Your Questions About Commandant Of Auschwitz

Lizzie asks…

Why in Dec 1942 did Himmler order the "death rate absolutely must be reduced" at Auschwitz?

►►From the Nuremberg Trial records◄◄ Copy of a letter from the SS Main Camp Office of Economic Administration to all concentration camps. SS Main Office of Economic Administration Service Group D Concentration Camp D III/Az.: 14 n (KL) 12.42 Lg/Wy Oranienburg 28 December 1942 Regarding: Medical Activities in the Concentration Camps Refence:... without Enclosure: 1 SECRET TO the 1. Camp Doctors of the Concentration Camps Da., Sh. Bu., Neu., Au., Rav., Flo., Lu., Stu., Gr-Ro., Nied., Natz., Hinz., Mor., Herzog., Mau., Copy to Camp Commandants In the inclosed a compilation of the current arrivals and departures in all the concentration camps is sent to you for your information. It discloses that out of the 136,000 arrivals about 70,000 died. With such a high rate of death the number of the prisoners can never be brought up to the figure as has been ordered by the Reichsfuehrer of the SS. The 1. camp doctors must use all means at their disposal to reduce essentially this death rate in the various camps. The best doctor in a concentration camp is not the one, who believes that he must stand out for uncalled severity , but the one who by his supervision and exchange keeps the working capacity at the various labor commands at the highest possible level. The camp doctors must supervise more often than in the past the food of the prisoners and, with approval of the administration, submit improvement prop osals to the camp commandants. These, however, must not only appear on paper, but must be controlled regularly by the camp doctors. Furthermore, the camp doctors are to see to it that the working conditions at the the various labor places are improved as much as possible. To this purpose it will be necessary that the camp doctors inspect the labor places on the ground and convince themselves about the conditions of work. The SS Reichsfuehrer has ordered that the death rate absolutely must be reduced. For this reason the aforementioned has been ordered and a monthly report on this matter is to be submitted to the Chief of the Department D III. The first report to be submitted on 1 February 1943. [Signature illegible] Klueder [?] SS Brigadefuehrer and Major General of the Arms (Nuremberg Trial Document PS-2171, Annex 2. NC&A Red Series, Vol. 4, pp. 833-834.) http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/NT_Nazi_Vol-IV.pdf

Our pick of the answers:

"but the one who by his supervision and exchange keeps the working capacity at the various labor commands at the highest possible level." That's a puzzler, alright.

Betty asks…

whats that word.. the one they called the Jewish people during WW2?

i know its bad. and i respect you for saying it. im reading the boy in the striped pyjamas and its from an 8 year old German boy's perspective. hes the son of a Nazi commandant. and his father runs the Auschwitz concentration camp. one of the soldiers yells at a Jewish man, and the boy says he called him a word that he didnt understand, nor even know, though it seemed very harsh? what word is that? i cant remember. i know its very offensive. equivalent to the N-word. no, the book is written in English.

Our pick of the answers:

Kike? But it means nothing to me? I just watch old movies where the Italian mobsters call Jews that.

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