AS footnote 83: Ernst-Otto Kayser to the President of the Landeskommission für die Durchführung der Befehle 124/126 [State Commission for the Implementation of Orders 124/126], received 22.6.1946, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr 80, sheet 71; also ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr 80, sheet 260.
118 Indictment against the engineers, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
119 Charges levelled against Kurt Prüfer, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
120 Charges levelled against Karl Schultze, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
121 Fritz Sander interrogation report, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
122 Karl Schultze interrogation report, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
123 Kurt Prüfer interrogation report, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
Chapter Ten: A change of scenery in the USSR
124 Indictment against Gustav Braun, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
125 Author interview with Udo Braun.
126 Topf and Sons complaint against Gustav Braun 1937, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
127 Ernst Wolfgang Topf memo complaint against Braun 1940, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
128 E. W. Topf memo about Braun as the enemy and appalling schemer, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
129 Soviet interrogation of Gustav Braun, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
130 Final Soviet interrogation of Gustav Braun, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
Chapter Eleven: Power without morals
131 E. W. Topf’s response to Power without Morals, 1958. Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
132 Schüle, op. cit., p. 304. Article in Kassel newspaper Hessische Nachrichten.
AS footnote 95: The Major War Crimes Trial took place from 18 October 1945 to 1 October 1946 before the International Military Court of the four victorious powers: USSR, USA, Great Britain and France. See for example Helge Grabitz, ‘Die Verfolgung von National Socialist-Verbrechen in der Bundesrepublik Deutscland und in der DDR’ [‘The pursuit of National Socialist crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR’] in: Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider and Winfried R. (eds), Garscha, Keine ‘Abrechnung’. NS-Verbrechen, Justiz und Gesellschaft in Europa nach 1945 [No ‘Settlement’. National Socialist Crimes, Justice and Society in Europe after 1945], Leipzig/Vienna, 1998, pp. 144–79, here pages 147ff; Annette Weinke, Die Nürnberger Prozesse [The Nuremberg Trials], Munich, 2006.
AS footnote 96: Hessische Nachrichten, Kassel, 6 March 1946, p. 6, emphases in the original.
AS footnote 97: See Philipp Kratz, Strategien der Verdrängung: Der Umgang mit dem Holocaust in Wiesbaden der 1950er Jahre [Blocking-out Strategies: How the Holocaust was Dealt With in 1950s Wiesbaden], unpublished dissertation, Wiesbaden 2007, p. 55, note 211. Kratz bases his argument on Hellmuth Merbach, ‘Seife aus Judenfett’ [Soap from Jewish Fat] in: Wolfgang Benz (pub), Legenden Lügen Vorurteile, Ein Lexicon der Zeitgeschichte [Legends, Lies, Prejudices, A Lexicon of Contemporary History], Munich 1990, p. 172f.
133 Schüle, op. cit., p. 304.
AS footnote 98: Kurt Schmidt also wrote to the Fritzlar district commission and the district commissioner of Fritzlar-Homberg, Gudensberg, on 29 September 1946, saying that the content of the article did not correspond to reality. ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr 80, sheet 322. In a file note Kurt Schmidt also used the abbreviation ‘V-Ö’ when referring to the cremation furnaces [Verbrennungsöfen]. File note on matters relating to J. Topf G.m.b.H., Gudensberg, 19 August 1946, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr 80, sheet 312.
134 Ibid., pp. 304–305.
AS footnote 100: Sworn statement of Ernst Wolfgang Topf, 26 March 1946, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr 81, sheets 71–76, here sheet 72.
135 Ibid., p. 308.
AS footnote 112: Underlining in the original. Ernst Ludwig Topf to Dr. Grünefeld 3 September 1946 (transcript), ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr 80, sheets 339–41.
136 Ibid.
137 Ibid., p. 317.
AS footnote 144: Chief Public Prosecutor at the Hessen-South Central Appeals Chamber to the Minister of Justice of the State of Hessen, 3 March 1950, Ministry of Justice of the State of Hessen, file ref. IV-538/50, sheet 1. The details of the winding-up of the Appeals Chamber process appear first in Kratz, Strategien der Verdrängung [PK: see above], p. 58.
138 Detlef Junker, Philipp Gassert, Wilfried Mausbach, David B. Morris (eds), The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War 1945–1968, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 69.
139 Ibid.
140 Schüle, op. cit., pp. 320–21.
AS footnote 153: Record of the interrogation of Max Machemehl by the Erfurt Volkspolizei [People’s Police], 27 November 1950, ThHStAW, National Socialist archive of the Ministry of State Security Object 9 ZA 1492, B. 16r.
