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The progamme features interviews with three former , Wilheim Höttl , and Karl Wolff . Böch was a lance-corporal based at Auschwitz , and in the programme he relates that he saw a gassing first-hand. Höttl was a major and SS adminstrator, and he testifies that Adolf Eichmann himself told him that six million Jews had been killed. General Wolff was an adjutant to Heinrich Himmler , and he accompanied Himmler on a visit to a camp near Minsk . Wolff recalls that Himmler witnessed shootings there, and became ill after being accidently spattered during one execution. Six Jewish Holocaust survivors also give their accounts: Rita Boas Koupman , from Holland ; Avraham Kochavi and Rivka Yosilevska , from Poland ; Dov Paisikowic , From Hungary ; Rudolph Vrba , from Czechoslovakia ; and Primo Levi , from Italy . Paisikowic worked in several crematoria in Auschwitz, and he saw a number of gassings, including that of a group of Gypsies . There is also an interview with Lord Avon (Anthony Eden), Winston Churchill 's foreign secretary, in which he describes how evidence of the mass killings reached his office, and his statement to the House Of Commons on the subject at the end of 1942. The credits include a notice about Richard Böch, in which his name is spelt differently. It states that: :The Producers wish to make it clear that former S.S. Lance Corporal Richard Böck has been exonerated by investigators of Nazi crimes at Auschwitz. He had been commended for steadfastly refusing orders to take part in the killings. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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