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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: "Roast hare for lunch...."
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.120106.14495@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 12:01:06 GMT
- Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca
- Followup-To: alt.revisionism
- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: Kremer,Auschwitz
- Lines: 119
-
- "From the diary of SS-Doctor Johannes Paul Kremer, entries made while
- assigned to Auschwitz:
-
- 29 August 1942
-
- Received orders to report to Auschwitz concentration camp, which
- reportedly is one doctor short due to illness.
-
- 31 August 1942
-
- Tropical climate, 38 in the shade, dust and countless flies! Food in
- the officers' mess is excellent. This evening we had e.g. pickled
- duck's liver for 0.40 RM, plus stuffed tomatoes, tomato salad, etc.
- Water is contaminated, so we drink soda water which is provided free
- of charge (Mattoni). First inoculation against typhus fever.
- Photographs for camp pass.
-
- 1 September 1942
-
- Wrote off to Berlin for officers' cap, belt, braces. In afternoon
- attended block gassing with Zyklon B against lice.
-
- 2 September 1942
-
- 3.00 a.m. attended my first Sonderaktion. Dante's Inferno seems to me
- almost a comedy compared to this. They don't call Auschwitz the
- extermination camp for nothing!
-
- 5 September 1942
-
- In the morning attended a Sonderaktion from the women's concentration
- camp (Muslims); the most dreadful of horrors. Hschf. Thilo -- army
- doctor -- was right when he said to me this is the 'anus mundi'. In
- the evening towards 8.00 attended another Sonderaktion from
- Holland...[comments about evening's rations.]
-
- 3 October 1942
-
- Today fixed fresh living material from human liver and spleen as well
- as pancreas...In Auschwitz whole streets have gone down with typhus...
-
- [See Note 1]
-
- 10 October 1942
-
- Extracted and fixed fresh live material from liver, spleen and
- pancreas...
-
- 11 October 1942
-
- Today, Sunday, there was roast hare for lunch -- a rea fat leg -- with
- dumplings and red cabbage for 1.25 RM.
-
- 24 October 1942
-
- Six women from the Budyer revolt killed by injection.
-
- 13 November 1942
-
- Extracted fresh live material (liver, spleen and pancreas) from a
- previously photographed, severely atrophied Jewish prisoner aged
- eighteen. Fixed as always, liver and spleen in Carnoy and pancreas in
- Zenker (Prisoner No. 68,030).
-
- Note 1
-
- In my diary I mention in several places extracting fresh living human
- material in order to conduct experiments on it. This happened in the
- following way: For a long time I had been interested in changes in the
- human organism as a result of hunger. In Auschwitz I taked this over
- with Wirths, who told me that I could extract fresh living material for
- these investigations from those prisoners who had been killed by
- injections of phenol. In order to select subjects I went into the last
- block on the right-hand side (block 28), where the prisoners who
- reported sick were examined. During the course of these examinations
- the prison doctors presented patients to the SS doctor and described
- the illness the prisoner in question was suffering from. The SS doctor
- then decided what the prospects were for this patient to recover,
- whether he was already unfit for work, whether he should be sent to
- the sick-bay or treated as an out-patient or else whether he should be
- liquidated. People the SS doctor designated for the latter category
- were taken away by the SS personnel on duty...I observed the prisoners
- in this group carefully and whenever one of them particularly
- interested me because of his advanced stage of starvation I ordered
- the medical orderly to reserve him and to inform me when this patient
- would be killed by injection.
-
- At the appointed time the patients I had selected were led into the
- same end block and taken to the room on the other side of the
- corridor, opposite the room where they had originally been examined
- and selected. The patient was laid down still alive on the dissection
- table. I would go up to the table and ask the patient to give me some
- details essential for my research. For example, for his weight before
- his detention, how much weight he had lost since his detention,
- whether he had taken any medication recently, etc. After I had been
- given this information a medical orderly would come and kill the
- patient with an injection in the heart area. To my knowledge all these
- patients were killed with phenol injections. The patient died
- immediately after being given such an injection. I myself never
- administered fatal injections.
-
- Dr Kremer at a hearing on 30 July 1947 in Cracow"
-
- Excerpted from:--------------------------------------------------------
- "`The Good Old Days' -- The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and
- Bystanders", Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, and Volker Riess, editors.
- Forward by Hugh Trevor-Roper. The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan,
- Inc, 1988, ISBN 0-02-917425-2
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- A recent copy of our Almanac Holocaust files may be obtained via anonymous
- ftp from menora.weizmann.ac.il, as /pub/texts/oneb-txt.tar.Z - If you do not
- have ftp access, I'd be happy to send the collection to you as uuencoded
- email. Please specify *.ZIP or compressed tar format. knm.
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