Russia’s federal intelligence service released for the first time the 1946 interrogation transcript of Anton Kaindl, a former concentration camp commandant admitted that under his leadership, Sachsenhausen became a center for the extermination of Soviet prisoners and deadly human experiments. Marking 80 years since the liberation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp by the Red Army, Russia’s FSB intelligence service has released classified documents from the interrogation of the camp’s former commandant, Anton Kaindl. The 39-page transcript, recorded in Berlin on December 20, 1946, contains Kaindl’s confessions about the “special procedures” implemented under his command. Sachsenhausen, located about 30 kilometers north of Berlin, was established in 1936 by order of Heinrich Himmler and designed to be a “model camp,” often staged for visits by foreign delegations. During World War II, more than 100,000 people—political dissidents, Jews, Roma and primarily Soviet prisoners of war—died there. (…) Kaindl further disclosed that “highly secret operations for the extermination of people” were carried out at the camp, following orders from Himmler and other officials of the German government and intelligence services. He said that between 1942 and 1945, under his direct leadership, the camp became a center for the mass extermination of Soviet prisoners of war and civilians. “Camp inmates were killed in groups and individually by hanging on stationary and mobile gallows, shooting in a specially designated room, gassing, and poisoning — either by mixing toxins into food or by direct injection into the body,” Kaindl described.
via ynetnews: Testimony of Sachsenhausen Nazi camp commandant revealed: ‘We conducted painful experiments on humans’
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