The Silence After The End | Destruction (Nazi Doctors Documentary) | Timeline

[Music] [Music] when the Red Army entered the auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp on January 27th 1945 they found the four crematoriums dynamited in order to wipe out all trace of their crimes the Nazis had dismantled the installations and blown up the undressing rooms gas chambers and furnaces in which over a million prisoners the immense majority Jews were exterminated the Sonderkommando x' those special teams of prisoners selected by the SS were forced to operate the crematoriums these were the first victims of the Nazis anxious to eliminate all witnesses but a few of the Sonderkommando survived the massacres and four of them gave evidence to the tribunals during the following weeks and months several manuscripts in Yiddish were found buried under the ashes around the crematoriums these manuscripts written as the events were happening and the testimonies given in the following weeks reveal the modus operandi of the final solution how the process of extermination was carried out at Auschwitz you liebherr give FINA fiendish lift do you find her of these writings give the Hebrews a tail I report only an infinitesimal part a minimum of what has happened in this hell of a sure it's Birkenau I do not know it will believe I will ever read these lines again after the storm but I will be happy if my writings reach you free citizen of the world all that is written here I have experienced myself personally during my 16 months of zonder Arbeit special work my Cleburne EMSA thou my piled up distress after grinding pain - Oy delight my atrocious sufferings I've been able to express them in writing only on account of the conditions known I de Blois dog hi I the undersigned doctor nice Lima cloche physician former prisoner of the KZ eleven number a eight four five zero declare that I have written the step position according to strict reality exempt of all passion without the slightest exaggeration as I witness an involuntary participant in the work of the Auschwitz crematoriums as head doctor of the Auschwitz crematoriums I have to provide medical care to the SS personnel of the crematorium as well as the Sonderkommando number about eight hundred and sixty prisoners my name is Lama dragon I was born on March 19 1920 at the Roman district of Seir pets unmarried the son of Daniel and Malka Beckerman both deceased a tailor by trade of Jewish religion Polish nationality and citizenship residing at zero-mean before my arrest my name is Henrik Talbert I was born on July 8th 1917 in shun off unmarried of Jewish religion Polish nationality and citizenship a boot machinist by trade my name is fine silver alta I was born on the 23rd of October 1910 at stoical I am a waiter unmarried an atheist and of Polish nationality I arrived at Auschwitz by train on December 7th 1944 two thousand five hundred Jews men women and children of all ages from the maleva ghetto this transport was received at the station by the lager Fiera pluggy the rapport Fuhrer Polish and the camp doctor Mengele already at the station they made a selection dividing us into two groups the women and children in one group the men in the other from the men's group they chose 400 I was in this group we were led to the Birkenau camp on foot then you Fenian lardo in beer canal the cumin when I arrived here at the Birkenau camp there were already a few buildings in the muddy fields and they were building more it was on the 10th of December 1942 no consortium as soon as we entered after the selection from a convoy of 2300 people they chose only 500 the rest went immediately to be gassed me nice to be Cintiq no dutiful although we didn't know anything about it yet we still owe from winter engage egg finish thickness from the postman's SS we were running pursued by the bludgeons of the SS guards until we were absolutely unable to think of ourselves so it's push it can therefore Nunes usually if not one of us knew what he was doing nor when nor how nor whatever was happening to him we felt completely lost like automatons we were running pursued not knowing where to run or why or what to do I am sure that at that moment not one of us was living or thinking or considering that's what they had made of us Zoe what man four nuns came out on the evening of December 9th 1942 mall flag polish and Seavey along with the Arby's Einsatz makers arrived at block 14 mall announced he was going to choose workers for the rubber factory we each went up to him mall asked each one his profession examined him and if he was strong and healthy directed him to the group which according to what they said was to work in the rubber factory my brother and I declared we were professional tailors and we were sent to this group the next morning after all the commandos had left for work Maul arrived at block 14 and gave the order Sonderkommando rouse this was how we learned that we belong to a Sonderkommando and not the commando destined to work in the rubber factory we did not know what this Sonderkommando was as on two commandos life lasts approximately four months after this period one fine day a company of SS arrives and gathers all the men of the commando in the backyard of the crematorium a burst of machine-gun fire and half an hour later a news under commando arrives they undress they're killed comrades and one hour later nothing remains but a small pile of ashes the first job of every Sonderkommando team is to incinerate its predecessor the day after our arrival at the crematorium the SS unterscharführer whose name I forget gave us a speech he said we were going to do an unpleasant job but that we had to get used to it and after some time it would no longer cause us any difficulty he spoke in Polish at no point in his speech did he say a single word about the fact that we would be employed in the incineration of human corpses he ended his speech with this order loss and dr bite get to work striking us on the head with a riding crop i was assigned to crematorium five at Birkenau with six other Jews and two poles in July 1943 time that already existed for kamatari um's at Birkenau kamatari um's 1 & 2 with 15 furnaces each for 5000 corpses and crematoriums 3 & 4 with 6 furnaces each for 3,000 