Interview w/ Franz Stangl--Commandant of Treblinka

[Richard Romeo]

>From The Healing Wound

Gitta Sereny:  what did you think at the time was the reason for the 
exterminations?

Stangl:  They wanted the Jews money.

GS:  You can't be serious.

Stangl:  But of course.  Have you any idea of the fantastic sums that were 
involved?  That's how the steel in Sweden was bought.

GS:  But...they weren't all rich; 900,000 Jews were killed in 
Treblinka--more than 3,000,000 in Poland altogether.  There were hundreds of 
thousands of them, from the ghettos, who had nothing.

Stangl:  Nobody had nothing.  Everybody had something. That racial business 
was just secondary.  Otherwise, how could they have had all those 'honorary 
Aryans'?  They used to say General Milch was a Jew, you know.

GS:  If the racial business was so secondary, why all that hate propoganda?

Stangl:  To condition those who actually had to carry out these policies:  
to make it possible for them to do what they did.

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