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| This report was shown to Professor Charles W Sydnor of
Hampton-Sydney College, Virginia (United States) in 1976 by a person
from Richmond (Virginia) who had discovered it after the second
world war. This man, apparently Eric M Lippmann according to the
signature, was at the time employed by the US Army on collecting
documents and seeking anything that might be used as evidence in the
Nuremberg trials. He seems to remember finding carbon copy of the
original report among a set of documents in a place he cannot recall
exactly, somewhere in Bavaria. The original was not there. Having
immediately realized the value of this report, which described the
whole process of exterminating the Jews in Auschwitz, he made a
typed copy for himself, as he had to hand the carbon over to the
American Prosecutor at Nuremberg He certified in longhand that he
had made a true copy, and signed it “Eric M Lipmann”. The two sheets
that he typed are now preserved in the Tauber Estate of Brandeis
University with other documents from the Third Reich. |
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[The author would like to stress that in 1945 47 it
was not so easy to reproduce documents as is today. Finding the
original of a document, whose content is perfectly well known,
requires long and laborious research with frequently uncertain
results. Political interference can lead to utter confusion in
this type of investigation, as has been shown by the recent case
of a highly-placed person in placed person in Austria.]
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| THE FRANCKE-GRIKSCH
REPORT |
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[Photocopy of the typed
copy of the carbon copy in SS Major Francke-Griksch’s career file,
kindly transmitted to Serge Klarsfeld
by Charles W
Sydnor, Jr.] |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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