Jozef Paczynski, barber appointed commandant of Auschwitz, died
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He was the official hairstylist of Rudolf Hoess, the commandant and executioner of Auschwitz. The Pole Jozef Paczynski died Sunday at age 95 in Krakow, announced Monday, April 27 the Polish agency PAP.
Prisoner No. 121, he declared in January to Agence France-Presse, during the 70 th anniversary ceremonies of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army, he could always redo his eyes closed haircut Rudolf Hoess.
After so many years, he still could not believe why the commander of the camp had chosen him, "just a pathetic prisoner" allocated to the unit of hairdressers after his arrival in June 1940 with some 700 men first transport of Polish political prisoners?
"My hands were shaking"
"There were eight or ten pros hairdressers Warsaw and Hoss ordered an apprentice like me come cut his hair, he told. My hands were shaking. But an order is an order. I had to do my job. "
"The cup was simple, to the German: he had shaved the neck with a razor and then switch sides with clippers. I had good tools, my colleagues had my razor sharp. "
Has not he got the idea to kill Hoess with this shaver? "I am often asked this question. I was aware of the consequences, I was not mad, if I Tranchais her throat, half of the camp's prisoners would be executed soon, "he recounted.
Sentenced to death after the war, Rudolf Hoess was hanged April 16, 1947, the Auschwitz site installed by Nazi Germany in the south of Poland. More than 1.1 million people, a million European Jews were exterminated there in 1944-1945.
Jozef Paczynski survived. After the war, he studied engineering in Poland and became a teacher. Retirement party, he lived in Krakow until his death.
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