corpses burnt per day a total of about 8,000 corpses could be burnt per day in these four crematoriums there were two shifts the first from 7:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the evening the second from 5:00 in the evening to 7:00 in the morning after finishing my visit to the SS I go up to the Sonderkommando quarters there I have to see to some wounds and burns these are frequent organic diseases are not often found among the Sonderkommando men for they have clean beds and clothing and their food is good one could almost say excellent in besides they're all young men hand-picked for their strength and good physical Constitution on the other hand there are a great many nervous illnesses it is terrible knowing that here their brothers their wives and children their elderly parents their entire people are perishing each day they dragged thousands of corpses to the crematorium and load them with their own hands into the incineration furnaces this causes deep depression and often neurasthenia on my visits there is always one who draws me aside and begs me to give him a safe quick poison they fou arts is deeply English Pounds they're on their way everything is suspended tense they the murders give their last orders and our gaze turns that way towards that spot that point in the night whence the sound of the trucks approaches they hope yet eco her boneless now the victims have seen the truth in its naked reality then Amos them vehicles and everything are being led to their deaths they feel their final hours near the film will soon come to an end and they pur nervously around their eyes wandering in every direction they search for something in the world try to grasp one more mite of it to imbue themselves with it before they die the trucks have come to a halt hearts have frozen there they stand the victims terror stricken impotent resigned and despondent their eyes taking the place the building in which their world their young lives the throbbing bodies will soon disappear forever they throw down their luggage everything they have brought for the journey they no longer want anything nor need anything they let themselves be pushed out of the trucks without resisting and fall as if in a faint I cut corn into our arms here take me by the hand dear brother and lead me on the last part of the path from life to death every evening at about 7 o'clock I've become accustomed to seeing a truck drive through the crematorium entrance gate with 70 or 80 men and women destined to be eliminated these are the people selected daily by the constant ROTC owns lager they come from the huts and the hospitals they have been prisoners for several years or several months at least so they know with certainty what awaits them when the truck enters the yard is filled with frightful screams and shrieks of death they know that at the foot of the crematorium chimneys there is no more hope of salvation I don't want to attend this daily scene so I usually move away to the farthest corner of the crematorium yard I sit in a small Arbor of fir trees where the sound of the cries and the crackling of revolvers are muffled the truck stops not far from the windows the occupants are very quiet I conclude that they have been chosen not from the huts but from the hospitals they're all seriously ill they haven't the strength to cry out or even get down from the platform of the truck the SS guards shout become restive pressed them to get out nobody moves the driver starts to lose patience he sits down at the steering wheel and starts the engine without moving off the front of the huge tipper begins to rise gradually and pour out the occupants all at once the victims have brought into the incineration chamber and placed in front of the obersturmführer most fields revolve a barrel today he's the killer on duty standing near the furnaces wearing a rubber glove he has a firm grip on his weapon the bodies collapse one after the other each making room for the next within a few minutes he is toppled and this is his usual expression the 80 people half an hour later they've been incinerated give antler flecked awfully atom transport as each convoy arrived the hope char Fuehrer mall the host LF a bank used to climb out to avenge fold his arms to give a very short speech does negating bow divine window that mean I've upcoming Michelle will fernandel talen in a bit splat sir you go to the shower then you come back here for a distribution of work and then if anybody doubted the truth of his words he whipped them terribly provoking chaos and commotion to disorient the people the oberscharführer forced was often there when the trucks arrived standing near the door of the undressing room to touch the genitals of every young woman who passed naked into the gas chamber there were also cases where SS men of all ranks pushed their fingers into the genitals of beautiful young girls pregnant women were shot as soon as they arrived at the camp if pregnancy had not been discovered the mother could give birth but in secret and of course she had to lose her baby or else she lost her life with the child she's a Ranga field Evolvin mitten helm tog Zechs wondered Aisha engli an elder himself is a senior in the middle of the day they brought in 600 young Jewish boys aged 12 to 18 all dressed in the striped uniform of the camp all very thin and in tatters wearing shoes or wooden clogs the children look so beautiful so bright so well built they were dazzling in their rags they were led by 25 heavily armed SS guards once they were in the courtyard the commando chief ordered undress in the yard the children had seen the smoke from the chimney and it once realized they were being taken to their death we have not the courage we dare not tell our dear sisters to undress for the clothes they wear or their armor the cloak in which their life still resides from the moment they take off their clothes and remain naked they will lose their last defense their last support the last moring to which their life is anchored that is why we did not have the heart to tell them to undress more quickly let them stay a moment longer and instant longer inside this armor this cloak of life it's been dr. Hosoi you'll yob know garnished unison from Laden nervous come to me as a toy for