Kurt Gerstein, SS officer

The list of the famous Steven Spielberg movie Schindler focuses on people like Oscar Schindler who are helping Jews escape the massacre of the Nazis and are at great risk for themselves and their families. These non-Jews are called just people of justice in all the countries of the world. They are the spiritual heirs of the 36 Gentiles mentioned in the Jewish legend and are not known for themselves or for the purpose of other generations, helping their compatriots at his desperate moment It is.

Holocaust survivor, writer Erie Wiesel, has offered his life to keep us from forgetting the Jewish experience. The Nobel laureate wrote as follows.

"There was darkness everywhere in that era, it seemed that all the doors of empathy were closed, both in heaven and on earth, the murderer was killed, the Jews died, the outside world was conspired or indifferent I took an attitude, please have the courage to care. "

The Holocaust systematically eliminated six million Jews during the massacre of the Nazis - in 1933, 9 million Jews lived in 21 countries in Europe occupied by Nazi Germany in 1945 It was. Two out of three European Jews were killed

There are four primitive extinct cells. Carbon monoxide gas from diesel engines is pumped to kill the victims. Kurt Gerstein, who gained detailed information on the SS, left Belzek a rare conditional description. In 1942, Kurt Gerstein was appointed head of the technical disinfection division of Waffen SS, and improved the efficiency of the chamber by purchasing highly toxic Zyklon B. In the late summer of 1942, he was sent to carry out his duties. Zyclon B enters Polish Nazi des camp instead of gas engine

AMEN (2002) Kurt Gerstein is the SS director of the SS Health Institute and is in charge of planning water purification and pest control programs. He was afraid that the use of a mixture of hydrogen cyanide such as Teflon B to combat diseases such as typhus was used to kill the Jews in the camp. In this movie directed by Costa Gavrás, Gerstein asked the Pope to stop the genocide with the help of a young pastor, but he did not serve anything. In this era of dark history, this movie again shows ugly human behavior This film depicts an alarming picture of the silence of the Vatican against the Holocaust. (Carinene Obadia)

On April 22, 1945, Kurt Gerstein surrendered to the French at the end of the war and he arrested him as a war criminal suspect. They took him to the Cherche-Midi army prison on July 5, 1945. After 20 days, Gerstein was found dead in the cell. Whether it is due to despair or suicide by not being able to stop the Holocaust, or whether he was murdered by other SS officials in prison, this is still a mystery. In prison, Gerstein submitted a detailed report on the atrocities of Belzek and Treblinka to the French intelligence team. His appointment provided the most detailed explanation of the Nazi murder factory at a later trial to the Allies and used it in Nuremberg. Kurt Gerstein 's report is probably the two most versions of the Holocaust - the most terrible witness record - handwritten French and German versions. - Loubulrow