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	==Life==		==Life==
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	===Family background===		===Family background===
	Kurt Gerstein was born in [[Münster]] in [[Westphalia]], Germany on 11 August 1905. Sixth of seven children, in a family whose ancestors were typical members of the [[Prussia]]n middle class who were strongly [[chauvinism\|chauvinistic]] and "totally compliant to authority".<ref>Friedländer, Saul, ''Kurt Gerstein: The Ambiguity of Good'' New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1969, p.4.</ref> His father, Ludwig, a former Prussian officer, was a judge and an authoritarian figure in what was a conventional, German middle class family of the time. In the family genealogical he proudly proclaimed that there was only Aryan blood in the family and exhorted future generations to "preserve the purity of the race!"<ref>Friedländer 1969, p.10.</ref> As late as 1944 he was to write to his son Kurt: "You are a soldier and an official and you must obey the orders of your superiors. The person who bears the responsibility is the man who gives the orders, not the one who carries them out."<ref>quoted in Friedländer 1969, p. 4</ref>		Kurt Gerstein was born in [[Münster]] in [[Westphalia]], Germany on 11 August 1905. Sixth of seven children, in a family whose ancestors were typical members of the [[Prussia]]n middle class who were strongly [[chauvinism\|chauvinistic]] and "totally compliant to authority".<ref>Friedländer, Saul, ''Kurt Gerstein: The Ambiguity of Good'' New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1969, p.4.</ref> His father, Ludwig, a former Prussian officer, was a judge and an authoritarian figure in what was a conventional, German middle class family of the time. In the family genealogical he proudly proclaimed that there was only Aryan blood in the family and exhorted future generations to "preserve the purity of the race!"<ref>Friedländer 1969, p.10.</ref> As late as 1944 he was to write to his son Kurt: "You are a soldier and an official and you must obey the orders of your superiors. The person who bears the responsibility is the man who gives the orders, not the one who carries them out."<ref>quoted in Friedländer 1969, p. 4</ref>

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	Kurt was no more tolerant of discipline in secondary school than within the family. However, in spite of earning many bad reports, he managed to graduate with [[Abitur]] at the age of 20. From 1925 to 1931, he studied mining at the RWTH Aachen University and the Philipps University in Marburg. On July 28, 1929, he was appointed Gerstein VII Corps Loop Bearer (VII Corpsschleifenträger) from Teutonia Marburg. The fact that he considered compulsory drinking to be incompatible with being a Christian led to his temporary exclusion from his corps. He moved to the Technical University of Berlin to become a mining engineer. Since 1931 a mining trainee and since 1935 a mining assessor, he was employed by the Saarbrücken mine management.<ref>Friedländer 1969, p. 11</ref> He had been a member of the [[NSDAP]] since March 1933 and a member of the [[SA]] since 1934 (other sources state July 1933). On 4 September 1937, Gerstein started studying [[Medicine]] at the [[University of Tübingen]]. However his medical studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war.		Kurt was no more tolerant of discipline in secondary school than within the family. However, in spite of earning many bad reports, he managed to graduate with [[Abitur]] at the age of 20. From 1925 to 1931, he studied mining at the RWTH Aachen University and the Philipps University in Marburg. On July 28, 1929, he was appointed Gerstein VII Corps Loop Bearer (VII Corpsschleifenträger) from Teutonia Marburg. The fact that he considered compulsory drinking to be incompatible with being a Christian led to his temporary exclusion from his corps. He moved to the Technical University of Berlin to become a mining engineer. Since 1931 a mining trainee and since 1935 a mining assessor, he was employed by the Saarbrücken mine management.<ref>Friedländer 1969, p. 11</ref> He had been a member of the [[NSDAP]] since March 1933 and a member of the [[SA]] since 1934 (other sources state July 1933). On 4 September 1937, Gerstein started studying [[Medicine]] at the [[University of Tübingen]]. However his medical studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war.

