"But the report is clinical and dispassionate, and really buries the lede: the core revelation—that most Jewish deportees to Auschwitz are gassed on arrival—doesn’t come until eight pages in, and even then is delivered almost as an aside:
This whole convoy consisted of about 1,600 individuals of whom approximately 200 girls and 400 men were admitted to the camp, while the remaining 1,000 persons (women, old people, children as well as men) were sent without further procedure from the railroad siding directly to the Birch forest, and there gassed and burned."
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First seen: 2026-08-18 ·
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