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    Dachau
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    Dachau

    By Colonel William W. Quinn

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    Written by the staff of the U.S. 7th Army soon after its liberation, this report stands as evidence of some of the worst crimes of the Holocaust. The images contained within also document the inhuman suffering inflicted at Dachau.

    “DACHAU, 1933-1945, will stand for all time as one of history’s most gruesome symbols of inhumanity. There our troops found sights, sounds and stenches horrible beyond belief, cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible to the normal mind. DACHAU and death were synonymous.

    No words or pictures can carry the full impact of these unbelievable scenes but this report presents some of the outstanding facts and photographs in order to emphasize the type of crime which elements of the SS committed thousands of times a day, to remind us of the ghastly capabilities of certain classes of men, to strengthen our determination that they and their works shall vanish from the earth.

    The sections comprising this report were prepared by the agencies indicated. They remain substantially as they were originally submitted in the belief that to consolidate this material in a single literary style would seriously weaken its realism.”-Foreword.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNormanby Press
    Release dateNov 6, 2015
    ISBN9781786254474
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      Dachau - Colonel William W. Quinn

      This edition is published by PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING—www.picklepartnerspublishing.com

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      Text originally published in 1945 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2015, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      DACHAU

      BY

      WILLIAM W. QUINN

      Colonel, G.S.C.

      7th U.S. Army

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      FOREWORD 5

      DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP—OSS Section, Seventh Army 6

      SUMMARY 6

      HISTORY 9

      COMPOSITION 10

      ORGANIZATION 12

      GROUPINGS OF PRISONERS 14

      LABOR ALLOCATION OFFICE 14

      OTHER POSTS OF CONTROL 15

      NATIONAL GROUPS 16

      INTERNATIONAL PRISONERS’ COMMITTEE (IPC) 17

      DACHAU, CONCENTRATION CAMP AND TOWN—PWB Section, Seventh Army 19

      INTRODUCTION 19

      THE CAMP 21

      Es gibt einen Weg zur Freiheit 21

      The SS rarely murdered anyone 22

      THE TOWNSPEOPLE 24

      Wir sind aber alle belogen worden 24

      Was konnten wir tun? 25

      Ein Schandfleck für die ganze zivilisierte Menschheit! 27

      CONCLUSION 28

      DACHAU, CONCENTRATION CAMP—CIC Detachment, Seventh Army. 30

      MEMORANDUM 30

      LIBERATION 30

      LIFE AT DACHAU 32

      RECEPTION OF INTERNEES 32

      DAILY ROUTINE 32

      EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS 33

      SS AHNENERBE 33

      MALARIA EXPERIMENTAL STATION 33

      PHELEGMONE 34

      EXECUTIONS 34

      GAS CHAMBERS 34

      KREMATORIUM 35

      GUN EXECUTIONS 35

      DIARY OF E.K. 37

      20 November 1942. 37

      21 November 1942. 37

      22 November 1942. 39

      8 December 1942. 39

      10 December 1942. 41

      17 December 1942. 41

      19 December 1942. 41

      20 December 1942. 42

      21 December 1942. 42

      22 December 1942. 43

      23 December 1942. 43

      26 December 1942. 44

      STATEMENT OF E.H. 46

      SPECIAL CASE REPORTS 60

      SCHILLING, Kurt Karl, Dr. 60

      WIEBECK, Gerhard 60

      WELTER, Wilhelm—SS Oberscharführer 60

      SCHUSTER, Heinrich, Johann 60

      BOTTGER, Franz—SS Hauptscharführer 61

      KICK, Johann—SS Untersturmführer 61

      SUSE, Edmund Theodor—Member Gestapo—Paris 61

      LIHOTZKY, Roland—Member Gestapo—Prague 61

      RECHENBERGER 61

      MISCELLANEOUS 63

      ORGANIZATION CHART—DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP 64

      SURVEY OF INTERNEES AT DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP BY NATIONALITIES AT LIBERATION—29 APRIL 1945 65

      Number of Internees Processed Through Dachau 66

      Natural Deaths at Dachau 66

      Executions 66

      THE INTERNATIONAL PRISONERS’ COMMITTEE 67

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 69

      FOREWORD

      DACHAU, 1933-1945, will stand for all time as one of history’s most gruesome symbols of inhumanity. There our troops found sights, sounds and stenches horrible beyond belief, cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible to the normal mind. DACHAU and death were synonymous.

      No words or pictures can carry the full impact of these unbelievable scenes but this report presents some of the outstanding facts and photographs in order to emphasize the type of crime which elements of the SS committed thousands of times a day, to remind us of the ghastly capabilities of certain classes of men, to strengthen our determination that they and their works shall vanish from the earth.

      The sections comprising this report were prepared by the agencies indicated. They remain substantially as they were originally submitted in the belief that to consolidate this material in a single literary style would seriously weaken its realism.

      WILLIAM W. QUINN

      Colonel, G.S.C.

      A C of S, G-2

      7th U.S. Army

      DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP—OSS Section, Seventh Army

      SUMMARY

      At Dachau the only objective of the inmates was to survive under the most primitive and cruel conditions which constantly threatened their sanity and physical existence. Little more than this was humanly possible. As a result of these abnormal conditions, this camp of 30,000 men cannot be compared to the structure of any normal society differentiated by social classes, political, religious, or professional affiliations. Hence, neither normal moral standards nor normal political or sociological criteria are applicable to the Dachau situation.

      The inmates of the camp did not act as members of their former social class or as representatives of political or religious groups—whether they were professional men, workers, intellectuals, Communists, nationalists, Catholics, or Protestants—, but only as human beings in a struggle for survival against starvation and mass murders. This was true as much of the minority of those who took charge of the internal organization of the camp under the SS as of the majority of those who did not.

      Living under these abnormal conditions, the inmates, especially those who had gained a position of some power and security, were frequently degraded and degenerated to a criminal level copying the methods and practices of the SS for their own protection and benefit. Because so many of the administrative positions were held by German prisoners, rather strong anti-German sentiments developed among the non-German inmates of the camp.

      The only form of self-organization among the prisoners took place within the framework of the internal organization of the camp. The Labor Allocation Office (Arbeitseinsatz) and its subsidiary branches was the key agency which was successively in the hands of different cliques who frequently abused their position of power for the sake of personal advantages. These groups were composed largely of Germans until the last six months.

      Otherwise, the level of existence in the camp together with the insidious system of internal controls, whereby prisoners themselves were placed in the service of the SS, did not permit the emergence of any organizational form. There was no underground organization or political activity in the accepted sense of the word. Even expressions of mutual help and solidarity among members of the same national group never transcended the level of personal relations between people bound by friendships, common background, and language. They never took the form of organized action.

      Only during the last phase of the camp, an organizational network was set up between leading representatives of various nationalities which led to the formation of the international Prisoners Committee—today the highest authority in the camp. This Committee was concerned entirely with matters of self-help in preparation of the eventual liberation of the camp. It has never been dominated by any political program or orientation.

      This report is based on two days’ investigation of conditions in the Dachau Concentration Camp. It does not intend to give either an exhaustive history of the camp or a comprehensive survey of all aspects of camp life. Numerous reports are in the process of being written which, when completed, will give a full picture of the Dachau Concentration Camp. This report is concerned primarily with one aspect of life in Dachau: the internal organization of the camp, the evidence of self-administration among the prisoners and the emergence of special control and pressure groups, as well as the position of the various social, political, and national groups within this organizational framework.

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