Fritz Buchholz's report about Auschwitz report.

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Fritz Buchholz's report about Auschwitz report.

Fritz Buchholz's report (dated 19 Jun 1945) describes the following in Auschwitz-Birkenau: sadistic camp guards; torture of inmates; the deaths of Jewish prisoners in gas chambers; confiscation and stockpiling of the arrivals' property; and the destruction of the camp's crematorium by the Nazi guards before the camp was overrun by the Soviet military.

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Buchholz, Fritz

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From Sep 1944 to Jan 1945, Fritz Buchholz was a prisoner in Auschwitz for having talked against Nazi Germany and having disseminated foreign news that he had heard on the radio. On 19 June 1945, Buchholz was a German prisoner-of-war in a U.S. Army prisoner-of-war camp in Cherbourg, France. Details of his life since the war are unknown. From the description of Fritz Buchholz's report about Auschwitz report. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 122557821 ...

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel

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