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| Volume |
I |
| Subdivision |
The Case Against the Nazi Secret Police, Security and Intelligence System and Ernst Kaltenbrunner |
| Part |
Not applicable |
| Section |
Not applicable |
| Title |
"Persecution and Murder of Jews" (.PDF) / Witnesses available through X-2 Branch, OSS |
| Pages |
5 |
| Pages Supplemental |
Unpaginated, including title page |
| Date |
This document is not dated. |
| Language |
English |
| Author |
Dr. Kastner; Herbert Katski |
| Witness |
Dr. Kastner; Herbert Katski |
| Other Names |
Aichmann [sic: Eichmann]; Hitler; The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; Muller; Heinrich Himmler; Plobl; Krumey; Wisliczeny; Hunsche; Novak; Donegger; Seidl; Schmiedseifen; Schmidt; Gunther; Brunner; Hoess; Kaltenbrunner; Lorenz; Takacs |
| Other Dates |
1933-1940; 1941-1944; 19 April 1945; 22 May 1945 |
| Abstract |
Following a one-paragraph introductory "Note," an unnamed author quotes at length from a report by Dr. Kastner, which describes the Nazi's persecution and murder of European Jews. Kastner reports, "The number of Jews destroyed by the Germans ranges between 6 and 7 millions" (p.1). Kastner's report summarizes the escalating technology of murder, beginning with mass shootings and ending with gas chambers. Although the order to annihilate the Jews came from Hitler, Kastner names Eichmann as the prime implementer; it was on Eichmann's orders that all manner of executions occurred. In corroboration, the unnamed author quotes, again at length, from a report by Herbert Katski. The Katski report names the same Nazi officers as being chiefly responsible for carrying out the genocide, and provides brief summaries of their complicity. Again, Eichmann is named as the prime instigator who ordered the creation of the annihilation camps and instructed the officers who ran them. This document is a typewritten carbon copy of good quality on slightly browning, fragile paper. |
| Keywords |
Zionist Organization of Hungary; War Refugee Board; RSHA; SS; Gestapo; Gheottos; "Ghettoizing"; Deportations; Mass executions; Extermination program; Pogroms; Gas chambers; Tremblinki; Majdanek; Auschwitz; Belsen; Buchenwald; Death's Head Brigade; Waffen SS; Crimes against humanity; War crimes; Atrocities |