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Click on this text to watch a video titled INSIDE AUSCHWITZ where you are told what you are not told when on a tour of Auschwitz
 In addition to numerous Jewish survivors
of Auschwitz-Birkenau I have met, it is amazing how many survivors of these camps are mentioned in pro-Holocaust books and
other mainstream sources. This article will discuss some of these Jewish survivors and other eyewitnesses who prove that
genocide did not take place at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Famous Jewish Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau The
fate of Anne Frank, who is known around the world for her famous diary, is typical of many Jews who died in German camps
during the war. Anne and her father were first deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Anne’s
father, Otto Frank, contracted typhus and was sent to the camp hospital to recover. He was one of thousands of Jews who
remained at Auschwitz-Birkenau when the Germans abandoned the camp in January 1945. He survived the war and died in Switzerland
in August 1980.[1] If Auschwitz-Birkenau had been a place of mass exterminations,
why would the German authorities leave behind thousands of disabled Jews such as Otto Frank to testify to their genocide?
The SS would have easily been able to gas and cremate these Jewish inmates in Crematorium V at Birkenau during the first
week of January 1945.[2] In the face of the advancing Soviet army, Anne Frank was
evacuated to Bergen-Belsen, where she died from typhus in March 1945. While Anne Frank’s fate was tragic, her story
is not consistent with a German program of extermination against the Jews. Along with thousands of other Jews at Bergen-Belsen,
Anne died from a typhus epidemic and not from a German plan to commit genocide against European Jewry.[3] Elie Wiesel, whose autobiography Night written
in 1956 helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize, never mentioned homicidal gas chambers at Birkenau in his book. Instead, Wiesel
wrote that Jews were killed en masse by being thrown alive in burning pits.[4] Wiesel also mentioned in Night that he had surgery
on an infected foot in January 1945. The German authorities at Birkenau gave Wiesel and other hospital patients unfit to
travel the option to remain in the camp. Wiesel and his father decided to evacuate Birkenau and travel to Buchenwald with
the Germans rather than be liberated by the Russian army.[5] Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning
has been ranked by the Library of Congress as one of the 20th century’s 10 most influential books in the United States.
Frankl described his experiences at Auschwitz in this book as if he had spent many months there. In reality, Frankl was
in Auschwitz only for a few days in October 1944 while in transit from Theresienstadt to a sub-camp of Dachau. Frankl has admitted this to the American evangelist Robert Schuller: “I was in
Auschwitz only three or four days…I was sent to a barrack, and we were all transported to a camp in Bavaria.”[6] Frankl’s short time in Auschwitz is substantiated by the prisoner log from the sub-camp of Dachau, Kaufering III,
which listed Frankl’s arrival on October 25, 1944, six days after his departure from Theresienstadt.[7] Thus, Frankl’s descriptions of his long stay at Auschwitz in Man’s Search For Meaning are false and
inaccurate. Primo Levi was a Jewish Communist who one would
think would have been executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau. However, along with about 7,000 to 8,000 additional disabled Jews,
Levi was left behind in Auschwitz. Although the Germans could have executed Levi and the other Jews in a few days, the Germans
let them survive to tell their story about Auschwitz-Birkenau.[8] Young Jewish Survivors
of Auschwitz-Birkenau Numerous Jewish survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau
have publicly described a German policy of genocide. I will discuss in this section Jewish inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau
who were so young that one would not expect them to survive if there had been a German policy of genocide. Thomas Buergenthal is a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen as well as the Polish ghetto of
Kielce. Buergenthal, a Harvard-educated lawyer who served on the International Court of Justice at The Hague, was only 10
years old when he arrived in Auschwitz. Buergenthal claims in his memoir, A Lucky Child, that his group was spared
the selection process because it luckily arrived in Auschwitz instead of Birkenau.[9] Buergenthal writes that he was later transferred to Birkenau
and lived in Camp Sector E, which had housed many thousands of Gypsy families.[10] Buergenthal explains how he was spared the selection process at Birkenau:[11] “Soon after we had arrived in Auschwitz,
my father, seeing how routine selections were conducted and that children were most at risk, came up with a strategy to
beat the system. Every morning when we had to line up for the daily counting exercise, I would try to stand all the way
in the back and very close to the entrance of the barrack. As soon as we had been counted and if it appeared that there might
be a selection, I would try to slip back into the barrack and hide. That strategy saved me a number of times. It was not
always easy to execute, however, because I had to disappear without being seen by the SS or the barrack boss, but I was
never caught.” Buergenthal says he escaped
other random selections by obtaining a job as an errand boy for a Kapo friend. In late October 1944, Buergenthal says, he
was then sent to a barrack at a hospital camp.[12] The SS one night dragged out all the people in this barrack to be gassed, but Buergenthal says he was lucky again. Buergenthal
writes:[13] “It was a miracle, I thought, that the
SS had not found me. Soon, though, I learned how I had been saved. When we first arrived at this barrack, a red X had been
placed on the backs of our individual index cards. My friend, the young Polish doctor, apparently tore up my card and issued
me a new one without the red X. When the SS came in and demanded the cards with the red mark, my card was not among them.
The doctor had saved my life, and my nightmares saved me from witnessing what was happening that night and possibly giving
myself away.” A week or two later Buergenthal
was moved to the children’s hospital in camp D. Buergenthal thus confirms what Holocaust revisionists know; numerous
children were also “lucky” and survived the alleged selection processes at Birkenau.[14] Bernard Marks is a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau
who says he spent five and one-half years in these camps. Marks was 87 years old when he made this statement in March 2017,
which means he would have been at most 10 years old when he entered Auschwitz. Similar to Thomas Buergenthal, Marks survived
Auschwitz even though he was only a 10-year-old child at the time.[15] A Jewish man in a video on Facebook claims he was sent to
Auschwitz at age 10 and survived. The man says that Dr. Mengele would make selections to determine who went to the gas chambers.
He claims he told Dr. Mengele that he was 17 years old, and his life was saved because Dr. Mengele miraculously let him
live. The man also claims in this video that 1.5 million children were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. If this
man survived at age 10, however, certainly many other Jewish children survived as well.[16] On January 21, 2015, Reuters listed numerous Jewish survivors
who were young children while in Auschwitz-Birkenau. These include Jacek Nadolny, who was only age seven when sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau,
and Zofia Wareluk, who was born in Auschwitz two weeks before the camp was liberated. Other Jewish survivors who were no
older than age 10 while in Auschwitz-Birkenau include Elzbieta Sobczynska, Henryk Duszyk, Danuta Bogdaniuk-Bogucka, Janina
Reklajtis and Barbara Doniecka.[17] The survival of so many young Jewish children at Auschwitz-Birkenau is not consistent with a German policy of genocide
against the Jews. The survival of young children at Auschwitz-Birkenau
is not surprising since Auschwitz-Birkenau served as a transit camp for detainees unfit for work. This is proven by a note
dated July 21, 1942, concerning a telephone conversation that took place the day before. SS Hauptsturmführer
Theodor Dannecker wrote:[18] “The question of the evacuation of children
was discussed with SS-Obersturmbannführer Eichmann. He decided that transports of children are to take place as soon
as transports into the General Government are again possible. SS-Obersturmbannführer Nowak promised to provide about
six transports to the General Government at the end of August/beginning of September, which may contain Jews of all kinds
(also those unfit for work and old Jews).” Eyewitness Testimony A credible eyewitness who
states that genocide did not take place at Birkenau is the Austrian-born Canadian Maria Van Herwaarden, who was interned
at Birkenau from December 2, 1942 to January 1945. Van Herwaarden testified at the 1988 Ernst Zündel trial that she
saw nothing at Birkenau that resembled mass murder. The Jewish prisoners she saw at Birkenau were not treated differently
from the other prisoners. She also testified that many of the inmates at Birkenau died of diseases, and some inmates committed
suicide.[19] Joseph G. Burg, a Jewish author who wrote several books
on the Holocaust story, testified at the 1988 Zündel trial that he had spoken to hundreds of people who had been at
Auschwitz-Birkenau when he visited the camp in the fall of 1945. Burg formed the opinion that there were no German extermination
camps, the gas chambers had never existed, and there was no plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Joseph Burg also testified at the 1988 Zündel trial that he spoke to hundreds of
people who serviced and operated the crematoria, but he could not find anyone who had operated homicidal gas chambers. Burg
testified that the crematoria had been established for hygienic purposes as a result of typhus and other diseases. Burg
also testified that he attended the Nuremberg trials in 1946 and met Ilya Ehrenburg, who had visited Auschwitz-Birkenau,
as well as a Jewish publisher who had been interned in Auschwitz for several years. Both Ehrenburg and the Jewish publisher
said they did not see any homicidal gas chambers while at Auschwitz-Birkenau.[20] Thies Christophersen was another witness who said the alleged
genocide of Jews during the war never happened. Christophersen supervised about 300 workers, many of them Jewish, at Auschwitz
from January to December 1944. On a number of occasions during this period he visited Birkenau where allegedly hundreds
of thousands of Jews were being gassed to death. In The Auschwitz Lie, a memoir first published in Germany in 1973,
Christophersen wrote that during the time he was at Auschwitz he did not notice the slightest evidence of mass gassings.
He also successfully answered numerous pointed questions by the prosecuting attorney at the 1988 Ernst Zündel trial
about his experiences at Auschwitz.[21] The prosecutors in the 1985 and 1988 Ernst Zündel trials
were not able to find any credible witnesses. In fact, the prosecution witnesses in the 1985 Zündel trial were so bad
that the prosecutors did not call any witnesses in the 1988 Zündel trial. Even Sabina Citron, a Jewish Auschwitz survivor
who originally filed the criminal complaint against Zündel, did not take the witness stand in either of these two trials.[22] The failure of the prosecutors in the Ernst Zündel
trials to find credible witnesses caused Robert Kahn to write:[23] “If the concept of ‘symbolic victory’
is sometimes difficult to apply precisely, the 1985 prosecution of Ernst Zündel clearly backfired. What had been an
attempt to silence Zündel, and possibly use the legal system to repudiate denial, became instead a public relations
coup for the Toronto publisher and his supporters.” Alan Dershowitz concurs, calling the Zündel trials “a total victory for Holocaust deniers and a total
disaster for Holocaust survivors and the Jewish people.”[24] Dr. Wilhelm Stäglich also wrote that he did not see
any evidence of genocide of the Jews at Auschwitz. Stäglich, a German judge, visited Auschwitz several times during
the Second World War as a German orderly officer of an anti-aircraft detachment. Dr. Stäglich published an account
of his visits to Auschwitz in which he stated that on none of these visits did he see gassing installations, instruments
of torture, or similar horrors. Stäglich wrote:[25] “None of the inmates behaved as though
they were in fear of mistreatment, let alone death.” Violette Fintz, a Jewish woman who had been deported from the island of Rhodes to Auschwitz in mid-1944, and then
to Dachau and then to Belsen in early 1945, said that from her experience Belsen was worse than Auschwitz. Fintz is another
Jew who survived Auschwitz and lived to describe her experiences at the camp.[26] Conclusion The large number of Jewish survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau and other German camps makes
impossible a program of genocide against European Jewry. These Jewish survivors include many children who were obviously
too young to be good workers and contribute to the German war effort. Dr. Arthur Robert Butz writes in regard to the large
number of Jewish survivors of the so-called Holocaust:[27] “The simplest valid reason for being skeptical about the extermination claim is also the simplest conceivable
reason; at the end of the war they were still there.” 
Notes | [1] | Weber, Mark, The Journal of Historical Review, May/June 1995, Vol. 15, No. 3,
p. 31. | | [2] | Mattogno, Carlo, Auschwitz: The Case for Sanity, Volume Two, Washington, D.C.:
The Barnes Review, 2010, p. 558. | | [3] | Weber, Mark, The Journal of Historical Review, May/June 1995, Vol. 15, No. 3,
p. 31. | | [4] | Wiesel, Elie, Night Trilogy, New York: Hill and Wang, 2008, pp. 51f. |
| [5] | Ibid, pp. 98-100. | | [6] | Frankl, Viktor, “Dr. Robert Schuller Interviews Viktor Frankl: How to Find Meaning
In Life,” Possibilities: The Magazine of Hope, March/April 1991, p. 10. |
| [7] | Pytell, Timothy, “Extreme Experience, Psychological Insight, and Holocaust Perception;
Reflections of Bettelheim and Frankl,” Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 4, Oct. 2007, p. 646. |
| [8] | Faurison, Robert, “Witnesses to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz,” in Gauss, Ernst
(ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of Truth and Memory, Capshaw, AL: Thesis and Dissertations
Press, 2000, p. 142. | | [9] | Buergenthal, Thomas, A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy,
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009, p. 65. | | [10] | Ibid., p. 66 | | [11] | Ibid., p. 74. | | [12] | Ibid., pp. 74f., 77-79. | | [13] | Ibid., p. 81. | | [14] | Ibid., pp. 81-83. | | [15] | https://www.yahoo.com/news/holocaust-survivor-to-ice-director-california-sheriff-history-is-not-on-your-side-162527241.html. |
| [16] | https://www.facebook.com/LeibelMangel/videos/507430599427355/. | | [17] | https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/auschwitz-survivors-70-years-on-idUSRTR4MC0W. | | [18] | Mattogno, Carlo, Auschwitz: The Case for Sanity, Volume Two, Washington, D.C: The Barnes
Review, 2010, p. 654. | | [19] | Kulaszka, Barbara, (ed.), Did Six Million Really Die: Report of Evidence in the
Canadian “False News” Trial of Ernst Zündel, Toronto: Samisdat Publishers Ltd., 1992, pp. 253-255. |
| [20] | Ibid., pp. 259-262. | | [21] | Christophersen, Thies, “Reflections on Auschwitz and West German Justice,”
The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1985, p. 118. | | [22] | Kulaszka, Barbara, (ed.), Did Six Million Really Die: Report of Evidence in the
Canadian “False News” Trial of Ernst Zündel, Toronto: Samisdat Publishers Ltd., 1992, pp. i-1. |
| [23] | Kahn, Robert A., Holocaust Denial and the Law: A Comparative Study, New York:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2004, pp. 86f. | | [24] | Ibid., p. 119. | | [25] | Stäglich, Wilhelm, Auschwitz: A Judge Looks at the Evidence, Institute for
Historical Review, 1990, p. 293. | | [26] | Weber, Mark, “‘Extermination’ Camp Propaganda Myths” in Gauss,
Ernst (ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of Truth and Memory, Capshaw, AL: Thesis and Dissertations
Press, 2000, p. 303. | | [27] | Butz, Arthur R., The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination
of European Jewry, ninth edition, Newport Beach, CA: Institute for Historical Review, 1993, p. 10. |
| Author(s): |
John Wear | | Title: | Jewish Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau | | Sources: |
Inconvenient History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (spring 2018) |
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published: 2018-04-12, first posted:
2018-04-12 09:03:08 |
What was Auschwitz? “British Intelligence analysts cracked the “Enigma” code in 1941″… which
gave them access to top-secret German data concerning matters such as submarine positions. The genius of Alan Turing is
associated with this feat, using the “Colossus” computer at Bletchley Park. All the world has heard about its
importance as regards Britain winning World War II, yet it was little appreciated, if not totally ignored, that these decrypts also contained a mass of information about the German wartime labour camps. Very little
was heard on this matter – maintained as a state secret for fifty years – until it was finally released in the
mid-1990s. Before that, historians had little more
to go on than a summary made by the British Intelligence analyst F.H. Hinsley back in 1981, where he stated:158 “The return from Auschwitz, the largest of the camps with 20,000 prisoners, mentioned illness as the main cause of death,
but included references to shootings and hangings. There were no references in the
decrypts to gassings.”
