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Kurt Gerstein
Kurt Gerstein wearing SS2 "Germania" collar tab
Born
(1905-08-11)11 August 1905 Münster, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died
25 July 1945(1945-07-25) (aged 39) Paris, France
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Years of service
until 1945
Rank
SS-Obersturmführer
Unit
Death's Head Units
Kurt Gerstein (11 August 1905 – 25 July 1945) was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS). After witnessing mass murders in the Belzec and Treblinka Nazi extermination camps, Gerstein gave a detailed report to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to Swiss diplomats, members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, and to the Dutch government-in-exile, in an effort to inform the international community about the Holocaust as it was happening. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust. He died of an alleged suicide while in French custody.
KurtGerstein (11 August 1905 – 25 July 1945) was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS...
The Gerstein Report was written in 1945 by KurtGerstein, Obersturmführer of the SS-TV, who served as Head of Technical Disinfection Services of the SS...
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17–39. Retrieved 28 January 2015. Browning 1998, p. 116. KurtGerstein (4 May 1945). "Gerstein Report, in English translation". DeathCamps.org. Retrieved...
prisoners via mass shooting, starvation, torture, etc. SS Obersturmführer KurtGerstein of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS, told a Swedish diplomat...
somehow became the property of SS officer KurtGerstein. A pre-war expert in decontamination techniques, Gerstein was assigned to the Hygiene Institute of...
December 2013. Langowski, Jürgen (2013). "Der Gerstein-Bericht" [Gerstein Report by Obersturmführer KurtGerstein]. Dokumente zum Nationalsozialismus (in German)...
large crowd [i.e. 750 people] into such a small space. According to KurtGerstein, the figure of 750 victims per gas chamber was provided by the camp's...
in the living quarters. Carbon monoxide poisoning Cyanide poisoning KurtGerstein Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe construction Methyl cyanoformate...
every day—dollars, diamonds, gold. You'll see for yourself!" — KurtGerstein, Gerstein Report In the last phase of the camp operations, all prior mass...
Hanging Scheveningen, Netherlands December 13, 1945 50 years, 49 days KurtGerstein† Paris, France July 25, 1945 39 years, 348 days Paul Giesler* Firearm...
Kollwitz, film director Roman Karmen, poet Anna Akhmatova, SS officer KurtGerstein, activists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, as well as German general...
Gerhard Friedrich Peters, implicated himself. He received information by KurtGerstein about the murder of people using Zyklon and was informed that the German...
manager of Degesch is said to have learned about the gassings from KurtGerstein of the SS. According to the post-war testimony of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz...
(SS-Standartenführer, SS-No. 273083). In August 1942 he witnessed, together with KurtGerstein, the gassing of Jews in Bełżec extermination camp. He may also share...
witnesses were heard, including Professor Wilhelm Pfannenstiel, who with KurtGerstein in August 1942 witnessed the gassing of Jewish victims at Belzec; Belzec...
audience saw it in its original form. It includes the true story of KurtGerstein. Gerstein, a devout Protestant and later a member of the SS, wrote an eyewitness...
Ulrich Mühe - from the play Der Stellvertreter by Rolf Hochhuth), as KurtGerstein 2002: Solaris (Director: Steven Soderbergh) (with George Clooney and...
the Land Army Henri Roques (French negationist), The Confessions of KurtGerstein, Institute for Historical Review, 1989 Jean Plantin (French negationist)...
Danz John Demjanjuk Margot Dreschel Feodor Fedorenko Hans Hoffmann KurtGerstein Paul Götze Irma Grese Karl-Friedrich Höcker Karl Jeschke Oswald Kaduk...
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