141 Schüle, op. cit., p. 324. Quote on closure of criminal case: ‘it had not been possible to prove…’
AS footnote 166: Ministry of Justice of the State of Hessen, file ref. V-90/62, sheet 17; see also the Register of Criminal Investigations at the Wiesbaden Public Prosecution office, HHStAW [Hessen State Archive, Wiesbaden], section 468, no. 1211.
142 Ibid., p. 328. Quote from the new patent application: ‘process and device for the incineration of bodies…’
AS footnote 184: German Patent Office, German patent T 1562 V/24d, 24.6.1950; see also ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr. 25, sheets 3–11, 35f, 42f, 51–56.
143 Ibid., p. 335.
AS footnote 206: Ernst Wolfgang Topf to the Wiesbaden municipal authorities, 14 March 1952, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr. 30, sheet 26.
144 Ibid., p. 331.
AS footnote 195: The text has survived without cover sheet or covering letter. It is in two parts: A) Report on J. A. Topf & Söhne, (sheets 1–8) and B) Grounds for the request (sheets 9–10). ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr. 30, sheets 41–57, here sheet 50. The request in question is not clear from the text; it only shows that it was about the development of Topf machine manufacturing, i.e. production of installations for the food industry.
145 E. W. Topf defence to Power without Morals, 1958, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.
Chapter Twelve: Atonement
146 Author interview with Hartmut Topf .
147 Schüle, op. cit., p. 300. 1980s company history of Topf and Sons written in GDR.
AS footnote 89: Company timeline, p6f, ThHStAW, J. A. Topf & Söhne Erfurt Nr. 35, sheets 6f.
148 Author interview with Udo Braun.
149 Author interview with Hartmut Topf.
150 Author interview with Ronald Hirte of the education department at Buchenwald Memorial.
151 Author interview with Hartmut Topf.
152 Author interview with Wolfgang Nossen, former president of the Jewish community in Thuringia.
153 Transcript of a Radio F.R.E.I. interview in December 2002.
154 Author interview with Wolfgang Nossen.
155 Author interview with Annegret Schüle.
Conclusion
156 Author interview with Hartmut Topf.
157 Author interview with Florian.
158 Author interview with Hartmut Topf.
INDEX
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A
Adolphe Sturcke Bank
Albrecht, Ursula
Arndtheim, Arthur Solus
Auschwitz-Birkenau (concentration camp)
corruption
in
crematorium of
expansion of
gas chambers
personnel of
Red Army Liberation of (1945)
Sonderkommandos
testing of Zyklon B gas
Austria
Gusen
Vienna
B
Bartels, Adolf
Bartels, Herbert
BASF
use of forced labourers
Bauhaus movement
Bayer
use of forced labourers
Beer, Gunther
Belgium
Bełżec (extermination camp)
Benary, Ernst
Bera, Franz
Berlin Cremation Society
Flame (magazine)
Berta, Hanni
Berta, Tante
Beyer and Co
Bischoff, Karl
von Bismarck, Otto
Blackbourn, David
BMW
Brasse, Wilhelm
Braun, Gustav
background of
death of (1958)
family of
indictment/interrogation of
Braun, Hans
family of
Braun, Udo
family of
Brazil
Bredehorn, Bernhard
Broad, Perry
Brockert, Max
Buchenwald (concentration camp)
construction of
crematoria of
liberation of
opening of (1937)
Buchenwald Memorial
Buchroder, Wilhelm
dismissal of (1944)
Building Trades School
Bunese, Heinz
Büschleb, Johanne
C
Catholicism
Central Land Judicial Administration Office for the Investigation of National
Socialist Crimes
Chelmno (extermination camp)
Christianity
conversion to
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Protestantism
Commerzbank
Cremation Act (1934)
provisions of
Croatia
Czechoslovakia
D
Dachau (concentration camp)
crematorium of
personnel of
Deutsche Bank
Didier-Werke
Document Centre for the Prosecution of Nazi and War Crimes
Dresdner Bank
E
Eduard Lingel AG
Ehrlich, Franz
Eichmann, Adolf
Eicke, Theodor
Erdmann, Paul
Erfurt Chamber of Commerce
Erfurt Chamber of Industry and Trade
Erfurt People’s Cremation Society members of
Ertl, Fritz
Ettersberg (concentration camp)
European Cremation Congress of Dresden (1876)
European Cultural Centre