No-one at Nuremberg had wanted to use this
material.  A sample decrypt from Bletchley Park, World War 2 Once this data was released, an unexpected problem arose: the priceless decrypts – the most authentic
information anyone could possibly want about daily camp life under the Nazis – yielded no crumb of evidence that any
“Final Solution” had been ongoing! Experts had to start apologizing for how British Intelligence had somehow
“failed to apprehend” the Holocaust.159 More recently the historian Nick
Terry concluded:160 “It
would therefore seem as if British intelligence was largely hoodwinked in the first half of 1942.”
Was it? Rather feebly, experts were obliged to conjecture
– as Holo-historians had been doing through the previous decade – that innocuous-sounding phrases concealed
the fiendish meaning and intention. For example, sending Jews “to the East” alluded to mass gassing.161 But is that really how historians are meant to behave? Should not their conclusions be drawn from the data,
rather than imposed upon it? We here explore the view that the initial understanding by British Intelligence of these decrypts
was sound. I came to peruse these top-secret wartime documents in the Public Record Office in the autumn of 2012,162 thrilled
to be turning over the crinkly pages with old, blue typewriter-print and MOST SECRET… NEVER TO BE REMOVED FROM THE
OFFICE red-inked across the top. Here were confidential
wartime documents from the head of MI6 to the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, plus decrypts straight from Auschwitz! I
apprehended why the Holo-historians had not wanted to know about these priceless wartime texts… The one British historian who has written about these decrypts since their
release seems to be the Exeter history professor Nick Terry. While posting on the CODOH site – and one appreciates
a professional historian engaging in dialogue with Revisionists, as he is the only one who will do this – he alluded
to his article about these decrypts.160 So I decided to go along to the Public Record
Office and check them out. I posted excerpts onto CODOH, as a result of which our new British Revisionist website posted
some of the monthly texts, from September 1942 to January 1943. The monthly decrypts covered twelve months, from January
1942 to January 1943, after which they broke off; the codes could not be cracked any more. Let’s quote the summary report for June (it has camp names in capitals):163 “V Labour and Industry
The shortage of manpower leads to a considerable employment of prisoners outside as well as inside concentration
camps. There are constant enquiries regarding the trade of prisoners and evidence on the part of undertakings and firms
of demand for prisoner labour.
On
May 1st, LUBLIN can provide: 1200 clerical workers and students, 200 bakers, 150 butchers, 350 agricultural workers and
800 workers of various trades, total 2700. (85/7). On the same date DR. CAESAR is informed that KL RAVENSBRUECK disposes
of 3 German speaking women horticulturalists and 2 botanists. (85/12). The transfer of 95 skilled workers and 180 unskilled
workers to the GUSTLOFF works is arranged on May 13th at the rate of RM 5,00 per day and per prisoner for skilled workers, and RM 4,00 for unskilled workers. (60/8). KL DACHAU
sends 18 @ rate of RM 0,30 per day per prisoner. (70/8) 20 prisoners are required on June 22nd. For laying a field cable
from ENNSDORF to MAUTHAUSEN (139/15). In KL FLOSSENBUERG, prisoners who are not fit for heavier work will be employed on
repair work, and the finishing of children’s toys. (80/28). A demand for 30 to 40 prisoners comes from a cement factory
(131/18). HIMMLER himself requires by 10 A.M. on May 27th the number of glass blowers available in KLA (86/34); and canvassing
of makers of musical instruments in proceeding in JULY (174/1).”
At last
it can be told: prisoners not fit for heavier work had to – finish off children’s toys! Beside the monthly totals, comments such as these were written:164 “b) KL. Dachau. […] On 19 May 18 prisoners are to be transferred
to Versuchsanstalt fuer Ernaehrung und Verpflegung. […] On 23 June 20 carpenters are to be sent to DACHAU from MAUTHAUSEN.”
“c) KL. Mauthausen […]
580 Russians: the fall in numbers is presumably caused by separating off the civilian Russians […]. On 20th April
they are told that Dr. RUSCHER is allowed to use coloured photography which is necessary for his experiments. On 4 May a
prisoner is shot in flight.” … “fall in numbers is presumably caused by separating off civilian Russians.”
“f) KL. Auschwitz. […]
A Pole escapes on 13 May. On 15 May Himmler expresses his interest in their tanning experiments.[165]”
“On 5 June AUSCHWITZ is told that for political reasons
they will not receive 2,000 Jewish workers, but on 17 June Jewish transports from Slovakia are announced; […] A message
of June 9th. says that Typhus dominates the camp: 18 out of 106 cases have died before 15 June; 22 out of 77 further cases
have died before 22nd.June.”
The Summer of 1942 is a turning point in
our story, when exterminist historians believe that the terrible mass gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz. The “machinery
of mass murder” – to use Jean-Claude Pressac’s dramatic phrase – allegedly got going! As Dr Terry
averred, “the machinery of the death camps was in place and the policy of ‘selection’ on the ramps at
Auschwitz was instituted from July 17, 1942.”166 August was the month when the
biggest and worst epidemic hit the camps, a shock reverberating through Auschwitz in particular, as the disease of typhus,
caused by a bacillus carried by body lice and long-extinct in Germany, returned to haunt the German labour camps. A Polish
resistance movement might well have introduced it to the German military.167 It seems
that civilians entering the camp had brought
it, not the inmates deported there.168 New protocols called “special treatment”
(“Sonderbehandlung”) were
swiftly developed and implemented169 for all camp members, which involved routines of
hair shaving, use of showers, with cleansing and delousing of clothing, bedding and living quarters.170 Two utterly different interpretations of that summer, one exterminist and the other Revisionist, stand
before us when reading the following decrypt summary of 27 September 1942:171 “For the first time returns are given for deaths of prisoners: the figures
for August are NIEDERHAGEN 21, AUSCHWITZ 6829 (or 6889) men, 1525 women; BUCHENWALD 74; FLOSSENBURG 88. The AUSCHWITZ figure
represents about 30% of the total given in the IPCC figures; the cause is likely to be typhus, as typhus was rife in June
(see last summary) and a policeman is suspected of typhus in September. Deaths must constitute a large proportion if not
all of the ‘departures’ mentioned in the GPCC figures, which total 5325 for 19 days of August. During 19 days
of August arrivals total 4989 so that they nearly balance deaths. About half of the prisoners are Jews. AUSCHWITZ is said
to be under a ban on 4th September. Deaths in BUCHENWALD represent a tiny proportion of the departures.”
Suddenly, a vast mortality was reported in one camp – viewed by British historian Nick Terry as part of a covert
Jew extermination program.172 That is not a logical inference, on account of the way
camp mortality plummeted after September, once the epidemic was being brought under control. Typhus plus typhoid fever and
dysentery, diarrhoea etc., were raging in the camp, a total nightmare, with inmates as well as civilian employees and SS
members banned from leaving owing to the risk of transmission. As David Irving wrote:173 “There was evidently a deadly epidemic raging at the camp, since a message
of September 4 in reply to a request for a thousand prisoners for building the Danube railway, stated that Auschwitz could
not provide them until the ‘ban’ (Lagersperre) on the camp had been lifted.”
The “ban” confirms that the terrible peak in mortality was caused by infectious diseases and not something
else. We conjecture that, if a Polish resistance movement had indeed started the typhus epidemic, the execution of a whole busload
of Poles in September could have been payback:174 “Camp Kommander Rudolf Höss applied for some rubber truncheons, but was advised they were ‘unobtainable
in Breslau’ There is a report of some executions taking place: ‘Executions are reported: a Russian civilian is
shot when attempting to escape from NIEDERHAGEN. FLOSSENB[U]ERG is allowed a lorry and a bus to convey Polish civilians
to a wood for execution. A prisoner is hung in HINZERT and nine more are shot.”
I quite like the rubber truncheons. These primary source documents show a momentous change in the summer of 1942,
with the outbreak of typhus and the initiation of “special treatment” routines. Sudden death arrives, but I
suggest that no intentional extermination is happening. Winston Churchill’s speech about “We are in the presence
of a crime without a name…” on 24 August 1942 no doubt alluded, as Dr Terry has made clear, to what decrypts
had been telling him about the brutal Russian campaign – and not, as has been alleged in certain quarters, to “the
Holocaust.”175 The October reports review the massive mortality:176 “The large influx of Russian civilians, Jews and Poles continues and it is reasonable to suppose
that deaths from typhus are still high in AUSCHWTZ and probably in other camps such as NIEDERHAGEN and HINZERT. Concentration
camp prisoners are being used in large numbers in COLOGNE, and there is evidence of a cutting down of outside commitments
to increase the number of prisoners available for war work. A new camp is intended at DEBICA. SACHSENHAUSEN evidently contains
Englishmen as it has asked for an English interpreter. Some light on conditions in Concentration camps is shown by the instruction
that a visiting labour commission is not to be shown either ‘special quarters’ (Sonderunterbringung)
or, if it can be avoided, ‘prisoners shot when escaping.’”
It would seem that shame has been experienced by the camp authorities over the dead bodies of prisoners shot while
attempting escape. Note the different categories of Poles, Russians and Jews used for the daily totals, as we’ll see.
The endeavour to get useful work out of the camp prisoners here appears. A fall in the inmate population was discussed: Auschwitz: “The total falls from 22,455 on 1st Sept. to 17,365 on 30th Sept. and to 16966 on 20th
Oct. No figures for deaths have been given this month and therefore it cannot be said what proportion of the daily departures,
which amounts to 2395 on 7th Sept, 1429 on 8th Sept, and otherwise vary between 550 and 47, are due to death: it is however
known that at least 11 SS men have been taken into hospital on suspicion of typhus during October. As about 2,000 men in
the total are always unaccounted for, it is difficult to be certain in what categories the arrivals and departures belong.
But on 7th Sept. the numbers of political prisoners, Jews and Poles have fallen by 1, 2020 and 284 respectively, a net loss
of 2305; the net loss in the total column is 2379; therefore it is clear that the majority of the departures are Jews.”
That sudden drop of several thousand in inmate population was due, the analyst concluded, not to illness but to departures,
chiefly Jews.He was scrutinizing the several columns of data. Some ten percent of the total camp inmates are “always
unaccounted for” he concluded – which helps to resolve the vitally important issue: with all the comings and goings in the labour camps, about ten percent
– two thousand out of some twenty thousand – here remain unregistered. In this situation, there cannot be tens of thousands of Jews continually arriving, as Hilberg
wants to believe. Instead, a majority of the departures are Jewish. That ought to settle quite a bit of the ongoing debate. The decrypts tell of Jews coming and going between the camps, doing valuable
industrial work. Here a quote from the November 1942 summary:177 “The use of prisoners for war industries on a large scale is discussed
below: […] the largest transference is the move of Jews to AUSCHWITZ for the synthetic rubber works. Another major
movement is the transference of sick prisoners to DACHAU.”
The
huge industrial Monowitz plant, a couple of miles due east of Auschwitz, is here alluded to as “synthetic rubber works”
and as “Bunawerk,” “Buna” being the name for the synthetic rubber produced. Various industries are here alluded to, with allusions to Himmler enquiring about whether glass blowers
and makers of musical instruments are available, and some ongoing tanning experiments. Normally Himmler is described as
visiting Auschwitz over 17-18 July 1942 to “witness a gassing” – a claim, to quote Carlo Mattogno, “incessantly
repeated and never proven.”178 Terry has imagined Himmler as giving “the
green light to a policy of total extermination” in July of 1942.179 One has a choice
here between two different realities; like
choosing the red pill or blue, one of them is the real world. From the monthly data it can be gleaned that Dachau had about 40% Jews in the first half of 1942 and Auschwitz somewhat
less. Generally Auschwitz had more Poles than Jews, with the number of Jews peaking at 12,000 in mid-1942. It is evident
that the author(s) of these reports had no inkling of an “extermination” process going on in the camps; otherwise
the details of people occasionally being shot and how many died of this or that would not make sense. Here a quote from the January 1943 summary about Auschwitz:180 “The Bunawerk is still employing 2210
men of whom 1100 are on the actual work. Jewish watchmakers are sent to SACHSENHAUSEN where they are urgently needed.
Typhus cases continue to be reported although strenuous
measures have been adopted and 36 cases were found among the new batch of prisoners on 22 Jan.”
Jews are alluded to in these decrypts with a respectful tone, being imported into Auschwitz as skilled industrial
labour, or urgently needed as watchmakers somewhere else. One can either have an ongoing program of extermination or have
workers capable of doing skilled work – but not both. This new and detailed info about life in the camps has to drive
a final stake through the heart of the exterminist thesis.
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Footnotes:
158 British Intelligence in World War Two, HMSO, 1981 F. Hinsey Ed., Vol. II, p.673.
159 Holo-historian Sir Martin Gilbert
in 1997 explained how in these decrypts British Intelligence had sadly “failed to realize” etc. what was happening
(20 May 1997). “Holocaust document released,” BBC archives, online. He there averred that Winston Churchill’s
speech on 24 August 1941 saying “We are in the presence of a crime without a name” alluded to the Holocaust.
