The Pharmacist of Auschwitz Quotes

“Ultimately, he chose the coward’s path, preferring to live and die in denial. That is to his eternal shame.”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“I want to say that it disturbs me deeply that I was part of such a criminal organization. I am ashamed that I saw injustice was being done and I did nothing to stop it. I apologize for my actions. I am very, very sorry.”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“And note: it turned out that not a single instance could be substantiated – I repeat, not a single instance – where someone could have been brought before an SS or police court, let alone, as they like to portray it, been summarily shot, hanged, or gassed.”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“the myth of Befehlsnotstand, or the requirement of compulsory obedience to orders from a superior – which over the past few years has become an outright falsification of history.”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“Fritzi wanted desperately to believe that the man with whom she had fallen in love while both were medical students in Vienna was incapable of doing the crimes with which he had been charged.”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“They [the ‘small fry’] were virulent nationalists, imperialists, anti-Semites and Jew-haters. Without them, Hitler was unthinkable.”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“the accusation that you sent 1,200 children to the gas chamber sticks, because ‘scripta manent’” (a Latin proverb “spoken words fly away, written words remain”).516”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“we in detention are given at most a bottle of Coke from the soda machine here, and that’s supposed to keep us from escaping?” Capesius said that “my [Auschwitz] inmates were better nourished.”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“They did not recall that in 1943 Zyklon B made up a remarkable 70% of Degesch’s business and that 90% of all the Zyklon B sold went to Auschwitz”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“The institution of a concentration camp is something horrible. It is torture for the inmates.” DuBois introduced that memo to demonstrate that Ambros knew terrible things were happening in the camp. Nothing of the sort, maintained Ambros, who claimed he had simply an aversion “for the short-cropped hair [of the prisoners]. . . . That is the torture to which I referred.”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

“My first thought was “Auschwitz had a pharmacist?”
― Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story