Nuremberg documents on display in Berlin
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In a typewritten affidavit, former Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess admitted that “victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and burning.” In handwritten notes from the 1945 interrogation of Robert Ley, the Nazi official blames Germany for its own defeat, saying the country was “too lazy and too incompetent.”
The documents used by prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials to help convict top Nazis are among a trove of some 500 pages that surfaced last year at a flea market in Tel Aviv. About 20 pages went on display yesterday at the Berlin Jewish Education Center, where they will be available for the public to see through January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day, before they are sold at auction in Israel.
“Such documents help people to understand, to learn and to remember,” he said.
The landmark Nuremberg trials began in November 1945 and established for the first time charges like “war crimes” in international law.
Of the 23 defendants, 12 were sentenced to death including Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler’s air force chief and top aide.
Ley committed suicide before the trial began. Auschwitz commandant Hoess was only called as a witness in Nuremberg but was later convicted and executed in Poland. Hitler’s similarly named deputy, Rudolf Hess, was sentenced to life in prison.
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