However, as Dr Terry’s essay makes clear (op. cit. p. 360), Churchill was here alluding to the Russian-German conflict.
160 Nick Terry, “Conflicting
Signals: British Intelligence on the ‘Final Solution’, 1941-1942” (online), Yad Vashem Studies vol. 32, 2004, pp. 351-396, here p. 382.
161 Robert van Pelt, Auschwitz
1270 to the Present, 1996; he averred that “…the words ‘further East’ meant gas chambers”
and that “passing through” (as in the numbers that “passed through the camp”) alluded to “the
process of extermination,” p. 326. The East signified a “domain of redemption” for the German nation, he
explained!
162 Search
for “Public Record Office,” then go to the Discovery catalogue, and insert a file name, e.g. HW 16/65.
163 Quoting from the Public Record
Office document HW 16/65; at www.whatreallyhappened.info, our page “Bletchley Park decrypts” only has decrypts
starting from September 1942. The terms in parentheses are allusions to the original German decrypts; this quote is from
the June 1942 summary; in English. “KLA” (Konzentrations-Lager Auschwitz) = concentration camp Auschwitz.
164 Summary Report of 21
August 1942, with references to original German decrypts omitted; www.whatreallyhappened.info/decrypts/hw16_65_zip_os1_21.8.42.html
165 Himmler visit to Auschwitz
was 17-18th July: C. Mattogno, Special Treatment at Auschwitz, p. 17.
166 N. Terry, op. cit. p. 382.
167 Irving, Churchill’s War, vol. 2, p. 548, footnote 28 (citing
archive sources in US).
168
Rudolf Report, 2003, p. 60.
169 On July 29, a radio message authorized the camp administration to pick up gas for disinfestation: “The
permit for travel by truck, from Auschwitz to Dessau, for the collection of gas, which is urgently required for the disinfestation
of the camp, is hereby issued.” Mattogno, Special Treatment at Auschwitz, Theses & Dissertations Press,
Chicago 2004, p. 45.
170
See Carlo Mattogno’s book Special Treatment in Auschwitz (op. cit.) for evidence of the meaning of this term.
171 www.whatreallyhappened.info/decrypts/hw16_65_zip_os2_27.9.42.html; this
September report is enormously important, as giving a link or a comparison with the monthly deaths recorded in the Death
Books of Auschwitz (Sterbebücher von Auschwitz, 2005).
172 N. Terry op. cit., p. 386.
173 David Irving, Churchill’s War, p. 548 (www.fpp.co.uk/books/Churchill/2/Pt3.pdf).
Dr. Nicholas Kollerstrom,
from Breaking the Spell – The Holocaust, Myth & Reality, Castle Hill Publishers, UK, 2014, pgs 95-106. Online: https://archive.org/details/BreakingTheSpell_48 * * * “Auschwitz – it was Hell.” For all its subjectivity, this remark attributed to a former inmate
does not begin to characterize the emotion-charged ideas the word Auschwitz evokes today. Auschwitz symbolizes more than the multitudinous agonies suffered in concentration
camps, not only German camps during the war, but concentration camps everywhere,
past and present: It has come to symbolize the “murder
of millions of European Jews.” Everyone “knows” that we are not “supposed to” voice the slightest doubt regarding the legend
that is Auschwitz, or even relate personal experiences that might not be entirely in line with it. Indeed, to commit such
heresy is to run the risk of losing one’s livelihood. For the powers that be have ordained that Auschwitz must be viewed
in one way only. That is exactly
what should make us leery. Truth does not require coercion to be accepted. Its persuasiveness does not depend on constant
repetition of bold-faced claims. All that is really needed for truth to prevail is to show the facts, and let common sense
do the rest. What
then could be more natural than to examine the factual basis of the allegation that Auschwitz
was the site of the most extensive and atrocious massacre of Jews in history? Almost everybody is familiar with this claim,
but nobody can say just what evidence there is to support it. People have come to regard the whole subject as taboo.
I noticed this was true even of the judges who imposed a relatively harsh penalty on me for having published, in the form
of an open letter, a de visu account of the Auschwitz parent camp that conflicts with the now current picture of Auschwitz.* It appeared in the monthly periodical NationEuropa, Vol. XXII, no. 10 (October 1973), pp. 50-52. When I wrote that letter, it was
far from my intention to dispute the extermination thesis per se. Anyway, that would have been outside the scope of my account.
However, the reaction it provoked made me realize for the first time what importance the powers that have for decades been determining our destiny as a nation place on the Auschwitz taboo.
That realization awakened in me an irresistible urge to research the historical sources for the allegation that Auschwitz
was an “extermination camp,” and come to grips with it. I believe my findings deserve to be brought to the attention
of the general public. At the outset,
let one thing be noted: Contrary to popular belief, Auschwitz
was not a single camp under central administration. Rather, it consisted of a number of individual camps of
various sizes, some of which had considerable organizational autonomy. The actual Auschwitz camp —the so-called Stammlager
(“parent camp” or “main camp,” also known as “Auschwitz I”)— was situated about
2 kilometers [1.25 miles] southwest of the town of Auschwitz in Upper Silesia. Not this camp,
but the Birkenau camp, located about 3 kilometers [1.9 miles] west of the town, is
supposed to have been the site of the extermination of the Jews. There was a series of other camps in the Auschwitz region, some of which had been established for
special purposes, such as Raisko, for agricultural experiments, and Monowitz, for the production of synthetic rubber. All
these camps were associated, more or less loosely, with the main camp. Thus it is hardly correct to designate “Auschwitz”
as an “extermination camp,” pure and simple, as people often do, perhaps from ignorance. Basically,
“Auschwitz” was a network of labour camps established in the industrial area of Upper Silesia for the German
war economy. The Birkenau camp (“Auschwitz II”), which is the focal point of the extermination
claims, served primarily as an internment camp for specific groups of prisoners, such as Gypsies, women with children, as
well as the chronically ill and those who were otherwise incapable of labour. It also served as a transit camp and, initially,
even as a prisoner of war camp. In the spring of 1943, several crematoria —allegedly
containing “gas chambers” for the extermination of Jews— were put into operation there, while
the original camp crematorium in “Auschwitz I” was shut down in July 1943. […] I am aware, of course, that Auschwitz is not the only camp that has been linked to the “extermination of the
Jews.” Nevertheless, it assumes such importance in this connection, both qualitatively and quantitatively, that I
am convinced that the extermination thesis stands or falls with the allegation that Auschwitz was a “death factory.”
DR.
WILHELM STÄGLICH, Hamburg,
December 1978. From the Introduction to
Auschwitz:
A Judge Looks at the Evidence * * *
“I was in Auschwitz from January
to December 1944.” After the war I heard about the alleged mass murders of Jews and I was quite
taken aback. Despite all the testimony submitted and all the reports in the media, I know [that] such atrocities were never
committed. I have said so repeatedly, everywhere and at all times, but it has always been useless for no one has wanted
to believe me. The evidence, I am told, is unequivocal and confirmed without contradiction. […] fairly long portion removed in the interests of keeping
strictly to a description of Auschwitz -ed. I never made a secret of my having been at Auschwitz. When asked about the destruction of Jews, I answered that I
knew nothing about that. I simply marvelled at how quickly the populace was willing to accept and believe the stories about
these mass gassings, without any apparent resistance. As a result of a war injury in 1940 I developed a severe case of chronic sinus. The slightest cold put me back in
hospital. The Autumn of 1942 brought an official medical finding: service on the home front. I filed a request for furlough
to attend a higher agricultural school and did so in 1942/43. In the spring of 1943 a commander of Army Headquarters came
to our school to solicit agrarians willing to go to the Ukraine to raise india rubber plants. I applied and was accepted. Kok Sagis A mobile war needs vehicles, and vehicles need tires, and tires are made from rubber. Of course
there is synthetic rubber, made from carbon, lime and sulphur, called “buna.” But without the addition of natural
India rubber to the mixture, it cannot be produced as there is then no cohesion. The Russians, in their attempt to become
self-sufficient (in our case this was called preparation for war), had systematically searched their whole flora for plants
that contained India rubber . . . and found some — among others, one called Kok Sagis, a close relation of the dandelion.
The white latex in its roots contains India rubber. This became very important to carrying on the war. The motorized vehicles
branch at HQ had organized departments for the cultivation, utilization and research of plants with India rubber content.
After a short training period, I was sent to the Ukraine to supervise the planting and cultivation of India rubber bearing
plants. I had never seen a Kok Sagis plant, but practical work and assistance from some Russian agrarians soon provided
the necessary knowledge. In 1943 we
lost the Ukraine, and early in 1944 I was transferred to the department of plant cultivation at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
This institute had established a branch at Auschwitz, so I went there, and only on my way did I learn that it was a concentration
camp. When relating my experiences at Auschwitz, I have some doubts as to whether I should mention names of former colleagues
who today are still alive and with whom I still maintain contact. I know that I myself must be prepared for reprisals for
breaking the silence. I am now ready to accept these … and in part already have had to do so. Life In the Camp It was cold and windy when I arrived at the railroad station of Auschwitz on January 15, 1944.
I wondered whether to go by horse and carriage, but decided to walk. Leaving my baggage at the station, I asked my way to
the camp. Actually the camp [Auschwitz 1], consisting of barracks that were ugly but massively built, was very near. The
first thing I noticed was the inscription over the gate “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” (“Work will set us Free”).
I was surprised to see so many inmates of the camp walk around unguarded. Later I learned that the camp, surrounded with
an electrified barbed wire fence, was under guard only at night. There were guards posted outside the grounds, however,
who were pulled in at night after roll call. I reported to my superior, Dr. A., a fine-looking man with steel-blue eyes and reddish hair. He greeted me warmly.
I was curious about the camp and asked about the inmates. He said, “The Germans who are here belong here . . . apart
from that it is the European elite that is here.” Later I discovered there was some truth to that statement. I was
introduced to his co-workers. There was a former Czarist officer, an exile, who also spoke German and French, and he offered
to drive me to my quarters. The officers had no cars but they did have a carriage and a driver at their disposal to travel
on the extensive lands that were under cultivation. However, I found this somewhat pompous. I also found it embarrassing
that inmates whom we passed on the way took off their caps and stood at attention as we went by, but we were officers and
the SS-men also gave us the military salute. 
Author (centre) with arm resting on horse-drawn buggy used by officers for conveyance around the
camp grounds.
My
quarters were in Raisko, about 3 km from the main camp. This was where a
women’s camp, the botany buildings with their hot houses, and the laboratories for our research work were located.
I was given a room in an unattached dwelling; I shared the house with a colleague who was the supervisor of the department
of plant cultivation. He was a man with a happy disposition. There was something heart warming about his laughter; he was
well liked by the inmates and he still corresponds with some of them today. Later on he had his wife and two young children
join him. I then moved to an apartment in a botanic building that had just been completed. This I shared with a scientist
whose name I can mention; it was Dr. Boehme. He was shot and killed by Polish civilians who went wild after the capitulation.
He had never harmed anyone and had been kindness and courtesy personified. The first inmate I met was “Agnes.” She was a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
and was our cleaning lady. I questioned her about conditions at the camp but she would not speak about them. Not so Mrs.
Pohl who was in control of the kitchen. She also was a student of the Bible and made up flyers which she distributed to
the inmates. Actually, this was against the regulations, but it wasn’t my job to watch the inmates. Apart from that,
her publications seemed harmless to me, and I had always been tolerant in matters of religion. Even now I cannot deny Jehovah’s
Witnesses a certain measure of respect for they were willing to have themselves locked up and suffer for their faith simply
because they wanted to suffer. There was no need to watch them and they were free to move even beyond the line of posted
guards. In our camp [Raisko] about 300 women
were housed in three barracks. They were made up of a select type of worker who worked almost exclusively for the department
of plants. For the most part they were Jewish and Polish with a sprinkling of French. All spoke German quite well and many
had an academic degree. Their work was of a scientific nature and they were quite self-sufficient. In fact, it was not I
who was training the inmates, they were training me, and they did so with a certain pride—in fact, I might almost
say, with an air of self-importance. At any rate, I had the impression that the inmates performed their research tasks gladly
and with enthusiasm. The cultivation
of plants proceeded on a basis of selectivity. The roots of the plants were examined as to their India rubber content and
reproduced through seedlings. Their seeds were carefully gathered and re-sown. Sabotage could easily have been committed
but we never learned of even a single instance. It must be mentioned, however, that the inmates did not trust each other.
There was that ancient feeling of hate between Jews and Poles. Compared to this hate, so-called National Socialist hatred
of the Jews was quite harmless. The results
in increased India rubber production were quite satisfactory. One of our superiors went to Russia, and returned with a number
of scientists. They came with their families and worked for us as civilians, enjoying their work. A sort of drama developed with the arrival of one Russian agronomist,
J. Sassmoshek. He found a former sweetheart among the inmates and this re-union had its natural effects. Sassmoshek married
the woman and she was released from her internment. After the evacuation from Auschwitz, I saw them again at Halle and both
were radiantly happy. I myself was not so happy at the time. I had just been through that terrible air raid of February
13th on Dresden, which had been declared an open, undefended city, and from which I had escaped unharmed, as if by some miracle.
I believe on this one day in Dresden more people died than had supposedly died in Auschwitz throughout all the years of
the war. But the war crimes of the Allies are not debatable, even to this day. Just what was the daily routine at Auschwitz? Rising at 7 a.m., washing, showering, breakfast and
roll call, on the job at 8. Lunch from 12-1, and work again until 5 p.m. Roll call once more at 7 p.m., following which
the guards posted outside the camp were pulled in and the camp put under guard. [Just think how soundly they can all sleep,
knowing they are being protected.] Mail was delivered daily. Packages were opened at roll call and examined by the camp
supervisor. Only rarely had some of the contents to be withheld, such as for instance, certain medical preparations, books
and pamphlets, cameras, radios and technical instruments. These things, however, remained the property of the inmates and
were stored in a huge warehouse called “Kanada”, where also all possessions of Jews interned at Auschwitz were
kept. “Kanada” was kept under
guard at all times to prevent looting from the outside. In our weather station we had a female SS-worker who, on one occasion,
“organized” a pair of stockings for herself from “Kanada”. She was court-martialed for “plundering”.
