Andreas Pfaffenberger was a German
prisoner in Buchenwald concentration
camp. Sent there in
November 1938 for repeatedly getting
into physical altercations with Hitler's
brownshirts.
He claims he remained there until June 1944, when drafted into the military.
He surrendered to American troops November 2, 1944 and he wrote a patently fraudulent account of his time in Buchenwald. In his affidavit, which was used at the Nuremberg Trial, the legendary Nazi shrunken-heads make their first appearance along with the allegation Ilse Koch made human-skin lampshades
He claims he remained there until June 1944, when drafted into the military.
He surrendered to American troops November 2, 1944 and he wrote a patently fraudulent account of his time in Buchenwald. In his affidavit, which was used at the Nuremberg Trial, the legendary Nazi shrunken-heads make their first appearance along with the allegation Ilse Koch made human-skin lampshades
These are a few extracts from his
testimony:
Killed For Not Finishing Your Soup In 5
Minutes
"When we returned to our block at
night, we had to take off our shoes
and make our beds, which sometimes
took until 11 or 12 o'clock. Then
each of us received a cold bowl of
soup. If we didn't finish our soup
in five minutes we were beaten or
even killed by our superiors, the
criminals with green markings."
Lady of the Lampshades
"In
1939, all prisoners with
tattooing on them were ordered
to report to the dispensary. No
one knew what the purpose was.
But after the tattooed prisoners
had been examined, the ones with
the best and most artistic
specimens were kept in the
dispensary, and then killed by
injections, administered by Karl
Beigs, a criminal prisoner. The
corpses were then turned over to
the pathological department,
where the desired pieces of
tattooed skin were detached from
the bodies and treated. The
finished products were turned
over to SS Standartenfuehrer
Koch's wife, who had them
fashioned into lampshades and
other ornamental household
articles. I myself saw such
tattooed skins with various
designs and legends on them,
such as "Hans’l und Gret’l",
which one prisoner had had on
his knee and ships from
prisoners’ chests. This work was
done by a prisoner named
Wernerbach."
Nazi Head Shrinkers
"There I also saw the shrunken
heads of two young Poles who had
been hanged for having had
relations with German girls. The
heads were the size of a fist,
and the hair and the marks of
the rope were still there."
Latrine Jumping Jews
"To me it was a daily occurrence to see
how Scharfuehrer (Sergeant) Komnizer
drove Jews into a latrine. This latrine
was two meters wide and four meters
long. Komnizer would force his victims
to jump so that they would fall into the
offal and drown. Only after the hole was
filled would he allow other prisoners to
fish out the bodies and burn them."
Pigshit
"During his stay in Buchenwald from 1939
to 1940, Schaffuehrer Kuritz killed many
Jews with a club and made many more die
a horrible death in a pigsty. There the
Jews, forced first to shovel off the top
of a manure-pile, were then made to lie
down on the rest. Other prisoners were
compelled to shovel the manure back on
top of their comrades, after which they
were forced to do exercises on top of
the completed pile, while the victims
buried underneath choked to death."
Bolshevik borrowed tortured device
"Alfred
Richter and H/Scharfuehrer Sommer built
a wooden box 2 m long, 1 m wide and 70
to 80 cm high, which was fixed with
protruding nails and barbed wire on the
inside. Two at a time prisoners were
forced naked into this box and were kept
there until they were dead, while the
rest of as had to look on."
Human Christmas Tree
"On Christmas Eve 1938, a political
prisoner named Foerster was hanged as a
christmas Tree while all the other
prisoners had to fall in and watch him
for three hours."
Nazis in the Closet
"There was a cupboard, and on one
side of it a measuring stick,
graduated up to two meters. About a
foot below the top, the measuring
stick had a hole through it, which
was drilled all the side of the
cupboard. Next to this contraption
was a table covered with white
linen, and a radio. The floor was
thick with sawdust and blood. I
examined this carefully and I am
certain beyond doubt that the
victims were shot in the neck in
this room (Genickschuss). The table
was used as a stage prop for the
pretended medical examination, while
an SS-man fired the shots from
inside the cupboard. I was informed
by my comrades that H/Scharfuehrers
PAMBUS and SOMMER did the shooting
while others of the SS-men played
the parts of doctor and medical
personnel. Between 1940 and 1944,
40,000 men perished in this
"dispensary".
Jews forced to eat their excrement
"Often
I saw O/Scharfuehrer Grauls take Jews
into the woods, where he made them lower
their trousers, relieve themselves, and
then eat and swallow their excrement. If
a prisoner refused, he was given 25 or
30 lashes on his bare back-side."
Nazi Experiment
""Rebellious
elements" were sent to a special block,
No 47, where they were subjected to
experiments with poison. Only two or
three out of a hundred ever came back."
Nazis gave bonuses for killing prisoners
by the hat method
"When
we marched to work in the morning, we
were always afraid of the SS guards, who
would tear off our caps and throw them
on the ground a few feet away. Then if a
man tried to recover his cap he was
promptly shot by the guards, who had
been promised five days of special
furlough for every prisoner killed in
this manner."
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this is how ruthless these germans were.
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