Archive/File: camps/auschwitz fejkiel.001 Testimony of Professor Fejkiel from Cracow (Poland) who was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in Auschwitz between October 1940 and January 1945 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The witness reports that the experiments to kill prisoners with injections were begun in 1942. "First they tried benzine, but that turned out to be impractical. I know of a case where death did not occur for forty-five minutes. They looked for a quicker method. The second medium was hydrogen; then came phenolic acid". First it was administered intravenously, then directly into the heart: "I assume that the intravenous method took too long". "Do you know who killed, where the murders took place, and how many people were the victims of such injections?" "I will begin with the number killed: I assume that about 30,000 people were killed in this fashion". First came infirm Jews, then other hospital patients, then people not hospitalized, including prisoners "which the Gestapo sent in a round- about way". "Who did the killing?" "At first Dr. Entress himself, then Klehr, and then - in this order - Scherpe and Hantl. Hantl did it rarely. We thought of Hantl as a decent man and were surprised that he did it". (Nauman, Bernd. Auschwitz: the Proceedings Against Mulka and Others. 153-4)
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