
A gendarmerie Overwachtmeister's photographs
Letters of SS-Obersturmfuhrer Karl Kretschmer
His attitude toward the Jews is quite impossible
The bodies piled up in the streets
The action rid me of unnecessary mouths to feed
Eliminate the Jews once and for all
A quit literally slavish attitude to the Jews
None of the Jews that were killed is an great loss
Their soldierly conduct is exemplary
Photographs
Theodor Malzmuller on the plague boils of humanity
Gas-van driver Walter Burmeiser on whether he ever thought about what he was doing
Kurt Mobius on the guilt of the Jews and his own lack of blame
Interrogation of Adolf Eichmann
Gauleiter greaser to Himmler, 19 March 1943
The Wannsee conference decisions implemented
SS-Untersturmfuhrer Josef Overhauser on the early days at Belzec
Erich Fuchs on his duties at Sobibor
The train journey to Belzec
The camp had clean sanitary facilities
The first day at Treblinka
It was my job to shoot these people
Kurt Franz on the end of Treblinka
Food in the officers mess excellent
I only took part in the murder of some three million people out of consideration of my family
Grabner ordered me to put Zyklon B into the opening
There was Bulgarian red wine and Croatian plum brandy
The highest number of gassings in a day was 10,000
So that in the future it would be impossible to establish how many people had been burnt.
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9780029174258
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