From mvanalst@rbi.com Mon Oct 28 07:29:01 PST 1996 Article: 77465 of alt.revisionism Path: nizkor.almanac.bc.ca!news.island.net!vertex.tor.hookup.net!noc.van.hookup.net!nic.mtl.hookup.net!rcogate.rco.qc.ca!uunet!in2.uu.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!rbi147.rbi.com!user From: mvanalst@rbi.com (Mark Van Alstine) Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Himmler's second inspection Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:13:33 -0800 Organization: rbi software systems Lines: 40 Message-ID:NNTP-Posting-Host: rbi147.rbi.com X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.5b5 Source: "Auschwitz Chronicle, 1939-1945 / Danuta Czech. - 1st American ed. (ISBN 0-8050-0938-8); pp. 198-199. (Ref: Ho"ss, _Commandant in Auschwitz_, pp. 233-236.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 17 [1942] SS Commander in Chief Himmler carries out a second inspection in Auschwitz. The Gauleiter of Upper Silisia, Bracht, SS General Schmauser, and SS Lieutenant General Kammler also take part. On the first day, Ho"ss explains the arrangement and position of the camps using maps. In the Construction Administration , Kammler explains the projects either planned or under construction with the help of maps, blueprints, and models. Finally, Himmler and his escort tour the whole Interest Zone: the farms and soil improvement projects, the dam construction, the laboratories, and the plant breeding in Rajskom the cattle breeding and nursery. Inspecting Birkenau, Himmler observes the prisoners at work, tours accommodations, kitchens, and infirmeries and sees the emanciated victims of the epidemic. After touring Birkenau, he takes part in the killing of one of the newly entered transports of Jews. He attends the unloading, the selection of the able-bodied, the killing by gas in Bunker 2, and the clearing of the bunker. At this time, the corpses are not yet being burned are piled up in pits and buried. Then Himmler tours the Buna plant and the installation of a sewage gas plant. In the evening there is a reception for the guests and all SS officers of the Auschwitz garrison. After the reception, Himmler goes with Ho"ss, Schmauser, Kammler and the Director of Agriculture Caesar to a reception at the home og Gauleiter Bracht in Kattowitz, to which, at Himmler's request, Mrs. Ho"ss also comes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties--but right through every human heart--and all human hearts." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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