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Müller knew what he was talking about. In 1938,
Lischka, at the age of twenty nine, had directed, among other things, the
Gestapo's Jewish Division. It was he who on June 16 ordered the first mass
arrest of German Jews – two or three thousand, whom he sent to Buchenwald
or Sachsenhausen, where ten percent died within two months. On October 28,
1938, he had supervised the terrible deportation of Jews to the Polish border
– twenty thousand who had lived in Germany for generations arrested, piled
into trains, left helpless a the frontier. The Poles would admit only Jews who
had a valid Polish passport. Many of those who had to stay on the German side
of the frontier perished, especially infants. It was this tragic event that
induced Herschel Grynszpan, a young Jew whose parents were among the victims,
to plan the murder of a Nazi diplomat in Paris. Ernst Achenbach and Ernst von
Rath were both on duty. Fate chose Von Rath. The reprisals were terrible. As
chief of the Gestapo's Bureau for Jewish Affairs, Lischka was definitely
involved in the ruthless pogrom that took place in Germany on the night of
November 9-10, 1938, now remembered as the "Week of the Broken Glass."
Lischka was a fastidious man. When his name came up in Nuremberg,
someone recalled one of his conferences on the improvement of police
interrogations. Lischka had said:
"You should interrogate a political
prisoner in extremely polite language. If he does not confess, serve him a meal
of salt herring without a drop of water. On the following morning resume the
interrogation and give the prisoner a breakfast of salt herring. While you are
questioning him, drink cup after cup of coffee. If he still will not talk, send
him back to his cell without anything to drink and only salt herring to eat.
These tactics are generally effective after a while."
Dr. Kurt Paul
Werner Lischka was born in Breslau on August 16, 1909. He became No. 4,538,18
of the Nazi Party, and No. 195,590 in the S.S. He joined the Gestapo in Berlin
in 1936. An extremely hard worker, he quickly rose to the top. In 1961 the
Israelis asked Adolf Eichmann who had originated and directed Division IV B 4
of RSHA Jewish Affairs, located at No. 8 Prinz-Albrecht Strasse His answer:
"Regierungsrat Kurt Lischka. He was then Theo Dannecker's immediate
superior."
It was Dannecker, under Lischka's supervision as chief of
the
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