Phil Boehmke "From 1943 to 1944 Mr. Pemper was imprisoned in the Plaszow concentration camp outside of his native Krakow, where he served as the personal typist to the Nazi commandant Amon Goeth. Despite great personal risk Pemper read Goeth's official correspondence and used his knowledge of SS plans to help save the lives of his fellow Jews at Plaszow."....
Amon Goeth Mieczyslaw Pemper, who worked in the Plaszow camp office, testified during Göth’s trial that he had managed to look at Göth’s personal files and had found a letter from SS-Gruppenführer Globocnik, commander of the Lublin region, addressed to the commanders of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. The letter authorised Göth to have access to all areas of those extermination camps, for administration or possibly construction inspections. Under the direction of SS-Sturmbannführer Willi Haase, Göth conducted the final liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, which began on 13 March 1943. SS officers Kunde and Neumann also assisted with the ghetto clearance, during which mass murders were committed. On the orders of Haase, 75 persons were killed in one place.
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| Amon Goeth, shooting inmates from his balcony. This incident was portrayed in "Schindler's List" by Ralph Fiennes |
- Omaha Beach D-Day landings from above; Victor Davis Hanson column.
- D-Day- and beyond- Airborne site; one of the best I've ever seen
- 25 photos of D-Day from the Robert Capa collection
- D-Day; Omaha Beach then and now photographs
- REMEMBERING D-DAY
- Some D-Day sites for you history buffs
- RIP Dick Winters
Many more posts on American politics and culture at the Tunnel Wall.
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