Grassler says that Czerniakow came often to the Palais Bruehl and preferred to deal with Grassler rather than AuerswaldĬR 2 00:12:42 Lanzmann asks Grassler if he really can't remember much from the war. Lanzmann asks Grassler about his relationship with Adam Czerniakow. Lanzmann asks Grassler how and when Auerswald died Grassler says he doesn't know but then remembers that there were preliminary proceedings (Ermittlungsverfahren) against Auerswald and against Grassler, and Auerswald died in 1970, in the course of these proceedings. Grassler and Auerswald worked together but did not share the same personal interests. He says that Auerswald was a lawyer from Berlin who had a Polish or a Russian wife. Lanzmann asks Grassler to describe Auerswald physically and psychologically. He began to work with Auerswald in approximately summer 1941. He cannot remember exactly when he started to work for Auerswald but it was not when he first arrived. Grassler objects to Lanzmann's use of the term "Adjutant" to describe his own relationship to Heinz Auerswald (governor of the Warsaw ghetto) instead he calls himself an "Assessor." He explains how he came to be posted in Warsaw. In response to a question from Lanzmann Grassler explains that Palais Bruehl was the headquarters of the Warsaw governor Fischer. Grassler conveniently remembers things when he thinks they might be documented in Czerniakow's diaries.įILM ID 3402 - Camera Rolls #1,2,3 - 00:01:24 to 00:27:52ĬR 1 00:01:24 Franz Grassler sits on a red couch, presumably in his home. Lanzmann asks about Adam Czerniakow and his suicide, typhus, the black market, the ghetto wall, filming in the ghetto, and more. Lanzmann tries to get him to talk about the ghetto, but he claims that he remembers very little. Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5042 | Film ID: 3402, 3403, 3404, 3405įranz Grassler was assistant to Heinz Auerswald, the Nazi commissioner of the Warsaw ghetto.
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