17 short tons, 34,000 pounds of gold, would
be a cube around 3ft²
(gold's 19.3 times heavier than water) &
worth $750,691,162.00 today.
Charles Sigismund Bendel was a Romanian Jewish doctor, forced to
work as a sonderkommando in
Auschwitz-Birkenau's gas chambers.
He testified at the trial of Bruno Tesch, the man who co-invented
Zyklon-B, an insecticide. Tesch was sentenced to hang.
From Bendel's trial testimony:
He testified at the trial of Bruno Tesch, the man who co-invented
Zyklon-B, an insecticide. Tesch was sentenced to hang.
From Bendel's trial testimony:
MAJOR DRAPER: Was the gold preserved from the teeth or all the teeth?
DR. BENDEL: The National Socialist government said they did not care about gold; still they managed to get 17 tons of gold out of the four million bodies.
