Hitler on His Plans for the Jews
'Once I really am in power, my first
and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have the
power to do so, I will have gallows built in rows - at the Marienplatz in
Munich, for example - as many as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged
indiscriminately, and they will remain hanging until they stink; they will hang
there as long as the principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been
untied, the next batch will be strung up, and so on down the line, until the
last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit,
precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely cleansed of
Jews.'
1) Josef Hell, "Aufzeichnung," 1922, ZS 640, p. 5, Institut für
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Himmler's Account
October 1943:to SS group leaders,
"...It is one of those things which is easy to say. 'The Jewish race is to be exterminated,' says every party member. 'That's clear, it's part of our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, right, we'll do it.' And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew. Of all those who talk like this, not one has watched, not one has stood up to it. Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet - apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness - to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard."
From “the History Place”
From Hoess
March 16, 1946, Hoss made the following statement: "I personally arranged on orders received from Himmler in May 1941 the gassing of two million persons between June and July 1941 and 1943."
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"I remember clearly the first time he guided me around the
camp. He showed me everything, and at the end he took me to a grave where the
corpses of the gassed Jews lay piled on a strong iron grill. Hoess's men poured
some inflammable liquid over them and set them on fire. The flesh stewed like
stew meat. The sight made such an impression on me that today, after a dozen
years, I can still see that mountain of corpses in front of me.
Hoess may have seen disgust in my face, but I spoke to him sternly: "When I see
your corpses, I think of those charred German bodies in the air-raid shelters in
Berlin. From About.Com: Einsatzgruppen
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into a filth indescribable, accompanied by a horrible dead-rot stench. There in
beds of crude wood I saw men too weak to move dead comrades from their side. One
hunched-down French boy was huddled up against a dead comrade, as if to keep warm,
having no concept that the friend had been dead two or three days and unable to
move his own limbs. There were others, in dark cellar rooms, lying in disease and
filth, being eaten away by diarrhea and malnutrition. It was like stepping into
the Dark Ages to walk into one of these cellar-cells and seek out the living; like
walking into a world apart and returning to bring these shadow-men into the environment
of a clean American ambulance. In one bomb crater lay about twenty bodies. We pulled
three or four feebly struggling living ones from the bottom of the pile; they had been
struggling for five or six days to get out but the weight of the other bodies piled
on them had been too much for their starved, emaciated frames. We saw those on a
bank who had been cut down by machine guns in trying to escape the fury of the
guards. I saw one man feebly stagger to attention and salute us as tears slowly
trickled down his cheeks. Too weak to walk, this man was genuinely moved to pay
tribute to those who were helping him - showing him the first kind act in years.
A few men were able to walk on their swollen, bulging feet; they had no shoes
and they were unbelievably dirty. There were lash marks on many of their scantily
covered backs - definite proof of beatings and floggings by their inhuman guards.
One Parisian business told me he had been kicked and beaten repeatedly. He was
comparatively healthy, as he had been in camp only three months. He told me that
many of the 3,000 dead in the camp had been worked, beaten and forced at top speed
until they could work on longer, after which they were starved off or killed outright."
..."Bob Dodge still has nightmares about what he saw while making deliveries for his supply sergeant during the war.
"At first we saw dead horses, and we got sick and were vomiting from the stink," the 80-year-old Birnamwood man said. "As we drove on we saw a whole bunch -- maybe 45 or 50 people -- in the ditch alongside the road. The Nazis must have been marching them somewhere. It looked like each one had a bullet hole in their head. There was gasoline on them, and they had been lit on fire."
Dodge, who was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in the 99th Chemical Mortar Battalion, was overseas for six months
and said he still wakes up "with all these dreams." While he was never injured, witnessing the war was
"sickening to (his) brain."