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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now?
- 0:03Speaker 1: The history podcast That's not your history class with me
- 0:07Speaker 1: your host Katie Charlwood, history harlote and reader of books.
- 0:12Speaker 1: So remember last week when I was saying about the
- 0:15Speaker 1: different ways that people perceive me, like if they've seen
- 0:18Speaker 1: me for the first time doing this Nazi concentration camp series,
- 0:23Speaker 1: or if they've known me for a long time or
- 0:24Speaker 1: watched me for a long time, And the people who
- 0:27Speaker 1: have seen me for the first time are like, you're
- 0:29Speaker 1: so animated and perky and blah blah blah blah blah.
- 0:32Speaker 1: And anyone who's watched me for any length of time,
- 0:35Speaker 1: or anyone who knows me personally is like, girl, are
- 0:39Speaker 1: you okay? Because like we can see that this has
- 0:42Speaker 1: really taken out on you. We see how withdrawn well yeah,
- 0:45Speaker 1: how like muted you are, how lower your tone is,
- 0:50Speaker 1: like how this is affecting you, Like to the point
- 0:54Speaker 1: my own mother phoned me because she was genuinely concerned
- 0:58Speaker 1: for my mental well being, Like she was worried that
- 1:01Speaker 1: this whole Nazi concentration camp series was taking a toll
- 1:04Speaker 1: on my mental health. Now here's the thing, there's no
- 1:09Speaker 1: way to look at this information. There's no way to
- 1:12Speaker 1: go through it and to write it out and research
- 1:15Speaker 1: it and look at, you know, the photographic evidence and
- 1:19Speaker 1: listen to the survivor testimonies. There is no way to
- 1:22Speaker 1: go through all of that and not be affected. There's
- 1:26Speaker 1: no way. You have to be devoid of emotion and empathy.
- 1:32Speaker 1: And because I studied this for six now seven ish years,
- 1:37Speaker 1: I have actively avoided going deep into it because I
- 1:40Speaker 1: know how bad it is. But there were so many
- 1:44Speaker 1: people out there who don't know like most parts of this,
- 1:50Speaker 1: Like I mean, it's a huge, huge topic.
- 1:52Speaker 2: It's very deep, it's very it's multi layered, and there
- 1:56Speaker 2: are spider grams upon spider grams, and there's no way
- 2:01Speaker 2: to cover it all without like.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Years years of discussing it. But I am doing my
- 2:07Speaker 1: best to provide context in a full, comprehensive understanding of
- 2:12Speaker 1: what is happening. And that's what I'm really doing with
- 2:13Speaker 1: those videos on social media. And there were so many
- 2:17Speaker 1: people out there who don't understand what led to the Holocaust,
- 2:20Speaker 1: the build up. They don't understand, you know, how it grew,
- 2:24Speaker 1: They don't understand how the network existed, And the only
- 2:27Speaker 1: thing they know is six million, two wage people were murdered.
- 2:32Speaker 1: That's the only information they have, and that is the
- 2:34Speaker 1: only constant that I've managed to find apart from within
- 2:38Speaker 1: the Holocaust denials, who are their own disgusting little bucket
- 2:41Speaker 1: of fish. Holocaust denials are really simple to shut down
- 2:44Speaker 1: at the best at times, because how can you have
- 2:48Speaker 1: less cognitive skills than a ham sandwich? Because how can
- 2:52Speaker 1: you believe that every single nation in the world, or
- 2:56Speaker 1: at least almost every single nation in the world, agrees
- 2:59Speaker 1: that the whole Holocaust is a factual, historical event. Nobody
- 3:04Speaker 1: can agree on anything, right, How can you think it's
- 3:07Speaker 1: a lie and they all agreed because nobody can agree,
- 3:11Speaker 1: Like what came first the chicken or the egg, is
- 3:13Speaker 1: a jaffagg a cake or a biscuit, No, nobody can
- 3:16Speaker 1: agree on it. And you think everybody did. No, No,
- 3:20Speaker 1: that's ridiculous and like, but yeah, they are their own thing.
- 3:25Speaker 1: But something I've noticed happened, especially in recent days, is
- 3:28Speaker 1: the accusation that talking about non Jewish victims of the Holocaust,
- 3:32Speaker 1: or at least other victims of the Holocaust, is somehow
- 3:36Speaker 1: anti Semitic, Like I was literally called a Holocaust hijacker,
- 3:41Speaker 1: for talking about disabled people being the first group to
- 3:46Speaker 1: be murdered en mass by the nazis an action t
- 3:49Speaker 1: for it, Like what in the able is a motherfucker?
- 3:54Speaker 1: Like if you're watching my entire concentration camp series and
- 3:59Speaker 1: your first thought is, wow, that's anti semitic, I genuinely
- 4:03Speaker 1: believe that you need a medical intervention, like you need
- 4:07Speaker 1: a psychological evaluation because something is not right there. But anyway,
- 4:12Speaker 1: not only am I like dealing with this horrific subject matter,
- 4:15Speaker 1: but I'm being attacked from all angles. And then of
- 4:18Speaker 1: course there's always some arsehole who's like complaining about how
- 4:21Speaker 1: I dress or my weight or some other nonsense, and
- 4:25Speaker 1: it's like, can you please shut the fuck up? Okay, plays,
- 4:30Speaker 1: And honestly, I just I'm tired, I'm exhausted, and this
- 4:34Speaker 1: is fucking's stressful. But here's the thing. A lot of
- 4:38Speaker 1: this information isn't accessible. It's not easy to find, not necessarily,
- 4:43Speaker 1: and unless you know what you're looking for, you might
- 4:46Speaker 1: not be able to find it. And so there are
- 4:49Speaker 1: a lot of barriers to education anyway. And half the
- 4:53Speaker 1: stuff I get is from like archives, scholarly articles, journals,
- 4:58Speaker 1: other languages, you know, propaganda, misinformation and reading through that
- 5:02Speaker 1: as well. That's what I do, you know. And again,
- 5:08Speaker 1: so there's so much barriers to this information into education.