	Although his family was not a particularly religious one, Gerstein received Christian religious training in school. While at university, almost as an antidote to what he saw as frivolous activities of his classmates, he began to read the Bible.<ref>quoted in Friedländer 1969, p. 13</ref> From 1925 onwards, he became active in Christian student and youth movements, joining the German Association of Christian Students (DCSV) in 1925 and in 1928 becoming an active member of both the Evangelical Youth Movement (CVJM-[[YMCA]]) and the Federation of German Bible Circles where he took a leading role until it was dissolved in 1934 after a takeover attempt by the [[Hitler Youth]] movement.<ref>Friedländer 1969, p. 19</ref> At first finding a religious home within the Protestant Evangelical Church he gravitated toward the [[Confessing Church]], which formed itself around Pastor [[Martin Niemöller]] in 1934 as a form of protest against attempts of the Party to exercise increasing control over German Protestants.<ref>Friedländer 1969, p. 35</ref> His religious faith caused conflict with the government and he spent time in prison and concentration camps in the late 1930's.<ref>{{Citation\| title = The Holocaust: the fate of European ~~Jewry~~, 1932-1945\| url = http://books.google.com/?id=e_aRvKpLUf0C&pg=PA351\| year = 1991\| journal = Oxford University Press US\| pages = 357\| isbn = 9780195045239\| last1 = Yahil\| first1 = Leni\| last2 = Friedman \| first2 = Ina\| last3 = Galai \| first3 = Hayah\| accessdate = 2009-08-10 }}</ref>		Although his family was not a particularly religious one, Gerstein received Christian religious training in school. While at university, almost as an antidote to what he saw as frivolous activities of his classmates, he began to read the Bible.<ref>quoted in Friedländer 1969, p. 13</ref> From 1925 onwards, he became active in Christian student and youth movements, joining the German Association of Christian Students (DCSV) in 1925 and in 1928 becoming an active member of both the Evangelical Youth Movement (CVJM-[[YMCA]]) and the Federation of German Bible Circles where he took a leading role until it was dissolved in 1934 after a takeover attempt by the [[Hitler Youth]] movement.<ref>Friedländer 1969, p. 19</ref> At first finding a religious home within the Protestant Evangelical Church he gravitated toward the [[Confessing Church]], which formed itself around Pastor [[Martin Niemöller]] in 1934 as a form of protest against attempts of the Party to exercise increasing control over German Protestants.<ref>Friedländer 1969, p. 35</ref> His religious faith caused conflict with the government and he spent time in prison and concentration camps in the late 1930's.<ref>{{Citation\| title = The Holocaust: the fate of European jewry, 1932-1945\| url = http://books.google.com/?id=e_aRvKpLUf0C&pg=PA351\| year = 1991\| journal = Oxford University Press US\| pages = 357\| isbn = 9780195045239\| last1 = Yahil\| first1 = Leni\| last2 = Friedman \| first2 = Ina\| last3 = Galai \| first3 = Hayah\| accessdate = 2009-08-10 }}</ref>

	In early 1935 he stood up in a theater during a performance of the play [[Wittekind]] protesting against its anti-Christian message and was beaten up by party members in the audience.<ref>Friedländer 1969, p. 37</ref> He also came into conflict with the government for distributing anti-National Socialist material. He was arrested for the first time on 4 September 1936, held in protective custody for five weeks, and expelled from the NSDAP on 15 October 1936. The loss of party membership meant that he was unable to find employment as a mining engineer in the State sector and he applied for reinstatement to the party. He was arrested a second time in July 1938, but was released six weeks later because no charges could be found against him. He (and his father) continued to pursue reinstatement in the party.		In early 1935 he stood up in a theater during a performance of the play [[Wittekind]] protesting against its anti-Christian message and was beaten up by party members in the audience.<ref>Friedländer 1969, p. 37</ref> He also came into conflict with the government for distributing anti-National Socialist material. He was arrested for the first time on 4 September 1936, held in protective custody for five weeks, and expelled from the NSDAP on 15 October 1936. The loss of party membership meant that he was unable to find employment as a mining engineer in the State sector and he applied for reinstatement to the party. He was arrested a second time in July 1938, but was released six weeks later because no charges could be found against him. He (and his father) continued to pursue reinstatement in the party.
