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Although he became one of the early Nazi party members with reserve status in the SS, Hoess still planned to work a farm. But in 1934, when Himmler asked for volunteers for the concentration camps, Hoess could not resist what he thought of as a soldierly return to the colors...
...Himmler handpicked him to head up Auschwitz and a year later told him the camp's exact purpose: The Fuehrer had decided on "the final solution of the Jewish question." Translation: the Jews were to be massacred. Hoess did not quibble or quake. He even contributed a euphemism of his own: "The removal of racial-biological foreign bodies...
...death trains piled up at the Auschwitz sidings and Hoess's gassing and cremation schedules went hours awry, he pleaded with Himmler for more guards and materials. Himmler suggested using more dogs to herd the prisoners, but otherwise told Hoess that he would have to make do with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when...
Shortly before the beaten German armies surrendered in 1945, Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces, received a secret appeal from Nazi Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler...
...Charles de Gaulle, President of France, in the final volume of his memoirs (still to be published in the U.S.), made Himmler's message public and added: "Remove the flattery of myself contained in this message from the edge of the grave* and there certainly remained some truth in the glimpse of future possibilities that it offered...