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	were taken in most cases, to the hospital because of the grave injuries they had sustained. Every prisoner called to the political department was prepared for death and took a last farewell of his pals (Vol. 53, p. 251). Absence of documents does not allow the exact establishment of the names and numbers of all persons who were subjected to that kind of torture. The depositions of witnesses establish that the interrogations had a mass character because the political department called prisoners on the flimsiest pretext in order to sow terror in the camp. What are the characteristics, sketched in their roughest outlines, of the criminal activities of Grabner, generally called by the prisoners the bloodiest executioner of Auschwitz? To make the picture of his person complete and to show how sure of himself Grabner was within the camp it should be added that he was not above appropriating the chattels of the prisoners he so implacably exterminated and that although for appropriation of such property the penalty was death, Grabner with supreme unconcern kept in his place suitcases full of coats and other valuable objects taken from the prisoners and deposited in "Canada". On Grabner's instructions those things were sent in parcels to Vienna by the prisoner Feliks Mylyk (Vol. 53, p. 205). Grabner, when interrogated, did not plead guilty and he made the following verbatim statement: "As for my work and service in the Auschwitz concentration camp I do not feel guilty. In my conscience ? do not feel that I there committed any lawlessness". Grabner also stressed that "everything that went on in the camp was lawlessness" and although he fought against it, he could not bring about any change because the camp was ruled tyranically by "Hoess and his men from the camp command". From the Indictment.
	Johann Paul Kremer
	Born on March 26, 1883, in Stelberg (near Cologne), the son of Wilhelm and Elisabeth, née Wurth, since 1937 of no confession, M. D., Ph. D., assistant professor in the university of Muenster, divorced, no children, member of the NSDAP (Nazi party since 1932, of the Allgemeine SS since 1939 (Untersturmfuehrer of the Waffen SS).
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