12/03/1942: The 300 Jewish prisoners in the Sonderkommando who dig up and burn the 107,000 bodies buried in the mass graves are taken from Birkenau to the main camp by the SS. They are led to the gas chamber in Crematorium I & gassed. Thus, the witnesses to the corpse burning are disposed of. Berry Broad writes that a bad feeling spread among the SS men who hat gotten a good look at the gassing operation and some even assumed that in order to preserve secrecy, they themselves would be the last to go to gas chambers (from Auschwitz in the Eyes of the SS, Broads memoirs,p.184). image of the gas chamber in the reconstructed Crematorium I in Auschwitz I
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 06:57:21 +0000
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