1 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Cyclone B dropped into the death chamber from a small opening. It took from 3 to 15 2 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,319 minutes. We knew when the people were dead because their screaming stopped. After the 3 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:29,640 bodies were removed, our special commandos took off the rings and extracted the gold 4 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:39,879 from the teeth of the corpses. Children of tender years were invariably exterminated, 5 00:01:39,879 --> 00:01:51,640 since by reason of their youth they were unable to work. Is that all true and corre... 6 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,079 Yes. 7 00:01:56,079 --> 00:02:01,480 It was the British who obtained by torture the confession of Rudolf Hirst, Commandant 8 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:06,799 to Valschwitz, before turning him over to the Soviets and Poles. This has been confirmed 9 00:02:06,799 --> 00:02:12,599 in a book published in 1983 titled, Legions of Death, which contains the recollections 10 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:18,620 of British Sergeant Bernard Clark, who brags about having tortured Hirst to get a... 11 00:02:18,620 --> 00:02:26,700 out of him and of threatening his family. It was here that Hirst was hanged. 12 00:03:48,620 --> 00:04:14,200 I rather wish the Fuhrer had stood by his followers and taken the responsibility for 13 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:15,199 his command. 14 00:04:15,199 --> 00:04:18,199 Think of his position. 15 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:28,779 Oh sure. His position as chief war criminal, right? He was our sovereign. It would be 16 00:04:28,779 --> 00:04:35,099 intolerable for me to have him standing before a foreign court. 17 00:04:35,099 --> 00:04:42,199 You men knew the Fuhrer. He would be the first one to stand up and say, I gave the... 18 00:04:42,199 --> 00:04:52,719 and I shall take full responsibility. And I would rather die ten deaths than have the 19 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,880 sovereign subjected to such humiliation. 20 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:45,200 We also had an orchestra where some of the musicians stood together. One musician was 21 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:57,199 playing and he wrote the notes. So later on we had a band who played over the weekend. 22 00:07:57,199 --> 00:08:01,199 That was of course helping us. We also did plays and stuff. 23 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:04,199 Were there any cultural activities happening in Auschwitz? 24 00:08:04,199 --> 00:08:11,199 Yes. I told you we had a piano put into a, not just a piano, a grand piano was brought 25 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:16,199 into block one. Once that was built, that new block, the downstairs room was assigned 26 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:17,199 for theater. 27 00:08:17,199 --> 00:08:25,199 They said they're going to build a movie in the camp. The prisoners said, you must be 28 00:08:25,199 --> 00:08:32,200 crazy. They're going to make a movie for us in the camp. And it really happened. They 29 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:39,200 made a movie in the camp. And we went in barracks after barracks. We could go to see 30 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:48,200 a movie sometimes. They brought movies in the evening. 31 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,200 What kind of movies would they show? 32 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:57,200 German movies. Once I came to the main camp, they allowed twice a month to ride home. 33 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,200 Once a postcard and once a letter. 34 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:03,200 They gave you the materials? 35 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:08,200 Yes, they gave us the letter, the materials. 36 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:09,200 You had money? 37 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:17,200 Yes, we still got money. We got through the Jewish community from Vienna who sent us 38 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:22,200 everybody some money. 39 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,200 And in the camp you could have currency? 40 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:29,200 Yes, we could have money because there was in camp also what they call a canteen. 41 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:39,200 Not many times, but once in a while they sold a few cigarettes or they sold something, 42 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:47,200 whatever they had. So if you had money you could buy in the canteen there. Redeemable 43 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:59,200 in the canteen if they had something. So that was their way of distributing money to... 44 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,200 Everybody got this money. 45 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,200 The soccer teams were organized very well. 46 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:21,200 And one of the top enlisted SS men decided he wants to play for the Polish team. 47 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:27,200 So we said, okay, you can play. And then they commanded. 48 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:36,200 The SS commanded, he was like a captain. He decided to want to play for the German team. 49 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:42,200 So he went in the field. But that's happened. But it was 1944. 50 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:47,200 Is what you're saying then that the closer the end of the war came, 51 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:53,200 pressure was let up rather than becoming more cruel? 52 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:59,200 Freddy Hirsch called me to the children's barracks he was heading then. 53 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:04,200 And he asked me if I could paint something on the wall for the children. 54 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,200 And I said, well, if you can get the materials, he said, I'll get the materials. 55 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:15,200 I said, okay. And then a very handsome young blonde man from the men's camp came over o... 56 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:21,200 And Freddy Hirsch called me to come and meet him. And he asked me what I need. 57 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:28,200 So I said, well, if I can get any wall paints, so any tempera paints, I would lik... 58 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:32,200 If you can get me some. And he said, yes, anything you want. 59 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:41,200 So I made a painting of Dopey standing on another dwarf's head with a cloak around him. 60 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,200 So he looked like a tall guy. So he would be as tall as Snow White. 61 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:52,200 I now understand that there was another painter who continued something painting o... 62 00:11:52,200 --> 00:12:04,200 What did it do not only for you, but for the children on an emotional level? 63 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:10,200 Well, it did several things, not just emotional, but the children then wrote a... 64 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,200 which was a satire of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 65 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:23,200 The play was very successful because the little girl who was playing Snow White had... 66 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,200 a gorgeous soprano, just like the one that you hear in the movie. 67 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,200 And I think that's the most important thing. 68 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,200 I think that's the most important thing. 69 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,200 I think that's the most important thing. 70 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,200 I think that's the most important thing. 71 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,200 I think that's the most important thing. 72 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,200 I think that's the most important thing. 73 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,200 I think that's the most important thing. 74 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,200 I think that's the most important thing. 75 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,200 I think that's the most important thing. 76 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,200 I think that's the most important thing. 77 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,200 I think that's the most important thing. 78 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,200 I think that's the most important thing. 79 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,200 I think that's the most important thing. 80 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,200 I think that's the most important thing. 81 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,200 I think that's the most important thing. 82 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,200 I think that's the most important thing. 83 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,200 I think that's the most important thing. 84 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,200 I think that's the most important thing. 85 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,200 I think that's the most important thing. 86 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,200 I think that's the most important thing. 87 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,200 I think that's the most important thing. 88 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,200 I think that's the most important thing. 89 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,200 I think that's the most important thing. 90 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,200 I think that's the most important thing. 91 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,200 I think that's the most important thing. 92 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,200 I think that's the most important thing. 93 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,200 I think that's the most important thing. 94 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:51,200 Look down, look down, you'll always be a slave. 95 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:57,200 Look down, look down, you're standing in your grave. 96 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:02,200 Look down, look down, you'll always be a slave. 97 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:08,200 Look down, look down, you're standing in your grave.