Scott Smith wrote:You did not give a source for your quote. My source was Höß
Who was at Sachsenhausen before the war and thus knew little of what happened there
during the war.
Scott Smith wrote: and Professor Michael Thad Allen in The Business of Genocide, which I am currently reading to review for Germar Rudolf's Revisionist magazine.
I couldn’t stand the man in the mirror if I wrote for such a publication, but to each his own. Let’s hope that Smith doesn’t misrepresent Prof. Allen’s statements in his review.
From the memorial site of Sachsenhausen concentration camp:
[…]Nach von ehemaligen Häftlingen schon im Sommer 1945 für eine sowjetische Ermittlungskommission angestellten Schätzungen wurden im KZ Sachsenhausen mehrere Zehntausend Menschen umgebracht. Sie starben an Hunger und Erschöpfung, Krankheiten und Kälte, wurden Opfer von Misshandlungen und öffentlichen Hinrichtungen, medizinischen Experimenten oder Massentötungsaktionen. Nachdem im Herbst 1941 mindestens 12.000 sowjetische Kriegsgefangene, unter denen sich viele Juden befanden, in einer provisorischen Genickschussanlage erschossen oder bei der Erprobung von Gaswagen ermordet worden waren, wurde im Frühjahr 1942 auf dem Industriehof eine Vernichtungsanlage mit Krematorium, Genickschussanlage und später eingebauter Gaskammer errichtet, die von der SS in Analogie zum Turm A als Eingangstor zynisch als "Station Z" bezeichnet und Ende Mai 1942 mit der Erschießung von 250 jüdischen Häftlingen und Geiseln "eingeweiht" wurde.[…]
Source of quote:
http://www.m77-berlin.de/sachsenhausen/ ... hichte.htm
My translation:
[…]According to the estimates made by former inmates for the Soviet investigation commission already in the summer of 1945 several tens of thousands of people were killed at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. They died of hunger and cold, became victims of ill-treatment or public executions, medical experiments or mass killing actions. After in the autumn of 1941 at least 12,000 Soviet prisoners of war, among whom there were many Jews, had been shot in a special neck shot installation or murdered in the testing of gas vans, an extermination installation with a crematorium, a neck shot facility and a later added gas chamber was built, which the SS, in analogy to Tower A as the entrance, cynically called “Station Z” and inaugurated at the end of May 1942 with the shooting of 250 Jewish inmates and hostages.[…]
Some summaries of West German trials related to Sachsenhausen concentration camps, from the
Justiz and NS Verbrechen site of the University of Amsterdam:
Case Nr.340
Crime Category: NS-Gewaltverbrechen in Haftstätten, Final Phase Crimes
Accused:
Rakers, Bernhard life sentence + 15 Years
Court:
LG Osnabrück 530210
Country where the crime was committed: Germany, Poland
Crime Location: HS KL Auschwitz, HS KL Gleiwitz II, HS KL Esterwegen, HS KL Weimar Gustloff Werke, HS KL Sachsenhausen, on the road along the way of the evacuation march from KL Auschwitz-Monowitz to KL Gleiwitz, on the road along the way of the evacuation march from KL Gleiwitz to KL Sachsenhausen
Crime Date: 34-45
Victims: Prisoners, Jews
Nationality: German, French, Dutch, Austrian, Polish, Rumanian, Soviet, Hungarian, unknown
Office: Haftstättenpersonal KL Auschwitz, Haftstättenpersonal KL Gleiwitz II, Haftstättenpersonal KL Esterwegen, Haftstättenpersonal KL Weimar Gustloff Werke, Haftstättenpersonal KL Sachsenhausen
Subject of the proceeding: Activities of the defendant in Auschwitz: Mishandling of prisoners, in part with fatal consequences, participation in the hanging of prisoners at the roll-call grounds, selections of ill Jews and Jews unfit for work, who were then gassed. Participation in the shooting of prisoners after the liquidation of the camp during the evacuation march from KL Auschwitz-Monowitz to KL Gleiwitz, as well as during the evacuation transport from KL Gleiwitz to KL Sachsenhausen. Mishandling of prisoners, in part with fatal consequences, in KL Esterwegen, Sachsenhausen and Weimar Gustloff Werke
Source of quote:
http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/brdeng ... eng340.htm
Case Nr.473
Crime Category: NS-Crimes in Detainment Centers, War Crimes
Accused:
Schubert, Wilhelm Karl Ferdinand life sentence + 15 Years
Sorge, Gustav Hermann life sentence + 15 Years
Court:
LG Bonn 590206
Country where the crime was committed: Germany
