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From: (Mike Curtis)
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Subject: Re: Hoess and Extermination
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In light of what Hoess said about selections and about Doctors looking
at people as they marched by we have the following from a Doctor

Major Winwood (defense) examines Fritz Klein(page 183):

Fritz Klein, . . . , I was born on 24th November, 1888, at Zeiden near
qualified as a doctor in Budapest . . .  .

Q: Where did you go in December, 1943?

A: I went to Auscwitz where Hoess was at that time Kommandant. Dr.
Wirtz was a senior doctor and told me where I had to work. I started
camp, then in the Jewish mixed family camp and finally in Auschwitz I.
There were seven or eight doctors in Auschwitz.

Q: Will you tell us what happened on selections?

A: Dr. Wirtz, when the first transport arrived, gave orders to divide
of fifteen. One looked at the person and, if she looked ill. asked a

Q: What happened to those people who were selected as capable of work?

A: The doctor had only to make the decision. What happened to them
afterwards was nothing to do with him.

Q: What happened to those people whom the doctors selected as unfit

A: The doctor had to make a selection but ad no influence on what was
to the gas chambers and the crematorium.

[ . . . ]

Q: Was your work completed when you had divided the transports into
fit for work or unfit?

A: Yes.

Q: Did you ever go down to the gas chamber yourself?

A: Yes, once, when it was not working. I had no duties to perform

Q: What was your personal opinion about this gas chamber business?

A: I did not approve, but I did not protest because that was no use at

[ . . . ]

Cross-examined by Colonel Backhouse (page 186):

Q: Dr. Klein, you are an educated man and were educated at a
did you not realize that that was murder?

A: Yes.

Q: Is it not true that those who were not fit for work were simply

A: Yes.

Q: Those who were fit to work were beaten to their work, starved and
not true?

A: I have not seen it happen, but if it did happen it was not right.

Q: Whilst you have been at concentration camps you have seen many
people beaten by the S.S.?

A: No, I have not seen that myself. I have received people into the
by Kapos and other inmates. I made a report to the Lagerfuehrer with
every beating.

[ . . . ]

Q: Have you seen S.S. women on these parades?

A: Yes.

Q: You, as a doctor, divided those who were healthy from those who
were to die, and S.S. marched them off?

A: Yes.

Q: Did none of them ever try to escape?

A: Sometimes.

[ . . . ]

Q: When the Hungarian transports arrived was the gas chamber working
day and night then?

A: It might have been.

Q: Were they not sent to the gas chamber?

A: I do not know exactly, but I believe so.
Mike Curtis


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