Talk:Oswald Kaduk

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Did you know... that despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz, former SS-Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war?

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Schnapps[edit]

Sorry, I mistook this article with Oskar Gröning, who is alive. I did manage to find a citation supporitng the contention that Kaduk had a weakness for schnapps. I did find one website relaying that information, this article, however this is especially interesting because I wrote this article before that article on the Holocaust Research Project came about - it is patently clear they have copied elements from this article without the correct attribution. WilliamH (talk) 22:24, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kaduk's Chapel?[edit]

I am wondering why there is no mention of Kaduk's Chapel in this article. (In fact, I was searching for information on Kaduk's Chapel when I stumbled upon this page.) vttoth (talk) 16:01, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Simple - because it hasn't been added yet. :) WilliamH (talk) 16:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

flames from chimneys[edit]

Oswald Kaduk witnessed flames from chimneys, as cited here: Volker Ullrich cites a particularly vivid example of this form of not wanting to know. He quotes the testimony of SS-Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk, one of the principal defendants at the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt in the mid-1960s: "A flame rose five meters up into the sky when the ovens were going and could be seen from the [Auschwitz] railway station. The entire station was filled with civilians. Nobody said a thing about it. Passenger trains with vacationers were also there. Passenger trains often stopped at Auschwitz, and the entire station was shrouded in a fog. Wehrmacht officers would look out of the windows of the train and ask why the fog smelled as it did, so sweet? But no one had the courage to ask: What's going on here? There is no sugar factory here. What's the purpose of those smokestacks over there?"

Thomas A. Kohut, A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, 2012, p.166.--41.151.70.204 (talk) 07:08, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]