- 5:13Speaker 1: If not me telling you this, if not me finding
- 5:18Speaker 1: a way to share this with you, then who Nearly
- 5:21Speaker 1: every history documentary that is out there is about fucking
- 5:25Speaker 1: tanks and the looftwaffa, you know what I mean. It's
- 5:28Speaker 1: about those things, not about people, not about the camp
- 5:33Speaker 1: systems themselves, not really, not ever. And I know this
- 5:37Speaker 1: is taken at all, but I promised, I promised that
- 5:40Speaker 1: I would continue doing this until the end of August,
- 5:43Speaker 1: and I'm gonna fucking do it and I'm not going
- 5:46Speaker 1: to stop. And anyway, I know what you're thinking, you're
- 5:49Speaker 1: Kerry Carey. It's been almost six minutes, quite ol jibbled
- 5:53Speaker 1: jabb but in fact me, in fact you, I will.
- 5:56Speaker 1: But first we've going to get our source on. Sources
- 6:00Speaker 1: are Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust by Michael J. Basler,
- 6:06Speaker 1: The Invented and the Real Historiographical Notes on Trindler's List
- 6:11Speaker 1: by Michael Wilt and Pamela Selvin. Adjusting to Genocide, The
- 6:16Speaker 1: Techniques of Neutralization and the Holocaust by Alexander Alvarez. The
- 6:22Speaker 1: Economic Puzzle of Oscar Schindler, Amenity, Potential and Rational Choice
- 6:27Speaker 1: by Ray Jones. Trial of hobstomfora Ammon Leopold Gout from
- 6:35Speaker 1: Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals the United Nations
- 6:38Speaker 1: War Crime Commissions, Volume seven. Prosecution of Nazi Crimes in
- 6:43Speaker 1: Poland nineteen thirty nine, two thousand and four by Andre Zulavinsky.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Death is a Master from Vienna. The Life and Dates
- 6:53Speaker 1: of Ammon Leopold Guts by Johann Saxelena s S Service
- 6:58Speaker 1: Record of Ammon Gouts by National Archives and Records Administration,
- 7:04Speaker 1: Guaco Bojeov Men Camp, The Encyclopoedia of Camps and Ghettos
- 7:08Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three nineteen forty five, The United States Holocaust
- 7:12Speaker 1: Memorial Museum, Schindler's Legacy, True Stories of the List Survivors
- 7:18Speaker 1: by Eleanor Burger, Amon Gout, The Hunter of Concentration Camp
- 7:23Speaker 1: Poajeov by bartoje Velinski, The Grakhov Gueto and the Pojov
- 7:29Speaker 1: Camp Remembered by Malvin Akraf. And of course we have
- 7:33Speaker 1: resources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Holocaust Encyclopedia,
- 7:40Speaker 1: and the Holocaust, historical society are usidin comfortably good, then
- 7:46Speaker 1: let's begin. The man who would go on to earn
- 7:49Speaker 1: the Moniker, the Butcher of Poajov was born Amon Leopold
- 7:53Speaker 1: Gout on the eleventh of December nineteen o eight in Vienna,
- 7:57Speaker 1: which at the time was the capital of the Austrian
- 8:00Speaker 1: Hungarian Empire. He was born to Amon Franz Gout, the
- 8:05Speaker 1: owner of a publishing house, and Berta spend Good now Amon.
- 8:11Speaker 1: He was the only child of the upper middle class
- 8:14Speaker 1: couple and was expected to live quite a comfortable life,
- 8:17Speaker 1: take over the family business and continue printing military books,
- 8:22Speaker 1: religious pamphlets and postcards. He attended a Catholic school and
- 8:28Speaker 1: then went on to an agricultural college of all things,
- 8:32Speaker 1: but this was not to be. He only lasted there
- 8:35Speaker 1: a couple of months. So like by the time he
- 8:40Speaker 1: is a teenager, right by the time he's starting this college,
- 8:44Speaker 1: his country has changed. So the Austria Hungarian Empire, it
- 8:50Speaker 1: was the second largest country in Europe. It had a
- 8:54Speaker 1: dual monarchy, and it was huge, right, and it was
- 8:59Speaker 1: very expansive, to the point that if you have seen
- 9:03Speaker 1: the sound of music and you think to yourself Jaz
- 9:06Speaker 1: How was Captain von Trapp a navy captain in a
- 9:09Speaker 1: landlocked country, And that is a fair question if you
- 9:12Speaker 1: don't know the history of Austria. So initially it was
- 9:16Speaker 1: a massive area and it was disassembled after the First
- 9:20Speaker 1: World War, so there was a coast, right, so it
- 9:25Speaker 1: covered like Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Austria, Hungary,
- 9:32Speaker 1: Bosnia and Herzegovna, and also parts of Romania, Poland, Ukraine,
- 9:37Speaker 1: Serbia and Italy. So there was a law of space
- 9:43Speaker 1: that was covered by you know, this empire. But of
- 9:48Speaker 1: course afterwards involvement in the First World War, things split up,
- 9:53Speaker 1: right and for good. This would have happened during his
- 9:56Speaker 1: sort of childhood adolescence, like the country would have changed
- 10:01Speaker 1: as he grew up in it. And at the age
- 10:04Speaker 1: of seventeen, after he left the agricultural college which was
- 10:09Speaker 1: like near the Czech border, if I'm not mistaken, So
- 10:14Speaker 1: he ends up joining a Nazi youth group and he's
- 10:18Speaker 1: with him for two years before he joins the Hymn
- 10:21Speaker 1: there the Home Guard, right, so this is a nationalist
- 10:26Speaker 1: paramilitary group, and he ends up being a member for
