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THE STRUTHOF
ALBUM STUDY OF THE
GASSING AT NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF
by Jean-Claude Pressac
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Extracts from interrogation of JOSEF
KRAMER by Major Jadin, military investigative judge with the Military Tribunal,
in Strasbourg on 26 July 1945:
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In the month of August 1943, I received an order
from the camp of Oranienburg, or rather from SS Supreme Headquarters in Berlin
which had the order transmitted to me by the Oranienburg camp commandant, to
take in approximately 80 prisoners from Auschwitz. In the letter accompanying
the order, it was specified that I should immediately get in touch with
Professor Hirt of the Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg.
When I went to
the Strasbourg Institute of Anatomy where Hirt was working, he told me that he
had been informed of a convoy of Auschwitz prisoners bound for Struthof. He
made it clear to me that these people were to be executed in the Struthof gas
chamber by means of asphyxiating gases, and that their corpses were to be taken
to the Institute of Anatomy and put at his disposal.
At the end of this
conversation, he gave me a flask containing approximately a quarter of a litre
of salts, which I believe to have been hydrocyanic salts.
We show the
witness Volkmar's book [note-book] found at the camp of Strufhof, and
placed by Us under seal no. Il.)
The witness : I have no trouble
recognizing the book that you are showing me: it is a diary that belonged to
Volkmar.
The book is written in his hand, but I cannot decipher the
hand-writing. I can see that the words “hydrocyanic gas”
[“Gas Blausäure”] appear.
The professor indicated
to me the approximate dose I should use to asphyxiate personally the prisoners
coming from Auschwitz, whom I have just mentioned.
So at the beginning
of August 1943, I received the 80 [87] prisoners to be killed by means
of the gases given to me by Hirt, and I started with a first group of about
fifteen women, taken to the gas chamber one evening,
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