Crime Location: HS KL Esterwegen, HS KL Sachsenhausen, HS KL Berlin-Lichterfelde
Crime Date: 35-43
Victims: Prisoners, Jews, Prisoners of War
Nationality: German, Lithuanian, Dutch, Austrian, Polish, Soviet, Czech, unknown
Office: Haftstättenpersonal KL Esterwegen, Haftstättenpersonal KL Sachsenhausen
Subject of the proceeding: Killing and attempted killing of prisoners from KL Esterwegen. Participation in the mass killing of about 10,000 Russian POW's in the execution barracks 'Genickschussbaracke') of KL Sachsenhausen. Killing and attempted killing of a great many prisoners of KL Sachsenhausen
Source of quote:
http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/brdeng ... eng473.htm
Case Nr.488
Crime Category: NS-Crimes in Detainment Centers
Accused:
Bugdalle, Richard life sentence
Court:
LG München I 600120
Country where the crime was committed: Germany
Crime Location: HS KL Sachsenhausen
Crime Date: 39-41
Victims: Prisoners, Jews, Gypsies
Nationality: German, Chinese, unknown
Office: Haftstättenpersonal KL Sachsenhausen
Subject of the proceeding: Killing of a large number of prisoners by means of 'pole-hanging' ('Pfahlhängen'), suffocating, slaying, trampling, or by hosing them down with ice-cold water
Source of quote:
http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/brdeng ... eng488.htm
Case Nr.497
Crime Category: NS-Crimes in Detainment Centers, War Crimes
Accused:
Böhm, Otto Wilhelm life sentence
Hempel, Horst 5 Years
Höhn, August life sentence
Court:
LG Düsseldorf 601015
Country where the crime was committed: Germany
Crime Location: HS KL Sachsenhausen
Crime Date: 41-4504
Victims: Jews, Prisoners of War, Prisoners, Foreign Laborers
Nationality: Soviet, German, unknown
Office: Haftstättenpersonal KL Sachsenhausen
Subject of the proceeding: Execution of at least 200 prisoners within the context of the 'Special Treatment' ('Sonderbehandlung') of Russian POW's in the execution barracks ('Genickschussbaracke'). Strangulation or hanging of prisoners on the roll-call grounds. Shooting of 27 prisoners of the 'leather Kommando' in the crematorium. Shooting, hanging and gassing of individual persons and groups of persons, who had been especially transferred to KL Sachsenhausen for this purpose. Shooting of 82 prisoners within the context of the alarm stage 'Scharnhorst', which involved the killing of prisoners specified by name, at the time of the evacuation of the camp. Killing of at least 2000 ill prisoners at the time of the camp's evacuation, early 1945. Shooting of altogether about 230 Jewish prisoners, who had been transferred to KL Sachsenhausen at the time of the evacuation of the Nebenlager Lieberose. Shooting of a number of prisoners during the evacuation march from KL Sachsenhausen in the direction of Lübeck
Source of quote:
http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/brdeng ... eng497.htm
Case Nr.537
Crime Category: NS-Crimes in Deatinment Centers, Mass Extermination Crimes in Camps, War Crimes
Accused:
Wessel, Heinrich Otto 7½ Years
Court:
LG Verden 620606
Country where the crime was committed: Germany
Crime Location: HS KL Sachsenhausen
Crime Date: 4206-4504
Victims: Prisoners, Foreign Laborers, Prisoners of War, Jews
Nationality: British, German, French, Luxemburg, Polish, Soviet, unknown
Office: Haftstättenpersonal KL Sachsenhausen
Subject of the proceeding: Participation in hangings at the roll-call grounds and in shootings in the concentration camp's factory courtyard, of prisoners and foreign laborers, who were transferred to the concentration camp in order to be killed there, on orders of the Reich Security Main Office. Cooperation in the killing of a woman, whose eye was required for a medical experiment. Participation in shootings, among them, of 27 members of the 'leather commando', and of 82 prisoners in the night of January 31 - February 1, 1945, within the contect of the alarm phase 'Scharnhorst', which involved the killing of prisoners identified by name, at the time of the evacuation of the camp. During the course of this evacuation: participation in the killing of at least 2000 ill or exhausted Sachsenhausen prisoners, as well as of at least 150 prisoners from the annex camp Lieberose. Cooperation with experiments on prisoners with poisoned ammunition, potassium cyanide, and so on
Source of quote:
http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/brdeng ... eng537.htm