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THE STRUTHOF
ALBUM STUDY OF THE
GASSING AT NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF
by Jean-Claude Pressac
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Corpses
dismembered at the end of 1944, on the order of German Professor Hirt, Director
of the Institute of Anatomy from 1941 to 1944. The identification number of
each corpse, tattooed on the left forearm, was removed, on orders, at the time
of dismembering; the viscera and the heads were incinerated in the Strasbourg
crematorium – these actions were designed to prevent identification of the
corpses and to obstruct French medico-legal investigations.
[Apart from
the misplaced pretension of the preceding sentence, obliteration of the number
made identification impossible, and if all the corpses had been treated this
way, an investigation into the origins of the corpses would have been legally
impossible, despite subsequent testimony. Tattooing identification numbers on
the left forearm was a specificity of K.L. Auschwitz. Henri Henripierre, a
French civilian and technician at the Institute, noted down the corpses’ 5
or 6 digit identification numbers as they arrived. At liberation, those numbers
which remained corresponded to this list.] |
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| 68. |
Idem.
[Ditto] |
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| 69. |
Other
dismembered corpses. |
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| 70. |
Human
trunks. |
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| 71. |
Idem.
[Ditto] |
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| 72. |
Corpse of
young woman, healthy and robust, at the time of autopsy. Note that the
incisions along the body expose a layer of fat, suggesting that execution
occurred shortly after internment.
[It seems that this female corpse is
that in the middle of photograph 63, also shown in photograph 66, with an
autopsy in progress by a forensic pathologist, professor Simonin, at the
request of French military justice.] |
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| 73. |
Emaciated
corpse of young man.
[Exposed after having been removed from the vat
shown in photograph 54.] |
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| 74. |
Corpse of
probably Jewish man; there are no longer any traces of fat in the skin.
[Autopsy in progress; the thorax has just been opened.]. |
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| 75. |
Corpses
of internees bearing numerous ecchymoses on the back, the result of severe
blows endured before execution in the gas chamber. |
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| 76. |
Marks of
violence on the back. |
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| 77. |
Idem.
[Ditto] |
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