Preparation of mass liquidation of prisoners in Terezin


Preparation of mass liquidation of prisoners in Terezin

I quote from the book The Little Fortress Terezin published as the first publication of this kind in 1950

The Nazis threatened the prisoners of the Small Fortress with another, much more terrifying ending than what happened with the rapid advance of the Red Army.
According to the testimony of Jockl, Schmidt and Hohause, it was found out in Prague that the Gestapo had already considered the destruction of the Terezín police prison and the ghetto in the event of the end of the war or retreat in late 1944. Jockel attended several meetings in Prague, made some suggestions and held a meeting with his subordinates. He investigated whether the railways could, for example, dispatch displacement transports for 3,500 prisoners in case of retreat. He also thought that if all the prisoners in the Terezin prison were to be killed by gas, it would be impossible to bury or burn the corpses. Therefore, he thought it would be best to burn the prisoners with flamethrowers, but they would have to be asked for special military platoons in Terezina.
In this sense, Schmidt wrote the confidential report of the Prague Gestapo chief, dr. Gierkemu. Hohaus confirms Jockl with the warders of spring 1945. At that time, Jockel announced that at least 700 XYZ prisoners had to be killed by the Prague order - getspa - to liquidate the prison.
He complained that von Berg, the commander of the Litoměřice concentration camp, refused to cremate such a large number of dead in the Litomerice auxiliary crematorium at Richard.
He commented on the plan of 700 XYZ prisoners to poison and wanted Hohaus to poison him. Even Hohaus and Fischer, the guards, were against it, and after lunch Hohaus went to Jockon to the apartment, where he told him not to dare such a crime that it would remain on him, and that she could not make excuses for Prague. Jockel himself said he had received an order from the deputy head of the Prague Gestapo Andrese in the beginning of 1945 to poison XYZ prisoners, whose number was 900. The poison was to obtain himself. When he got it, he was dr. Gierek put it to use disinfectant tablets. Therefore, he ordered Rojek to test the effect of tablets as a poison on several prisoners in solitary confinement. Rojko did this, but the poison did not work.
At the next meeting at the Gestapo in Prague, Andres proposed to shoot the prisoners, but dr. Gierke wanted to kill the prisoner with a cyclone gas.
Gas was supposed to provide Major. Steindamm, from dep. IV / 3 "Abwehr". However, he did not supply any poison gas to Terezín. Apparently dr. Gierke and dictated a secret letter whose purification under the brand ABCD was written by the superintendent Schmidt, which concerned the poisoning of XYZ prisoners and the transfer of some groups of prisoners from Terezín.
Thereafter, a commission was held in Terezin and a meeting on the destruction of the prison building, where the criminal council of Schulz from the Prague Gestapo, the commander of the ghetto Rahm, and two officers from the SS intelligence school in Litoměřice came.
It was agreed that all prisoners from the Small Fortress would be driven to IV. yard, where they will be killed by gun rifle, armored fist and other explosives. The mass execution was to be carried out by a SS guard in Terezin. Interned Jewish prisoners in the Terezín Main Fortress - the ghetto, called the Ghetto, were to be killed in the same way in a large moat on the Bohušovice side of the Ohře, where a wall was built for this purpose. Strength objects were to be destroyed by explosives.
These measures were not carried out simply because the preparations for them were budgeted for longer than the Red Army had achieved in Berlin and at the same time the Czech-Moravian border.

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