From mvanalst@rbi.com Sat Jan 20 10:58:07 PST 1996 Article: 20702 of alt.revisionism Path: nizkor.almanac.bc.ca!news.island.net!news.bctel.net!imci2!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!wizard.pn.com!news.zeitgeist.net!rbi105.rbi.com!user From: mvanalst@rbi.com (Mark Van Alstine) Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Re: Himmler's second inspection of Auschwitz Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 18:24:12 -0700 Organization: rbi software systems Lines: 42 Message-ID:References: NNTP-Posting-Host: rbi105.rbi.com X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.5b5 In article , mvanalst@rbi.com (Mark Van Alstine) wrote: Source: "Auschwitz Chronicle, 1939-1945 / Danuta Czech. - 1st American ed. (ISBN 0-8050-0938-8); p.199. (Ref: Ibid., pp.237-238; APMO, Ho"ss Trial, vol. 6, p.85; Julia Skowdowa, _Tri roky bez mena_ (Three Years Without a Name), Bratislava, 1962, p.35. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 18 [1942] With Schmauser, Himmler visits thr kitchens, the women's camp (which then includes Blocks 1-10), the workshops, the stables, the personal effcects camp (so-called Canada), and the DAW plant as well as the butcher shop and the bakery. He sees the prisoners and makes precise inquiries about each prisoner catagory and the current occupancy level. In the women's camp he is shown the effect of a whipping. Himmler must personally approve the flogging of women. He is also present at the role call. There, SS HEad Supervisor Langefeldt applies for the release of a few German female prisoners who have been imprisoned for a long time in the concentration camp. Himmler consents to the release.* After the tour, a final discussion takes place in Ho"ss's office. In Schmauser's presence, Himmler says the Sipo operations he has ordered must not be stopped for any reason, least of all because the lack of accomodations and so forth which was presented to him. He orders Ho"ss to proceed faster with the construction of the Birkenau camp, to kill the Jewish prisoners who are unfit for work, to prepare for the building of the armaments plants, and to pursue the agricultural experiments intensively. In recognition for his work and performance, Ho"ss is promoted to SS Lieutenant Colonel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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