A few select quotes from a interview Adolf Eichmann gave
to a "Dutch Nazi journalist" in 1955, the interview was
edited and appears in two 1960 issues of LIFE Magazine
Hitler's Jewish mistress / cook
"Some of my early work was with the Nürnberg laws, in
force since 1935. Under the formula adopted at that time
for "Final Solution of the Jewish Question," the laws
intended to drive Jews out of all phases of German life.
My experience in this field was often of a confidential
and rather embarrassing nature, as when I established
the the Führer's diet cook, who was at one time his
mistress, was 1/32nd Jewish. My immediate superior,
Lieutenant General Heinrich Müller, quickly classified
my report as Top Secret." source
Jews willingly jumped into the pits
"Müller had heard that Jews were being shot near
Minsk, and he wanted a report. I was there and
showed my orders to the local commander. "That's
a fine coincidence,"he said. "Tomorrow 5,000 of
them are getting theirs." ... When I rode out
the next morning, they had already started ... I
watched the last group of Jews undress, down to
their shirts. They walked the last 100 - 200
yards—they were not driven—then they jumped into
the pit. It was impressive to see them all
jumping into the pit without offering any
resistance whatsoever. The all the men of the
squad banged away into the pit with their rifles
and machine pistols." source
"I would have been a fanatical Zionist"
1937: Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Eretz Yisrael aka
British Mandate Palestine
"In 1937, after I had been struggling with Hebrew
for two and a half years, I had the chance to take a
trip to Palestine. We were most interested in the
Palestine emigration and I wanted to find out at
what point a new Jewish state in Palestine might be
set up. Unfortunately Palestine was then in turmoil,
and the British turned down my application for an
extended stay. I did see enough to be very impressed
by the way the Jewish colonists were building up
their land. I admired their desperate will to live,
the more so since I was myself an idealist. In the
years that followed I often said to Jews with whom I
had dealings that, had I been a Jew, I would have
been a fanatical Zionist. I could not imagine being
anything else. In fact, I would have been the most
ardent Zionist imaginable." source
Jews in the SS
Reinhard Heydrich Jewish
"In general we respected the Jewish
combat veterans of World War I. We even
had some Jewish SS men who had taken
part in the early struggles of the
Nazis—about 50 of them in Germany and
Austria. I remember giving my personal
attention to a Jewish SS sergeant, a
good man, who wanted to leave for
Switzerland. I had instructed the border
control to let him pass, but when he
reached the Swiss border he apparently
thought something had gone wrong. He
tried to cross illegally through the
woods and he was shot. He was a 100
percent Jew, a man of the most
honourable outlook." source
Expelled from the SS for beating up Jews
"Through all this period I saw the Jewish
problem as a question to be solved
politically. So did Himmler and the entire
Gestapo. It was not a matter of emotion. My
SS comrades and I rejected the crude devices
of burning temples, robbing Jewish stores
and maltreating Jews on the streets. We
wanted no violence. One of my former
officers was expelled from the SS for
beating up four or five Jews in the cellar
of our offices." source
Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto feared the Jewish
police far more than they feared the Nazi SS details
"Along with the liquidation camps we
continued to maintain the ghetto system. I
would not say originated the ghetto system.
That would be to claim too great a
distinction. The father of the ghetto system
was the orthodox Jew, who wanted to remain
by himself. In 1939, when we marched into
Poland, we found a system of ghettos already
in existence, begun and maintained by the
Jews. We merely regulated these, sealed them
off with walls and barbed wire and included
even more Jews than were dwelling in them.
The assimilated Jew was of course very
unhappy about being moved to a ghetto. But
the Orthodox were pleased with the
arrangement, as were the Zionists. The
latter found ghettos a wonderful device for
accustoming Jews for community living. Dr.
Epstein from Berlin once siad to me that
Jewry was grateful for the chance I gave it
to learn comunity life at the ghetto I
founded at Theresienstadt, 40 miles from
Prague. He said it made an excellent school
for the future Israel." source
Himmler doesn't like the Jews hurt
"I once saw a soldier beat a frail old Jew over
the head with a rubber club. I spoke to the
soldier, reported him to his commander and
demanded he be punished and demoted. Himmler
would not stand for that kind of thing. That is
sadism." source
Genocide buses
'Gaswagon' due to wartime fuel shortage,
retro-fitted to run on 'wood gas'
Public transport, not tool of genocide - details
"Arriving at Litzmannstadt, I drove out to the
designated place where a thousand Jews were
about to board buses. The buses were normal,
high-windowed affairs with all their windows
closed. During the trip, I was told, the carbon
monoxide from the exhaust pipe was conducted
into the interior of the buses. It was intended
to kill the passengers immediately. ... I had
been told that the whole process took only about
three minutes, but the buses rode along for
about quarter of an hour. ... The bus in which I
was riding turned and backed up before a pit
about two metres deep. The doors opened. Some
Poles who stood there jumped into the buses and
threw the corpses into the pit. I was badly
shaken by what I then saw. Another Pole with a
pair of pliers in his hand jumped into the pit.
He went through the corpses, opening their
mouths. Whenever he saw a gold tooth, he pulled
it out and dumped it into a small bag he was
carrying." source
"Auschwitz not primarily a death camp"
"... Commandant Hoess often complained about the
condition of Jews who arrived from Hungary. This
proves that Auschwitz was not primarily a death
camp. If Hoess simply sent the Jews into the
oven, it would not have made any difference to
him. He would not have complained to General
Pohl, his chief, when a few corpses were lying
around in the cars because people had given them
to little to eat or drink." source
Majority of Hungarian Jews not gassed
"All told, we succeeded in processing about half
a million Jews in Hungary. I once knew the exact
number that we shipped to Auschwitz, but today I
can only estimate that it was around 350,000 in
a period of about four months. But, contrary to
legend, the majority of the deportees were not
gassed at all but put to work in munitions
plants. That is why there are thousands of Jews
happily alive today who are included in the
statistical totals of the "liquidated." Besides
those we sent to Auschwitz, there were thousands
and thousands who fled, some secretly, some with
our connivance. It was child's play for a Jew to
reach relative safety in Rumania if he could
muster the few pengö to pay for a railroad
ticket or an auto ride to the border. There were
also 200,000 Jews left in a huge ghetto when the
Russians arrived, and thousands more waiting to
emigrate illegally to Palestine or simply hiding
out from the Hungarian gendarmerie."
Mountain of Jews not burnt in Auschwitz
ovens
"Auschwitz: SS soldiers burning prisoner
corpses" - Encyclopædia
Britannica
"I remember clearly the first time he guided me
around the camp. He showed me everything, and at
the end he took me to a grave where the corpses
of the gassed Jews lay piled on a strong iron
grill. Hoess's men poured some inflamable liquid
on them and set them on fire. The flesh stewed
like stewed meat. The sight made such an
impression on me that today, after a dozen
years, I can still see that mountain of corpses
in front of me." source
