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Kurt Gerstein : ウィキペディア英語版 | Kurt Gerstein
Kurt Gerstein (11 August 1905 – 25 July 1945) was a German SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS and Head of Technical Disinfection Services. He witnessed mass murders in the Nazi extermination camps Belzec and Treblinka. He gave information to the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, in an effort to inform the international public about the Holocaust. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the ''Gerstein Report'' covering his experience of the Holocaust. He died, an alleged suicide, while in French custody. ==Biography== Kurt Gerstein was born in Münster, Westphalia on 11 August 1905, the sixth of seven children in a Prussian middle-class family, described as strongly chauvinistic and "totally compliant to authority".〔Friedländer, Saul, ''Kurt Gerstein: The Ambiguity of Good'' New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1969, p. 4.〕 His father, Ludwig, a former Prussian officer, was a judge and an authoritarian figure. Ludwig Gerstein proudly proclaimed that in his family's genealogical tree there was only Aryan blood and exhorted future generations to "preserve the purity of the race!"〔Friedländer, p. 10.〕 As late as 1944 he wrote to his son Kurt: "You are a soldier and an official and you must obey the orders of your superiors. The person who bears the responsibility is the man who gives the orders, not the one who carries them out."〔quoted in Friedländer 1969, p. 4〕
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