F
Faurisson, Robert
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
West Berlin
Feininger, Lyonel
Fels, Hans
First World War (1914–18)
Battle of Arras (1914/1915/1917/1918)
Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
Battle of Verdun (1916)
Battle of the Maurasian Lakes
Battle of the Somme (19160
Eastern Front
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Western Front
Florian
Forster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth
France
Nazi Occupation of (1940–44)
Paris
von Freytag-Loringhoven, Mathilde Freiin
Frick, Wilhelm
G
G. Pohl, Trade Group Berlin
Gellinick, William
German Communist Party (KPD)
German Democratic Party
German Democratic Republic (East Germany/GDR)
East Berlin
Erfurt
Stasi
German Labour Front
German Weapons and Ammunitions Factories AG
Germany
Arnstadt
Bankruptcy Court
Berlin
Black Forest
brewing industry of
Brilon
Chamber of Industry
Chemnitz
Cologne
Daberstedter Feld (Sorbenweg)
economy of
Erfurt
Ettersberg
Falkensee
Fall of Berlin Wall (1989)
French occupation zone of
funeral customs of
Gaberndorf
Gotha
Hamburg
Hanover
Heilbronn
Hirnzigenweg
Kassel
Krämpferstrasse
Leipzig
Munich
Nohra
Nuremburg
Oldenburg
Prussia
Recklinghausen
Reichstag
Reunification (1990)
Rostock
Rubensstrasse
Soviet occupation zone of
Spandau
Stuttgart
Sudetenland
Thuringia
Weimar
Wiesbaden
Wilhelm-Busch-Strasse
Zwickau
Gestapo
Gildemeister, Otto
Girndt, Max
Glass, Erika
Glucks, Richard
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Gommlich, Hellmuth
Grabner, Maximilian
Great Depression
Greece
Green Party
Groening, Oskar
Gross-Rosen (concentration camp)
crematoria of
personnel of
Group Auto Union
use of concentration camp workers
Gusen (concentration camp)
Gustav Linse Specialist Lift Company
H
H&S Windesheim Malting
Haase, Erich
Harris, Whitney
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Hell, Major Josef
Herman Tietz (department store)
Hess, Adolf
Hetteman, Hedwig
Heydrich, Reinhard
Himmler, Heinrich
Hirte, Ronald
Hitler, Adolf
rise to power (1933)
Hitler Youth
Hoechst
use of forced labourers
Holick, Martin
Holocaust
denial of
Final Solution
Wannsee Conference (1942)
Hirthy, Miklós
Höss, Rudolf
background of
trial of
Hotel Hohenzollern
Hungary
Újvidék
I
IG Farben
plant at Auschiwtz-Birkenau
International Bank of Settlements
J
J. Topf GmbH
Jahn, Hermann
Janisch, Josef
Japan, Imperial
Judaism
persecution of
Junkers
K
Kammler, Hans
Kandinsky, Wassily
Kater, Michael
Kellerman, Hermann
Keyser, Ernst-Otto
Kirschneck, Hand
Klee, Paul
Koch, Karl-Otto
Koch, Wilhelm
Kogen, Eugen
Kohl, Helmut
Kojhler, Robert
Kor, Eva Mozes
Kori, Heinrich
Kriwenzow, Major
Kroger, Hans
Krone, Erich
Krupp
use of forced labourers
Krupp, Alfred
Kuhnlenz, Pa
uline Else Getrud (Else)
death of
family of
L
Laessig, Hans
Leithold, Gustav
Lichtenburg (concentration camp)
Lienhard, Friedrich
Loewenberg, Horst
M
Machemehl, Max
background of
Magdalena, Maria
family of
Mahler, Gustav
Mann, Thomas
Marcks, Gerhard
Matthias, Reinhold
Mauthausen (concentration camp)
crematoria of
personnel of
Mayr, Max
Meier, Fritz
Mersch, Heinrich
Messerschmitt
Messing, Heinrich
background of
family of
Messing, Wilhelm
family of
Mock, Florentin
Munchheimer, Werner
Mussolini, Benito
N
National Socialist Party (Nazi Party)
members of
Nestor
Netherlands
Nazi Occupation of (1940–44)
Neubauer, Theodor
Neumann, Robert
Hitler: Aufstieg und Untergang des Dritten Reiches
Neuport, Hans
Norway
Nossen, Wolfgang
Nuremburg Trials (1945–6)
O
Oranienburg (concentration camp)
Oskar Winter Ironwear Wholesalers
P
Paul, Felix
Pinthus, Siegfried
Pister, Hermann
Pohl, Oswald
Poland
Axis Invasion of (1939)
Breslau
Danzig
Jewish population of
Kraków
Lublin
Oswieçim
Warsaw
Poller, Walter
Poser, Magnus
Post, Dr Bernhard
Pressac, Jean-Claude
Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers (1989)
death of (2003)
Les Crématoires d’Auschwitz (1993)
Prior, Ingeborg
Prüfer, Kurt
background of
clients of
design of cremation ovens
indictment/interrogation of
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