I'll go dig for it. I need to put together a rolodex of this stuff at some point.
It might take me a minute, I can't recall which sources specifically parrot that line.
There was also a spiel that went with it about how they were going to grow up and be big and strong or some such.
If I recall correctly the guy that talks about the SS man (that was killed in combat on the eastern front) that blew himself up shooting grenades with an mg42 also talks about it. There are some others.
Again, I need to make a rolodex.
A point of order, when reading those testimonies and memoirs, something jumps out at me, jews are both stripped of their dignity and assaulted brutally being forced up the tube into the gas chambers, but, also simultaneously tricked and lulled in to thinking it was a shower into which they filed orderly and were executed. Those ideas are mutually exclusive.
If anyone finds some of the people talking about the commander of treblinka II giving candy to children before I do, it won't hurt my feelings. There are enough people that talked about it that it shouldn't be extremely rough to find.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/a ... ocide-roma
As one of the few places in Auschwitz where children were allowed to remain alive, a kindergarten was established on one side of the barbed wire. As they went off to their forced labor assignments, parents peered through the barbed wire to see Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor, giving their children candy. After plying them with sweets, he would whisk the children away to his “hospital,” where he performed gruesome medical experiments, often resulting in prisoners’ deaths.
One of the Mengele gives candy stories.
Still looking for a treblinka one.
Again, these stories are a running theme in the atrocity propaganda.