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"Prefecture of Police, Police Station of
the Ward of Notre Dame desChamps.
Paris, July 26,1945
Received from the Prison of Cherche-Midi
the corpse of Kurt Gerstein for transport to the Medico-Legal Institute for
autopsy.
The Police Superintendant, [sic]
Signed: (illegible)
(Stamp of the Police Station, City of
Paris, Ward of Notre Dame des Champs).
Certified true copy by the Officer
Clerk of Court, Chief of the Central Depository of Archives of the Military
Justice.
Moreover, Pierre Joifroy reproduces the report of the
colonel commanding the military prison of Paris to the Ministry of War on page
290 of his fine book "The Spy of God" (25)
devoted to Gerstein and written after a thorough investigation made with a
seriousness and talent which are completely lacking in the compiler, Rassinier:
"At 2:15 P.M. on July 25 the sergeant major
and guard Dubois Dandien advised me that the chief sergeant Entz, working on
the second floor, had just found, hanged in his cell, the prisoner Kurt
Gerstein, German subject locked up since July 5, 1945, charged with "war
crimes, murder and complicity."
Sergeant Entz, assisted by sergeant-major
André Ucci, cut the rope and began artificial respiration. The firemen
of the barracks of Vieux-Colombier, who had been alerted, went to the
establishment and pronounced death. The prisoner hanged himself with the help
of a small rope made up from a piece of blanket which he had afterwards hung on
the window of his cell; his head was turned towards the wall and his feet
touched the floor.
The prisoner had first of all occupied a cell with three
other Germans, indicted on the same charge.
At the request of Colonel
Sauzey, Gerstein had been placed on July 20, 1945, in an individual cell in
order not to be able to repeat the facts of his interrogation to his
fellow-citizens.
It is to be feared that the three other Germans seek to
take their own lives in the same fashion, and it is materially impossible to
avoid that such events recur unless one strips them naked and takes away all of
the bedclothes." Here are the extracts from another document
concerning the meeting of Gerstein with the two allied officers (36, pp. 12
13), the American John W. Haught, employed by the company du Pont de Nemours,
and the Englishman Derek Curtis Evans, major in the British scientific service,
who are the "minus habens armed to the teeth" born of Rassinier's imagination:
"The present assessors met Dr. Gerstein by
chance in a requisitioned hotel in Rottweil. He told us that we were the first
Americans or English that he had seen and that he wanted to speak to us of what
he knew about the German concentration camps. (...) He obtained a responsible
position in the Nazi Party. In this capacity, he attended meetings in the
course of which the fate of the prisoners of the concentration camps was
discussed. Asked whether he was aware of the utilization of gas chambers for
the killing of prisoners, he answered that as an engineer he had often had to
give advice on the functioning of these chambers. He said that the two gases
utilized were cyanhydric acid and the exhaust fumes of internal combustion
engines. (...) He said.., that in the case of HCN, death was nearly
instantaneous, whereas a period of fifteen to twenty minutes was necessary in
the case of the exhaust fumes. Dr. Gerstein escaped from the Nazis only about
three weeks ago: it is very obvious that he is still affected by his
experiences and he speaks of them with difficulty. But he ardently
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