You will go to jail in Europe or Canada if you question this.
- Hannover
"From time to time SS doctors visited the crematorium, above all Hauptsturmführer Kitt and Obersturmfürher Weber. During their visits it was just like working in a slaughterhouse. Like cattle dealers they felt the thighs and calves of men and women who were still alive and selected what they called the best pieces before the victims were executed.
After their execution the chosen bodies were laid on a table. The doctors proceeded to cut pieces of still warm flesh from thighs and calves and threw them into waiting receptacles. The muscles of those who had been shot were still working and contracting, making the bucket jump about.
At first we thought the Nazis planned to use human flesh for plastic operations on wounded soldiers. Only later we learned that these buckets of living flesh were taken to the Institute of Hygiene at Rajsko where it was used in the laboratories for the growing of bacterial cultures.
Once I heard Oberscharführer Ouackernack remark: 'Horseflesh would do, but in war-time it is too valuable for that sort of thing.'"
- Müller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.
New York: Stein and Day, 1979
