Auschwitz place
also: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Osseous, Oswich, Ottswitz
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Nazi Party carried_out_attack
Auschwitz documented
“Within 10 days, they had deported 116,000 people to Auschwitz, many of them family and children. They shipped 250,000 more people to extermination camps before the end of June. The Nazis gassed as many of these people as they could and put …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 40:53
France carried_out_attack
Auschwitz book_quoted
“The Nazi occupation governments in France, Belgium, Holland, Slovakia, and Greece soon issued similar decrees. They hit the so-called stateless or refugee. Most of these people were deported to Auschwitz. In mid-July, French collaborations …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 15:45
IG Farben funded
Auschwitz book_quoted
“Anti-Nazi outsiders, such as these two, were fully aware of what was going on is illustrative of how commonplace the knowledge was. But it does establish that such information was readily available. IG Farben appears to have been the first …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 24:54
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the listening post for Europe, should have forced action, but it didn't. On July 17th, 1942, Heinrich Himmler had a luxurious private train equipped with a dining room shower pull into Auschwitz. They, let's see, the chief executive of a mi…
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Schultz was still unaware of why he was visiting Auschwitz. Himmler was there to witness what was referred to as Bunker 2. That afternoon, Himmler had watched a group of prisoners being transported from Holland and marched into Bunker 2 and…
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An IG Farben official by the name of Ernst Struss was returning home on a train after inspecting the company's factory near Auschwitz. A German worker was also riding on that train talking loudly about the nightmare at the camp because basi…
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why did Dulles choose not to emphasize or even report on what was going on to Washington? Whatever his reason, one historian said, his reluctance on this subject is among the most controversial and least understood aspect of his time in Ber…
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Rudy and Fred emerged from the pyramid of wood and began crawling under the moonless sky across a muddy field. The two friends were determined to return home and save as many people as they could. At one point, they were chased up a mountai…
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After being put in touch with Oscar Newman, the chairman of the local Jewish council, they began telling the horrific tale of Auschwitz. While the fundamental facts about the death camps were widely known by then, Rudy and Fred's report, wh…
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in Geneva and a group of students he recruited to make 50 copies of the report. The eyewitness account of life and death inside Auschwitz finally broke into the Swiss press and was then picked up by the New York Times and the BBC. In the up…
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Morris Gowan was denounced as a Jew and put on a train for Auschwitz. When the Germans realized he was an American, he was taken off the train in Northern Italy and put in an SS camp where the 77-year-old man died in July of 1944. Of what h…
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Their purpose was to gather evidence for the Nuremberg trials, or so they thought. Information and confessions from IG Farben scientists and directors would help hang certain Nazis, and maybe even some of the personnel at Farben. One of the…
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that were Nazis, was to experiment on humans. To determine how the chemical mixtures affected soldiers, hundreds of volunteers who had no idea of what they were volunteering for were selected and sworn to secrecy. Though the captured German…
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used forced labor, just like Japan did, of the American POWs and Dutch POWs and everybody else. And they worked them literally to death. According to records brought to light, Dulles also protected Carl Wolff, the highest ranking SS officer…
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Within 10 days, they had deported 116,000 people to Auschwitz, many of them family and children. They shipped 250,000 more people to extermination camps before the end of June. The Nazis gassed as many of these people as they could and put …
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the first true death camp to fall into Allied hands, more or less intact. Nazis had gassed to death more than a million people at this location, murdering an average of well over 15,000 people a week, half of whom were children. This was on…
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On the legal front, Morgenthau strongly backed Pell's insistence that Nazis must be punished for crimes against Axis civilians and that tough immediate action be taken immediately to rescue Hungarian Jews that were on their way to Auschwitz…
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Quote, by 1944, he must have seen reports of the exterminations, but they apparently did not penetrate his consciousness any more than they did for most of the others in Washington. Ingrained doubts about atrocity stories and inability to g…
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Russia's going to come across and kill all of you, we'll help you. Though Dulles was later to deny it, he extended a de facto protection to Karl Wolf and at least two of his assistants, Eugene Dahlman and Eugene Winner, both of whom were la…
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and had not met for the first time. Himmler had decreed in the fall of 1942 that all Jewish people in concentration camps within Germany's border were to be driven out, resulting in mass deportations to concentration camps at places like Au…
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if not hundreds of thousands of people during this time. The murder program accelerated in the spring of 1943. German troops entered Warsaw Ghetto and killed thousands of people via street fighting. In the south, the Nazis began deporting G…
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The Nazi occupation governments in France, Belgium, Holland, Slovakia, and Greece soon issued similar decrees. They hit the so-called stateless or refugee. Most of these people were deported to Auschwitz. In mid-July, French collaborations …
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Jewish people in Paris and deported 9,000 of them, including 4,000 children, to a camp at Drancy, from which they were then forwarded to Auschwitz. Vichy France then began rounding up French Jewish people and deported at least 7,000 of them…
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involving IG Farben, Ernst Struss, S-T-R-U-S-S, was returning by train after a short visit to the factory. Struss overheard a German worker remarking in a loud voice that the Auschwitz large number of people were being burnt, that the crema…
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D-E-I-C-H-M-A-N-N, a junior executive of IG Farben during the early 1940s, reported similar experiences. In March 1942, Diekmann's work as a manager at an Italian contract labor facility took him to IG Farben's plant at Ottswitz, where many…
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Even at the early date, Deachman said, quote, no one could have approached the IG Farben works without becoming horribly, fearfully aware of what was happening nearby, unquote. The smell of burning flesh hung in the air. The work columns fr…
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He later said that he went to Auschwitz 10 times between March 1942 and 44 and each time for a day. And everyone I met spoke of nothing but the camp. He also said, quote, my Italians, who in theory couldn't understand the people around them…
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George von Schnitzler and Fritz Dermier assumed that the other people present at the lunch knew that Hitler's largest camp for enemies of the regime was at Auschwitz, and they preferred to it as the only sure source of manpower, unquote. Th…
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Probable necessity of occasionally, but suddenly having to replace carefully. Suddenly, but oh my gosh. Having to retrace, retrain personnel before the task was completed. Although this was over a year before the implementation of the plan …
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B-R-A-B-A-G, Energy Syndicate. In the middle of the war, Germany had become dependent on forced labor in almost every important sector of its economy. Some 20% of the entire workforce in Germany was made up of forced labor. Almost 40% of IG…
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These labor camps were usually separated from the extermination centers. The sprawling complex at Auschwitz, however, combined slave labor and mass extermination programs and the inmate population there was at times larger than a small city…
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industrial exploitation, the important element in the SS cover story for the mass murders that became Auschwitz, the relatively visible forced labor inmates provided some of the answers, however, unsatisfactory to the nagging questions conc…
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present Auschwitz and other concentration camps as security measures created in a response to Allied initiatives. Later in the war, however, the reverse idea seemed to have taken hold among the German public, much to Goebbels' distress. Beg…