KL ​Auschwitz Seen by the SS 0 csillagozás

By will of the Reichsfuhrer SS, Auschwitz became the greatest human extermination center of all time. When in the summer of 1941 he himself gave me the order to prepare installations at Auschwitz where mass exterminations could take place, and personally to carry out these exterminations, I did not have the slightest idea of their scale or consequesnces. It was certainly an extraordinary and monstrous order. Nevertheless the reasons behind the extermination program seemed to me right. I did not reflect on it at the time: I had been given an order, and I had to carry it out. Whether this mass extermination of the Jews was necessary or not was something on which I could not allow myself to form an opinion, for I lacked the necessary breadth of view.
If the Führer had himself given the order for the „final solution of the Jewish question”, then, for a veteran National-Socialist and even more so for an SS officer there could be no question of considering its merits. „The Führer commands, we follow” was never a mere phrase or slogan.

90. oldal Autobiography of Höss

There was much inventiveness extant in Auschwitz as far as killing people was concerned.

162. oldal Reminiscences of Broad