However, the inmates themselves, who worked there, stole constantly. Surprising to me was the elegance of the inmates’ wearing apparel. Their outer garments did,
of course, consist of uniforms, but all other apparel, including shoes, was of the finest quality, nor was there any lack
in beauty care, and make-up was all part of the female dress. Every Saturday our women were sent to the main camp for an
exchange of laundry and they brought back alluring bits of booty, which were then distributed among the inmates. It was
a type of theft that I think was being quietly tolerated. Olga In May my wife,
for the first time, came to visit me. She was a teacher in agricultural home economics and was curious about my work at the
concentration camp. This fact alone, that we were able to have our relatives visit us at any time, should prove that the
camp administration had nothing to hide. Had Auschwitz been the death factory it is reputed to have been, such visits would
certainly not have been permitted. Formalities, such as even today are required for a visit to that prison camp otherwise
known as East Germany, were not required at Auschwitz. We were a young married couple and had not seen too much of each
other in our marriage. I met my wife at the railway station. She wore wooden sandals without stockings and a kerchief over
her hair. It was war time and elegance was a luxury we could not afford. At that time I had a new cleaning lady—personal maid would have been a more fitting title.
Olga! Olga was Polish. She was a factotum. But there was something touching about the solicitous care with which she took
my affairs in hand. There were always flowers in my room; always a clean table cloth and clean curtains, and somehow she
always managed to have a surprise for me.
She
had taken special pains in getting my room ready for my wife’s visit. Above my bed she had attached a praying angel
to the wall — Lord only knows where she got that! Actually, her care was a bit overpowering, but I had to accept since
I didn’t want to hurt the concerned soul that she was.  Author and wife on leave in the East, 1944. During my wife’s visit, work was commenced on the india rubber fields and I did not have
too much time for my visitor. But she had the best possible companion in Olga, who could talk like a waterfall. My wife felt
she should compensate Olga for her thoughtfulness and bought her a small gift. The result was that when I took my wife to
the railway station for her trip back home, I hardly recognized her. She was dressed in new clothes from head to toe. Olga
had “obtained” everything for her, even a brand new suitcase. My wife had brought me a few delicate morsels saved
from her own meager rations, among other things, a piece of butter. Olga managed to make fried potatoes for me evenings
and, strangely enough, there was no end to the butter. Care packages arrived daily and Olga felt duty-bound to include me
in the distribution of this bounty. The inmates at Raisko never went hungry, and any new arrival looking somewhat undernourished,
after only a few days seemed to have a “smooth fur.” The Death Camp “The death camp was not in Auschwitz, it was at Birkenau.” This is what I heard and read after the war. Well,
I was also in Birkenau. This camp I did not like. It was overcrowded and the people there did not make a good impression
on me. Everything looked neglected and grubby. I also saw families with children. It hurt to see them, but I was told that
the authorities felt it kinder not to separate children from their parents when the latter were interned. Some children
played ball merrily enough. Still, I felt children did not belong there and the fact that the English had done likewise—in
the Boer War, for instance—was a poor excuse. I said so to my superior. His answer: “I agree with you, but I
can’t change it.” I had been
commissioned to pick 100 workers for hoeing the Kok-Sagis plants. At roll call the inmates were asked if they were interested
in this kind of work and if they had done it before. Then followed the “selection” of the workers. This “selection”
was later completely misinterpreted. The purpose was to give the inmates something to do and they themselves wanted to be
occupied. Selecting them meant no more than to inquire about their inclinations, their capabilities, and their physical
state of health with regard to the work they were to do. 
Kok-Sagis plants in various stages of development. The fact was, however, that in Auschwitz there were more people than
were jobs. Naturally, I was concerned with getting workers who had experience on farms. Jews, of course, were not experienced
for any kind of farm work, whilst on the other had, Poles were excellent farm workers. Gypsies were entirely useless. Detachment
11—that was the name of our female workers from Birkenau—came every day to work in the fields that lay beyond
the outer line of posted guards. I dealt with these people almost daily and listened to their complaints. On one occasion
I saw an SS guard kick a woman. I confronted him about this. He claimed that the woman had called him a Nazi pig, but the fact was that he had first insulted her. I reported
this case and the SS-guard was sent to “Strafbataillon” in Danzig. From this day on, my favor with the inmates
rose significantly, especially with those in Detachment 11. They often came to me with requests or complaints and I did whatever
I could for them, because to me they were not enemies, they were simply interned. Often, I did favours for them that were
against the regulations. Their greatest joy was for me to take them for a walk down to the river Sula, where on those hot
summer days of 1944 I allowed them to go bathing. 
Women inmates working Kol-Sagis
fields. Note absence of guards and standard attire of women. Apart from all else, the hoeing-detachment from Birkenau was a merry bunch. They sang their Polish
folk songs while working and the gypsies danced to the melodies. In the beginning, I was quite upset and worried about the
undernourished appearance of some of the inmates. Then I learned that they had arrived in rather poor physical shape and
it took some time before they had padded themselves with some extra poundage. Often I shared their common noonday meals
and fared well doing so. But Detachment
11 also had a secret supply source. The most wonderful things were found by them in unknown hiding places. In the night these
were replenished by friends of the inmates. Sometimes these friends even donned inmate attire and marched into the camp,
allowing an inmate to take a few days off. Auschwitz was located in Poland and the population helped the inmates as much
as possible, though this was officially not permitted. 
Inmate working in fields (hidden by horses). Note only one single guard at great distance, in far
left of photograph. The occupation troops, but especially the so-called civil administration, often roused the antagonism of the population,
as was well-known. One measure I decidedly disapproved of was the expropriation of land from small farmers. They had to
give it up for agricultural use by the concentration camp. I was told, however, that they were compensated for their property
on the same basis as land expropriated from Germans for the construction of autobahns. I also did not like the re-settlement
measures that were carried out, but I was told repeatedly that these were never forced on anyone. Curtailment of freedom
is hard, but war is tough and it became increasingly tougher for us too. In the fall of 1944, for the first time, the camp
at Auschwitz was bombed by American planes. There were about 20 victims among the inmates. I myself had lost faith in victory
after the successful landing at the English Channel [Normandy-ed]. Reports from the front became more and more ominous, and
the inmates too were well informed—the devil knows through whom. In our area the inmates were looked after now just as well as they had been before. Once a week
a film was shown. Camp supervisors and inmates jointly saw, among others, the film “Muenchhausen” and the “Golden
City.” Church services were held in community halls. I attended several myself and found them to be quite solemn,
especially those of the Russian Orthodox Community, to which our Russian civilian workers also belonged. A theater group
had been organized by the inmates and one evening they invited us to a performance of “Faust.” Professional actors
could not have produced a better show.
As
for myself, I would have liked to take some more time off for studies but the war situation was serious and chances were
poor. It was suggested that I take a correspondence course, and I sent away for books. An inmate, a Jewish female doctor
from Prague offered to help me cram, and she did so every afternoon. This was possible in Raisko. The Jews were intelligent and so far as I got to know them in Auschwitz,
quite nice too. In the summer my mother came for a visit and stayed several days. Of course, a fat friendship developed
between her and Olga. One evening my mother asked about the crematorium where corpses were supposed to be burned. I knew
nothing about this, so I asked Olga. She could not tell me anything definite either. She did intimate, however, that around
Bielitz there always was what seemed to be a reflection against the sky, as if from a fire. So I went in the direction of Bielitz and there found a mining camp in which some inmates also
worked. I travelled around the entire camp and examined all fire grates and all smoke stacks, but found nothing. I asked
my colleagues; the answer … a shrug of the shoulder and “don’t pay any attention to those rumors.”
Actually, there was a crematorium in Auschwitz, I was told, for there were 20,000 people there and any city of that size
has a crematorium. Of course people died here as they did elsewhere, but not only inmates at the camp. The wife of one of
our supervisors had also died here. As far as I was concerned, that was enough of an answer. During all the time I was in Auschwitz I never in the least observed
anything that even indicated mass killings in gas chambers. Also the story of a smell of burned flesh that allegedly hovered
over the camp at times was an infamous lie. In the vicinity of the main camp there was a smithy where horses’ hooves
were shod. The burning of the horses’ hooves when fitting them with shoes naturally caused an unpleasant smell. Incidentally,
the man who was in charge of this particular smithy at the time now lives in a neighboring village. As a matter of fact, camp regulations became more generous all the
time. In the main camp there was now a brothel for the men. Love and sex is something human after all, and was not withheld
from those who were interned. Of course there were also love relationships among the inmates. I doubt that the so-called
“house of pleasure” was a deterrent. The fact that such houses did exist for the inmates in Auschwitz was completely
ignored in all post-war reports. An admission to such a brothel was a kind of reward for good behaviour. There were also
some inmates who flung their ticket into the Kapo’s face. Hats off to them, I say, for that to me was a special show
of good behaviour. Olga loved to constantly chatter and her continual gossiping, rumouring and wondering as to whether or
not corpses were being burned (whilst I knew for sure there was no such happening) finally got on my nerves. This, plus her
almost slavish servitude, brought us to a parting of the ways. She was given a new job, one I did not begrudge her. She
was made “overseer” in the women’s camp and it was her job to keep out men who had no business there.
Olga had a gift for “raising hell” and could scold so beautifully that it was a joy to see her eject males from
the female camp. Her fellow inmates called her “Zerberus,” (hound of hell). Good old Olga, sometimes I wonder what became of her. She didn’t want to return to a Communist
Poland — almost none of the inmates wanted that, not even the Jews. Many of them even prayed for a German victory.
From a colleague, whom I visited recently, I learned that quite a number of them are in the U.S. He still corresponds with
some. Some were also willing to testify on behalf of SS Officers at their trials but were denied this privilege by Allied
and especially by West German authorities. These reports were publicized by the “right wing” press at the time. There were no secrets in Auschwitz. In September 1944 a Commission
of the Red Cross came to inspect the camp, but it was more interested in the camp at Birkenau. We also had a great many inspections at Raisko, but the people who
came were largely interested in plant cultivation. I was often involved in these tours. Although it was actually not permitted
that inmates converse with visitors, they did explain their work to them. 
Visiting
Delegation […] non-essential portion removed -ed. After the war I saw a TV film about Auschwitz that showed a building
with huge smoke stacks. I am very sorry, but when I left the camp at Auschwitz in December 1944, I did not see this building.
I cannot imagine that these smoke stacks were built in the cold winter of 1944/45, but 1 suspect that these structures were
erected after the war. It also seems implausible that, if they should have existed, the SS did not destroy them. During
the past few days I have heard a report on the radio according to which 4 million people are supposed to have been shot
at Auschwitz. It is an absolute certainty that no people were shot at Auschwitz, because this we would have heard. I do,
however, recall one occasion when there was great excitement in the camp. A rumour was being spread that hostages were to
be shot. This type of revenge is the most despicable I can think of because it hits innocent people. That it did take place—on
either side—is quite likely. If for every bombing victim an inmate should have been killed, none of the 200,000 inmates
would have left a concentration camp alive. On this basis, considering that Auschwitz was in operation only four years,
one million people a year or 3,000 per day would have had to die. Just what would a crematorium look like in which 3,000
corpses were burned every day? Even mass graves on this order could not be kept secret. Yet the German people continue to believe in these mass murders. Why? We who know the truth, have
we not burdened ourselves with an awful responsibility? Why did we keep silent for so long? I shall try to answer these
questions. 1. We have not kept silent at all. There was no one
who wanted to hear our reports, no paper wanted to publish them, no publisher print them. 2. Even today there are still enough witnesses alive who could verify my statements and make similar ones of their
own. What we need, however, is an unbiased constitutional state. To tell the truth is tantamount to social ostracism and
financial suicide. 3. I cannot say that I am tired of life, but my life’s
task lies behind me; my children are taken care of, and my wife should receive her well-earned pension at 65. At least,
I hope it will not be withheld from her if something should happen to me. 4. During the long years that I have worked as a journalist and publisher, I have created a small circle of readers
and with the aid of the German Citizenship initiative I can publish my reports independently. 5. It is being maintained, and regretfully also by members and voters of the main German political
parties, that “only recognition of our guilt in starting the war and destroying 6 million Jews will make it possible
for us to re-enter the community of nations, and that whoever denies that brings great harm to the German people.” 6. To disprove the mass murders in concentration camps would not only prove the entire thrust of
post-war German politics to be a mistake, but the post-war politicians still in power would have to admit their political
concepts to be entirely . This must not be allowed. 7. Of course,
there were also cowards, liars and paid witnesses. Some of the accused, who must have known that the testimony against them
was false, still made a confession because they thought—and of this they were no doubt assured—that they would
gain advantages for themselves
if they adjusted their statements to the testimony of the accusers. However, it must also be stated here that confessions
were obtained through torture. What changes
will take place when the disclosure of my own personal experience is made public? Most likely none. Some sort of decree may
be issued against me and an attempt might be made to confiscate this pamphlet. Our people, especially our children, must be freed from the feeling of guilt being forced upon
them by the victors of the last war—and it is only the truth that will make them free. I have recorded the memories of my experiences as I recall them. I have stated the truth, so help
me God. If these my statements contribute to our youth having more respect for their fathers who as soldiers fought for
Germany, and who were definitely not criminals, then I shall be very happy. Thies Christophersen, Kaelberhagen,
January 3, 1973 From Die Auschwitz Lüge, first published in German in 1973; First English edition 1974 under the title The Auschwitz Lie * *
* My investigations of the Jewish “Holocaust” commenced in 1972 and twenty seven years have
passed since the first publication of this book in 1976 in England as The Hoax of the Twentieth Century.
Twenty six years have passed since the release of the slightly revised second British and first American edition of 1977.
[…] I treated the German concentration camps as specific institutions that existed in specific locations, with
the alleged events that took place in them taking place, if at all, in real space and real time, together with other events
that happened simultaneously in those same camps or in real space. By “real space” I mean a space that we all
exist in so that, whatever happened at Auschwitz, it happened at the same time President Roosevelt held meetings in Washington,
and I as a child went to school, etc., and in the same space. That is so obvious that it may seem preposterous for me to present it as an original perspective, but please hear
me out. My impression of the extant literature was that the events claimed there may as well be imagined as having taken
place on Mars if at all, so absent was a concern for the broader context. As I reminded readers in my Chapter 5: “There was a war going on during World War II.” Consider my presentation of Auschwitz, the principal alleged “extermination camp”.
