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Index to items on SS officer Kurt Gerstein

Disussion of Kurt Gerstein by David Irving and defence expert witnesses in the Lipstadt Trial (download daily transcript and search for “Gerstein”):
Trial Transcript, Day [10] [14] [17] [20] [27] [29] [32] or Download whole trial as text file (needs StuffIt Expander); R. D. Jaeger’s commentary on historian Sir Martin Gilbert’s treatment of the “Gerstein Report” | How Sir Martin Gilbert falsified Kurt Gerstein’s testimony on the Nazis; Kurt Gerstein was an art thief: are no memories sacred?; On the “madman” Kurt Gerstein see Prof Raul. Hilberg’s testimony, 1985; Henri Rocques: Thesis mark condemned | France stops doctorate on Nazi gas chambers | IHR publishes thesis as book | Gerstein photo (right) a fake?; David Irving writes 1994 to The West Australian, about identical quantities of Zyklon-B canisters shipped to Auschwitz and Oranienburg (a non-“gas-chamber” camp); Adalbert Rückerl writes at length to David Irving defending the Gerstein report; Prof Raul Hilberg admitted in 1985 that he quoted “madman” Kurt Gerstein selectively; BILD Zeitung publishes (8.11.08) new-found Auschwitz dossier – with unexpected content: 2pp conference report shows Untersturmführer Kurt Gerstein, discussing gas chambers in camps – “[he] stated that one-fiftieth of the prisoner-total would have to be deloused every day”. Document Page 1 | 2 – see Our dossiers on The Gerstein Report | on Auschwitz