vas I am still so young I have not yet enjoyed life at all why have I deserved such a death why one woman tears at her hair and raves when I approach her I hear these words only you beasts took a leap there - where are you my love why don't you come to me after all I am young and beautiful they know and understand that we are victims like themselves they speak because their hearts are overflowing and before death they want to confide their pain to a man who is still alive one of us stood apart he could not control himself any longer and burst into tears each of them wants to know if her husband father thought pulled them rather her lover is still alive or if his body lies somewhere stone dead if the flames are already devouring him no trace remains and if she herself was left alone in the world with her unhappy child already an orphan if so what is the use of living why stay alive bravely she asks with a reckless voice tell me brothers how long does death take to come is a painful oh gentle with a beak indeed and resignate sensation England a little girl of eight is undressing her one-year-old brother a member of the commando comes over to do it go away Jewish murderer don't touch my lovely little brother with her hand dipped in Jewish blood now I am his good mother he will die in my arms with me some women rush upon us as if drunk with love throw themselves into our arms and beseech us they want to forget everything to think of nothing they are not allowed to loiter for long the murderous beasts soon make their presence felt the air is filled with the yelling of the drunken criminals and haste to satisfy their beastial eyes thirsting for the nakedness of my beautiful dear sisters the town blows rain on their backs their heads everywhere their clothes fall quickly to the ground some are ashamed I'd like to disappear anywhere not to expose their nakedness here there is no corner to hide in your modesty no longer exists morality and ethics go to the grave along with life an order rings out harshly SSN Sonderkommando have to leave the room and they go out and count their numbers the doors closed and the lights are turned off from outside at this precise moment the sound of a car is heard it is a deluxe car marked with the International Red Cross an SS officer and a noncommissioned officer from the medical department get out the latter carries four green tins he walks over the grass where every 30 metres short concrete chimneys arise from the ground after putting on a gas mask he removes the cover on the chimney which is also concrete he opens one of the tins and pours its contents a move granular substance into the opening the substance is cyclone or chlorine in granulated form which produces gas on contact with air the substance drops to the bottom of the chimney without dispersing and the gas it produces escapes through the perforations and in a few moments fills the chamber packed with prisoners within 5 minutes it has killed them all in the still Kate Thunder not heard this vapor treated game in the relief from the levelness aliens of the silhouette and fight in the Silence of the night footsteps are heard them talking gas sushi in the moonlight appear the two silhouettes they put on their masks to pour the fatal gas they carry two metal containers which will kill the thousands of victims underneath resolutely they walk over to each orifice of the underground bunker pour out the gas and replace the heavy lid to prevent the gas from escaping from the openings rises the deep moaning of the mass of people now battling with death 2,500 lives and forth life stone dead the ventilation appliances evacuate the gas from the chamber quickly but there still remains a small amount in the cracks among the dead and between the doors this causes a strangling cough even several hours later for this reason the Sonderkommando group the first to go into the chamber are equipped with gas masks the room is once again brightly illuminated then a horrible scene meets their eyes the corpses are not lying dispersed all around the chamber but piled up in a heap to the ceiling [Music] the explanation is that the gas fills the lower layers of air and rises slowly to the top this is what makes the victims trample and climb on top of each other a little higher up the gas reaches them a little later I notice that at the bottom of the pile of quarters are the babies children women and old people at the top the strongest the body's showing numerous scratch marks produced in the struggle are often entwined the bleeding nose and mouth the blue and swollen deformed face make them unrecognizable nevertheless the Sonderkommando often recognized their relatives when was desserts those fill bar up too often namely this way to give feel you have to harden your heart stifle all sensitivity dull all feeling of pain you have to repress the atrocious suffering that sweeps like a hurricane through your body you have to turn into a robot they see nothing she feel nothing first aid in it no nothing the Sonderkommando team equipped with big rubber boots line up around the mountain of corpses and flooded with powerful Jets of water this is essential since the final act and death by gassing is involuntary defecation every dead body is sullied the bathing of the dead having been completed a job the Sonderkommando perform in total renunciation of the personality and deep distress of the soul the separation of the entangled bodies begins this is a very difficult task they not straps around the taut wrists with the aid of these straps the drying of the wet slippery corpses to the lift in the adjoining room for large lifts are in operation this is where they load the dead 20 to 25 per lift a bell rings to signal that the load is ready and the lift can go it stops in the crematorium incineration chamber where wide double doors open automatically here the whole in command awaits they fix the straps around the wrists of the Dead again and drag them on specially constructed slides to unload them in front of the furnaces the corpses lie in close ranks old young children from their noses mouths and skin graced by friction blood oozes and mixes with the water running through the channels dug into the concrete paling for this purpose this is me different open to