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The Auschwitz death toll (Fritjof Meyer pers)

Näheres über Fritjof Meyer Fritjof Meyer ist seit 36 Jahren beim SPIEGEL - siehe SPIEGEL-Hausmitteilung aus Heft 22/2002, Seite 3: Hausmitteilung 27. Mai 2002 In einer "schweren Stunde meines Lebens"...

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Challenging the Experts (BookExtract)

Documents on Auschwitz Robert van Pelt Eminent Dutch author of Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present (Yale University Press) Robert Jan van Pelt, Professor of Cultural History, School of Architecture,...

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Challenging the Experts (Focus)

Documents on Auschwitz Robert van Pelt eminent Dutch author of Auschwitz from 1270 to the Present (Yale University Press) Robert Jan van Pelt , Professor of Cultural History, School of…

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Challenging the Experts (on LS Bunker)

Documents on Auschwitz How accurate was Robert Van Pelt with his assessments? The Lipstadt Trial Testimony of Prof Robert Jan Van Pelt, High Court, London, Day 11 of trial, January…

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Auschwitz (Auerbach230395)

A Letter from the Institut für Zeitgeschichte's Dr Hellmuth Auerbach to a Canadian Inquirer, 1995 Institut für Zeitgeschichte München 23. 3. 1995 Au/Be. Herrn Thomas A.[Name and address withheld]...

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Auschwitz (Auschw040943)

Berlin complains to Auschwitz commandant Höss that of 25,000 Jews at Auschwitz in August 1943 only 3,581 are fit for work. [Translation below ] SS = Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt Oranienburg b....

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Auschwitz (Auschw050244)

Auschwitz commandant asks for 40,000 index cards per annum for camp's crematoria. [Translation below ] Konzentrationslager Auschwitz Auschwitz, den 5. Februar 1944 Kommandantur/Abt.II Az.: Betr.:...

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Auschwitz (Auschw080644a)

Released from Birkenau into the General Community... THIS PRISONER was held at Auschwitz II (Birkenau) for five weeks during the very period in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews,…

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Auschwitz (Auschw081042)

Chief of S.S. concentration camp system asks Heinrich Himmler if they can deposit dental gold from dead prisoners at central Reichsbank, as they already have 50 kilos.[Translation below ]...

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The Camp at Auschwitz (Auschw091244)

A puzzling Auschwitz document: In December 1944 the SS ordered all sick Jews in the concentration camps to be transferred to the nearest hospitals in medical emergencies. The original of…

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Auschwitz (Auschw140944b)

Wartime Interrogation Reports on Auschwitz Eye-Witnesses The Annexe: A Sketch Map of Auschwitz Annexe to CSDIC (UK) Report SIR.938, September 11, 1944 (ten inches wide) Annexed to the document was...

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The Holocaust (Auschw271142)

Documents on the "Holocaust" The complete text of a document in the Moscow archives 27. November 1942. Bftgb. 18907 /42/Wo/L. Vermerk. Betr: Entlüftungen für Krematorien. Am 27.11.42 telefonierte der...

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The Holocaust (Auschw290143a)

Documents on the "Holocaust" The complete text of a document in the Moscow archives [Briefkopf all crossed out in crayon:] Zentral=Bauleitung der Waffen-// und Polizei Auschwitz O.S. Auschwitz, den...

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Ausrottung of Jews (Hess140535)

Documents on Auschwitz The 1935 Meaning of the German Word Ausrottung As used by Rudolf Hess in a Stockholm speech See too: Himmler's use of the word, February 1944 .…

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Ausrottung of Jews (Himmler210244)

"... werden ausgerottet" From the records of the Reichsführer SS, National Archives microfilm T 175, roll 53, frame 7290. RF/M. 38/16/44g 21. Febr. 1944 RL Bormann / Feld-Kommandostelle. Wolfsschanze...

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