I started by describing Auschwitz as a camp that performed functions similar to those performed by typical German camps that
are not claimed to have been extermination camps; I outlined those functions and I presented a map showing where the German
camps were. Then I described Auschwitz in its unique respects and showed why the Allies would have been interested in events
transpiring at Auschwitz. I presented pictures of crematorium ovens at Auschwitz and other camps. I presented a map of the
Auschwitz region and a plan of the “Birkenau” section of the Auschwitz camp. That plan and the various maps showed
the reader exactly where, in Europe, Poland, and at Auschwitz, the great gas chambers
were supposed to have been located. Then I considered one of the specific groups of Jews, the Hungarian Jews, not
only from the point of view of allegations of events in German camps but from the point of view of events in Hungary. That
is, for me the problem of the Hungarian Jews was as much a problem of what happened in Hungary as what happened at Auschwitz.
Even in considering events at Auschwitz, I chose to place my perspective elsewhere, among the
Allies who, at the time in question, were very interested in Auschwitz as an industrial bombing target and would have photographed
the camp for that purpose.
The
photographs were produced almost three years after publication of my book and confirmed my conclusions, but that is not
the point that I am now trying to emphasize. My point is that, as unlikely as it may seem,
my method of placing Auschwitz in its general historical context was essentially unique in this historical area [of
Holocaust]. True, some of what I said in that respect is to be found in earlier books that purported to relate how the “exterminations”
transpired, but in scattered bits and pieces that were usually incidental to those accounts. Even so, much had to be culled
from diverse sources. For example, though it seems obvious that any useful discussion of the Auschwitz problem required
a map of the Auschwitz region and of the Birkenau camp, the former had to be constructed by me from several sources and
the latter had to be lifted, not from one of the standard “Holocaust” books such as those by Hilberg or Reitlinger,
but from a book about a German trial of Auschwitz personnel that took place in 1963-65. Hilberg, Reitlinger, and similar
authors were very stingy with maps and pictures, except in books specifically devoted to presenting pictures. We can say,
with only minor oversimplification, that they would sell you a book of pictures or a book of text, but not one book integrating
the two in any useful way. I believe my
analysis provoked investigations of specific problems, even when such influence was not acknowledged. My implied skepticism about the reality of the mysterious “German industrialist” who in 1942, according to the World Jewish Congress, passed along information that a plan to exterminate the Jews had
been discussed in Hitler’s headquarters, may have provoked the later investigations attempting to determine his
identity. Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman, in Breaking the Silence, 1986, unconvincingly proposed Eduard Schulte.
I also stressed the inaction of the Allies with respect to Auschwitz, which
Laqueur (The Terrible Secret, 1980) and Martin Gilbert (Auschwitz and the Allies, 1981) tried without success
to explain. The existence and relevance of the
1944 aerial reconnaissance photos of Auschwitz were, to the best of my knowledge, first argued in my book. I also believe
that my book provoked, perhaps through some intermediary, the 1979 release of these photos by the CIA, but again such influence
is not admitted. I analyzed
the specifics of the alleged extermination process at Auschwitz. I showed that all of the specific material facts required
a dual interpretation of relatively mundane facts, e.g. transports, selections,
showers, shaving hair, Zyklon B, crematoria etc., all real and all relatively mundane, had been given a second interpretation.
That insight scarcely merits the label today, but it did then. It has been the main
paradigm for all subsequent revisionist writing on Auschwitz and other alleged “extermination camps”.
It may seem very simple and obvious after one reads this book; it certainly was not when I wrote it. The reader is shown what sorts of questions he should ask if he wants to go further. Those who have studied the
development of ideas understand that the right answers are not attainable until the
right questions are formulated (yes, questions can be right or wrong). This book, even today, shows how to do this. Arthur Butz, from
the foreword to the 2003 edition of The Hoax of the 20th
Century
  The “Gas Chambers” “No Holes, No
Holocaust” Robert Faurisson first put this forth
in 1994 and says his reasoning behind it was
as follows:
- Auschwitz is
at the centre of the “Holocaust”;
- The great crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau, or Auschwitz-II,
are at the centre of the vast Auschwitz complex;
- At the heart of these crematoria there were, supposedly, one or several
homicidal gas chambers;
- At a single one of these crematoria (crematorium # 2), although it is in ruins, is it today possible
to go and examine the room said to have been a gas chamber; it is the presumed scene of the crime, itself presumed
as well;
- We are told that, in order to kill the Jewish detainees locked inside, an SS man, moving about on the
concrete roof of the said gas chamber, poured Zyklon B pellets through four regular openings situated in the roof;
- However,
one need only have eyes to see and realise that no such openings have ever existed there;
- Therefore the crime cannot have
been committed.
For R. J. van Pelt, testifying against Irving at the Irving
vs Lipstadt libel trial in Canada in the year 2000, it was near torture trying to find a reply to this argument.
Justice [Charles] Gray as well had to acknowledge “the apparent absence of evidence of holes” (p. 490
of the verbatim transcript) and, in a more general way, he conceded that “contemporaneous documents yield
little clear evidence of the existence of gas chambers designed to kill humans” (p. 489; for more details
one may consult pages 458-460, 466-467, 475-478 and 490-506). In the text of his judgment, Charles Gray admitted
surprise: “I have to confess that, in common I suspect with most other people, I had supposed that the evidence
of mass extermination of Jews in the gas chambers at Auschwitz was compelling. I have, however, set aside this
preconception when assessing the evidence adduced by the parties in these proceedings.” The coup de grâce given, on December 27, 2009, to the myth of the Nazi “gas chambers” The blow was administered by a
Jewish academic, Robert Jan van Pelt, whom one may consider the last person to have sought to prove scientifically
that Auschwitz, the capital of “the Holocaust”, had been an “extermination camp” (an
American term coined in November 1944), that is, a camp equipped with extermination “gas chambers”. The
revisionists had no opponent more determined and more resolved to fight them on the historical and scientific
level than this professor teaching the history of architecture at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). He
defended the usual argument holding that, to gas several thousand Jews at a time, an SS man, having got up on
the roof of certain “gas chambers”, poured Zyklon B pellets through four holes made in the concrete
ceiling of the said “gas chambers”. Ever under the pressure of revisionist discoveries, he had been
bound to concur that the holes in the small Krematorium I had been created by… the Soviets and the Polish
communists. But R.J. van Pelt and his friends were sure of finding such holes in the concrete roofs, in ruins,
of Krematoriums II and III [in the Birkenau camp]. However, after years of research, they proved unable to supply
a single photograph of those holes or of the perforated shafts (?) that allegedly had allowed the diffusion of
hydrogen cyanide gas underneath, thus failing to meet my challenge summed up in the formula: “No holes,
no Holocaust”
 Crema II at Birkenau still under construction. The controversy is whether
there were introduction holes in the flat roof of the partially underground section at right-foreground. For more, see: http://robertfaurisson.blogspot.com/2011/09/victories-of-revisionism-continued.htm For further study of this subject, see the following articles from The Revisionist magazine,
2004 : “The Elusive Holes of Death”, Germar Rudolf; “No Holes, No Gas Chamber(s)”, Carlo Mattogno; “The Openings For the Introduction of Zyklon B, Part 1” and “The Openings For the Introduction of Zyklon B, Part 2”, Carlo Mattogno.
* *
*
Wiki-Lies and Auschwitz Truth
by Germar Rudolf How to get your own Wikipedia entry. Who do you
ask, if you want to find out general information about Auschwitz? How about an encyclopedia? Search engine statistics
show that Wikipedia is the world’s most frequently consulted encyclopedia. The problem with this encyclopedia
is, though, that sensitive entries are closely monitored by a cabal that deletes everything which does not jibe
with political correctness. Take, for instance,
Wikipedia’s English language entry about me, Germar Rudolf. My name was included in Wikipedia, because I had gotten involved in a controversy in the early 1990s: I had written
a chemical and technical expert report on the Auschwitz gas chambers called The Rudolf Report. This expert report was used
in a number of court cases in Germany and was also published in book form in various languages. Since I concluded
in this work that the generally held views about mass murders in gas chambers at Auschwitz are refuted by extant
documents and material traces, I became a person of public notoriety (see the Wikipedia entry for a few more details).
Hence in 2004 my name was included first in the German section and then a few months later also in the English
section of Wikipedia without my knowledge and initial contribution. Most of what is written in it now about me
as a person is for the most part fairly accurate, because in 2010 I got involved for a brief time and fixed several
gross misrepresentations and errors of my biography, most of which were accepted by the editors in charge. Sheer Indelible Misrepresentations Although I managed to correct errors regarding my personal life history,
I was not so fortunate about distorted claims made in that entry about my work. In the English language entry,
for instance, the following can be read, among other things: “Among other things, the report states that, after having collected and analyzed samples from the walls
of various buildings in the Auschwitz concentration camp, only insignificant and non-reproducible traces of cyanide
compounds can be found in the samples taken from the gas chambers. Richard Green and Jamie McCarthy from The Holocaust
History Project have criticized the [Rudolf] report, saying that like Fred
Leuchter in the Leuchter report, Rudolf did not discriminate against the formation of iron-based cyanide compounds, which are not a reliable indicator of the presence
of cyanide, and that thus his experiment was seriously flawed.” [Emph.
added]
Now, if you are a novice to the issue, you would
have no clue what it means that Rudolf found “only insignificant and non-reproducible traces of cyanide compounds
in the samples taken from the gas chambers.” But you sure know what it means when my critics say that my “experiment
was seriously flawed.” This wording gives the impression that I conducted just an “experiment”
and that I am probably rather incompetent.
You
don’t find a hint in this entry that my report has more than 200 pages, more than 500 footnotes, and consists
of an awful lot more than just one “experiment.” To top if off, you will find no information whatsoever
about my work: not a link to it, not its English title, not any bibliographic information. Nothing. And don’t
try to change it, because others have tried it before (me included), but the censors in the background erased all
such attempts. For instance, a pertinent link to
the Rudolf Report, which is, after all, discussed
in this entry, was added by one user at 11:35am on 17 April 2013 and removed by an eager censor with the user ID “Dougweller” at 3pm that same day. This dance was repeated over the next days: re-entry at 2:15am, deletion at 5:49am, re-entry
at 9:21pm, deletion at 12:30pm the next day, re-entry at 4:26am the following day, deleted at 5:47am by some other
user. The reason given for this censorship
is that I and the places where my works are published have a bad reputation in the public market of ideas, whereas
my slanderers have not. And disreputable sources are subject to deletion. It’s Wikipedia’s “quality”
control policy. Never mind that this “disreputable source” is the main reason for this very entry to
begin with. You people out there are allowed to read about it (from its opponents), but you are not allowed to read the thing itself. Only in July of 2012 was a brief reference added and tolerated which points to my first, 1998 paper addressing some of Green’s initial deliberations. It’s outdated, to be sure, but it’s a start. Why Wikipedia Is Wrong But let’s get back to the above quote from Wikipedia. Let’s read that again:
“Richard Green” is saying that “iron-based cyanide compounds” are not a reliable indicator
of the presence of cyanide compounds.
Excuse
me? Cyanide compounds do not indicate the presence of cyanide compounds??? To Richard Green’s credit must be stated that he never made such a nonsensical claim. In the
paper quoted by Wikipedia, Green claims, among other things, that iron-based cyanide compounds are not a reliable indicator of past homicidal mass gassings. Whoever wrote this Wikipedia entry must therefore
have had some serious mental impairment. I tried to change that on Dec. 28 to a phrasing which would make at least some sense (“iron-based
cyanide compounds, which are not a reliable indicator of homicidal mass gassings”), but that change was reversed
a short while later by one of Wikipedia’s zealous editors. A day later, another attempt to have this corrected
was made. It read “cyanide compounds are not a reliable indicator of past homicidal gassings”, and
to make sure the censors understand that this is a correction to be taken seriously, a brief explanation was given:
“How can cyanides not be a reliable indicator for the presence of cyanides? Green claims they don’t
reliably indicate homicidal gassings!” But guess what! A little more than a day later that change was reversed as well. (then again: reversion reverted at 10:47 on Jan. 2, 2014, nixed not even three hours later) What are these editors thinking,
if anything? But even if
that correction were accepted, this wouldn’t change the fact that Wikipedia circulates here nothing more than
the lie bandied about by Green, although he is not the inventor. That’s a strong accusation, I know, so let
me explain. Why Green & Co. Are
Wrong First a few historical basics.
I’ll keep it brief.
Auschwitz
was the biggest concentration camp of Third Reich Germany. It also is said to have served for the extermination
of around one million people, mostly Jews. Most of them are said to have been killed in homicidal gas chambers.
The poison gas allegedly used for this was hydrogen cyanide soaked on gypsum pellets, sold in Germany in those
years under the trademark Zyklon B. It is actually a pesticide which has been used to kill vermin since the 1920s and is
still being used today, although under different names.
 Germar Rudolf in a small disinfestation chamber at Auschwitz where Zyklon
B was used to disinfect clothing, leaving permanent blue staining on the wall. -ed. Now a tiny bit of chemistry. I’ll keep it brief and simple. Hydrogen cyanide is a poisonous chemical that can also react with rust to form a very long-term
stable blue pigment known as Iron Blue. This is the most notorious of the “iron-based cyanide compounds”
mentioned in the Wikipedia entry about me. Rust in turn is a natural component of all wall materials (plaster,
mortar, concrete, up to 2%). Exposing walls to hydrogen cyanide (=Zyklon B) has led in numerous well-documented
cases to the formation of that blue pigment, and that pigment sticks around for centuries. So if it formed in,
say, 1942, it still can be found today.
Now comes the forensic part. Again, I’ll keep it brief and simple. If the blue pigment can be found in the walls of the rooms said to have served as homicidal
gas chambers, then this would prove that Zyklon B was used in these rooms. The problem is, though, that basically
no such traces can be found. What do we conclude
from this? The U.S. expert
for execution technology Fred A. Leuchter was the first to take samples and have them analyzed in 1988. Since he found basically no pigment traces, he concluded,
succinctly put: No
blue pigment, no Zyklon B poisoning.
