Holocaust - Khurram Bukhari

Holocaust 88Erik Dorf’s DiaryBerlinSeptember 1939In twenty days, Poland has fallen.But military success is not all we seek. The security of the conqueredlands, the racial purity of that part of Poland which will be incorporatedinto Germany, the policies against Jews, Slavs and others in the“Government-General”—all these remain in a rather muddled state.Our office keeps getting annoying reports about the actions againstJews in Poland.It is not that the actions are against policy—Heydrich says weare fighting a double war, one against foreign armies, anotheragainst the Jewish conspiracy—but that they are haphazard,disorganized, piecemeal.The beards and earlocks of these strange Orthodox eastern Jewsseem to arouse our men. They cut them off, tear them off, burn them.Jews are herded into synagogues and the buildings are set afire.In Bielsko, Jews were strung up in the yard of a Jewish school, rubberhoses were shoved into their mouths, and the water turned on untiltheir stomachs burst.Rape is frequent, although the soldier who indulges his passion in thismanner runs the risk of a charge of race defilement.Jewish women are stripped and made to dance naked in thestreets—to the amusement of the Poles as well as our SS men.In one town, Jews were driven naked from a communal bath to aslaughterhouse, and burned alive.