"The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and advisor of Eichmann and Himmler in execution of this plan...He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz."
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In a conversation with Andrej Steiner in Bratislava (June 1944). The statement is uncorroborated, and historians dispute Wisliceny's claim.
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Dieter Wisliceny
Dieter Wisliceny (January 13 1911 – May 4 1948) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and a key executioner in the final phase of the Holocaust. Wisliceny was extradited to Czechoslovakia, where he was tried and hanged for war crimes in 1948.
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