Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Otto Waldis: Pohl

Quotes 

• Emil Hahn : [During dinner in the prison mess hall]  How dare they show us those films, how dare they? We are not executioners, we are judges!

  Werner Lampe : You do not think it was like that, do you? There were executions, yes, but nothing like that, nothing at all!

  [Turning to a man at the table behind him] 

  Werner Lampe : Pohl! Pohl, you were at those concentration camps, you and Eichmann. They say we killed millions of people. *Millions* of people! How could it be possible? Tell them, how could it be possible?

  Pohl : [In a matter of fact tone]  It's possible.

  Werner Lampe : How?

  Pohl : You mean technically? It all depends on your facilities. Say you have two chambers that accommodate two thousand people apiece. Figure it out. It's possible to get rid of ten thousand in a half hour. You don't even need knives to do it. You can tell them that they are going to take a shower, and then instead of the water, you turn on the gas. It's not the killing that is the problem, it's disposing of the bodies. That's the problem.