I stand corrected. Nothing was shocking in Kremer's diary because he was only in the death camp Auschwitz for two months and he wasn't a big fish. He recorded nothing shocking or out of the ordinary, just business as usual for your heroes--eat, drink, and kill Jews:
These are the diary entries that you quoted in the post to which I am responding:
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2 September 1942
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Was present for first time at a “special action” at 3 am. By comparison Dante’s Inferno seems almost a comedy. Auschwitz is justly called an extermination camp
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A first selection is carried out in Cosel, 761 people are killed in the gas chambers.
5 September 1942
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This noon was present at a special action in the women’s camp, “Moslems”* – the most horrible of all horrors. Hschf Thilo, military surgeon, is right when he said to me today that we are located here in “anus mundi” (anus of the world).
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In the evening at about 8 pm another “special action” with a draft from Holland. Men compete to take part in such actions as they get additional rations – one fifth litre of Vodka, 5 cigarettes, 100 gram’s of sausage and bread. Today and tomorrow (Sunday) on duty. . .. .
20 September 1942
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This Sunday afternoon from 3pm to 6pm I listened to a concert of the prisoners’ band in glorious sunshine; the bandmaster was a conductor of the Warsaw State Opera, 80 musicians.
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Roast pork for dinner, baked tench for supper
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23 September 1942
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This night was present at the 6th and 7th special actions. Obergruppenfuhrer Pohl with suite arrived at the Waffen –SS club-house in the morning. The sentry at the door presented arms before me for the first time.
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At 8 o’clock in the evening supper in the Home with Obergruppenfuhrer Pohl, a truly festive meal. We had baked pike, as much of it, as we wanted, real coffee, excellent beer and sandwiches. . . .
7 October 1942
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Present at the 9th special action (new arrivals and women “Moslems”) Wirths finally back. Am acting for Entress in men’s camp (introducing doctors etc). . . .
17 October 1942
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Was present at a punishment and 11 executions. Have taken fresh liver, spleen and pancreas material after an injection of pilocarpin
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Drove to Mikolow with Wirths, who had told me earlier that I would have to stay on longer. . . .
18 October 1942
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In wet and cold weather was on this Sunday morning present at the 11th special action (from Holland). Terrible scenes when 3 women begged to have their bare lives spared. . . .
The entry from 2 September 1942 isn't accurate.
Was present for first time at a “special action” at 3 am. By comparison Dante’s Inferno seems almost a comedy. Auschwitz is justly called an extermination camp
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A first selection is carried out in Cosel, 761 people are killed in the gas chambers.
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A first selection is carried out in Cosel, 761 people are killed in the gas chambers.
The first part in italics appears in the diary. The bold face line about "A first selection....761 people are killed in the gas chambers." doesn't appear in the diary. It's a note that appends the actual diary entry on the HolocaustResearchProject.org website but it's not something Kremer wrote.