Karl Alfred Schluch
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Karl Alfred Schluch, född 25 oktober 1905 i Lauenburg, var en tysk SS-officer; SS-Unterscharführer.
Schluch avlade sjuksköterskeexamen 1932 och inträdde i Nationalsocialistiska tyska arbetarepartiet (NSDAP) 1936.
Schluch deltog 1940-1941 i Nazitysklands eutanasiprogram Aktion T4 i Grafeneck och Hadamar. Efter att eutanasiprogrammet avbrutits tjänstgjorde han i Ryssland för Organisation Todt.
I april 1942 stationerades Schluch i förintelselägret Bełżec, där han förberedde de ankommande judarna för gaskamrarna och övervakade massgasningar.
1963 ställdes Schluch inför rätta vid Belzecrättegången men frikändes. I samband med rättegången avgav han bland annat följande vittnesmål:
| ” | After the gas chambers were aired out, a Jewish work commando under the direction of a capo arrived and took the corpses out of the chambers. I was also occasionally assigned to supervise at this place. Thus I can exactly describe the procedures, because I saw and experienced everything myself.
The Jews had been very tightly packed into the gas chambers. For this reason the corpses did not lie on the ground, but all leaned in a jumble this way and that, the one backwards, the other forwards, one prone to the side, the other kneeling, each according to the space around. The corpses were at least partially besmirched with excrement and urine, others in part with saliva. The lips and nose tips of some of the corpses had turned blue. With some the eyes were closed, with others the eyes had rolled. The corpses were pulled out of the chambers and immediately examined by one of the dentists. The dentist removed rings from the fingers and pulled out gold teeth. The valuables recovered in this way were tossed into a box that had been provided. After this procedure the corpses were thrown into the large graves nearby. |
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— http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/browning5.htm. (ZStL, 208 AR-Z 252/59, vol. 8, pp. 1512-13) |
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