 Photo taken in 2005 of the back wall of the Auschwitz 1 “gas chamber”
which tourists visit shows flimsy door, drains for toilets along the right wall and manhole cover in center of
floor – but no blue pigment. (courtesy furtherglory.wordpress.com) -ed.  Photo taken in 2012. Notice the back door has been hidden by a partial wall,
and no one is allowed past the railing because a “reverent” attitude is now demanded. No blue staining
on walls, and note the floor drain in left foreground. (courtesy samarkandbound.blogspot.com) -ed. I was the next in line with my research. Since
I felt that Leuchter had jumped to conclusions, I wanted to be a bit more circumspect. But I, too, failed to find
pigment traces. Hence my line of reasoning after lots of research was in 1993 something like this: For a number of reasons, the homicidal mass gassings attested to by numerous witnesses must have
led to the formation of a considerable amount of blue pigment. The amount ought to be similar to that found in
a number of documented cases where Zyklon B gas had been used for pest control. There, the walls had turned blue
due to that blue pigment. Since basically no blue pigment can be found in the alleged homicidal gas chambers,
the witness statements are false.
Next in line
was the Auschwitz State Museum. They commissioned a local Polish institute for forensics to do their own testing.
The results were published in 1994. Their line of reasoning can be summarized as follows:
We
don’t understand how blue pigments could possibly form in walls exposed to Zyklon B gas.
One chemist said it was not possible for blue pigments to form in walls exposed to Zyklon B gas. He also suggested that wall paint
containing that blue pigment could give false positives.
In part as a reaction to the first chemist, another chemist proved how the blue pigment can form and how it has formed in the past. He also demonstrated that no wall paint
with that pigment ever existed and that the rooms under considerations never had any wall paint, let alone blue
wall paint.
We ignored the second chemist (since we suspected him, without
proof, of having despicable political motives) and chose an analytical method that cannot detect the blue pigment.
All samples tested, even those exposed to Zyklon B gas in laboratory experiments, therefore yielded basically
negative results. We therefore conclude that homicidal gassings indeed took place.
Does that sound strange? Yes, but is it logical? If tests yield nothing, then ‘nothing’ proves a mass
murder. So next time you do nothing, be aware that this proves that you are a mass murderer! To put it in a nutshell: The Polish scientists excluded exactly that
chemical compound (the blue pigment) which alone can be detected after so many decades. They did this due to
false assumptions, and they ignored arguments refuting them, although they knew about them (since they quoted
that second chemist in their paper, who happened to have been me writing under a pen name in 1993). However: - If
you claim to be a scientist but must admit you don’t understand what you’re about to investigate (formation
of blue cyanide pigments in walls), do your homework first before getting involved, or else stay out of it.
- If a fellow scientist has already
refuted the theory which you want to use as the starting point for your research (excluding blue pigments from
the analysis), either show that this refutation doesn’t hold water, change your starting point (=include the pigment), or else stay out of it.
Hence the Poles did
- exclude the
data which they didn’t like,
- refused to learn about arguments contradicting their theory,
- and refused to address known refutations
to their theory.
Three reasons why their work is the opposite of scholarly.
And this paper appeared in a peer-reviewed “scientific” journal! So much about the value of the peer
review process, if taboos are at stake.
In
case you want to read more about these Polish frauds, feel free to read it here, on pp. 45-67. Finally we have Richard Green
and Jamie McCarthy, as quoted by Wikipedia. Since only Green is a chemist, I henceforth ignore McCarthy. Green,
a self-confessed Jew (whether that indicates an agenda is up to the reader to decide), has not done any research
of his own. He has merely bickered about my research results and has insulted me on numerous occasions, even in
the paper linked to by Wikipedia, thus proving to be quite a Jewish political zealot indeed. Although Green had to admit that there is no evidence of any blue wall paint at Auschwitz and that the blue pigment in question can indeed
form in walls as a result of being exposed to Zyklon B gas, he still backs the Polish pseudo-scientists’
fraudulent approach. The interested
reader can pursue the papers linked to here for more details about Green. Suffice it to say that Green and in extension
Wikipedia rubber-stamp the Polish hoax by saying that any analysis has to “discriminate against the formation
of iron-based cyanide compounds,” that is to say: has to exclude the blue pigment from the analysis. But
why, if there is no blue wall paint? Because the Poles still don’t understand the chemistry involved? Then
THEY and in extension Green should be excluded from the debate, not the blue pigment. Anyway, by quoting Green as a serious critic of my work, a Polish political lie backed
by a Jewish zealot becomes encyclopedic “truth.” Needless to say that any attempt to get the facts about this swindle included in this Wikipedia entry is doomed
to failure. Why Mentioning
Green on Wikipedia Is Wrong
Wikipedia
has a strict policy when it comes to backing up claims with references. If science is involved, one ought to resort
to peer-reviewed publications if possible, but one must not use sources published by oneself, by a mere web blog
(all the more so, if it is your own blog), and also certainly not, if the source includes insults and personal attacks.
All this is true for Green’s papers: They are steeped in innuendos, have not been peer-reviewed, are posted
on a web blog only, which is owned or at least administated by Green himself, among others. Hence none of Green’s papers on this topic should be used as a reference to back up any factual
scientific claims on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia
is a free encyclopedia. They are constantly asking for donations to keep it free. Although I appreciate their
free encyclopedic services, I’m not going to donate a penny to an enterprise that spreads lies and vilifications
about me and my work and gives frauds like Green a platform to disseminate their lies. *
* * Letter #37 by Carlos Porter
Holocaust survivors and propagandists concentrate on the “nit-picking”
and forget about the cremation processes, and problems involved in determining:
a) how much Zyklon to use;
b) how much HCN is in the air;
c) how
to know when to stop tossing all those cans through the hole;
d) how long to wait — i.e., how to know when they’re dead; — and then
e) how to get the bodies out afterwards without poisoning yourself.
Not to mention the problems involved in:
a) crematory oven cremation
times and capacities (all German ovens were coke-fired, and relatively inefficient);
b) the problems involved in open-air cremation;
c) using wood for fuel.
 Two of the cremation ovens that can be seen today at Auschwitz I. Plus:
d) in holes;
e) in swampy ground, with the water table one foot below
the surface;
f) in mud, rain and snow;
g) tossing the bodies in first, and the fuel in later, on top (ever
try this in the Boy Scouts?); or even
h) building
the fire first, then approaching the fire afterwards, to toss the bodies in, etc., etc., etc.
i) when there were no holes in the roof at that time,
anyway; William L. Shirer and others describe infrastructures which never existed, and do not exist today: (“mushroom-shaped”
Zyklon introduction ports, gigantically heavy “hermetically sealed doors”, “powerful fans”,
“shower heads” in the gas chambers, etc. etc. etc.).
People go and visit all this junk and don’t notice that half
of it is missing. 
So called “hermetically-sealed gas chamber door” according to William L. Shirer and others (without “shower
heads”). Exact quote:
“Once
they were inside the shower room… the massive door was slid shut, locked and hermetically sealed... Up above, where the well-groomed lawn and flower beds almost concealed the mushroom-shaped
lids of vents…The
naked prisoners would be looking up at the showers from which
no water spouted or perhaps at the floor wondering why there were no drains. It took some moments for the gas to have much effect. But soon the inmates became aware
that it was issuing from the perforations
in the vents…Twenty
or thirty minutes later when the huge mass of naked flesh had ceased to writhe, pumps drew out the poisonous air, the large door was opened… Protected by
gas masks and
rubber boots
and wielding hoses they went to work.” (p. 970, Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, original hardcover, or p. 1154, Pan paperback, 1960.)
Where is all this junk? Let’s
start with the doors, pumps and shower heads. There are drains. Shirer is referring to Auschwitz. This is Auschwitz.  Auschwitz oven allegedly capable of burning “thousands of bodies a
day.” How stupid do the Hoaxoco$t
con-artists think we are?
Ever try to burn anything in your back yard? OK, you’ve got your
answer right there. Everybody is aware of the problems involved in burning trash; just imagine the problems involved
in burning thousands of human bodies. Try it with a dead bird or animal and see what happens.
And I almost forgot:
a) crematory
ovens do not smell or emit smoke;
b) the cremation
of a human body requires at least an hour — usually an hour and a quarter or a half — even with the
most modern technology, etc., etc., etc.
At Birkenau, 2000 people are alleged to have been gassed and cremated per hour, every hour. One problem is the “gas chamber”
is located in the cellar, while the crematory ovens are on the ground floor. The bodies would have to be transported
up by means of freight elevator, without sides, carrying at most 3 bodies at a time. There are 5 coke-fired three-muffle
ovens (equivalent to 15 ovens), designed for 4 or 5 cremations a day. So that after one hour, about 15 bodies
would have been burned, and then not even completely, while about 40 or 50 might have been transported up in the
freight elevator. Meanwhile, 2000 “new victims” are supposed to have been unsuspectingly waiting, to
“take a shower”, although the room is empty, and is obviously not a “shower bath”. Auschwitz I, the camp visited by the most tourists, is a reconstruction
modified by the Soviets after the war, not according to the original plans. It is very easy to see that the chimney
is not even connected to the building. None of these buildings had any holes in the roof (to be used as “Zyklon
B introduction ports”) at the time of the alleged “mass gassings”. No holes, no Holocaust. All doors opened inwards.
So how did they get them open again with all those bodies slumped down dead inside? And so on… and on,
and on, and on… 
Phony “gas chamber”, Stammlager, Auschwitz. Maximum capacity: 2,000 persons. 
Real
gas chamber, United States of America. Weight: 1/2 ton. Maximum capacity: 2 persons. “There’s a sucker born every minute. A two-legged animal will believe
anything, and the more preposterous the better.” For more, see: http://www.cwporter.com/letter37.htm *
* * Court finds “gassing through fake shower heads is not possible“ by Carlo Mattogno  “Fake” shower head from the shower room in the Dachau Crematoria. At the Degesch trial in 1949, a witness mentioned the rumour that “at Birkenau, the gas was introduced into the chamber through
fake shower heads”, but both Dr. Heli, the inventor of Zyklon B,
and Dr. Ra., physicist, declared that this gassing technique was impossible, so that the High Court of Frankfurt
am Main, in its judgement of 28 March 1949, acknowledged that it was incorrect: “The Tribunal does not doubt the fact that the hypothesis that the gas
was emitted from a tin can of Zyklon B by means of a tap
and introduced into the gas chamber, is erroneous, so that it is no longer necessary to perform the experiment
requested by one of the defendants” 26.
[In other words, all the stories of gas coming through real or fake shower heads in fake shower rooms
ARE FALSE … as found by the high court in Frankfurt am Main in 1949, yet such stories continue to be told
by camp tour guides and accepted even by some “holocaust historians.” -ed.] The story of the “cylinders
of hydrocyanic acid” was an adaptation of the more commonly-heard version of the “bombs” containing
hydrocyanic acid, which was invented towards the end of 1943 and the beginning of 1944 by Jerzy Tabeau, who was
interned at Auschwitz under the name of Jerzy Wesoowski on 23 March 1942 and escaped on the night of 19-20 November
1943. In his report, which began circulating in the summer of 1944, he wrote: “After reaching the area with the gas chamber in it, which was surrounded by barbed wire,
the condemned men had to undress completely, men, women and children together. Each person received a towel and
some soap. They were then all crammed into the chamber, with plenty of blows and mistreatment. This is how the
chamber was filled with as many people as it could hold, after which the door was closed tight and SS men assigned
for the purpose poured the bombs, which were filled with Prussic acid,
through the valves located in the walls. After ten minutes, the doors were opened and a special
commando (always made up of Jews) carried away the bodies and made room for the next convoy” 27.
A report dated 23 August 1944, by contrast, mentioned “vials”: “Under the pretext of visiting a shower bath, they make the people undress,
give them soap and send them to the ‘shower area’, where they close the doors air-tight, after which
they throw vials inside, full of an unknown liquid. The vials break and release the gas, which causes their death
[…] within five or ten minutes.” 28.
This
fantastic story was also echoed by Kurt Gerstein, who wrote that the Degesch director
had told him “that for the killing of men, he had supplied hydrocyanic acid in vials (in Ampullen)”
29. However, according to him,
at Auschwitz, these “vials” were used in a different manner: “Only at Auschwitz were millions
of children killed by holding a wad [soaked with] hydrocyanic acid underneath their noses”
30.
In addition to “bombs” or “cylinders”
or “vials” of hydrocyanic acid, other substances were indicated as methods of extermination: “sternutory
gases” (gaz sternutatoires) 31 and a “certain substance which put the victims to sleep
(einschläfern) in one minute” 32. Ex-inmate Otto Wolken, by contrast, spoke of gassing ditches: “Ditches were dug and covered with canvas, serving as provisional gas chambers”33.
At the Nuremberg Trial, on 21 June 1946, the American prosecutor, [Robert H.] Jackson, mentioned another
method of alleged extermination “in the vicinity of Auschwitz”: the atomic bomb! “A village, a small village was provisionally
erected, with temporary structures, and in it approximately 20,000 Jews were put. By means of this newly invented
weapon of destruction, these 20,000 people were eradicated almost instantaneously, and in such a way that there
was no trace left of them; that it developed, the explosive developed, temperatures of from 400° to 500°
centigrade and destroyed them without leaving any trace at all.” 34.
As we may see, the Americans, to put it in a nutshell, already possessed the bad habit of imputing their own crimes
to their enemies of the moment.
These fairy tales quickly fell into oblivion, being replaced by other, better organised, fairy tales […]
which nonetheless also causes a certain disconcertment among Holocaust historians. The latter, after all, were
then compelled to proclaim that it was not the case that these same propaganda fairy
tales later developed, through a variety of literary elaborations, into the Holocaust “revealed truth”
which reigns supreme for the moment. On the contrary, it was claimed that such tales were a mere “reflection”
of a “truth” which was only discovered later, but which was not yet known when these fairy tales were
invented. 26 C.F.
Rüter, Justiz und NS-Verbrechen. Sammlung deutscher Strafurteile wegen nationalsozialisticher Tötungsverbrechen 1945-1966. Amsterdam, 1968-1981, vol.
XIII, p. 134. 27 Das Lager Oswiecim (Auschwitz), in: A. Silberschein, Die Judenausrottung
in Polen. Series Three, Section II.: Die Lagergruppe Oswiecim
(Auschwitz). Geneva, 1944, pp. 67-68. 28 Report published at: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=96187&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=pressac 29 German report by K. Gerstein
dated 6 May 1945. PS-2170, p. 9. 30 Idem.
31 La politique pratiquée
par la Suisse à l’égard des réfugiés au cours des années 1933 à 1945. Report intended for the Conseil fédéral à l’intention des conseils
législatifs by Professor Carl Ludwig, Basel. Berne, 1957,
p. 220. 32 Alleged report of SS-Sturmbannführer Franke-Gricksch of May 1943. Text in: J.-C.
Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers. The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York, 1989, p. 238. The report consists solely of an
alleged “transcription” by a certain Erich M. Lippmann, an officer
in the US Army, responsible for collecting documents for purposes of evidence at the American trials at Nuremberg.
The original document does not exist. 33 AGK, NTN, 88 (Höss trial), p. 45. 34 Der Prozess gegen
die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem internationalen Militärgerichtshof.
Nuremberg 14. November 1945-1. October 1946. Nuremberg, 1948, vol.
XVI, p. 580 [pp. 529-30 in English] From AUSCHWITZ – 27 JANUARY 1945 TO 27 JANUARY 2005: SIXTY YEARS OF PROPAGANDA
by Carlo Mattogno, translated into English from the original Italian for jan27.org by Carlos Porter. The entire
book is archived on this site HERE. * * * The Origin of “Special Treatment” in Auschwitz
by Carlo Mattogno The origin of ‘special treatment’ in Auschwitz occurs
chronologically within the program of the deportation of Jews fit for labor into this camp as outlined in the
preceding section. On March 31, 1942, Bischoff prepared a list of buildings planned as well as already constructed.
BW 58 is described as follows: “5 horse-stable barracks (special treatment) 4 in Birkenau 1 in Budy.”
In the first version of this document – it bears the same date – the existence of the BW is
announced in the following handwritten memo: “5 horse-stable barracks/special treatment 4 in Birkenau 1 in Bor-Budy.”
These are the same barracks already mentioned in Bischoff’s explanatory report of July 15, 1942. These barracks
are also mentioned in a document of March 31, 1942, together with the term ‘special treatment,’ although
Pressac maintains wrongly that this term appeared “at the end of July 1942 […] for the first
time.” In addition to that, March 31, 1942, was two months before the date, on which Höß
[english spelling: Hoess] was supposedly summoned to Berlin in order to be informed by Himmler that “his
camp was selected as the center for the mass extermination of the Jews.” The construction of the four barracks planned for ‘special treatment’ (as noted in
the March 31, 1942, document) was requested in the following letter of June 9, 1942, from Bischoff to the SS WVHA: “For the special treatment of the Jews, the camp commandant of the
concentration camp, SS Stubaf. Höß, has applied orally for the erection of 4 horse-stable barracks
for the accommodation of personal effects. It is asked that the application
be approved, since the matter is extremely urgent and the effects must absolutely
be brought under shelter.”
The economic function of the barracks for ‘special treatment’ is confirmed by another
document, which preceded the ‘first selection’: The “assignment of the barracks” by the
Central Construction Office, which Bischoff had outlined on June 30. In the list concerned, there are three “barracks for personal property” of type 260/9 in the construction project, besides a “personal property barrack in the women’s concentration
camp” and a “barrack for accommodation, Bor” of the same type. Another “assignment of the barracks” by the Central Construction Office enumerates
the barracks needed, those already constructed, and those missing, by type. Corresponding to the term ‘special
treatment’ are five barracks “needed” three “erected,” and two “missing.” Quite obviously, this refers to the
five barracks mentioned in Bischoff’s explanatory report of July 15, 1942; at the beginning of this report
are mentioned the “5 barracks for special treatment of the prisoners,” which, as we have seen, correspond
to the five barracks for ‘special treatment’ of the list of March 31, 1942. The two missing barracks
were built before the end of October. They are mentioned in a list of November 15, 1942, under the heading “G.B.
Bau VIII E Ch-m/wo 19” as “5 barracks for special treatment”; including installation, they cost
a total of 90,000 RM. Another document
deals the fatal blow to Pressac’s interpretation: It is the “assignment of barracks” of December
8, 1942, which assigns the five barracks “already erected” to the “Prisoner of war camp B.A.I.,”
thus to the section BAI of Birkenau, where “special treatment (old)” is stated as their purpose. The significance of this document is the position of these five barracks:
construction section 1 (B.A.I) of Birkenau. The adjective “alt” may refer to the fact that these barracks
belong administratively to the earlier carrying out of ‘special treatment,’ in place of which a new
‘special treatment’ had emerged as the institutional mission of the Birkenau prisoner of war camp a
few months earlier. The function of the five “personal property barracks for special treatment”
was thus closely tied up with the sorting out and storage of personal articles, which had been taken from the deported
Jews. This took place within the scope of the “Operation Reinhardt” buildings planned
as well as already constructed. BW 58 is described as follows: “5 horse-stable barracks (special treatment) 4 in Birkenau 1 in Budy.” In the first version of this
document – it bears the same date – the existence of the BW is announced in the following handwritten
memo: “5 horse-stable barracks/special treatment 4 in Birkenau 1 in Bor-Budy.”
Another “assignment of the barracks” by the Central Construction Office enumerates the barracks needed,
those already constructed, and those missing, by type. Corresponding to the term ‘special treatment’
are five barracks. When Pohl inspected
Auschwitz on September 23, 1942, he visited, among others, the following facilities: “Disinfestation and personal property barracks/Operation Reinhardt […] Stage 2 of Operation
Reinhardt.”
The visit had been carefully organized
and followed a strictly logical program. The inspection of a disinfestation (i.e., delousing) chamber and of the
personal articles confiscated during the course of Operation Reinhardt followed that of the construction depot
and of the DAW (Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke, German Equipment Works), so that Pohl in any case inspected
BW 28, the “Delousing and Personal Property Barracks” in the “Kanada I” depot. The visit
to stage 2 of Operation Reinhardt, on the other hand, took place after that of the “Birkenau Camp,”
which means that this facility was formerly part of this camp (like the “Birkenau Military Camp,” to
which Pohl made a visit directly afterwards) or at least was located in its vicinity. As of the end of February
1943, 825 train cars with “old textiles,” which had been confiscated during the “resettlement
of Jews”, had been sent to the Auschwitz camp and Lublin (Majdanek) within the framework of Operation Reinhardt. This confiscation and recycling of personal property was exactly what Operation Reinhardt was all about,
as can also be gathered from the following communication of SS Gruppenführer Fritz Katzmann: “Simultaneously with the resettlement operations, the seizure of Jewish
property was carried out. Extraordinary assets were able to be taken into custody and placed at the disposal of
the ‘Reinhardt’ special staff.”
In
May 1944 there was still a “Reinhardt Special Unit” in Birkenau, where 287 female prisoners worked. From Special Treatment in Auschwitz: Origin and Meaning of a Term by Carlo Mattogno, 2000, Part two, chapter two. * * * The Auschwitz Crema 1 Hole Hoax
by Eric Hunt 
Figure 1 – “Reconstructed” Crematorium
1. The SS Hospital is located directly behind it. As pointed out by many revisionists before, the four holes in the roof of the morgue of Crematorium
1 at Auschwitz 1 camp, do not “fit” the original configuration of the building. In fact, they are centered
over the current post-war modified configuration of the room. The Auschwitz Museum claims these were the locations of genuine holes, which were then filled in
by the Germans when they chose to convert the crematorium to an air raid shelter for the nearby SS hospital. Under Soviet occupation, the Auschwitz museum kindly “re-opened”
the holes the Germans supposedly covered up. Revisionists deny these holes existed in the first place. For decades, tour guides and historians insisted Crematorium 1 was in its
original state. However, a modern sign acknowledges that Crematorium 1 existed in several stages throughout the
war, and was modified after the war. This is thanks to Robert Faurisson who exposed the original plans of the
structure. 
Figure 2 – Sign acknowledges Crematorium
1 was modified post-war On the above sign, which was only added in recent years, we can see some of the differences
between the building in its original state, at the time of alleged gassings, and today. 
Figure 3 The museum sign above admits “After the war, the Museum partially reconstructed the gas chamber and crematorium.
The chimney and two incinerators were rebuilt, using original components, as were several of the openings in the
gas chamber roof.” A 3D representation
of the important area of Crematorium 1 is useful to understand this hole hoax. For this basic 3D representation,
The “roof” has been lowered so the interior walls can show through. The top half of the building is
devoted to the oven room and smaller rooms and has not been represented in 3D. 
Figure 4 – Configuration at time of Alleged
Mass Gassings
This
is part of Crematorium 1 at the time of alleged mass gassings. The alleged Zyklon B insertion holes are represented
in the roof. The room designated as a morgue on original German plans is the alleged “gas chamber”.
What was used as a morgue when the morgue was used as a gas chamber? Who knows… As we can see, the placement of the holes looks rather odd and is not centered
over the morgue, which is the long rectangular room the hole should be centered over. The next image shows the location of an oddly placed hole, very close to the location
of both an original wall dividing the morgue and wash room and the door to the oven room. 
Figure 5 – Hole close to original wall separating
morgue and washing room 
Figure – 6 – Recent photograph of
hole near original dividing wall and door The beam coming from the left was once a wall. This wall was removed during Soviet occupation. Crematorium 1 was converted into an air raid shelter for the SS hospital located across from it.
We can see the many interior walls added, as well as an additional entrance/exit and air lock on the right. The
doorway between the morgue/alleged gas chamber and the oven room was walled up. 
Figure 7 – Air Raid Shelter configuration The current configuration is revealing.
The museum knocked down one wall too many – the one originally dividing the morgue and washing room. But
all of a sudden those holes appear to “fit.” They’re centered over the large chamber tourists
walk into. 
Figure 8 – Current Configuration According to Carlo Mattogno’s measurements,
the holes in the upper left and lower right are 5.1 meters away from walls. However, this measurement is senseless
as we’ve seen the hole in the upper left was located next to a dividing wall and its distance from the opposite
wall of the washing room was irrelevant at the time. In addition, the other two holes are 7.1 meters away from walls. One of the walls, a wall of an air lock
created for the entrance for the air raid shelter, didn’t even exist at the time of alleged gassings! The
other wall is the irrelevant opposite side wall of the washing room. 
Figure 9 The placement of the holes in the roof of Auschwitz’s Crematorium 1
are centered over a building configuration which only existed after the war. The Soviets found an air raid shelter for the SS Hospital, with an operating room and attached washing
room with toilets and sinks. This served no use for propaganda. They added a chimney on about the same spot it was located previously. They rebuilt ovens to put in
the adjoining oven room. They removed all
but one of the interior walls dividing up the air raid shelter, removing one too many – the original dividing
wall between the morgue and washing room which existed at the time of alleged gassings. The wash room’s toilets
and a sink have been removed. They left the air
lock and second entrance, passing it off for decades as the “victim’s entrance”. Tourists would
walk past the gallows allegedly used to hang Rudolf Hoess to enter this entrance, neither existed at the time of
mass gassings. These holes should never have been “re-opened”
in the first place. This is tampering with the scene of a crime – mass murder! But the placement of the four holes points to a crude mistake on the part of the hoaxers,
who centered the supposedly “re-opened” holes not over the morgue, but the morgue + washing room + second
entrance air lock which didn’t exist at the time of mass gassings. ~ Carlo Mattogno’s study on Auschwitz 1’s
Crematorium 1 is available at holocausthandbooks.com _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Bird’s Eye View of Auschwitz I don’t doubt that there was a deadly
backlash directed at European Jews that was perpetrated by the Germans, and we all refer to it as THE Holocaust.
I do think that the figure of 6,000,000 Jews being gassed and cremated may be a gross exaggeration for added effect.
I doubt that any Jews were gassed at all. I did my own investigation into the "death
camps" and became curious as to exactly how 6,000,000 Jews, plus millions of Russian POWs, Poles, Gypsies,
Catholic priests, political dissidents and so forth were "disappeared." We are supposed to believe that
the victims were mostly gassed in what they thought were "shower" facilities and then cremated in ovens
provided by a German manufacturer of baking ovens. Let’s have a look at the grand- daddy of death camps at
Auschwitz, Poland. First of all, I was unaware that Auschwitz-Birkenau actually had a soccer field
that was used regularly by the inmates and was located next to, and in full view of, Crematorium #2. The inmates
also enjoyed a swimming pool, movie theater, plays and Sunday orchestra concerts… which seems like a waste
of time for the Germans to provide such pleasurable leisure’s for people doomed to die soon. And how the hell
could Jewish inmates playing soccer not be disturbed to the point of calling off their soccer game because of
seeing the long lines of people entering crematoriums not to be seen again; or only to be seen as a greasy black,
foul smelling smoke emitting from the crematorium smoke stack? There are a lot of curiosities
related to the gas chamber/crematorium complex itself. The Germans were, and still are, admired for their practicality,
their precision engineering, and are considered masters of organization.
The Auschwitz killing process does not reflect any practicality at all.
Facts to consider:
the Auschwitz crematorium operated for one and a half years from the spring of 1943 until November of 1944. Supposedly
1,400,000 Jews were gassed and cremated during that time. There is a plaque at the present day Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration camp museum stating that there were 1,400,000 murdered there. The plaque replaced the one that had
stated it was 4,000,000. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum website presently states that it was 1,100,000.
If people were packed very tightly, then 1,680 people could fit in the gas chamber that was
one hundred feet long and twenty three feet wide. But first they had to step down into the underground undressing
room that was larger by a third than the gas chamber. After undressing, everyone proceeded to the gas chamber
that was accessed by making a right hand turn at the far end of the undressing room, proceeding through a narrow
corridor and entering the "gas chamber." There was only one wooden slat door, the
size of a residential door, through which anyone could enter or exit the "gas chamber." It takes a while
for 1,680 people to enter a room with only one residential sized door; and it would take a very long time for 100
Sonderkammandos (Jewish workers), overseen by Kapos (Jewish bosses), to drag out all of the bodies, using a cane-like
tool, from the underground room with the one door and load them on an elevator hoist for transfer upstairs to the
crematorium. The elevator hoist had a 660 pound lift capacity, or around seven average weight bodies, which would
require about 240 separate lifts to hoist 1,680 bodies to the ovens. 240 separate lifts would require at least
four minutes each, requiring about sixteen hours to load 1,680 bodies into the fifteen ovens. Each oven had the
capacity for no more than 2 bodies at a time, each body requires at least one hour for cremation in the coke fueled
ovens. We are talking a lot of inefficiency and time consumed here… like a week! And who the hell were
these Jewish Sonderkammandos and Kapos; and who was overseeing them? If Germans weren’t being used to do
this repulsively dirty work, why weren’t some ethnicity other than Jews used? What sort of Jew would assist
in herding fellow members of the Jewish tribe to their deaths, including women and children?
