Auschwitz concentration camp

“He also expressed “surprised disapproval that Jewish Special Detachments (Sonderkommandos) were willing, in return for a short extension of their own lives, to help with the gassing of members of their own race.””

“Some of the one-sided perfectionist pride of the expert comes out in Höss’s statement: ‘By the will of the Reichsführer of the SS [Heinrich Himmler], Auschwitz became the greatest human extermination centre of all time,’ or when he points out with the satisfaction of the successful planner that the gas chambers of his own camp had a capacity ten times greater than those of Treblinka.”

“Auschwitz, the meaning of pain Four hundred thousand more to die”

“Believe me, it wasn’t always a pleasure to see those mountains of corpses and smell the perpetual burning.”

“The prisoners [transferred to labor camps] would have been spared a great deal of misery if they had been taken straight into the gas chambers at Auschwitz.”

“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.”

“More people kept coming, always more, whom we hadn’t the facilities to kill. .\xa0.\xa0. The gas chambers couldn’t handle the load.”