"When in the summer of 1941 he (Hitler) gave me the order to prepare installations at Auschwitz where mass exterminati…"

"Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would…"

"There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political rea…"

"We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories,…"

"You become hard when you carry out such orders."

"One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest …"

"This mass extermination, with all its attendant circumstances, did not, as I know, fail to affect those who took part…"

"Those not able to work were marched to the farmhouses. These were a good kilometer from the side track. There they we…"

"I believed that crematoriums could be erected fast and so wanted to burn the corpses in the mass graves in the cremat…"

"They developed out of the situation. The courts brought in a lot of people who had to be shot. I always objected to h…"