From rbi.com!mvanalst Fri Oct 25 18:17:25 1996 Return-Path:Received: by nizkor.almanac.bc.ca (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0vGxNN-000Jh1C; Fri, 25 Oct 96 18:17 PDT Received: from rbi.rbi.com by nizkor.almanac.bc.ca ; 25 OCT 96 18:17:11 PDT Received: from rbi147.rbi.com (rbi147.rbi.com [204.188.109.147]) by rbi.rbi.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id SAA01108 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:09:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199610260109.SAA01108@rbi.rbi.com> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:12:43 -0800 From: mvanalst@rbi.com (Mark Van Alstine) To: kmcvay@nizkor.almanac.bc.ca (Ken McVay OBC) Subject: First execution shooting in Auschwitz Organization: rbi software systems Newsgroups: alt.revisionism X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.5b5 Status: RO (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); pp. 35. (Ref: APMO D-AuI-1/5, 6, 8-9, 10-13, 50-56, The Execution of November 22, 1940) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 22 [1940] The first execution by shooting takes place in the camp. Those executed are the 40 Poles Himmler selected from the four lists presented by the local Stapo in retaliation for the alleged violence and assualt on police officials in Kattowitz. Himmler orders the execution to be carried out without the public's knowledge. The list of the condemmed is sent with instructions of the SS Commander in Chief* on November 1 in the form of an order through the Head of Sipo and SD in Berlin, Heydrich, to the Superior SS and Police Commander in Breslau, von dem Bach-Zelewski. The latter gives an additional order to the head of the Gestapo in Kattowitz, Senior State Councillor Dr. Emmanuel Scha:fer. Because of the order to carry out the execution in secret, the site of Auschwitz C.C. is selected. The condemmed are admitted to Auschwitz on November 22 at 11:45 AM from the Kripo headquarters in Kattowitz. The execution is performed at 12 0'clock; it takes 20 minutes and is directed by SS First Lieutenant Karl Fritzsch, the Camp Commander. SS Second Lieutenant Ta"ger is the commander of the execution squad, consisting of 20 SS Men from the Auschwitz Death's Head Guard Company. Two SS Men shot each of the condemned individually. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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