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Ursprungligen postat av Flu
Att massgasningar skedde i "bunkrarna" som Meyer skriver om vittnar SS-läkaren Johann Paul Kremer vid Auschwitz-rättegången i Krakow 1947:
"Dessa massmord ägde rum i små stugor i skogen utanför Birkenaulägret. Stugorna kallades 'bunkrar' på SS-slang. Alla SS-läkare i tjänst turades om att deltaga vid gasningarna, som kallades Sonderauktion (specialauktion)."
Kremer skrev även dagbok under sin tid i Auschwitz. Den 2 september 1942 skriver han:
"För första gången närvarande vid en specialauktion kl 3 på morgonen. I jämförelse är Dantes Inferno rena komedin. Det är med rätta Auschwitz kallas utrotningsläger!"
Källa: D.D. Guttenplan Förintelsen inför rätta s. 188
Intressanta detaljer om Kremer och de olika rättegångarna (inget om gasning nämns ju som sagt i hans krigstida dagbok):
http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/6...on133-181.html
"---I said that Professor Kremer, appearing before the tribunal in Münster (Westphalia) in 1960, had confirmed the confession that Communist examining magistrate Jan Sehn (of Jewish origin?) had obtained from him in 1947 and that at the Frankfurt Trial (1963-1965) he had been called as a prosecution witness against his compatriots. What I did not yet know in 1980 and what I learned later is the reason why the poor man, after ten years of prison in Poland (1947-1957) and after returning to his city of Münster, had gone before a German tribunal. I discovered the reason while reading, in its French version, the Anthologie d'Auschwitz (blue), Volume 1, Part 1, Warsaw, 1969, pp.239 to 261.The reason is that after his return to Münster in 1957, Kremer began to protest against the treatment that he had undergone at the hands of the Polish courts and (using here the words used by the Polish Communists themselves in the Anthologie)
[by his protests and by his request to regain his chair as a professor, Kremer attracted the attention] of certain circles and of certain persons who made him appear once more before the Courts (p.239).
Kremer, as a matter of fact, had complained that in Poland "only hatred was entitled to give its opinion" (p.240). Better than that, we learn, thanks to that Communist publication, that after his return to Münster Kremer retracted his confessions. In the pious Communist jargon:
[Kremer] disputed the explanations that he had furnished during the investigation in Cracow and which had been read to him [at the Münster tribunal] (p.242).
The most degrading fact for the judges of the Münster tribunal was the complacency with which they had heard the explanations furnished by Jan Sehn, who had come from Cracow. You must read the Communist account of that session. It ought to be quoted in its entirety. In Cracow in 1947, Kremer had not had any choice. It had been necessary for him to confess. The most astonishing thing is what Jan Sehn himself ended up saying before the German judges. As far as he was concerned, from the start Kremer did not have the right to plead not guilty. Jan Sehn said, with a marvelous lack of awareness of what he was saying:
A declaration of innocence would have been incompatible with what the accused had written [in his private diary] (p.246).---
His Polish and German tormentors profited from him to the very end. Kremer was used like a puppet. He came to the Frankfurt Trial to make a forced appearance there. According to his own words, he had experienced 'a dilemma that is not simple for human understanding." Listen to his final declaration at the Münster trial in 1960 and tell me whether that declaration is that of an abominable criminal who supposedly participated in horrible homicidal gassings or rather that of an unfortunate academic, a sort of inoffensive old fellow who found himself caught - like so many Germans in the past and even today - in a tragic situation where it is necessary to confess (or to make a pretense of confessing) vile crimes which, in reality, were never committed. Listen to Kremer and, through his voice, listen to the voice of so many Germans who have been humiliated, injured and executed:
If according to human criteria I have done something evil, I can only ask you to take into consideration my age and my tragic fate. I have no knowledge of any offense in the juridical and penal sense. I entrust to the Supreme Judge of everyone the task of resolving a dilemma that is not simple for human understanding (p.258).
Professor Kremer, in the final account, was less skillful and prudent than his fellow professor, Wilhelm Pfannenstiel, in the Gerstein case. Pfannenstiel, the father of five children, was able to save a good career for himself thanks to his extremely vague confessions.---"
http://www.ety.com/HRP/booksonline/graf/chap10.htm
"---A very convincing discussion of the Kremer case was provided by Robert Faurisson in his work Memoire en defense (14): The following is his discussion summarized in a few points:
- Auschwitz could easily have been called the "camp of annihilation" in late summer of 1942 even without gas chambers and mass murders, since typhus was claiming 300 victims a day at that time;
- no gassing can have been meant by "special action", since Kremer writes that it took place "outside". (Several Holocaust scribblers, for examples, Wellers, Klarsfeld and Poliakov, have revealingly deleted this word in their reproduction of the dairy entries.) The words "last bunker" cannot possibly have meant one of the two Birkenau farmhouses, otherwise Kremer woud have spoken of the "second" bunker, and not the "last" one;
- in reality, the special action could have consisted of cleaning dirty train carriages after the arrival of new inmates. Special rations were distributed for such unpleasant work;
- Kremer must have attended about 30 executions during his time at Auschwitz. The horrid scenes could have involved something of this nature.
- that Kremer confirmed the reported gassings before his Polish judges is easily explained: he wanted to save his life, and finally succeeded. If he had disputed the official version, he would inevitably have been hanged;
- even his testimony at the Auschwitz Trial was given on understandably opportunist grounds: at the age of eighty, he simply had no desire to spend the last years of his life behind bars, which is what would presumably have happened to him if he had disputed the gassings.
This is how the confessions came to be given. In any case, Kremer mentions gassings expressly in his diary at one point (entry of 1 September): "afternoon at the gassing of a block with Zkylon B against lice."---"