- 10:31Speaker 1: three years and so this particular Home Guard it was,
- 10:36Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, a rapidly anti Semitic branch,
- 10:42Speaker 1: and he was he was a membership all of it,
- 10:45Speaker 1: but he dropped that in order to join the Austrian
- 10:48Speaker 1: brand of the Nazi Party. So after the Wall Street
- 10:51Speaker 1: crash happened, the Nazi Party grew exponentially in Germany. It
- 10:56Speaker 1: went from like five percent of the votes to I
- 10:59Speaker 1: think like forty five. It might not be forty five exactly,
- 11:02Speaker 1: but it just it jumped and it was massive. And
- 11:05Speaker 1: the Austrian branch decided that it was going to try
- 11:08Speaker 1: and get other fascist groups to merge to like sort
- 11:12Speaker 1: of build this momentum, but it didn't happen, and so
- 11:16Speaker 1: then the Nazis say, well, you can either be part
- 11:20Speaker 1: of us or not part of us, Like your loyalty
- 11:23Speaker 1: has to be to us alone. And so that's how
- 11:26Speaker 1: they basically set it up. And so in September nineteen
- 11:30Speaker 1: thirty he was assigned the party membership number five one
- 11:35Speaker 1: zero seven six four. So he applies in nineteen thirty
- 11:42Speaker 1: to like become like an SS, but he doesn't actually
- 11:47Speaker 1: get anything for another two years because it's not until
- 11:51Speaker 1: he's twenty four that he actually manages to join the
- 11:54Speaker 1: show staff and gets his SS number four three seven
- 11:59Speaker 1: six three. So when Good actually joins the Nazis, this
- 12:04Speaker 1: is before Hitler's rise to power, and because of this,
- 12:07Speaker 1: he's known as an alta Kampha or an old fighter,
- 12:12Speaker 1: which we'll get back to all that in a wee second.
- 12:14Speaker 1: But growing up Good, he's basically isolated. Right. He was
- 12:19Speaker 1: raised by his aunt mainly, which was not unusual for
- 12:22Speaker 1: the time. What was unusual was that the reason for
- 12:26Speaker 1: this was because his father was traveling as a publishing
- 12:29Speaker 1: mogul and his mother was running the business in Vienna
- 12:32Speaker 1: in his absence. So he's being raised by his aunt.
- 12:39Speaker 1: He's an only child. He apparently doesn't have any friends.
- 12:44Speaker 1: Whom's to say why that is? Here's the thing. Here's
- 12:48Speaker 1: the thing he talks about, this being being like a
- 12:51Speaker 1: big factor in his life that he tells us to
- 12:53Speaker 1: his mistress, right, and he here's the thing. Being an
- 12:58Speaker 1: only child might be lonely, but if your response to
- 13:01Speaker 1: loneliness is to become a Nazi, well you've got some
- 13:05Speaker 1: huge fucking issues, okay, Like, and he would like tell
- 13:10Speaker 1: his mistress as well that he joined the Nazi Party
- 13:13Speaker 1: to oppose his parents' bourgeois life, like all right, I
- 13:19Speaker 1: either rebel without a clue, make her just a teenager
- 13:23Speaker 1: with an attitude problem and a desperate need for attention
- 13:26Speaker 1: and belonging, like he wants power. Like his parents tried
- 13:31Speaker 1: to get him to go to like proper schooling and
- 13:33Speaker 1: to get proper educated, and he's like, no, I'm going
- 13:36Speaker 1: to go to an agricultural college. And it's like, how's
- 13:39Speaker 1: that going to help you become a publish and mogul.
- 13:42Speaker 1: He's like, no, no bis for me. So he's working
- 13:46Speaker 1: his way up the Nazi ladder. He starts as a
- 13:49Speaker 1: member of the Essay as the brown Shirts, and then
- 13:53Speaker 1: he moves into the SS. So he was promoted in
- 13:57Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three to zug Fuel of the fifty second
- 14:01Speaker 1: SS standard. Then he was promoted again to says Chaft.
- 14:08Speaker 1: So other Nazis they thought he was swell, but the
- 14:12Speaker 1: authorities were not happy with him doing Nazi shit like,
- 14:16Speaker 1: you know, purchasing bombs for Nazi activities. See Austria had
- 14:21Speaker 1: declared the Nazi Party illegal on the nineteenth of June
- 14:25Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three, and so the party just says like
- 14:28Speaker 1: fuck this for a game of soldiers and sets up
- 14:31Speaker 1: shop in Munich. It's like tu Bavaria, right and good
- 14:36Speaker 1: he would smuggle weapons and radios and like act as
- 14:39Speaker 1: a mule, sorry, act as a carrier for THEESS and
- 14:44Speaker 1: so he gets arrested in October, but he's released two
- 14:47Speaker 1: months later for lack of evidence. See the Austrian government
- 14:52Speaker 1: under Chancellor Eenkobert. Dolphus was incredibly anti Nazi, and after
- 15:00Speaker 1: they attempted Nazi uprising in February nineteen thirty four, Dolphus
- 15:04Speaker 1: established a new constitution that basically gave him ultimate Pillar,
- 15:10Speaker 1: although he didn't actually live long enough to do anything
- 15:13Speaker 1: with that power, because he was assassinated in a failed
- 15:17Speaker 1: Nazi coup on the twenty fifth of July that year,
- 15:20Speaker 1: so like a couple months later, and most historians agree
- 15:26Speaker 1: that Good played a part in at least planning the assassination.
