A Brief List of the Conveniently Deceased
Below I have compiled a list of former NS bureaucrats and camp
personnel who after the war died in a fashion which could be described
as “convenient” to the upholders and propagators of the officially
sanctioned Holocaust narrative. They are all individuals who must
have had insight into the truth regarding the “Final Solution” and
the alleged gas chambers. A number of them are also known to have
denied the existence of such killing facilities. Most of the listed
people committed suicide, many of them under mysterious circumstances.
The author of this article does not suggest that all of them were
assassinated. Some of them may indeed have ended their own lives,
for some reason or other. In any case, their deaths no doubt came
convenient for certain people. It is my hope that this list will
spur new research into some of the individual cases.
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Heinrich Himmler (b. 1900) was the head
of the SS and thus the highest responsible for the “Final solution
to the Jewish problem,” by orthodox historians alleged to have
meant the physical extermination of the European Jewry. After
wandering the Flensburg area carrying false papers, Himmler
was arrested by British troops on May 22, 1945. According to
the official narrative, Himmler committed suicide late on May
23 by biting into a cyanide capsule which he had somehow managed
to keep hidden inside his mouth for a whole day, despite eating
a sandwich and being searched by his captors in the meantime.
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Richard Baer (b. 1911) was commandant of
Auschwitz I from May 11, 1944 and of Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
from the end of 1944 until the evacuation of the camp in January
1945. After the war he lived near Hamburg under the assumed
name Carl Neumann, working as a forester. He was arrested on
December 21, 1960, and soon became the main prosecuted at the
Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, then in preparation. Baer however
never testified before the court, since he died in his prison
cell in June 1963. The cause of death is variously given by
historians as “natural causes” or “circulatory ailments,” but
the autopsy did not rule out “ingestion of an odorless, non-corrosive
poison” (cf. W. Stäglich, Auschwitz: A judge looks at the
evidence, pp. 233-5). According to a brief article in the
French right-wing newspaper Rivarol Baer had denied any
knowledge of homicidal gas chambers during his pre-trial interrogations.
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Josef Kramer (b. 1906) was the commandant
of Birkenau from May to December 1944. In a lengthy statement
made by Kramer to his British captors on May 22, 1945, he explicitly
denied the existence of gas chambers at Birkenau. Kramer was
sentenced to death at a trial concerning his time as commandant
of the Bergen-Belsen camp. He was hanged on December 13, 1945.
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Friedrich Hartjenstein (b. 1905) was together
with Kramer in charge of Birkenau from the end of November 1943
to the beginning of May 1944. He was sentenced to death twice:
first by a British tribunal on June 5, 1946, the second time
by a French tribunal on July 2, 1954. None of the sentences
were related to his activity at Birkenau. He allegedly died
of a heart attack in his Paris prison cell on October 20, 1954.
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Odilo Globocnik (b. 1904) was the SS and
Police Leader of the Lublin District of the General Government
and responsible for the construction of the alleged “pure extermination
camps” Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. According to most accounts,
Globocnik allegedly poisoned himself with a cyanide capsule
just after being captured by British troops in Austria on May
31, 1945. Other sources claim he was killed by partisans or
Jewish “avengers” in May or June 1945.
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Hermann Höfle (b. 1911) was Globocnik’s
deputy and responsible for deportations of Jews to the Aktion
Reinhardt camps. After the war he was interned by British forces
but soon released. He allegedly committed suicide by hanging
himself in a prison cell in Vienna on August 20, 1962, just
before his trial was to begin.
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Irmfried Eberl (b. 1910) was the first commandant
of Treblinka and a former euthanasia doctor. After the war Eberl
undisturbed practiced as a physician in the Austrian town of
Blaubeuren . He was arrested on January 8, 1948 by the American
occupying forces. He allegedly committed suicide by hanging
in his custody cell on February 16, 1948.
