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Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

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attested to many times in the course of the war criminals’ trials. I shall<br />

cite only a few examples… .>I have the figures only for the months of May, June, and July, 1944.<br />

Dr. Pasche, a French doctor of the Sonderkommando, in the crematory,<br />

who was in a position to gather statistics on the rate of the extermination,<br />

provided me with these:<br />

May, 1944 360,000<br />

June, 1944 512,000<br />

From the 1 st<br />

to the<br />

26 th<br />

of July, 1944 442,000<br />

1,314,000<br />

In less than a quarter of a year the Germans had ‘liquidated’ more than<br />

1,300,000 persons at Auschwitz-Birkenau!Meanwhile the reclamation service functioned relentlessly. The<br />

dentist pulled gold and silver teeth, bridges, crowns, and plates. Other<br />

officials of the Sonderkommando gathered rings, for, despite every<br />

control some internees had kept theirs. Naturally, the Germans did not<br />

want to lose anything valuable.>The Nordic Supermen knew how to profit from everything. Immense<br />

casks were used to gather the human grease which had melted down at<br />

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