- 15:30Speaker 1: He was again detained, but managed to evade execution somehow
- 15:35Speaker 1: and flee to Germany, where, well, I'm glad you asked,
- 15:39Speaker 1: because I'll tell you to the SS training facility in Dachau. Yes,
- 15:47Speaker 1: next to the Darkau concentration camp, where he tried to
- 15:51Speaker 1: advance but ended up leaving because he butted heads with
- 15:54Speaker 1: his Obivia, Alfred Beigler. So there he is effectively banished
- 15:59Speaker 1: from his home country because you know, he joined an
- 16:02Speaker 1: evil fascist group and tried to do evil fascist things
- 16:06Speaker 1: and then did not get on with his evil fascist
- 16:10Speaker 1: boss because they had different evil fascist ideas. So what
- 16:15Speaker 1: does it do, well, what any man standing on his
- 16:18Speaker 1: own two feet would do. He goes to work for
- 16:22Speaker 1: his parents publishing business in Munich and he gets married
- 16:27Speaker 1: due to pressure from his parents because they're like, what
- 16:31Speaker 1: are you doing? Get married, get a job, and so
- 16:34Speaker 1: he marries Olga Janoshik, and shocker, they get divorced after
- 16:39Speaker 1: only a few months of marriage. Color me surprised. Meanwhile,
- 16:45Speaker 1: the Austrian government Undercurt Soshnik maintains the anti Nazi stance
- 16:51Speaker 1: and Austrian Nazi members they would just decline like those
- 16:56Speaker 1: numbers were dropping. But there was a warm brewing on
- 17:01Speaker 1: the horizon. So it all changed after the Anschlus when
- 17:09Speaker 1: Germany goose stepped in and took over Austria. Now you'll
- 17:14Speaker 1: hear words pallied about like anext or occupied, like such
- 17:19Speaker 1: innocuous terms for invade and takeover. But before the Anschlus,
- 17:25Speaker 1: like before all that happened, like in there is just
- 17:28Speaker 1: the year before Gout had rejoined the Nazis, because he'd
- 17:32Speaker 1: left in what was at thirty four and he rejoined
- 17:36Speaker 1: in thirty seven. So he returns to being an SS
- 17:39Speaker 1: member and had even written to the Austrian Refugee Society
- 17:44Speaker 1: and requested that his Nazi Party membership be transferred from
- 17:48Speaker 1: Austria to Munich. But it was after the Anschlus that
- 17:54Speaker 1: Gout could actually return back to Austria without fear of
- 17:57Speaker 1: being arrested, you know, for doing Nazi shit. And so
- 18:02Speaker 1: here he was at twenty eight years old and wanting
- 18:06Speaker 1: to advance in his career and just be a good Nazi.
- 18:12Speaker 1: And what is the core belief Like, what is the
- 18:16Speaker 1: core of the Nazi belief system? If you guessed eugenics,
- 18:22Speaker 1: you guessed right. See. Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS,
- 18:27Speaker 1: issued a directive that all SS men between the ages
- 18:30Speaker 1: of twenty five and thirty were to get married and
- 18:33Speaker 1: start having children, well, their wives were to start having children.
- 18:40Speaker 1: This was to ensure that they would produce a generation
- 18:43Speaker 1: of ideal German citizens. Mass reproduction and replacements to create
- 18:51Speaker 1: the so called Aryan race, because like the Nazis, I
- 18:58Speaker 1: mean they co opted the term Aryan and we're like
- 19:01Speaker 1: blonde haired, blue eyed, physically fit. Ooh, definitely are the
- 19:07Speaker 1: ultimate humans. Like we're talking eugenics, we're talking phrenology, for
- 19:12Speaker 1: God's sakes, Like what phrenology? Life's bad when phrenology comes
- 19:18Speaker 1: into the conversation. So he meets a twenty three year
- 19:24Speaker 1: old Anna Geiger at a motorcycle race, and after making
- 19:29Speaker 1: her spin and a cup, he's like, yeah, you'll do,
- 19:31Speaker 1: and decides to marry her. Like alless men and their
- 19:36Speaker 1: perspective brides, the couple had to pass a set of
- 19:40Speaker 1: stringent physical tests and interviews admitted by the ESSs to
- 19:45Speaker 1: determine the suitability of the marriage. So like they had
- 19:48Speaker 1: to answer all these questions about being a good German
- 19:52Speaker 1: and being a good Nazi, and they also had to
- 19:55Speaker 1: do all these like physical tests to ensure that they
- 19:57Speaker 1: were in peak physical fitness. They wanted to make sure
- 20:01Speaker 1: that they were strong and healthy so that they could
- 20:04Speaker 1: procreate more little Nazis. So they were wed in an
- 20:11Speaker 1: SS civil ceremony on the twenty thirty of October nineteen
- 20:15Speaker 1: thirty eight, and They would go on to have three
- 20:18Speaker 1: children in quick succession. Peter was born in nineteen thirty
- 20:23Speaker 1: nine but died of diphtheria at seven months old. Verna
- 20:27Speaker 1: was born in nineteen forty and their daughter Engblg followed
- 20:33Speaker 1: in nineteen forty one. So they had a permanent residence
- 20:38Speaker 1: in Vienna and Anna stayed there with the kids while
- 20:42Speaker 1: Gold would spend most of the war in Poland. So
- 20:46Speaker 1: back in Austria, like, he's quickly rising through the ranks
- 20:50Speaker 1: of the SS. He's promoted to antel STUMFNA in nineteen
- 20:55Speaker 1: forty one, and he had been drafted right into the Wehrmacht.
