Another improvement we made over Treblinka was that we built our gas chambers to accommodate 2,000 people at one time, whereas at Treblinka their 10 gas chambers only accommodated 200 people each. The way we selected our victims was as follows: we had two SS doctors on duty at Auschwitz to examine the incoming transports of prisoners. The prisoners would be marched by one of the doctors who would make spot decisions as they walked by. Those who were fit for work were sent into the Camp. Others were sent immediately to the extermination plants. Children of tender years were invariably exterminated, since by reason of their youth they were unable to work. Still another improvement we made over Treblinka was that at Treblinka the victims almost always knew that they were to be exterminated and at Auschwitz we endeavored to fool the victims into thinking that they were to go through a delousing process. Of course, frequently they realized our true intentions and we sometimes had riots and difficulties due to that fact. Very frequently women would hide their children under the clothes but of course when we found them we would send the children in to be exterminated. We were required to carry out these exterminations in secrecy but of course the foul and nauseating stench from the continuous burning of bodies permeated the entire area and all of the people living in the surrounding communities knew that exterminations were going on at Auschwitz.
— Rudolf Höß, Auschwitz camp commandant, Nuremberg testimony
what you have posted as evidence of an extermination policy would not be accepted in a British court of law today as it was extracted under torture by jewish members of the British field police who interogated hoss.
1. Was the statement which Rudolf Hoess made to the British used to prove that five or six million Jews were gassed?
No. No historian has ever claimed that 6 million were gassed, and Hoess himself never made such a claim.
2. Did Hoess sign the English language statement?
No. Hoess signed the statement in German. It was later translated into English, French and Russian.
3. Did Hoess write the statement to the British himself?
No historian has ever made that claim. It is common in criminal cases for police officials to transcribe statements, based upon their questioning, and then ask for corrections as needed, followed by the witnessed signature.
4. Did the British torture Hoess in order to obtain the statement introduced into evidence at Nuremberg as PS-3868?
No. The statement introduced as PS-3868 was the result of Robert Storey's interrogation of Hoess, and witnessed by American, not British, officers.
5. Did the British torture Hoess to obtain a statement?
Yes. He was beaten and deprived of sleep. The statement given to the British, however, is in agreement with both the statement given to the Americans, and Hoess' own memoirs, written after his conviction.
6. Why did Hoess claim that he had ordered the death of 2.5 million people, when we know it was not true?
In his memoirs, written in his own hand after his Nuremberg conviction, Hoess explains that the figure was provided him by Adolf Eichmann, and he revised the figure downward to 1.1 million.
In his testimony before the tribunal, Hoess stated that he had made no exact notes as the figures of the number of those victims because he was forbidden to make them. He further stated that only Adolf Eichmann recorded the figures, and that Eichmann had told him that more than two million Jews had been destroyed.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hoess-rudolf/hoess-faq.shtml
Perspective.
