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160 GERMAR RUDOLF, CARLO MATTOGNO · AUSCHWITZ LIES
“How then can the death certificates be explained if the stated causes
do not conform to physical reality? The only explanation is that the camp
authorities were engaged in a massive killing campaign of registered prisoners.
Part of this has to do with typhus.”
In “My Response” Zimmerman explains:
“that most of the sick prisoners were being murdered en masse in
Auschwitz because it was easier to kill them than to hospitalize them.”
So if I understand him well, “most of the sick” from typhus were killed. In
how many cases of the death certificates is it that the “stated causes do not
conform to physical reality?” Zimmerman mentions two of them:
“In some cases children were said have died from ‘decrepitude,’ an affliction
of the aged.”
In reality, Zimmerman’s source 210 mentions a single case of this kind
among 68,864! How can it seriously be claimed that this case is an intentional
falsification and not a simple error? Were the SS doctors truly such idiots? Let
us consider the second case referred to by Zimmerman:
“Kielar’s description is borne out by the death certificates of 168 prisoners
who were shot on May 27, 1942 but whose cause of death was listed
as ‘heart attack.’”
Thus, at the maximum, we have 169 documented causes of death, 169
among 68,864, that is 0.2%. And this would be the proof of the alleged mass
falsification of causes of death in the certificates?
The falsification of these 169 causes of death is not explainable by the hypothesis
that a mass extermination of sick detainees was going on at Auschwitz
– according to the official historiography these detainees were “gassed”
and not shot – but by the fact of the abuses committed by the head of the Political
Section, Maximilian Grabner, who was accused by SS judge Konrad
Morgen of having arbitrarily killed 2,000 detainees. 211 It is therefore probable
that, earlier on, some complaisant camp physician had been willing to cover
Grabner’s crimes by falsifying the death certificates of detainees illegally shot
by Grabner. These falsifications, though, demonstrate the very opposite of
what Zimmerman asserts, because here we do not have a change of “gassing”
to “shooting” for the cause of death, but rather of “shooting” to “heart attack.”
These falsifications did not cover up a mass extermination by means of gas,
they covered up shootings which, being hushed up in this way, were illegal
and arbitrary. Had a mass extermination been going on at that time by orders
from higher up, there would not have been a need to hide these mass shootings.
Zimmerman asserts that during the typhus epidemic the sick detainees were
killed en mass. Let us see what happened during the month when the typhus
epidemic reached its peak: August 1942.
210 Sterbebücher von Auschwitz, op. cit. (note), 1995, p. 242.
211 IMT, vol. XX, p. 507.