Message-Id: <199602220651.WAA19598@rbi.rbi.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 22:54:51 -0700 From: mvanalst@rbi.com (Mark Van Alstine) Subject: Fritsch's speech to prisoners from Tarno'w 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); p. 13. (Ref: Kielar, _Anus Mundi_, p.17. The text in this speech is also contained in APMO, Materialy Obozowego Rychu Oporu (Materials of the Camp Resistance Movement), vol. VII, p.464 (hereafter cited as Mat.RO). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 14 [1940] ...With blows, kicks, and shouts, the detainees from Tarno'w are driven into the cellar, where they undergo the admissions procedure. They are robbed of their personal belongings, shorn of their hair, taken to the baths for disinfection, registered, and marked with numbers. As soon as they get their clothes back they are taken to the courtyard, where they line up in rows of five for the first roll call. The First Camp Commander, SS Captain Karl Fritzch, greets them with the following speech translated into Polish by two inmates selected as interpreters: "You have not come to a sanatorium here but to a German concentration camp and the only way out is through the chimney of the crematorium. If there's anybody who doesn't like it, he can walk into the wire right away. If there are any Jews in a transport, they have no right to live longer than two weeks, priests for a month, and the rest for three months."
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