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My investigations in the concentration camp of Auschwitz were triggered by a small package in the military mail. It was a somewhat small packet, long rather than short, an ordinary box, which had probably come to the attention of the postal service because of its enormous weight, and the customs investigators had confiscated it because of its contents. It contained three lumps of gold. Gold was a currency subject to inspection, and that is how it came to be confiscated by the customs investigators. The sender was an SDG—that is, a medical assistant—in the concentration camp Auschwitz, and this packet was addressed to his wife. He came under the jurisdiction of the SS Police Court, and this confiscated mailing was directed to me, with a short notation; I think it was “for further action.”
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Twenty-fifth day of the proceedings, March 9, 1964
Examination of the witness Konrad Morgen1
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Dieckmann(2000), p. 247. Dieckmann writes, “The murder of the Jewish men was seen as a way of executing the order to ‘liquidate’ the Soviet leadership stratum” (p. 249). See Browning(2004), p. 259: “As in preinvasion memoranda and plans, German officials in the field hid ideological bias behind practical rationalizations, mostly by presenting anti-Jewish measures as part of a wider policy of ‘pacifying’ the occupied area.” See also p. 110: both Soviet commissars and Soviet Jews “would have to be eliminated” because “ultimately they were perceived as one.”
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Pauer-Studer, H., Velleman, J.D. (2015). Introduction. In: Konrad Morgen. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496959_1
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