deal with the millions of victims Endlosung required? Large huts were then used, which allowed for more victims to be murdered; but still the use of carbon monoxide gas was deemed too time-consuming.
Dissatisfied, Eichmann was then introduced to Zyklon B gas, in crystal form. These crystals were supplied by the corporation Tesch and Stabenow ( see Bruno Tesch ), a market leader in pest-control chemicals, which in 1943 made a gross profit of 128,000 marks for the supply of Zyklon B.
An underground bunker with several hundred Jews was used for the initial test; by the following day, nearly all the people inside were dead. Eichmann was delighted with such results, and construction of the concentration camp gas chambers began in earnest.
By the summer of 1944, during the Hungarian ‘action’, the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz were dealing with 9,000 victims per day . Eichmann received such figures, sent from a stuttering teleprinter at the sprawling concentration camp direct to his desk. He also watched the gassings of men, women and children through ‘peepholes’, afterwards discussing what he had observed with fellow ‘audience members’ such as Heinrich Himmler over cigarettes and drinks.
While some prominent members of the Nazi Party – including Himmler – privately admitted that Endlosung was ‘something of a hard job’, Eichmann was entirely uncaring. He was an absolutely efficient keeper of the daily statistics of death, and scrupulously arranged for the collection of clothes, hair, gold teeth and valuables taken from the victims before and after they had been gassed.
His undeniable sadism and bloodlust seemed almost to correlate with his raging libido, which he satisfied with wild sexual escapades in such cities as Paris.
He declared to an aide in 1944 –
‘ …I shall leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have the death of five million people on my conscience will be for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction… ’
Asked if he would collect skull-specimens of Russo-Jewish victims, by the Professor of Anatomy at Strasburg University, Eichmann willingly obliged, puffed with importance at having been tasked with this perceived ‘scientific duty’.
As it became obvious that Germany was losing the Second World War, Eichmann only urged that the extermination of the Jewry be completed:
‘…If Germany collapses we can at least say that we have achieved something. We will have completely wiped out the European Jewry…’
Following Germany’s defeat, he disguised himself as a laborer and so managed to escape detection. Obtaining a stateless person’s papers in Rome, he returned to Germany and there went into hiding.
But with a determined group of Jewish partisans on his trail by 1950, he was forced to flee to Buenos Aires with his wife and family. There, under the name of ‘Kurt Steinberg’ (one of a number of aliases he adopted – also ‘Otto Eckmann’ and ‘Otto Heninger’), he obtained employment with a firm whose other staff members also happened to be comprised mainly of former Nazis and SS men.
Still, the search for Eichmann continued, until finally in 1959 he was kidnapped by Israeli Mossad agents and flown to Israel to await trial.
Found guilty of war crimes, he was hanged May 31, 1962.
Goebbels, Joseph
‘… If you tell a lie, make it a big one… ’
The son of a Catholic bookkeeper, Goebbels was born Oct 29, 1897. A slightly deformed right leg, the result of contracting polio as a child, made him walk with a limp. Goebbels would later claim that this limp arose from a wound received in the First World War, although he was in fact rejected for military service.
Goebbels had a string of affairs through his life, although his intention to marry one woman, Else Janke, was conclusively ended when Janke confessed to him that she was half-Jewish. Goebbels – already virulently anti-Semitic – promptly ended the relationship.
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Dissatisfied, Eichmann was then introduced to Zyklon B gas, in crystal form. These crystals were supplied by the corporation Tesch and Stabenow ( see Bruno Tesch ), a market leader in pest-control chemicals, which in 1943 made a gross profit of 128,000 marks for the supply of Zyklon B.
An underground bunker with several hundred Jews was used for the initial test; by the following day, nearly all the people inside were dead. Eichmann was delighted with such results, and construction of the concentration camp gas chambers began in earnest.
By the summer of 1944, during the Hungarian ‘action’, the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz were dealing with 9,000 victims per day . Eichmann received such figures, sent from a stuttering teleprinter at the sprawling concentration camp direct to his desk. He also watched the gassings of men, women and children through ‘peepholes’, afterwards discussing what he had observed with fellow ‘audience members’ such as Heinrich Himmler over cigarettes and drinks.
While some prominent members of the Nazi Party – including Himmler – privately admitted that Endlosung was ‘something of a hard job’, Eichmann was entirely uncaring. He was an absolutely efficient keeper of the daily statistics of death, and scrupulously arranged for the collection of clothes, hair, gold teeth and valuables taken from the victims before and after they had been gassed.
His undeniable sadism and bloodlust seemed almost to correlate with his raging libido, which he satisfied with wild sexual escapades in such cities as Paris.
He declared to an aide in 1944 –
‘ …I shall leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have the death of five million people on my conscience will be for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction… ’
Asked if he would collect skull-specimens of Russo-Jewish victims, by the Professor of Anatomy at Strasburg University, Eichmann willingly obliged, puffed with importance at having been tasked with this perceived ‘scientific duty’.
As it became obvious that Germany was losing the Second World War, Eichmann only urged that the extermination of the Jewry be completed:
‘…If Germany collapses we can at least say that we have achieved something. We will have completely wiped out the European Jewry…’
Following Germany’s defeat, he disguised himself as a laborer and so managed to escape detection. Obtaining a stateless person’s papers in Rome, he returned to Germany and there went into hiding.
But with a determined group of Jewish partisans on his trail by 1950, he was forced to flee to Buenos Aires with his wife and family. There, under the name of ‘Kurt Steinberg’ (one of a number of aliases he adopted – also ‘Otto Eckmann’ and ‘Otto Heninger’), he obtained employment with a firm whose other staff members also happened to be comprised mainly of former Nazis and SS men.
Still, the search for Eichmann continued, until finally in 1959 he was kidnapped by Israeli Mossad agents and flown to Israel to await trial.
Found guilty of war crimes, he was hanged May 31, 1962.
Goebbels, Joseph
‘… If you tell a lie, make it a big one… ’
The son of a Catholic bookkeeper, Goebbels was born Oct 29, 1897. A slightly deformed right leg, the result of contracting polio as a child, made him walk with a limp. Goebbels would later claim that this limp arose from a wound received in the First World War, although he was in fact rejected for military service.
Goebbels had a string of affairs through his life, although his intention to marry one woman, Else Janke, was conclusively ended when Janke confessed to him that she was half-Jewish. Goebbels – already virulently anti-Semitic – promptly ended the relationship.
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