"The Good old days": the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders

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.