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The Dachau Gas Chambers
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  1. Distel, Barbara and Jakusch, Ruth, Editors, Concentration Camp Dachau: 1933 - 1945, 1978, Comité International de Dachau, Brussels, Lipp GmbH (Munich) ISBN 3-87490528-4, p. 37.

  2. Reichsgesetzblatt Nr. 17, March 21, 1933.

  3. Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, 1947, United States Government Printing Office, Document Number 778-PS, Exhibit Number USA-247.

  4. Münchner Neueste Nachrichten, March 21, 1933 (clipping).

  5. Hanfstaengl, Ernst, Hitler: The Missing Years, 1957, Eyre & Spottiswoode (London), p. 53.

  6. Völkischer Beobachter, March 21, 1933 (clipping).

  7. Rost, Nico, Concentration Camp Dachau, third edition, translated into English by Captain Bernard R. Hanauer (no date) Comité International de Dachau, Brussels, p. 4.

  8. Distel, Barbara and Jakusch, Ruth, Editors, op. cit., pp. 212-213.

  9. Distel, Barbara and Jakusch, Ruth, Editors, op. cit., p. 73.

  10. Beimler, Hans, The Nazi Murder Camp of Dachau: Four Weeks in the Hands of Hitler's Hell-Hounds, Modern Books, Ltd. (London).

  11. Berben, Paul, Dachau 1933-45: The Official History, translated into English by Captain Bernard R. Hanauer, 1968, 1975, Comité International de Dachau, ISBN 0-85211-009, p. 200. (See also photograph of exhumation between pp. 192 and 193.)

  12. Neuhäusler, Dr. Johannes, Auxiliary Bishop of Munich, What was it like in the Concentration Camp at Dachau?, 14th Edition, (no date), Trustees for the Monument of Atonement in the Concentration Camp at Dachau, (München), (a) p. 4.

  13. Neuhäusler, Dr. Johannes, Auxiliary Bishop of Munich, op. cit. p. 30.

  14. Distel, Barbara and Jakusch, Ruth, Editors, op. cit., pp. 170 and 171.

  15. Distel, Barbara and Jakusch, Ruth, Editors, op. cit., p. 172.

  16. Berben, Paul, op. cit., pp. 8 and 176.

  17. Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Vol. 5, "The Pohl Case," Translation of Secret Documents NO-3863 and NO-3680, Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (Washington D.C.) pp. 615-616.

  18. Berben, Paul, op. cit., p. 7.

  19. Rost, Nico, op. cit. p. 28.

  20. Dwork, Debórah and van Pelt, Robert Jan, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present, 1996, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. (New York), ISBN 0-393-03933-1, p. 220.

  21. Dwork, Debórah and van Pelt, Robert Jan, op. cit. Page 222.

  22. Pressac, Jean Claude, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation (New York), p. 18.

  23. Neuhäusler, Dr. Johannes, Auxiliary Bishop of Munich, op. cit., p. 16.

  24. Berben, Paul, op. cit., pp. 8-9.

  25. Neuhäusler, Dr. Johannes, Auxiliary Bishop of Munich, op. cit., p. 15.

  26. Berben, Paul, op. cit., p. 240 (Appendix 19).

  27. Berben, Paul, op. cit., pp. 123-137.

  28. Bundesarchiv Koblenz.

  29. Best, Captain S. Payne, The Venlo Incident, 1950, Hutchison & Co., (Publishers), Ltd. (London), p. 186. [A curious note regarding Rascher's death appears on p. 203 of Nazi Mass Murder (Eugen Kogon et al., Eds., 1993): "Dr. Rascher and his wife (also condemned to death) had tried to pass off as biologically their own two children they had merely taken into their home. That this could be made an offense punishable by death is yet another incredible aspect of the Nazi regime."]

  30. Benz, Wolfgang, "Sigmund Rascher, M.D.: A Career," pp. 22/45 Dachau Review 2: History of Nazi Concentration Camps Studies, Volume 2, 1990, Edited by Wofgang Benz and Barbara Distel, Comité International de Dachau (Brussels), p. 45.

  31. Hess, P. Sales O.S.B. Dachau: eine Welt ohne Gott, 1946, Sebaldus-Verlag, Nürnberg, pp. 170-171. (Translation from the German by Harry W. Mazal.)

  32. United States Army, Stars and Stripes, May 3, 1945.

  33. Sack, Joel, Dawn After Dachau, 1990, Shengold Publishers, Inc. (New York), 1990, ISBN 0-88400-141-5, pp. 44-45.

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