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Eavesdropping on Hitler’s Reich
metimes difficult to participate in these actions. They should have
solved the problem in another way. Sometimes it was horrible, the
way they shot women and children.” (The “sometimes difficult” and
“sometimes horrible” characterize this Generalstab officer’s true attitude.)
Über Judenerschießungen in Pinsk berichtete auch den berühmte
49jährige Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger (zuletzt Kdr.
den 21. Panzerdivision) in der ersten Juniwoche 1945 zu General
Leutnant von Massow, “When I was at Pinsk I was told that in the
previous year there had been still 25 000 Jews living there and within
three days these 25 000 Jews were fetched out, formed up on the
edge of a wood or in a meadow – they had been made to dig their
own graves beforehand – and then every single one of them from
the oldest greybeard down to the new born infant was shot by a
police squad. That was the first time I myself had actually heard
and seen what happened there. I had previously not believed or
considered it possible that anything like that went on. The nurse
at the officers’ hostel where I lived told me that: ’For heaven’s sake,
don’t say anything about my having told you that. ’”
Am 29. April 1945 wurden drei höhere Offizier der deutschen
Kriegsmarine abgehört, die sich über die Judenvernichtungen im
Osten unterhielten – Kontenadmiral Engel, der 2. Admiral Nordsee;
Kapitän zur See Magnus (dessen Chef des Stabes), und Vizeadmiral
Kurt Utke (von den Wehrersatzinspektion), die in der dritten
Aprilwoche in Buxtehude bzw. Bremen in britische Gefangenschaft
gerieten:
VIZEADMIRAL UTKE: Glauben Sie denn diese Geschichten über
diese Lager?
KONTERADMIRAL ENGEL: Ja natürlich. Ich habe es doch selbst
lange gewußt, daß es so war. Wir waren doch dabei in Posen, wo der
SAJC�X�1 SAJC�X�1 dated 13.4.1945 (NA: RG 332 332).
GRGG.311, Gespräch am 1. – 6.6. 1945 (PRO: WO.208�4178).
WO.208�4178).