Hugo Falkenstein | Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz, February 24, 1945

Hugo Falkenstein Oszwiencin [sic]; Auschwitz, former concentration camp, Block 21

“Auschwitz is another of those places where the bestiality of Hitlerism has exterminated millions and millions of humans, regardless of race, sex, or age, using a variety of methods and tricks that were as brutal and bestial as they were cunning. The perverted bestiality of this bandit from the darkest underworld has provoked the greatest mass murder and murder of nations in history. Auschwitz was the city where Jews, Poles, Germans, French, Italians, Greeks, Serbs, Croats, Hungarians, Czechs, Austrians, Dutch, Belgians, Norwegians, Russians, and prisoners of war—nearly all of them free-thinking people of an anti-fascist mindset—were delivered for mass murder, slave labor, castration, sterilization, gassing, being burned alive, for a wide variety of abuses, and for starvation. There is no battlefield in history, there has been no epidemic of such proportions, and never were so many millions of humans exterminated in mass murder in such a relatively small area per square kilometer as they were here…”

I do not wish to dwell on this appalling subject any longer, but........

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