- 21:00Speaker 1: But well, that's the weird thing, right, he's drafted into
- 21:05Speaker 1: the vermach like the actual like army. But his SS
- 21:09Speaker 1: service record shows that he did not actively serve in
- 21:13Speaker 1: the vermach Like, there is no record of him serving
- 21:17Speaker 1: because of everything else he's doing, Like he's not doing
- 21:21Speaker 1: boots on the ground military stuff. No, Instead, he's an
- 21:28Speaker 1: ansad fiora and a financial officer in the Katovic office
- 21:34Speaker 1: for the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood.
- 21:40Speaker 1: Now that's the English version. There was a German version,
- 21:45Speaker 1: but I'm already struggling with my throat and so I'm
- 21:48Speaker 1: not putting myself through that particular one. Screw it, let's
- 21:51Speaker 1: give it a go. The rex Co meself Field, sophistical
- 21:55Speaker 1: Lusian Folkstone, Yeah, there we go, There we go. It
- 22:00Speaker 1: was responsible for the return and resettlement of the German diaspora, right,
- 22:06Speaker 1: that's what that is. It's basically trying to get German
- 22:09Speaker 1: people who live abroad back home, which is like, on
- 22:14Speaker 1: the face of it, it's like, oh, that sounds nice.
- 22:17Speaker 1: But unfortunately, in order to do that, what they had
- 22:20Speaker 1: to do was displace the people who were already living
- 22:23Speaker 1: there and anyone that they felt was alien or foreign
- 22:27Speaker 1: to the land that they believed was theirs. This included
- 22:31Speaker 1: moving people that they didn't feel belonged in those areas,
- 22:34Speaker 1: you know, into camps, ghettos, or just straight up murdering them. Now,
- 22:39Speaker 1: I'm sure we can all agree that those actions are
- 22:41Speaker 1: horrific and a terrible thing to do. Anyway, In nineteen
- 22:47Speaker 1: forty two, he joined Operation Ranad, which was a scheme
- 22:52Speaker 1: to murder Jewish people in German occupied Poland. In the summer,
- 22:57Speaker 1: he was transferred to Lublin, where he worked on or
- 23:00Speaker 1: do you know Klobotchnik himself the s is Briga de Fiola,
- 23:05Speaker 1: an Austrian Nazi charged with a senior role in the
- 23:09Speaker 1: construction and expanding of three death camps. Beljit's slowby ball
- 23:16Speaker 1: treblinga Now, due to the highly secretive nature of this position,
- 23:23Speaker 1: like there isn't a paper trail, like there are scratches
- 23:29Speaker 1: and scratches, but there's no full paper trail to this,
- 23:34Speaker 1: so we don't know exactly Goods actions or roles during
- 23:39Speaker 1: the sixth month, like he was there involved in this operation.
- 23:44Speaker 1: The only thing we can be sure of is that
- 23:46Speaker 1: he was responsible for rounding up victims and transporting them
- 23:50Speaker 1: to the camps to be murdered. And so he is
- 23:55Speaker 1: really taking on board like Klobotchnik's like way of doing things.
- 24:02Speaker 1: So Klobotnik had a way of combining untold cruelty with
- 24:08Speaker 1: basic greed and corruption. He saw Klobotnik lining his pockets
- 24:14Speaker 1: and he was inspired. By nineteen forty three, Good had
- 24:19Speaker 1: clearly impressed his sociopathic superiors and he was promoted to
- 24:24Speaker 1: Halbstomfuler and he was assigned to the essa's Tottenkovfbunda unit.
- 24:30Speaker 1: The death head, and on the eleventh of February that year,
- 24:35Speaker 1: Good became the commandant of the Poaijov concentration camp. Before
- 24:40Speaker 1: he even stepped foot in Krakhov, his reputation preceded him
- 24:45Speaker 1: as the bloody dog of Lublin. Good news travels fast,
- 24:50Speaker 1: bad news travels faster. His first task as commandant was
- 24:55Speaker 1: to oversee the camp's construction on a two hundred acre site,
- 25:00Speaker 1: and because they wanted to amplify the suffering and really
- 25:03Speaker 1: rub salt in the wind, this site was to be
- 25:07Speaker 1: built over two Jewish cemeteries, and like most camps, it
- 25:12Speaker 1: was built using slave labor, effectively using victims to build
- 25:17Speaker 1: their own prisons in order to create this camp and
- 25:21Speaker 1: to streamline everything, because remember the Nazis weren't just evil,
- 25:26Speaker 1: they were also evil bureaucrats, and so they had a
- 25:30Speaker 1: very well organized system. So the Krakhov Ghitto was liquidated
- 25:38Speaker 1: with those two week to work transported to extermination camps
- 25:42Speaker 1: or simply murdered in the streets, and within weeks because
- 25:47Speaker 1: of the grueling labor that was forced that it was
- 25:52Speaker 1: a fully operational labor camp. Just in case you were
- 25:57Speaker 1: unsure if amongut was a megal mania. When the first
- 26:02Speaker 1: prisoners arrived at the camp, he told them I am
- 26:07Speaker 1: your God. And in the camp he had complete authority
- 26:14Speaker 1: over everything, especially at this point at the beginning, he
- 26:19Speaker 1: had no one to answer to. There was no one
- 26:22Speaker 1: to clip his wings or nip it in the bud.
