Quote from man:
"Archive/File: camps/auschwitz/staff muench-testimony
Last-Modified: 1994/07/14
Testimony of Dr. Hans W. Muench
[Trials of War Criminals, Vol. VIII. p. 313-321]
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Q. What was your first impression of Auschwitz when you arrived?
A. I had already heard about extermination camps, and particularly
extermination camps for Jews, through reports over the Swiss radio
that I listened to regularly in the preceding years, but since I
considered this news to be propaganda, I did not believe it at the
time, because the facts that were being described seemed too
terribly outrageous to me. When I arrived in Auschwitz, and had to
convince myself personally that these reports were not exaggerated,
I was very much shaken emotionally."
now you refute it and then we start another round?
please let us stop this here, will you?
Alright, we are back to the point of debate. That, atleast, is better than the name calling, jumping of conclusions, you was engaged in when I simply dared to ask 2 questions. The Communists, who were well known for committing torture, first tried Muench. For some reason, Muench testified that he saw people being gassed. Later, in the trial which you quoted, he was expected to repeat the claims the Communists coerced him into making. He would have gotten the death sencence if he wasn't forthcoming enough. For the rest of his life, he became loved by Jews and he happily took advantage of all the travels and money that were given to him.
Dr. Münch (also known as "Moench" or "Mönch") was not a regular physician employed at Auschwitz, as he claims, but apparently a hygienist. His is not a name that appears frequently in the traditional Holocaust literature; he is, however, highly sought after by tabloid type media.
In other words, he is a "media-witness" who willingly bolsters the traditional version of a Hollywood-type "Holocaust." He likes the accolades accorded him, since he is willing to toe the politically correct line. He repeats tabloid-type stories.
He very willingly talks about "gassings" and "cremations" and is the kind that has actually "seen" flames shoot out of crematoria and has "smelled" the stench of burnt human bodies - stories that do not check out with what is known of cremations. (No flames. No smoke. No stench). Even a cursory knowledge of physics makes clear to a discerning reader that this is a man with a vivid but sieve-like imagination whose stories don't square with science.
His "testimony" is full of contradictions and mistakes of the most elementary kind that are easy to check out.
Summary:
What Muensch's declarations show once more is the total absence of value of testimonial court evidence without cross-examination or forensic investigation.
- Muench is also interesting because after his acquittal he testified at the IG Farben Trial (the one you quoted), one of the US run Nuremberg Trials after the IMT. On that occasion, he insisted that he heard about the gassings at Auschwitz first over the Swiss radio!!
âThe effects of the gas were observed through a peephole by an assigned doctor or the SS officer on duty. After three to five minutes, death could be certified, and the doors were opened as a sign that the corpses were cleared to be burned.â
Muench said he worked with Dr. Mengele, "a charming man", and that he just "refused" to do what he had been told to do.
- No chance, the SS in wartime would not have tolerated ârefusalâ.
Muench stated he saw thousands of people being "gassed" in Auschwitz. He says: "anyone who did not fit Hitler's idea of a pure Aryan race".
- This statement is totally absurd. Tens of millions of people who "did not fit Hitler's idea of a pure Aryan race" did survive the Nazi period, including hundreds of thousands in the camps.
A real beauty, Muench said:
"After three to five minutes, death could be certified, and the doors were opened as a sign that the corpses were cleared to be burned".
- Utterly impossible, contradicts the laws of physics and chemistry and is a pure invention. This man is just quoting worn out literary precedents.
Muench declared:
"I had to watch the operation of the gas chambers and then, when the bodies were dead, I had to sign the death certificates."
- Problem, the official story says there were no death documents for those allegedly "gassed".
Remember, this is a guy who claims to have taken part in 'gassings', but was curiously acquitted.
Muench is not an uninterested party with no stakes in the matter. He underwent trial in 1946-47 in Communist Krakow, Poland and whatever he said about his direct experience with the "Auschwitz gas chamber" back then compromises him today. Therefore his reason for re-stating an outdated version of the gas chambers story would simply be an attempt at coherent behaviour on his part, the desire not to be seen as a liar.
