Path: hub.org!hub.org!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.corridex.com!hub1.ispnews.com!news12.ispnews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: mike@nospam.aimetering.com (Mike Curtis) Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Re: Hoess and Extermination Message-ID: <36dc41f5.82764154@news.sig.net> References: <36dc12a8.70652423@news.sig.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 116 NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.241.47.57 X-Trace: news12.ispnews.com 920404708 205.241.47.57 (Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:58:28 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:58:28 EDT Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:56:40 GMT Xref: hub.org alt.revisionism:383067 In light of what Hoess said about selections and about Doctors looking at people as they marched by we have the following from a Doctor Major Winwood (defense) examines Fritz Klein(page 183): Fritz Klein, . . . , I was born on 24th November, 1888, at Zeiden near Kronstadt in Rumania. I am a Rumanian subject of German nationality. I qualified as a doctor in Budapest . . . . Q: Where did you go in December, 1943? A: I went to Auscwitz where Hoess was at that time Kommandant. Dr. Wirtz was a senior doctor and told me where I had to work. I started my duties in the women's compound in Auschwitz, continued in the gipsy camp, then in the Jewish mixed family camp and finally in Auschwitz I. There were seven or eight doctors in Auschwitz. Q: Will you tell us what happened on selections? A: Dr. Wirtz, when the first transport arrived, gave orders to divide it into two parts, those who were fit to work and those who were not fit, that is those who, because of their age, could not work, who were weak, whose health was not very good, and also children up to the age of fifteen. One looked at the person and, if she looked ill. asked a few questions, but if the person was healthy then it was decided immediately. Q: What happened to those people who were selected as capable of work? A: The doctor had only to make the decision. What happened to them afterwards was nothing to do with him. Q: What happened to those people whom the doctors selected as unfit for work? A: The doctor had to make a selection but ad no influence on what was going to happen. I have heard, and I know, that part of them were sent to the gas chambers and the crematorium. [ . . . ] Q: Was your work completed when you had divided the transports into fit for work or unfit? A: Yes. Q: Did you ever go down to the gas chamber yourself? A: Yes, once, when it was not working. I had no duties to perform there. Q: What was your personal opinion about this gas chamber business? A: I did not approve, but I did not protest because that was no use at all. [ . . . ] Cross-examined by Colonel Backhouse (page 186): Q: Dr. Klein, you are an educated man and were educated at a non-German university. When you went to Auschwitz and found these transports of people being taken to the gas chambers and being killed, did you not realize that that was murder? A: Yes. Q: Is it not true that those who were not fit for work were simply destroyed? A: Yes. Q: Those who were fit to work were beaten to their work, starved and overcrowded until their turn came to go to the gas chamber; is that not true? A: I have not seen it happen, but if it did happen it was not right. Q: Whilst you have been at concentration camps you have seen many people beaten by the S.S.? A: No, I have not seen that myself. I have received people into the hospital who had been beaten by the S.S., but the majority were beaten by Kapos and other inmates. I made a report to the Lagerfuehrer with the names of those who had given beatings. I cannot say I reported every beating. [ . . . ] Q: Have you seen S.S. women on these parades? A: Yes. Q: You, as a doctor, divided those who were healthy from those who were to die, and S.S. marched them off? A: Yes. Q: Did none of them ever try to escape? A: Sometimes. [ . . . ] Q: When the Hungarian transports arrived was the gas chamber working day and night then? A: It might have been. Q: Were they not sent to the gas chamber? A: I do not know exactly, but I believe so. Mike Curtis
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