- 26:25Speaker 1: He had free reign to do as he pleased, and
- 26:29Speaker 1: he did. As well as being the commandant of Plajeov,
- 26:34Speaker 1: he had other responsibilities, like he was tasked with liquidating
- 26:40Speaker 1: nearby ghettos Krakovranov, so on and so forth. Now, this
- 26:46Speaker 1: wasn't just rounding people up and putting them on trains.
- 26:50Speaker 1: This was violent like, this was aggressive and terrifying. And
- 26:57Speaker 1: anyone not killed immediately, like they were shipped off to
- 27:01Speaker 1: a camp.
- 27:02Speaker 2: You know.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Again, those fit for work, they were sent to labor camps,
- 27:07Speaker 1: like a lot of them just ended up in Plaijeov.
- 27:10Speaker 1: And those who couldn't, those who were deemed unfit to work,
- 27:16Speaker 1: too weak to ill, they were sent to extermination camps.
- 27:21Speaker 1: And sometimes when they were rounded up in the square,
- 27:25Speaker 1: they would just be shot. And Amon Good personally murdered
- 27:29Speaker 1: Jewish victims in these roundups himself. So here's the thing,
- 27:35Speaker 1: the tonne of ghetto. It held almost half the city's population,
- 27:40Speaker 1: like entire population, and that was almost twenty five thousand
- 27:45Speaker 1: Jewish people. Ten thousand were sent to Plajov for slave labor,
- 27:50Speaker 1: with eight thousand being sent on to Auswitz and the
- 27:54Speaker 1: rest they were simply shot where they stood, with good
- 27:59Speaker 1: executing up to ninety women and children himself. And then
- 28:04Speaker 1: as he was liquidating the ghettos, he looted the homes,
- 28:09Speaker 1: taking jewelry, clothes, furniture, and anything not nailed down, and
- 28:15Speaker 1: then he sold them on the black market. He did
- 28:18Speaker 1: keep some of his favorite thefts for himself, but he
- 28:22Speaker 1: made himself rich selling the rest. What a corrupt Nazi.
- 28:29Speaker 1: I know you're shocked. So here's an interesting fact to remember.
- 28:37Speaker 1: As a member of the SS, acting on behalf of
- 28:40Speaker 1: the SS, that loot was considered property of the rich.
- 28:52Speaker 1: As Commandant de Plajeov, he was drunk with power. He
- 28:56Speaker 1: carried out executions on an almost daily basis. And the threat,
- 29:02Speaker 1: not just that, but the unknown threat, the fact that
- 29:05Speaker 1: it could happen at any time. That adds to the
- 29:08Speaker 1: terror of the situation because you're never knowing when he
- 29:12Speaker 1: was going to strike. Sometimes he'd order subordinates to perform
- 29:17Speaker 1: the executions, and other times he'd just do it himself,
- 29:23Speaker 1: Like he had killed prisoners for serving him soup that
- 29:28Speaker 1: was too hot because he couldn't just blow on it
- 29:33Speaker 1: or wait a minute. Another was killed because he dared
- 29:37Speaker 1: to look him in the eye, and another was walking
- 29:41Speaker 1: too slowly. One time he shot a man for being
- 29:47Speaker 1: too tall, and as he lay dying on the ground,
- 29:52Speaker 1: he urinated on him. Now poajov It didn't have gas
- 30:00Speaker 1: chambers or crematoria, so most of these victims they were
- 30:06Speaker 1: just shot dead and goods. He was known to stand
- 30:12Speaker 1: on the balcony of his villa at the camp and
- 30:16Speaker 1: shoot prisoners with his rifle, Like he had this villa
- 30:21Speaker 1: with a balcony, and he would ride his horse like
- 30:25Speaker 1: in and out of the camp. I like, he didn't
- 30:30Speaker 1: just use his rifle. He didn't just use a pistol.
- 30:33Speaker 1: He didn't just shoot like. That wasn't his modus operandi
- 30:37Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time. He also had two
- 30:41Speaker 1: large dogs, Rolfe a Great Dane and Ralph an alsation mix.
- 30:49Speaker 1: Now is he an Alsatian mix or is he a
- 30:54Speaker 1: German shepherd mix? Listen it's the same dog. A German
- 30:59Speaker 1: shepherd is an Alsatian. It's I think I discussed this
- 31:02Speaker 1: before in a previous episode, but yeah, everywhere I see
- 31:08Speaker 1: it it says Alsatian, and I'm like, I feel like,
- 31:11Speaker 1: if there was ever an appropriate time to call it
- 31:14Speaker 1: a German shepherd, this would be the appropriate time. Now
- 31:19Speaker 1: I'm fairly certain that the dog he was like Alsatian
- 31:25Speaker 1: mixed with great Dene because he looks kind of Danish.
- 31:31Speaker 1: But anyway, these massive dogs, they had been trained to
- 31:35Speaker 1: torture prisoners on command, Like he would set them on
- 31:40Speaker 1: people and watch them tear them apart. Like he would
- 31:44Speaker 1: watch these dogs just like tear into these prisoners. And
- 31:51Speaker 1: just to add another layer of horrible onto this, like
- 31:56Speaker 1: he got jealous of the Jewish dog handler because he
- 32:01Speaker 1: thought the dogs liked him better, so he had the
- 32:05Speaker 1: dog handler killed. So it was about this time that
- 32:10Speaker 1: he meets Oscar Schindler, who, if you don't know who
- 32:16Speaker 1: he is, he's a German industrialist who owned an enamable
- 32:20Speaker 1: factory nearby, and so he had discovered that Good had
- 32:26Speaker 1: an achilles heel. I say hel heels more than one really,
- 32:32Speaker 1: because he loved flattery he loved like presents, especially fancy presents,
- 32:39Speaker 1: and also was rather fond of bribery. And so Oscar Shindler.