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	According the revisionist views of events: The "Gerstain report" is full of grossly obvious contradictions and absurdities, such as 25 million persons gassed. While also non-revisionists have criticized the report as unreliable, they have not completely rejected it, which revisionists argue is because the report was used to establish important aspects of the politically correct Holocaust version, and the report is now of so fundamental importance that completely rejecting it is not possible. While this is sometimes denied, it was cited as evidence at the [[Nuremberg trials]] and selected quotes from the report were printed in the official trial records. There are six different versions of the "Gerstein report". Some of these have been argued to be forgeries, that were likely created in order to try to reduce the absurdities. A variety of explanations for Gerstein's allegations have been proposed (in addition to his own stated longstanding anti-National Socialism), such as fabulations made in order to not be convicted as a war criminal for having had an important role in the camp system administration, fabulations made in order cover-up illegal war profiteering by Gerstein during the war years, fabulations made while being tortured (with the death being a killing due to the torture or a cover-up), and/or mental illness.<ref name=HH7/><ref name=HH28/><ref name=thrtaoaf/><ref>The 'Confessions' of Kurt Gerstein: Book Review http://codoh.com/library/document/2285/</ref>		According the revisionist views of events: The "Gerstain report" is full of grossly obvious contradictions and absurdities, such as 25 million persons gassed. While also non-revisionists have criticized the report as unreliable, they have not completely rejected it, which revisionists argue is because the report was used to establish important aspects of the politically correct Holocaust version, and the report is now of so fundamental importance that completely rejecting it is not possible. While this is sometimes denied, it was cited as evidence at the [[Nuremberg trials]] and selected quotes from the report were printed in the official trial records. There are six different versions of the "Gerstein report". Some of these have been argued to be forgeries, that were likely created in order to try to reduce the absurdities. A variety of explanations for Gerstein's allegations have been proposed (in addition to his own stated longstanding anti-National Socialism), such as fabulations made in order to not be convicted as a war criminal for having had an important role in the camp system administration, fabulations made in order cover-up illegal war profiteering by Gerstein during the war years, fabulations made while being tortured (with the death being a killing due to the torture or a cover-up), and/or mental illness.<ref name=HH7/><ref name=HH28/><ref name=thrtaoaf/><ref>The 'Confessions' of Kurt Gerstein: Book Review http://codoh.com/library/document/2285/</ref>

	Another theory: "''One of the stories current about Gerstein is that he wrote the statement in Cherche-Midi prison, in France, and committed suicide, after which his body disappeared. It is far more probable that the statement was written in French by a German ~~Jewish~~ interrogator-"interpreter", and that some of the inconsistencies (such as winter occuring in August, or being in a car in one sentence, and a train in the next) resulted from imperfect transcription of the notes of interrogation into [[affidavit]] form. In minor war crimes trials and Japanese war crimes trials, unsworn "statements" of this kind are fairly common, on the theory that they possess "probative value" but less "weight" than sworn statements. It is also possible that Gerstein died of injuries sustained during "interrogation"; or perhaps he hanged himself with the typewriter ribbon. This document was later extensively quoted in the [[Pohl]] Trial, where it was "proven" that [[Treblinka]] had 10 'gas chambers' (1553-PS) and 10 'steam chambers' (3311-PS) in the same camp at the same time.''"