Cover Up
Rudolf Höss, the Commandant of Auschwitz, wrote after the war that Adolf Eichmann, the bureaucrat in charge of organizing the deportations of Jews to the death camps, was "the only SS officer who was allowed to keep records concerning these liquidation operations, according to the orders of the Reichsführer-SS [Himmler]. All other units which took part in any way had to destroy all records immediately."-- Lipstadt, D.M
“The current lack of international captured documents law allows victors to benefit from resources not needed for military or prosecutorial purposes and causes unnecessary information deprivation to defeated governments, international criminal defendants, soldiers, and global society” (Tashbook, 2010) |