Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: "Roast hare for lunch...." Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Kremer,Auschwitz Archive/File: camps/auschwitz kremer.01 Last-Modified: 1994/05/05 "From the diary of SS-Doctor Johannes Paul Kremer, entries made while assigned to Auschwitz: 29 August 1942 Received orders to report to Auschwitz concentration camp, which reportedly is one doctor short due to illness. 31 August 1942 Tropical climate, 38 in the shade, dust and countless flies! Food in the officers' mess is excellent. This evening we had e.g. pickled duck's liver for 0.40 RM, plus stuffed tomatoes, tomato salad, etc. Water is contaminated, so we drink soda water which is provided free of charge (Mattoni). First inoculation against typhus fever. Photographs for camp pass. 1 September 1942 Wrote off to Berlin for officers' cap, belt, braces. In afternoon attended block gassing with Zyklon B against lice. 2 September 1942 3.00 a.m. attended my first Sonderaktion. Dante's Inferno seems to me almost a comedy compared to this. They don't call Auschwitz the extermination camp for nothing! 5 September 1942 In the morning attended a Sonderaktion from the women's concentration camp (Muslims); the most dreadful of horrors. Hschf. Thilo -- army doctor -- was right when he said to me this is the 'anus mundi'. In the evening towards 8.00 attended another Sonderaktion from Holland...[comments about evening's rations.] 3 October 1942 Today fixed fresh living material from human liver and spleen as well as pancreas...In Auschwitz whole streets have gone down with typhus... [See Note 1] 10 October 1942 Extracted and fixed fresh live material from liver, spleen and pancreas... 11 October 1942 Today, Sunday, there was roast hare for lunch -- a rea fat leg -- with dumplings and red cabbage for 1.25 RM. 24 October 1942 Six women from the Budyer revolt killed by injection. 13 November 1942 Extracted fresh live material (liver, spleen and pancreas) from a previously photographed, severely atrophied Jewish prisoner aged eighteen. Fixed as always, liver and spleen in Carnoy and pancreas in Zenker (Prisoner No. 68,030). Note 1 In my diary I mention in several places extracting fresh living human material in order to conduct experiments on it. This happened in the following way: For a long time I had been interested in changes in the human organism as a result of hunger. In Auschwitz I taked this over with Wirths, who told me that I could extract fresh living material for these investigations from those prisoners who had been killed by injections of phenol. In order to select subjects I went into the last block on the right-hand side (block 28), where the prisoners who reported sick were examined. During the course of these examinations the prison doctors presented patients to the SS doctor and described the illness the prisoner in question was suffering from. The SS doctor then decided what the prospects were for this patient to recover, whether he was already unfit for work, whether he should be sent to the sick-bay or treated as an out-patient or else whether he should be liquidated. People the SS doctor designated for the latter category were taken away by the SS personnel on duty...I observed the prisoners in this group carefully and whenever one of them particularly interested me because of his advanced stage of starvation I ordered the medical orderly to reserve him and to inform me when this patient would be killed by injection. At the appointed time the patients I had selected were led into the same end block and taken to the room on the other side of the corridor, opposite the room where they had originally been examined and selected. The patient was laid down still alive on the dissection table. I would go up to the table and ask the patient to give me some details essential for my research. For example, for his weight before his detention, how much weight he had lost since his detention, whether he had taken any medication recently, etc. After I had been given this information a medical orderly would come and kill the patient with an injection in the heart area. To my knowledge all these patients were killed with phenol injections. The patient died immediately after being given such an injection. I myself never administered fatal injections. Dr Kremer at a hearing on 30 July 1947 in Cracow" Excerpted from:-------------------------------------------------------- "`The Good Old Days' -- The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders", Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, and Volker Riess, editors. Forward by Hugh Trevor-Roper. The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc, 1988, ISBN 0-02-917425-2 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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