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Franz Paul Stangl (b. 1908) served as commandant
of Sobibor from March to September 1942, and as commandant of
Treblinka from September 1942 to August 1943. After the war
he was briefly interned but released and fled to Syria . In
1951 he and his family migrated to Brazil , where Stangl, living
under his own name, worked at a Volkswagen factory. He was arrested
in 1967 and extradited to West Germany , where he was sentenced
to life in prison in 1970. While awaiting appeal he met and
talked to Jewish journalist Gitta Sereny, who later published
alleged transcripts of the conversations in her book Into
that Darkness (1974). On June 28, 1971, the day after their
last conversation, Stangl suddenly died, allegedly from a heart
attack.
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Gustav Franz Wagner (b. 1911) was reportedly
deputy commandant at Sobibor. After the war Wagner migrated
to Syria and later in the early 1950’s to Brazil , where he
lived under his own name, working as a farmhand. After Simon
Wiesenthal initiated a hunt for a man falsely identified as
him, the real Wagner voluntarily handed himself over to the
Brazil special police in São Paulo , on May 30, 1978. According
to an article in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, June
2, 1978, Wagner had stated to the police: “I never saw any gas
chamber at Sobibor” ( Eu nunca vi nenhuma camara de gas em
Sobibor). On June 22, 1979, the Rio Supreme Court dismissed
all claims for Wagner’s extradition. On October 30, 1980, Wagner
allegedly committed suicide by stabbing himself to death in
the bathroom of his rural home. The circumstances of the suicide
have been deemed suspicious even by some exterminationist writers.
Brazil citizen and former Sobibor inmate Stanislaw Szmajzner,
who “confronted” Wagner at the time of his arrest, has let out
that he “believes” that Wagner was in fact killed by Jewish
“avengers” (Die Zeit, October 11, 1991). The author is
currently researching the Wagner case together with local Brazilian
revisionists.
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Kurt Bolender (b. 1912) was another SS posted
at Sobibor. When arrested in 1961, he initially denied killings
at the camp. He is alleged to have committed suicide by hanging
on October 21, 1966, just before his sentence was pronounced.
According to the American magazine Time, Bolender left
behind a suicide note stating that he was innocent.
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Kurt Gerstein (b. 1905) was an engineer
and SS hygiene technician who in Allied captivity after the
war claimed to have visited Belzec and to there have witnessed
a gassing of Jews. He wrote a number of “reports” concerning
the alleged visit, which were later presented as “undisputable
proof” of homicidal gas chambers. On July 25, 1945, soon after
the French started interrogating him, Gerstein was found hanged
in his cell. Gerstein’s widow was not informed about her husband’s
death until June 1948 (cf. Henri Roques, The “Confessions
of Kurt Gerstein”).
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Alexander Laak , former commandant of the
Jägala camp in Estonia where a large number of Jews were supposedly
massacred, is alleged to have committed suicide by hanging in
his garage in Winnipeg , Canada . A number of Laak’s subordinates
had at the time been given harsh sentences at a Soviet show
trial. According to an article in Der Tagespiegel September
8, 1960, Laak had declared the Soviet allegations against him
to be “99% lies and Communist propaganda.” In Michael Elkin's
book Forged in Fury (1971) it is claimed that a Jewish
"avenger" named Arnie Berg travelled to Winnipeg to kill Laak,
and that Laak hanged himself under Berg's supervision in order
to not have his wife shot by Berg.
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Herbert Cukurs was a Latvian who allegedly
participated in a massacre of 30,000 Jews in Riga . After the
war Cukurs lived in São Paulo , where he later was “recognized”
by two Jews and became a target of extreme harassment by the
local Jewish community. In 1965 Cukurs was tricked to go to
Uruguay , where he was brutally murdered with gun shots and
hammer blows from unknown perpetrators. His dismembered remains
were then sent back to his family in a box. According to the
newspaper Folha de São Paulo, Cukurs had insisted to his family
that he was innocent of the allegations.
The above list should by no means be considered complete.
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