<ref name=ngan>NOT GUILTY AT NUREMBERG: The German Defense Case http://cwporter.com/innocent.htm</ref>		Another theory: "''One of the stories current about Gerstein is that he wrote the statement in Cherche-Midi prison, in France, and committed suicide, after which his body disappeared. It is far more probable that the statement was written in French by a German jewish interrogator-"interpreter", and that some of the inconsistencies (such as winter occuring in August, or being in a car in one sentence, and a train in the next) resulted from imperfect transcription of the notes of interrogation into [[affidavit]] form. In minor war crimes trials and Japanese war crimes trials, unsworn "statements" of this kind are fairly common, on the theory that they possess "probative value" but less "weight" than sworn statements. It is also possible that Gerstein died of injuries sustained during "interrogation"; or perhaps he hanged himself with the typewriter ribbon. This document was later extensively quoted in the [[Pohl]] Trial, where it was "proven" that [[Treblinka]] had 10 'gas chambers' (1553-PS) and 10 'steam chambers' (3311-PS) in the same camp at the same time.''"<ref name=ngan>NOT GUILTY AT NUREMBERG: The German Defense Case http://cwporter.com/innocent.htm</ref>

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	=== Post-war statements by others ===		=== Post-war statements by others ===
	The post-war statements by others supporting aspects of Gerstein's narrative(s), such as on allegedly being contacted by Gerstein and given Holocaust information, are argued to add further absurdities and contradictions to the narrative(s). "''Indeed, the available sources show that Gerstein told a different version of the presumed events to every single person he spoke to.''" These testimonies have been argued to have been influenced by ideological opposition to National Socialism and/or external pressure to support Gerstein's narrative(s).<ref name=HH7>The Hoax of the Twentieth Century—The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European ~~Jewry~~ http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=7</ref><ref name=HH28>The “Extermination Camps” of “Aktion Reinhardt”—An Analysis and Refutation of Factitious “Evidence,” Deceptions and Flawed Argumentation of the “Holocaust Controversies” Bloggers http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=28</ref><ref name=thrtaoaf>The Gerstein Report: The Anatomy of a Fraud: A review http://codoh.com/library/document/2150/</ref>		The post-war statements by others supporting aspects of Gerstein's narrative(s), such as on allegedly being contacted by Gerstein and given Holocaust information, are argued to add further absurdities and contradictions to the narrative(s). "''Indeed, the available sources show that Gerstein told a different version of the presumed events to every single person he spoke to.''" These testimonies have been argued to have been influenced by ideological opposition to National Socialism and/or external pressure to support Gerstein's narrative(s).<ref name=HH7>The Hoax of the Twentieth Century—The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European jewry http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=7</ref><ref name=HH28>The “Extermination Camps” of “Aktion Reinhardt”—An Analysis and Refutation of Factitious “Evidence,” Deceptions and Flawed Argumentation of the “Holocaust Controversies” Bloggers http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=28</ref><ref name=thrtaoaf>The Gerstein Report: The Anatomy of a Fraud: A review http://codoh.com/library/document/2150/</ref>

	See also the article on [[Wilhelm Pfannenstiel]].		See also the article on [[Wilhelm Pfannenstiel]].
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	=== Books partially discussing Gerstsin ===		=== Books partially discussing Gerstsin ===
	*[http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=7 The Hoax of the Twentieth Century—The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European ~~Jewry~~] - pages 137-138, Appendix A: The “Statement” (reprinting one version of the Gerstein report)		*[http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=7 The Hoax of the Twentieth Century—The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European jewry] - pages 137-138, Appendix A: The “Statement” (reprinting one version of the Gerstein report)
	*[http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=15 Lectures on the Holocaust—Controversial Issues Cross Examined] - section 4.5.2. Kurt Gerstein, also page 247		*[http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=15 Lectures on the Holocaust—Controversial Issues Cross Examined] - section 4.5.2. Kurt Gerstein, also page 247
	*[http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=8 Treblinka—Extermination Camp or Transit Camp?]		*[http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=8 Treblinka—Extermination Camp or Transit Camp?]