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Shoah Page #11
How many quarts of beer a day
do you sell?
400, 500 quarts.
- What?
- 400, 500 quarts.
- [ Repeats Phrase]
- Hier.
That's a lot!
[ German ]
Have you worked here long?
- Around 20 years.
- [ Repeats Phrase]
: 3%:
Why are you hiding...
- I have my reasons.
- Your face?
- I have my reasons.
What reasons?
- Never mind.
- Why not?
[ Lanzmann]
Do you recognize this man?
No?
Christian Wirlh?
Mr. Oberhauser!
Do you remember Belzec?
No memories of Belzec?
Nein?
Nein?
Of the overflowing graves?
You don't remember?
MUNICH:
WUPPERTAL:
ANTON SPIESS,German state prosecutor
at the Treblinka trial (Frankfurt, 1960)
[ In German]
When the Action itself first got under way,
it was almost totally improvised.
At Treblinka, for example,
the commandant, Dr. Eberl,
let more trains come in
than the camp could handle.
It was a disaster!
Mountains of corpses!
Word of this foul-up
reached the head of the Reinhard Action,
Odilo Globocznik, in Lublin.
He went to Treblinka
to see what was happening.
There's a very concrete
account of the trip
by his former driver, Oberhauser.
Globocznik arrived
on a hot day in August.
The camp was permeated
with the stench of rotting flesh.
Globocznik didn't even bother
to enter the camp.
He stopped here,
before the commandant's office,
sent for Dr. Eberl
and greeted him with these words,
How dare you accept
so many every day
when you can only process 3,000?
Operations were suspended,
Eberl was transferred and Wirth came,
followed immediately by Stangl,
and the camp was completely reorganized.
The Reinhard Action
covered 3 extermination camps:
Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec.
There's also talk of 3 death camps
on the Bug River,
for they were all located
on or near the Bug.
The gas chambers
were the head of the camp.
They were built first,
in the woods, or in a field,
as at Treblinka.
The gas chambers were
the only stone buildings.
All the others were wooden sheds.
These camps weren't built to last.
Himmler was in a huny
to begin the 'final solution.
The Germans had to capitalize
and use this remote back-country
to carry out their mass murder
as secretly as possible.
So at first they couldn't
manage the perfection
[ Interpreter #1, In French]
Near the end of March 1942...
sizeable groups of Jews
were herded here,
groups of 50 to 100 people.
Several trains arrived...
with sections of barracks,
with posts, barbed wire, bricks...
and construction
of the camp as such began.
[Train Whistle Blows]
The Jews unloaded these cars...
and carted the sections
of barracks to the camp.
The Germans made them
work extremely fast.
When we saw the pace they worked at...
It was extremely brutal.
When we saw the complex being built,
and the fence,
which, after all, enclosed a vast space...
we realized that
what the Germans were building
wasn't meant to aid mankind.
[ Wind Whistling ]
Early in June...
I'd say there were over 40 cars.
With the convoy
were SS men in black uniforms.
It happened one afternoon.
He had just finished work.
JAN PIWONSKI:
But he got on his bicycle and went home.
[ In French]
Why?
[ Interpreter #1 Murmurs In French]
I merely thought
these people had come to build the camp,
as the others had before them.
That convoy...
There was no way
of knowing that it was...
the first earmarked for extermination.
- Besides...
- [ Piwonski Continues]
He couldn't have known that Sobibor...
[ Piwonski Continues]
Would be a place for the mass
extermination of the Jews.
The next morning,
when I came here to work,
the station was absolutely silent,
and we realized,
after talking with the Poles
who worked at the station here,
that something utterly
incomprehensible had happened.
First of all, when the camp
was being built,
there were orders shouted in German,
there were screams,
Jews were working at the run,
there were shots,
and here there was that silence...
[ Interpreter #1 ]
Mm-hmm.
No work crews,
[ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]
40 cars had arrived,
and then... nothing.
It was all very strange.
[ Lanzmann ]
It was the silence that tipped them off?
That's right.
- Can he describe that silence?
- [ interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]
- It was a silence...
Nothing was going on in the camp.
You heard nothing.
Nothing moved.
So then they began to wonder...
Where have they put those Jews?
[ MUIIer, In German]
Cell 13, Block 11 at Auschwitz 1,
is where
the Special Work Detail was held.
The cell was underground, isolated.
For we were...
bearers of secrets,
we were reprieved dead men.
We weren't allowed to talk to anyone,
or contact any prisoner,
even the SS.
Only those in charge of the Action.
There was a window.
We heard what happened in the courtyard.
The executions,
the victims' cries, the screams,
but we couldn't see anything.
This went on for several days.
from the political section.
It was around 4 A.M.
The whole camp was still asleep.
There wasn't a sound in the camp.
We were again taken out of our cell
and led to the crematorium.
There, for the first time,
I saw the procedure used
with those who came in alive.
We were lined up against a wall
and told, No one may talk
to those people.
Suddenly, the wooden door
to the crematorium courtyard opened,
and 250 to 300 people filed in:
old people, and women.
They carried bundles,
wore the Star of David.
Even from a distance, I could tell
they were Polish Jews,
probably from Upper Silesia,
from the Sosnowiec ghetto,
some 20 miles from Auschwitz.
FILIP MULLER:
I caught some of the things they said.
I heard fachowitz,
meaning skilled worker.
And Malach-ha-Mavis,
which means
the angel of death in Yiddish.
Also, harginnen:
They're going to kill us.
From what I could hear,
I clearly understood
the struggle going on inside them.
Sometimes they spoke of work
probably hoping
that they'd be put to work.
Or they spoke of Malach-ha-Mavis,
the angel of death.
The conflicting words echoed
the conflict in their feelings.
Then a sudden silence
fell over those gathered
in the crematorium courtyard.
All eyes converged
on the flat roof of the crematorium.
Who was standing there?
Aumeyer, of the SS,
Grabner,
the head of the political section,
and Hossler, the SS officer.
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