Message-Id: <199602220651.WAA19588@rbi.rbi.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 22:54:36 -0700 From: mvanalst@rbi.com (Mark Van Alstine) Subject: First execution shooting in Auschwitz Newsgroups: alt.revisionism (A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups: alt.revisionism) Source: "Auschwitz Chronicle, 1939-1945 / Danuta Czech. - 1st American ed. (ISBN 0-8050-0938-8); pp. 35. (Ref: APMO D-AuI-1/5, 6, 8-9, 10-13, 50-56, The Execution of November 22, 1940) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 22 [1940] The first execution by shooting takes place in the camp. Those executed are the 40 Poles Himmler selected from the four lists presented by the local Stapo in retaliation for the alleged violence and assualt on police officials in Kattowitz. Himmler orders the execution to be carried out without the public's knowledge. The list of the condemmed is sent with instructions of the SS Commander in Chief* on November 1 in the form of an order through the Head of Sipo and SD in Berlin, Heydrich, to the Superior SS and Police Commander in Breslau, von dem Bach-Zelewski. The latter gives an additional order to the head of the Gestapo in Kattowitz, Senior State Councillor Dr. Emmanuel Scha:fer. Because of the order to carry out the execution in secret, the site of Auschwitz C.C. is selected. The condemmed are admitted to Auschwitz on November 22 at 11:45 AM from the Kripo headquarters in Kattowitz. The execution is performed at 12 0'clock; it takes 20 minutes and is directed by SS First Lieutenant Karl Fritzsch, the Camp Commander. SS Second Lieutenant Ta"ger is the commander of the execution squad, consisting of 20 SS Men from the Auschwitz Death's Head Guard Company. Two SS Men shot each of the condemned individually.
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