Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYed in his painstakingly researched book Special Treatment in Auschwitz.113The first example concerns a Sonderaktion which the Gestapo carriedout in all Auschwitz camps in December 1942 with the civilianworkers, that is to say: the more than 1,000 civilians who were regularlyemployed by the camp administration to assist in the construction of thecamp infrastructure. Since for established historians the term Sonder isa codeword for murder – especially when the Gestapo is involved –there is of course a problem here, because who can seriously believethat the Gestapo had executed all of the regularly employed civilianworkers?To this end, the American opponent of revisionism John Zimmerman,in an attempt to salvage the code word thesis, developed the auxiliarytheory that the Gestapo, as a disciplinary measure against the mutinouscivilian workers, executed a few of them. But as Mattogno wasable to demonstrate on the basis of copious documentary evidence, noharm was ever done to a single hair of a civilian head.The background to this Sonderaktion was the typhus epidemic,which had broken out in the Auschwitz camp in summer 1942, and onaccount of which the entire camp was placed under quarantine and ageneral camp closure had been ordered. As a result, the 1,000 civilianemployees were stranded in the camp as well, in response to which theywent on strike shortly before Christmas, since they wanted to leave thecamp for their two weeks Christmas vacation. The Sonderaktion by theGestapo consisted merely of an interrogation of the spokesmen of thecivilian employees in order to determine the reason for the strike and tofind a solution to the conflict. As results from the documents, the civiliansin fact succeeded in being allowed to leave the camp on vacation,and the documents even show that all the workers returned promptly towork after the end of their vacation.As the second example for the indefensibility of the theory of “codelanguage” I may choose the term Sonderkommando. According to thetestimony of numerous witnesses this term was applied to those prisonerwork details that had to perform the horrible work of removing bodiesof fellow prisoners from the alleged homicidal gas chambers and ofincinerating them in open pits or in crematory ovens after various pre-113 Carlo Mattogno, Special Treatment in Auschwitz, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago, 2004,http://vho.org/dl/ENG/st.pdf.86