Inspecting the gas chambers
18th August 1942: A German eyewitness account of the final moments of thousands of men, women and children
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Kurt Gerstein had been imprisoned by the Nazis before the war because of his religious convictions and anti-Nazi activities.
But in 1941 he cha…
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