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THE STRUTHOF
ALBUM STUDY OF THE
GASSING AT NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF
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| 36. |
(cont.) [1/mason: 10 (h). Administr.:
Struthof - Work on gas chamber [“Gasraum”] (a-a no.
187).]
2/5 hours. Work by roofer, gas chamber, extension of air outlet
pipe.
[2/roofer 5 (h). Administr.: Struthof - gas
chamber [“Gaskammer”]: extend the exhaust pipe, install
an attachment ring (a-a no. 187.]
3/Painting work in the gas
chamber.
40 jours of masonry work in the gas chamber.
[3/Labour:
painter: 60 (h). Administr.: Work in the administration
building (a-a no. 137) and the gas chamber
[“Gasraum”]
Labour: mason: 40 (h).
Administr.: Struthof - Work on gas chamber [“Gasraum”]
(a-a no. 187).]
[The report is signed by the Chief of Natzweiler
Bauleitung, SS Second Lieutenant Heider and dated the 3.8.1943 by his
hand.] |
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Weekly
report of the 14 August 1943. |
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| 38. |
Weekly
report of the 21 August 1943.
Weekly reports bearing the signature of
Commandant Kramer Joseph (weeks of the 7-14 and the 14-21 August 1943) mention
the departure by death (sic) of 30 + 57 = 87 Jews (column 3). Compare
with the arrival during the same period, at the Institute of Anatomy in
Strasbourg (Prof. Hirt), of 86 corpses of Jewish subjects, including 30 women.
These subjects were assassinated in a gas chamber (Experts’ Report).
[The difference between 87 and 86 is explained by the pistol shot murder
of one victim who resisted. The “spoiled" body was no [longer
“suitable” for the Institute, where the civilian staff might have
been a bit too curious about the origins of a blood-covered corpse mixed in
with the others.] |
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Partial
photograph of the reverse of the previous document.
(Weekly report of the
21 August 1943), bearing the following remarks: By order of Supreme Chief of
the SS and Chief of German Police (Himmler), the persons listed under Nos. 1,
2, 3 and 4 were hung and the persons listed under Paragraph 2, Nos. 1, 2
and 3 were shot. (These were 7 Russian civilian labourers.)
[The reverse
sides of reports give the causes, whatever they may have been, of deaths
(mostly attributed to often fictitious “illnesses”, to firing squads
and to hangings).
The reverse of the report of the 21st, which is
unfortunately incomplete, on 69 “Todesfälle”, provides causes of
death for only 12 cases and remains silent about the 57 Jews.
Similarly, in
the preceding report of the 14th, 7 deaths are explained |
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