- 32:47Speaker 1: He had been a member of the Nazi Party, and
- 32:50Speaker 1: initially he had hired Jewish workers because he could underpay
- 32:56Speaker 1: them and make more money for himself. And then over
- 33:02Speaker 1: time he came to the realization that Jewish people were
- 33:08Speaker 1: people to so Schindler, he bribes Gota and in return,
- 33:13Speaker 1: Schindler's workers were kept in separate barracks, and they didn't
- 33:18Speaker 1: receive like the same level of cruelty, Like there was
- 33:22Speaker 1: like some protection for them, Like they were prisoners being
- 33:26Speaker 1: used for slave labor, but they had it slightly less
- 33:31Speaker 1: bad than the other prisoners being used for slave labor.
- 33:36Speaker 1: So like, as the Red Army is approaching towards Poland,
- 33:41Speaker 1: Schindler convinced Good to allow him to move his factory
- 33:45Speaker 1: and his twelve hundred workers to Berlin yits in Czechoslovakia.
- 33:50Speaker 1: And one of the reasons that Good agrees to this
- 33:53Speaker 1: is because he thought he could use it to cover
- 33:55Speaker 1: his black market tracks. So he thought he could like
- 33:59Speaker 1: takes a of the stolen like Jewish goods from you
- 34:03Speaker 1: know where. He looted from all their homes and from
- 34:06Speaker 1: you know, them coming into the camp. Because if you
- 34:10Speaker 1: come from the camp and you're coming from a ghetto,
- 34:13Speaker 1: a like just a living situation that is not another camp,
- 34:18Speaker 1: and you have anything of value on you like that
- 34:21Speaker 1: man's going to take it, like he's going to steal it.
- 34:26Speaker 1: And so in early May nineteen forty four, Goods was
- 34:31Speaker 1: told that ten thousand Hungarian Jewish people would be imprisoned
- 34:36Speaker 1: in Plajeov. Now, the camp numbers had risen steadily, and
- 34:41Speaker 1: they weren't really executing them as as quickly because they
- 34:47Speaker 1: weren't doing it en mass right. It wasn't happening. And
- 34:51Speaker 1: so there was just a lot of people like men,
- 34:54Speaker 1: women and children in this camp. And in order to
- 34:58Speaker 1: create space and this evergrowing population, he ordered that all
- 35:02Speaker 1: children in the camp would be moved to the kinda garden,
- 35:08Speaker 1: and on the fourteenth of May, most of those children,
- 35:12Speaker 1: like nearly all of them, were deported to Auschwitz for extermination. See.
- 35:20Speaker 1: In early nineteen forty four, the Poajov camp status changed
- 35:25Speaker 1: from a labor camp to a concentration camp under the
- 35:29Speaker 1: ESSs Economics and Administration's Office. This made it one of
- 35:34Speaker 1: thirteen official concentration camps in Poland, and because the Essys
- 35:41Speaker 1: were now in charge of the camp, the camp was
- 35:45Speaker 1: under closer scrutiny, which meant the corruption was not really
- 35:49Speaker 1: going to go unnoticed for much longer, and it didn't.
- 35:54Speaker 1: On the thirteenth of December nineteen forty four, Goot was
- 35:59Speaker 1: removed from his position of camp commandant at Blajeov and
- 36:03Speaker 1: was charged by the ESSs with theft of Jewish property
- 36:09Speaker 1: because remember, according to Nazi regulations, this belonged to the state.
- 36:16Speaker 1: He was also charged with violation of concentration camp regulations
- 36:21Speaker 1: regarding the treatment and punishment of prisoners and allowing unauthorized
- 36:26Speaker 1: access to camp personnel records. Basically, he was charged with
- 36:32Speaker 1: corruption and brutality. Like. Another thing he did like that
- 36:39Speaker 1: I don't think I mentioned, actually was he sold rations
- 36:43Speaker 1: like he sold for rations and was therefore underfeeding the prisoners.
- 36:49Speaker 1: Now from the perspective of like the administration, like their
- 36:55Speaker 1: idea was like, if you're not giving them the allocated rations,
- 36:59Speaker 1: they not going to be strong enough to work enough
- 37:03Speaker 1: to do what we need them to do. Oh and
- 37:05Speaker 1: another thing I may have failed to have mentioned is
- 37:08Speaker 1: that his wife Anna. She divorced him because of his
- 37:13Speaker 1: plethora of affairs, including one with Ruth Irene Calda, one
- 37:20Speaker 1: of Oscar Schrindler's secretaries. Right, she was a secretary in
- 37:25Speaker 1: his factory. And yeah, they met at dinner and next
- 37:30Speaker 1: thing you know, they're blinking, which I mean, this man
- 37:34Speaker 1: shoots people for walking slowly, and you're gonna you're gonna blink.
- 37:42Speaker 1: This man, Really, Ruth, make better choices. Anyway, he was
- 37:52Speaker 1: held in Breslau for about a month, but because of
- 37:58Speaker 1: the fast approaching end World War Two and the Nazi's
- 38:03Speaker 1: inevitable defeat looming in the air, the charges were dropped
- 38:08Speaker 1: because they were like, we don't have time for this
- 38:11Speaker 1: right now. And so he's skirting around Central Europe like
- 38:16Speaker 1: he's running about his primary concern is getting his hands
- 38:21Speaker 1: on his ill gotten wealth from his corruption at plaguere Ofv.
