Did Himmler order the Jews be better treated?

Richard Perle · Postby **Richard Perle** » 1 decade 8 years ago (Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:39 pm)

I read it in here somewhere but I cannot find it. Was it corroborated and can we trust it? I don't want to be guilty of the same low standards of evidence as believers.

Is there any other evidence of protective actions towards the Jews?

Hannover · Postby **Hannover** » 1 decade 8 years ago (Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:45 pm)

Yes, Himmler certainly did order protective actions. More on this later.

- H.

Hannover · Postby **Hannover** » 1 decade 8 years ago (Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:49 pm)

Here you go.

The head of the SS camp administration office sent a directive dated Dec. 28, 1942, to Auschwitz and the other concentration camps. It sharply criticized the high death rate of inmates due to disease, and ordered that:

"camp physicians must use all means at their disposal to significantly reduce the death rate in the various camps."

Furthermore, it ordered:

"The camp doctors must supervise more often than in the past the nutrition of the prisoners and, in cooperation with the administration, submit improvement recommendations to the camp commandants . . . The camp doctors are to see to it that the working conditions at the various labor places are improved as much as possible."

Finally, the directive stressed that:

"the Reichsfhrer SS [Heinrich Himmler] has ordered that the death rate absolutely must be reduced."

Nuremberg document PS-2171, Annex 2. NC&A red series, Vol. 4, pp. 833-834

- Hannover