Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Mattogno Carlo
Title : Sonderkommando Auschwitz 1 Nine eyewitness testimonies analyzed
Year : 2021

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Introduction. As is widely known, “Sonderkommando” is the term used for the labor units that, according to orthodox Holocaust historiography, consisted mostly of Jewish inmates and worked in the crematoria and the purported homicidal gas chambers at the Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps. According to the testimonies of persons claiming to have been participants, their main task was to extract corpses from the homicidal gas chambers after a mass execution, to remove from their corpses anything of potential value to the SS, and to either cremate them in cremation furnaces or in outdoor fires, or to bury them in mass graves. In the second half of 1942, they claim also to have been forced to exhume tens of thousands of corpses from mass graves, and to burn these on outdoor fires. Filip Müller (1922-2013), who was deported from Slovakia to Auschwitz on April 13, 1942, and registered there under Number 29236, is one of the best-known among the putative witnesses of the so-called “Sonderkommando” of the Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoria, and he is undoubtedly considered the most-authoritative in Western orthodox Holocaust historiography. For example, the late US historian Raul Hilberg explicitly recommended only two memoirs on Auschwitz in his main work The Destruction of the European Jews: the memoirs of the former camp commandant Rudolf Höss (Höss 1959) and of Filip Müller (Müller 1979b; see Hilberg 2003, p. 1331). Hilberg cites both works repeatedly in his book. But Müller is also highly appreciated in Polish historiography: in Volume III, “Mass Murder,” of the Auschwitz Museum’s five-volume work on the history of the camp, Franciszek Piper mentions him no less than 36 times! (Piper 2000) This dubious fame comes almost exclusively from his rather late and incredibly overrated 1979 book Auschwitz Inferno: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando. ...