JS-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Warsaw Ghetto, Gas Chamber

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JS-3100
• Professor: Smith Helmut

Document Summary

Walter stier--head of the train station at krakow (last switching station for major trains going to. Auschwitz: all trains coming from the east that went to auschwitz came through his district. Special trains--has to be ordered; more special trains during the war. "resettlement trains: claims to not have known about the final solution, knew about concentration camps (knew people held there), but not about the extermination taking place in the camps. "what happened was an outrage every decent person condemns it" "the poles didn"t have to be quiet about anything" (clear that he knew, but still carries idea that it is not to be discussed) "never utter words appropriate to the action being taken: to say something was "secret" was to draw attention to oneself and one"s actions. L means empty train (going back from camps: very little subtlety in numbering system, g stands for number of train cars.