the hordes of his talents arms and legs have set to work here is a group of comrades each assigned to his task they pull tear the corpses out of the tangle death this one by a foot hunts that one by hand whichever comes easiest seems the bodies will be dismembered as they are tugged this way and that the corpse is dragged along the freezing filthy cement floor and the beautiful alabaster body sweeps up all the dirt in its path the defiled body is seized and laid outside face upwards - frozen eyes stare at you as if asking to do both a MeetMe odama what are you going to do with me brother each crematorium had to iron stretchers for loading the bodies into the furnaces these boards were placed in front of the fire two prisoners put a body onto them they placed it on the back legs foremost towards the fire face upwards on top of this body they placed another the face upturned also the head towards the fire first we put the bodies of two adults and then as many children as we could put into the fire most often the bodies of five or six children we did it this way so as not to put the children's bodies directly on the grids' the bars of these being widely spaced the children's bodies might fall into the ash container the women's bodies burned much more quickly and better than the men's for this reason we looked for a woman's body whenever a convoy was burning badly and we put it in the furnace to speed up the incineration process it's fake boys opinion bonus or not now thirty hellish mouths blazed in the two great buildings and devour the countless victims of the fires of hell hold out their tongues like outstretched arms take possession of the body as if it were a treasure the hair ignites first the skin swells with bubbles that burst after a few seconds the arms and legs rive veins nerves tighten make the limbs twitch already the whole body flares up the skin cracks the fat flows you can hear the sizzling of the blades no longer see bodies only a furnace of hellish fire devouring something that's midst the belly bursts intestines and entrails spring out within a few minutes disappear without a trace the head takes longer to burn to small blue flames glitter in the orbits of the eyes which are consumed with the brain and the depths and in the mouth the tongue still burns to a cinder the whole process lasts 20 minutes and the body a world is reduced to ashes they direct here the surplus of the Jewish ramp that is to say those who cannot find room in the for crematoriums the most horrible death awaits these here there is no water tap to quench the thirst after a several days journey there are no fallacious notices to dispel forebodings no gas chamber that can be mistaken for a disinfection room there is only a rustic house in bygone times painted yellow with a thatched roof its windows replaced by planks of wood behind the house immense columns of smoke rise to the sky diffusing the smell of grilled flesh and burning hair in the yard a crowd of some 5,000 Souls horror-stricken all around thick chains of SS with police dogs on leash three or four hundred at a time they are directed to the undressing room they're driven with baton blows they lay down their clothes and come out of the door at the opposite side of the house leaving room for the following ones they come out of the doorway end immediately as under commander grabs them by the arm and holds them between two rows of SS along a winding path 150 metres long bordered by woods to the fire that was previously hidden by trees the fire is in a ditch 50 meters long 6 meters wide and 3 meters deep filled with hundreds of burning corpses along the edge of the ditch and on the side nearest to the path SS soldiers stand 5 meters apart waiting for their victims in their hands they hold small calibre guns 6 millimeters used by the KZ for shooting at the nape of the neck at the end of the path to Sonderkommando men grabbed the wretched victims by the arm and dragged them 15 to 20 meters to face the SS weapon cries of horror drown out the noise of the shots nothing is heard but the sound of a click immediately the victim is thrown into the flames before even ceasing to live neolution visits danube jihad mid-ocean Al's he began o - Lang Mir zone no wonder a hint most I think and him blood from the younger ishe didn't we had long had more than enough must we still soak our hands in the blood of Hungarian Jews this led all the men of the commando without distinction of class or background and even the most reserved to rage that we should put an end to this game be done with this work and with our lives if need be we men of the Sonderkommando had always said we were more especially threatened than any other prisoners in the camp because the Germans would want to erase the traces of their misdeeds up to the present time at all costs and they could only do this ban dilating all the men of our commando sparing not a single one this is why we did not consider the approach of the front to be a chance for us on the contrary we saw the necessity to launch our action a little earlier if we were yet to achieve anything in our lifetime three and a half months before the camp was liberated on October 7th 1944 the sole armed revolt in Auschwitz broke out it was organized by the Sonderkommando s-- crematorium three was destroyed Zalman Rudovsky one of the organizers of the uprising was killed along with 450 one of his companions lay blank Foose and Zalman Leventhal were executed at the end of November 1944 two months before the arrival of the Red Army Salameh dragon Henrik Tauber an altar fine silver testified to the Cracow tribunal in May 1945 dr. McNeely gave his testimony to the or Adia court in Transylvania in April 1946 on March 5th 1945 near crematorium two Zalman glados Keys first manuscript was found in April 1945 an inhabitant of Auschwitz searching for Jewish gold in the ashpit near the crematorium unearthed a glass receptacle containing a manuscript it was by labeling foes the manuscript was hidden and only handed to the Auschwitz Museum in 1970 Zellman live in Taos manuscript was not found until October 17th 1962 tu nish masais

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Length: 50min 19sec (3019 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 26 2020