The Nazis extracted 17 tons of gold from the teeth of the 4,000,000 people, mostly Jews, whom they gassed at Oswiecim, the London newspapers covering the trial of Bruno Tesch at Hamburg reported today.
The statistics were given at the trial by a Rumanian Jewish doctor, Charles Stiamind Bendal, who was an inmate at the camp from 1943 to 1943, and who estimated it more than a million people were gassed during the time he was at Oswiecim.
Tesch, who is a partner in the firm of Tesch and Stabenow, is accused of having applied the gas used in the extermination of the Jews. The books of the firm, sole distributors of the gas, reveal a profit of 92,000 marks during 1941 from the sale this product, which Tesch claims he had “naturally assumed” was need for exterminating remain.
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