July 15, 1964 - Karl Wolff (pictured right during WWII), a former general in the Nazi SS (Elite Guard), told a Munich court today that he assumed during the war that Nazi concentration camps for Jews were similar to “Indian reservations in the United States.”
Wolff, whose trial started Monday, is charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 people, mostly Jews.
The 64-year-old defendant was shown a letter in which he expressed satisfaction at the “increased tempo of population movements” in Nazi-occupied Europe.
In the letter, addressed to Albert Ganzenmüller, State Secretary in Adolf Hitler’s Transport Ministry, Wolff wrote that he had read with “great joy” the latter’s communication “that each day in the last two weeks a trainload of 5,000 members of the chosen people has been sent on its way to Treblinka.”
Treblinka was a death camp for Jews from Warsaw and other Polish cities.
Wolff asserted that he had not known that the deported Jews were destined to be murdered.
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