ABSTRACT
In April of 1943, Oswald Pohl, the chief executive of SS slave-labor industries, wrote one of the dry letters emblematic of both the convoluted prose and the dispassionate, bureaucratic cruelty of Nazi Germany:
It has been reported to me by the camp Kommandanten about the conditions of health in the concentration camps. This yields the following picture after the situation of 1 April, 1943.
