You will have very large quantities of clothes to disinfect, ten or twenty times as much as the 'Textiles Collection,' which is only being carried out in order to camouflage the origin of the Jewish, Polish, Czech, and other items of clothing. Your second job is to convert the gas- chambers, which have up to now been operated with exhaust gases from an old Diesel engine, to a more poisonous and quicker means, cyanide. But the Fuhrer and Himmler, who were here on August 15, that is, the day before yesterday, gave orders that I am to accompany all persons who visit the installations.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- An order to disinfect stolen clothing and convert gas chambers to cyanide.
- In plain terms
- Instructions for processing stolen goods and improving mass murder methods.
- What can you take from it?
- This documents criminal orders during the Holocaust.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we use such records?
- Why is preserving this evidence necessary?
Another view
This is historical record, not advice or wisdom.
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