THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTother hand. The Chief of the Zentralbauleitung is hereby instructed to presentsuggestions for rectification by May 15, 1943.” (Emphasis added.)It began with the toilet facilities, with regards to which he enforcedchanges that he considered necessary. For example: lids on thetoilets, because otherwise “[…] a great danger of epidemics is inevitable.”147 These lids were ordered by the Head of Department C of theWVHA (Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, Economic AdministrativeMain Office) on May 10, 1943. 148 It ended with roofing matters relatedto the gypsy kindergarten: 149“For the damaged roofs of kindergarten blocks 29 and 31 in theGypsy Camp I request 100 rolls of roofing felt (very urgent.)”In between, on May 28, 1943, 150 he selected six circulating air delousingfacilities which—as was noted down in handwriting—wereordered on May 29, 1943, by the Building Administration’s expert onheating matters, Jährling. Then there is an account of a water qualitytest on June 1, 1943, 151 etc. This extensive correspondence resulted inseparate subject files in the filing system of the Zentralbauleitung,such as “Sanitary Conditions”. 152The physician’s field of work was great and varied and deservedits own monograph. He was even responsible for ensuring that the inmates’kitchen personnel were frequently examined—including laboratorytests of their stool, etc. That Dr. Wirths truly saw to absolutelyeverything is obvious from the documents.The garrison physician’s reminders and admonitions increasedover time. On balance, one must conclude that, just as today, whilethere were opportunists and careerists in those days, there were also—as our example shows—SS-men with backbone and a sense of duty,professional ethics and the courage to stand up for their beliefs.At the end of the comments section of the Memorandum of May 9,1943, we find:“As stop-gap measure until that time, the Brigadier General providesthe loan of a new short-wave delousing platoon.” (Emph. added.)147 TCIDK 502-1-322-219148 TCIDK 502-1-322-31149 Taken from a letter of March 23, 1944 to the Zentralbauleitung (Central Construction Office)in Auschwitz, TCIDK 502-1-332-175.150 TCIDK 502-1-332-28151 TCIDK 502-1-332-212152 TCIDK 502-1-149-13572