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Thanks jews.
Thanks jews.
Please pardon my crappy meme skills.
As any modern post-conviction innocence project will tell you, a confession without any corroborating evidence whatsoever is highly suspect to be false, and the resulting conviction likely to be a wrongful conviction. If any modern innocence project scrutinized this trial they would tear it to pieces, but of course they won't.
Innocence Project at NYU Law School - False Confessions (innocenceproject.org)
In this instance, a high ranking SS officer admitted to atrocities but pointed fingers elsewhere as his primary defense to avoid hanging. Of course it didn't work - he was convicted before the trial started.
The German command, meticulous in every other speck of detail on literally every possible thing else kept zero records, written orders, documents, nothing. AND it was all such a big secret that only Himmler, Höss, and like 3 other people know about the "final solution". Trust me it's all true!
Rudolf Höss hanged in the courtyard next to the former crematorium of Auschwitz
Transcript of testimony of Rudolf Höss at Nuremberg Trials, Monday, April 15, 1946
DR. KAUFFMANN: Is it true that in 1941 you were ordered to Berlin to see Himmler? Please state briefly what was discussed.
HOESS: Yes. In the summer of 1941 1 was summoned to Berlin to Reichsfáhrer SS Himmler to receive personal orders. He told me something to the effect--I do not remember the exact words--that the Fáffrer had given the order for a final solution of the Jewish question. We, the SS, must carry out that order. If it is not carried out now then the Jews will later on destroy the German people. He had chosen Auschwitz on account of its easy access by rail and also because the extensive site offered space for measures ensuring isolation.
DR. KAUFFMANN: During that conference did Himmler tell you that this planned action had to be treated as a secret Reich matter?
HOESS: Yes. He stressed that point. He told me that I was not even allowed to say anything about it to my immediate superior Gruppenfáhrer Glácks. This conference concerned the two of us only and I was to observe the strictest secrecy.
DR. KAUFFMANN: What was the position held by Glácks whom you have just mentioned?
HOESS: Gruppenfáhrer Glácks was, so to speak, the inspector of concentration camps at that time and he was immediately subordinate to the Reichsfáhrer.
DR. KAUFFMANN: Does the expression "secret Reich matter" mean that no one was permitted to make even the slightest allusion to outsiders without endangering his own life?
HOESS: Yes, "secret Reich matter" means that no one was allowed to speak about these matters with any person and that everyone promised upon his life to keep the utmost secrecy.
Link to transcript (famous-trials.com)
Please pardon my crappy meme skills.
As any modern post-conviction innocence project will tell you, a confession without any corroborating evidence whatsoever is highly suspect to be false, and the resulting conviction likely to be a wrongful conviction. If any modern innocence project scrutinized this trial they would tear it to pieces, but of course they won't.
[Innocence Project at NYU Law School - False Confessions](https://innocenceproject.org/false-confessions/)
In this instance, a high ranking SS officer admitted to atrocities but pointed fingers elsewhere as his primary defense to avoid hanging. Of course it didn't work - he was convicted before the trial started.
The German command, meticulous in every other speck of detail on literally every possible thing else kept zero records, written orders, documents, nothing. AND it was all such a big secret that only Himmler, Höss, and like 3 other people know about the "final solution". Trust me it's all true!
[Rudolf Höss hanged in the courtyard next to the former crematorium of Auschwitz](https://poal.co/static/images/dfe2a20a881919f6.jpg)
Transcript of testimony of Rudolf Höss at Nuremberg Trials, Monday, April 15, 1946
>DR. KAUFFMANN: Is it true that in 1941 you were ordered to Berlin to see Himmler? Please state briefly what was discussed.
>HOESS: Yes. In the summer of 1941 1 was summoned to Berlin to Reichsfáhrer SS Himmler to receive personal orders. He told me something to the effect--I do not remember the exact words--that the Fáffrer had given the order for a final solution of the Jewish question. We, the SS, must carry out that order. If it is not carried out now then the Jews will later on destroy the German people. He had chosen Auschwitz on account of its easy access by rail and also because the extensive site offered space for measures ensuring isolation.
>DR. KAUFFMANN: During that conference did Himmler tell you that this planned action had to be treated as a secret Reich matter?
>HOESS: Yes. He stressed that point. He told me that I was not even allowed to say anything about it to my immediate superior Gruppenfáhrer Glácks. This conference concerned the two of us only and I was to observe the strictest secrecy.
>DR. KAUFFMANN: What was the position held by Glácks whom you have just mentioned?
>HOESS: Gruppenfáhrer Glácks was, so to speak, the inspector of concentration camps at that time and he was immediately subordinate to the Reichsfáhrer.
>DR. KAUFFMANN: Does the expression "secret Reich matter" mean that no one was permitted to make even the slightest allusion to outsiders without endangering his own life?
>HOESS: Yes, "secret Reich matter" means that no one was allowed to speak about these matters with any person and that everyone promised upon his life to keep the utmost secrecy.
[Link to transcript](https://famous-trials.com/nuremberg/1932-hoess)
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