- 38:24Speaker 1: So he had goods shipped from like eastern Poland, and
- 38:30Speaker 1: he tried to retrieve some of this at Oscar Schindler's
- 38:34Speaker 1: new factory. Like he's trying to get like his stolen
- 38:39Speaker 1: Jewish loot from the ghettos that he has sent to
- 38:45Speaker 1: Oscar Schindler's factory with the intent of collecting it from
- 38:51Speaker 1: Oscar Schindler. Now in a crazy random happenstance, like he
- 39:00Speaker 1: goes and he tries to get it, and then he's
- 39:03Speaker 1: suddenly in excruciating pain, like he's got this acute stomach pain.
- 39:09Speaker 1: It's happened all of a sudden and it's just from nowhere.
- 39:15Speaker 1: So he gets sent to an SS hospital like he's
- 39:19Speaker 1: like just in a lot of pain, like an abnormal
- 39:24Speaker 1: amount of pain. And when he gets there, the doctors
- 39:28Speaker 1: diagnose him as mentally ill, and so he is committed
- 39:35Speaker 1: to a mental institution in bad Tolls in Bavaria and
- 39:41Speaker 1: the Bad Toes. He was arrested by the US military
- 39:45Speaker 1: in May in nineteen forty five. So you know, the
- 39:49Speaker 1: Allies are coming in. You've got the Red Army on
- 39:51Speaker 1: one side, You've got like US forces coming in from
- 39:54Speaker 1: the top, like everyone's coming in from all angles. And
- 40:00Speaker 1: so May nineteen forty five, like the US military show
- 40:04Speaker 1: up and they're like and when they arrest him, he's
- 40:08Speaker 1: wearing a wehmarket uniform, which he clearly went and found,
- 40:14Speaker 1: Like they're not putting patients in military attire, Like that's
- 40:20Speaker 1: not a thing. Like he's wearing this uniform and he
- 40:25Speaker 1: doesn't admit to being SS, like completely blanks it. But
- 40:31Speaker 1: they arrest him anyway, and he is sent to a
- 40:34Speaker 1: temporary prison camp in Dachau and they lose him, like
- 40:42Speaker 1: they lose him amongst the prisoner population, and he's just gone,
- 40:48Speaker 1: and it takes a former inmate of Plajov to identify
- 40:52Speaker 1: him so that he can be taken to trial. So
- 40:56Speaker 1: so there's this like prisoner of Puajov who goes to
- 41:00Speaker 1: become a Nazi hunter, and he was like going through
- 41:05Speaker 1: the camp anyway, and he recognizes this guy, and then
- 41:09Speaker 1: he gets other prisoners to confirm that he is in fact,
- 41:15Speaker 1: I'm on good like they do it, and so he's
- 41:21Speaker 1: identified and he is extradited to Poland, where the new
- 41:24Speaker 1: government has been set up, and he is tried by
- 41:28Speaker 1: the Supreme National Tribunal in Krakhov between the twenty seventh
- 41:32Speaker 1: of August and the fifth of September nineteen forty six,
- 41:38Speaker 1: and it is here that he is convicted of membership
- 41:42Speaker 1: to the Nazi Party, which had been made illegal. Actually
- 41:46Speaker 1: at this time they had decided it's illegal to be
- 41:49Speaker 1: a member of the Nazi Party, and so he's convictor
- 41:53Speaker 1: of that he is convicted of ordering the torture and
- 41:57Speaker 1: imprisonment of people and of all things, which is interesting,
- 42:04Speaker 1: Like this is the most interesting part, like regarding to
- 42:07Speaker 1: like the actual just conviction of trials, like not his
- 42:10Speaker 1: entire story because he's a bastard, But he is convicted
- 42:16Speaker 1: of homicide. Right, this is the first such conviction at
- 42:22Speaker 1: a war crimes trial. Like he is the first person
- 42:27Speaker 1: and a war crimes trial to be convicted of homicide.
- 42:31Speaker 1: Like there's other variations and other sort of like torture abuse,
- 42:38Speaker 1: but this homicide first time. Like typically when there's a war,
- 42:44Speaker 1: like when wars happen, like death is just part of
- 42:48Speaker 1: the course, you know, But this is execution. This is
- 42:56Speaker 1: mass murder. It's not the same as you know, one
- 43:01Speaker 1: soldier shooting another soldier on the battlefield. Like it's a
- 43:05Speaker 1: very different, different thing. And like the only words he
- 43:12Speaker 1: says in his defense and I shit, you not proper
- 43:16Speaker 1: Nuremberg trial, right he says that he was only following orders.
- 43:24Speaker 1: Sure jan Sure His last words would actually end up
- 43:30Speaker 1: being Heil Hitler On the thirteenth of September nineteen forty six,
- 43:37Speaker 1: at a prison, which is like a stones throw away
- 43:40Speaker 1: from the site of the plage of Camp. He's taken
- 43:45Speaker 1: to the gallows and he takes a short drop in
- 43:48Speaker 1: a sudden stop. He is hanged from the neck until dead,
- 43:54Speaker 1: and after he dies, his body was cremated and his
- 43:58Speaker 1: ashes dumped in a river, which honestly I think was
- 44:01Speaker 1: a little too good for him. But here we are.
- 44:04Speaker 1: It so earns the story of the Bloody Dog of
- 44:08Speaker 1: Lublin and the Butcher of pajov. So, if you didn't
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- 44:42Speaker 1: I think next month. And yeah, I just need to
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