Surviving Sonderkammandos such as Dario Gabbai (net search him) stated that no more than
two armed German guards were present during the underground phase of the gassing operations and no more than six
guards at ground level. Were there ever any revolts enacted by the doomed victims and why didn’t the Kapos
lead a revolt? Sure, a revolt would ultimately be doomed to fail… or would it?
Wouldn’t it be far better to go down swinging than be packed like a sardine in a
gas chamber? With 1,680 people, plus the 100 or so Jewish workers to assist in a revolt, couldn’t the German guards
have been easily overwhelmed, disarmed, especially while re-loading, and their weapons be used against the German
guards coming to assist in quelling the revolt? …Or, did you have to actually be there to fully understand
the defeated and fatalistic state of mind of the victims. By actually being in the Sonderkammandos shoes we all
might understand the desire to live a while longer by doing unspeakably dirty deeds against your fellows. But
I doubt it.
HOLOHOAX Pt.2 When the Zyklon B gas was introduced into the killing chamber
by dropping it down from the roof beside the 7 concrete pillars spaced throughout the room, wouldn’t there
have been such a panic, and such a rush to push out through the only door, that the wooden slat door with only
two relatively flimsy metal bands would have given way? Crushing to death those closest to the door of course.
The door only opened outward from the room, not into the room. The bodies would have piled up in front of the
door blocking access to the room if the door opened into the room, as in other "death camps"... and would'nt
the people administering the gas be in mortal danger of gassing themselves? Some 100,000 prisoners populated the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex at any given time.
Carlo Mattogno, in his book, Auschwitz: The Case for Sanity claims that in July
of Nineteen forty two, 8,600 prisoners died of typhus, another 4,400 died in August and that was when and why the
crematorium was installed and used to burn the infected bodies. Mattogno states that Zyklon B was actually used for
de-lousing incoming prisoner’s clothes. Why would the Germans bother with de-lousing anyone destined to be
gassed and cremated in the first place? The original blueprints for the
construction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex were discovered by French holocaust investigator, Robert Faurisson,
where they had been hidden in the Auschwitz State Museum. The underground rooms that have been designated as the
"undressing room" and the "gas chamber" by historians were designated in the blueprints as
"leichenkeller 1" and "leichenkeller 2." Leichenkeller, in the German language means, "corpse
cellar." The rooms were cool storage facilities for the dead that were built underground to enhance cold
efficiency until cremation could be accomplished. Cremating the 13,000 corpses of those who died of typhus and
natural causes took time, so cool storage was a necessity. BTW: The most gruesome
impression made upon my young mind about the holocaust and concentration camps that had stuck with me until lately
was this business about Nazis making lampshades out of human (Jewish) skin. But this lampshade story has evidently
turned out to be a myth as not a single lampshade has been proven to be of human origin.
Norm Sauer, a professor of forensic anthropology at Michigan State University, examined
a number of alleged human souvenirs that had been donated to the Holocaust Memorial Center located in Farmington Hills,
Michigan. Chess pieces supposedly made from human bones were found to be of animal origin and the soap supposedly
made by rendering human fat was unfounded. The lampshades were made of either deer or goat skin. Modern DNA techniques are valuable tools. It’s too bad that any gruesome
fact in history is found out to be fiction because it casts doubt upon anything and everything else. And once you
are caught in a lie, then a liar is all you’ll ever be. Like the Jews who lie about the USS LIBERTY "incident,"
9/11, and Auschwitz. Ilse Koch, the wife of the
commandant at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany was tried in 1947for war crimes where prosecutors
produced evidence against her such as a shrunken head and pieces of tattooed skin, but no lampshade, and she was
the one who was supposedly was having lampshades manufactured. All the hearsay evidence of her accusers was dismissed
as unreliable. She did receive a life sentence in a German court just on principle and prosecutors saved face.
HOLOHOAX Pt.3 It is true that
Buchenwald concentration camp was out of control even by Nazi standards and Ilse’s husband, Karl, was by
all accounts a cruel and corrupt administrator; so much so that the SS conducted an internal investigation related
to charges of incitement to murder and corruption in 1943. Karl was found guilty by SS judge Konrad Morgen and
executed; Ilse was acquitted in this case. The SS executing one of their own for murder while the convicted party
was commandant of a concentration death camp is a very odd thing to do if murder was the primary purpose of concentration
camps in the first place. Austrian born Jewish-American filmmaker Billy Wilder
can be credited with making a documentary about Buchenwald after its liberation by U.S. troops in 1945 to publicize
Nazi atrocities. A widely circulated still photo from the film showed a table covered with preserved human remains
such as two shrunken heads (of unknown origin), pieces of tattooed skin and an ordinary looking table lamp. The
film’s narration says that among the items found was "a lampshade, made of human skin, made at the
request of an SS officer’s wife." Of course the press corps went berserk and the lampshade became the
prime symbol of Nazi barbarity. Of course it is absolutely unacceptable
to deny or question any aspect of the official version of the Jewish holocaust; especially after Jewish Professor Debra
Lipstadt presented a paper on November 19, 2010 at the International Conference on anti-Semitism and Holocaust
Denial titled:
Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech that concludes thusly: "Ultimately and with this I conclude, our objective should be to create
a society where denial of the genocide is seen as so outrageous and so despicable, that anyone who engages in it
would be rendered a pariah."
Rendering me a pariah... which is something I have
no problem being.
In some European countries, in Germany in particular, it is
a crime to deny that any or all parts of the WWII holocaust actually happened. German lawyer, Sylvia Stolz, who
defended Ernst Zundel who was on trial for denying the holocaust in 2007, was herself sentenced to five years
in prison for stating that the holocaust is "the biggest lie in world history." This is a good example
of how Germany is STILL under the Zionist jackboot sixty nine years after WWII; and it’s a good example of
life in the so called "Eurozone." At least in America we can deny the holocaust… for a little
while longer. A staunch denier of the "gassing" murder of Jews is a
Jewish-American documentary maker named David Cole. David had to go into hiding after appearing on the Phil
Donahue Show in 1994 along with fellow gas chamber denier Bradley Smith. The Jewish Defense League made
specific death threats against David. Net search <David Cole on Donahue show> and hear what transpired. Donahue
was flustered and would not discuss any of the evidence offered by Cole. BTW: David Cole resurfaced as David Stein in Los Angeles as a "Republican Party Animal." The
RPA being a fundraising organization for Republican causes…or some such thing. Anyway… This "death-camp" issue is very much open to debate in spite of Jewish efforts
to stop any debate at all. I could indeed write a book on the subject, but that’s for another time. For now,
proceed to examine David Cole’s Forty-Six Important Unanswered Questions Regarding the Nazi Gas
Chambers at the CODAH (Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust) website and look around. <codoh.com/library/document/987>  Barbara Cherish, the daughter of Arthur Liebehenschel, wrote a book which was published in 2009, entitled "My father, the Auschwitz
commandant." In her book, Barbara credits her father with building a swimming
pool for the use of the prisoners. Liebehenschel was the Commandant of the
Auschwitz main camp for five months, beginning on December 1, 1943. Liebehenschel is credited
with other improvements at Auschwitz I, including the tearing down of the standing cells in Block 11.
In the Epilogue of the book entitled "Death Dealer," which was first published
in 1992 as the autobiography of Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Höss, the
editor of the book, Steven Paskuly wrote the following: When Höss was promoted
to Berlin, his replacement, Kommandant Arthur Liebehenschel, was put in
charge of just the Auschwitz camp... [...] He had the water trough near Blocks 7 and 8 converted into a swimming pool for Kapos and prisoners who worked well.
   
5.1. Introduction 5.1.1. "Opera During the Holocaust We are all familiar with the
name Auschwitz. Most people could identify Auschwitz as a 'death camp' for the Jews. Many people might be capable of recalling
that it was located in Poland. Many would be uncertain of details, but would be at least familiar with the name. In any case,
it is a part of modern culture.
Auschwitz is usually depicted as the place of incessant, methodical
and centrally-planned extermination of the Jews. There are many accounts
and descriptions about the total horror, the pervasive atmosphere of suffering and the impending assembly line of death.
Could such a place possibly have had a swimming pool for the prisoners? Could it have been equipped with a social-educational
centre, organized discussion groups, concerts, theatre, a children's choir, opera performances-all run by, and for, the
internees? Impossible! That wouldn't fit in with the image with which we are all familiar.
Anyone prepared to search books, papers, and videos presenting the non-establishment evidence and opinions-material
which, significantly, is never available in mainstream book shops-will become familiar with this information.
The swimming pool has appeared in published reproductions of various wartime aerial photographs. Of course,
these photos could be fakes; but the prisoner's pool- now seen close-up- appears in a video filmed in modern-day Auschwitz.
This video includes a rather surprising interview with the head tour guide and the director of the modern-day camp, Dr. Franciszek
Piper. The film was made by David Cole. Mr. Cole is an American Jew.
Perhaps the video is a forgery. But if the other facilities did, in fact, exist, then the swimming pool is quite plausible. For evidence of the reality of the other facilities, let's turn to no less
a source than the Jerusalem Post (domestic edition), January, 25, 1995, (Features), page 7.
This present writer has the original copy, it was sent to him from Israel. One half-page article is entitled
'Amidst the Killing, Children Sang of Brotherly Love'. 'In 1943, 10-year-old Daniel K. arrived in Auschwitz. Now a university
professor, he looks back at a different face of the death camp', runs the introduction. Professor K. writes: 'The Chorale
from [Beethoven's Ninth Symphony] was... performed by a Jewish children's choir at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943... I was a
member of that choir... I... remember my first engagement with culture, with history, and with music-in the camp...' 'In March 1944, I was severely ill with diphtheria and was sent to the camp
hospital barracks. My mother had asked to be transferred to stay with me in the hospital. [Response not stated]... Nurses,
doctors, and patients survived...' Why nurses, doctors, even hospitals,
for people who were sent there to be killed? Why was the boy fed, clothed, and housed for between two and three years? Daniel
K continues: 'One of the youth leaders of our group... asked to establish
an education centre for children. He was given permission, and in a short time the education centre became a spiritual and
social centre for the family camp. [The family camp!] It was the soul of the camp. 'Musical
and theatrical performances, including a children's opera, were held at the centre. There were discussions of various ideologies-Zionism,
Socialism, Czech nationalism... There was a conductor named Imre... (who) organized the children's choir. Rehearsals were
held in a huge lavatory barracks where the acoustics were good... '(In)
the fall 1944... huge masses of inmates fit for labour were being sent to Germany.' (End quote.)
Ah, so 'huge masses' of them were kept fit to work! I have deliberately ignored the many usual references
to extermination, gas ovens, and so on; they are available ad nauseam all around us. My purpose is to bring to attention the admitted existence of these leisure facilities. Their existence can
no longer be doubted. Their existence throws a new and thought-provoking light on those familiar stories we all know: Could
it be that Auschwitz was not quite the type of place usually described?" The above article by Dan McSweeney
was published on May 1, 1997, in the Australian newspaper Killoy Sentinel (New South Wales). David Cole's eye-opening video, described in the article, can still be purchased today.[88] The leisure facilities described in the article above are in no way as unknown to the usual literature
as represented here. Rather, the literature of concentration camp experiences and the secondary literature dealing with the
same subject is saturated with similar references to stays in hospital, expensive health care treatments of seriously ill
'unfit' persons, dental clinics, kindergartens, concerts, sports events (Birkenau had its own soccer field), access to the
city of Auschwitz, etc.). These descriptions are, of course, not the dominant theme. They are mentioned in passing, alongside
the well-known horror stories and atrocities. It is only when one deliberately looks for such things and compiles them that
one becomes aware of what a paradoxical image these contemporary witnesses of Auschwitz actually portray-and not just of
Auschwitz, by any means. That should be sufficient 'food for thought' for any of us. A consistent analysis of the eyewitness
accounts which have, in the meantime, multiplied to sheer infinity, from this point of view, remains to be compiled. Who
dares to perform this thankless task? 5.1.2. On the History of the Camp Although the name of Auschwitz, a town in Polish Upper Silesia, is utilized
as a synonym for the alleged National Socialist crime of an assembly-line extermination of Jews-frequently described as
'unique'-thus far, worldwide, there has never been any balanced description of this concentration camp. Generally, only three
books, from the thousands on the subject, are worth selecting for discussion here. Danuta Czech's Kalendarium, a work of post-war Polish-Communist propaganda, resembles a sort of catalogue
of chronological listing of actual and invented individual events, without any attempt to draw up a theoretically definitive
and critical view of the existing material on the history of the camp.[89] Jean-Claude Pressac's works concentrate almost exclusively on only five buildings
in the camp, the crematoria,[67],[90] but due to his lack of technical and architectural expertise, nevertheless fails miserably in his self-appointed
task of explaining the technique and manner of functioning of these buildings.[91] Robert van Pelt and Deborah Dwork, in their history of the city of Auschwitz,
deal only superficially with the subject of the concentration camp,[92] and van Pelt's more recent book is perhaps a bit too narrowly focused on homicidal gassings and does
not really go beyond what Pressac already presented.[69] Books available on bookstore shelves are-for the most part-a compendium of eyewitness
reports, scattered amongst serious attempts at documentation and literary pretensions.[93] Only in the very early 1990s, i.e., since the collapse of the Communist regime in Eastern Europe, did the files of those agencies of the Third Reich
become available to us which allow a reliable history of Auschwitz camp to be written. The files of the Zentralbauleitung
der Waffen SS und Polizei Auschwitz (Central Construction Office of the Waffen SS and Police at Auschwitz),[94] which are located in Moscow, the files of the Kriegsarchiv der Waffen SS (War Archive
of the Waffen SS) in the Military-Historical Archives in Prague, and the files of Auschwitz concentration camp, which are
located at the Auschwitz Museum, are especially important in this regard. Since there are more than one hundred thousand
documents in these archives, it will be necessary to wait for several years for the appearance of a seriously documented
work on the topic. It must be considered certain that such research, which is only just beginning, will lead to a further
massive revision of our image of Auschwitz concentration camp. In the absence of better documentation,
in the following-as far as the brief survey of the history of Auschwitz is concerned-I will rely upon the statements of
Jean-Claude Pressac,[67],[90] where his statements are undisputed, since Pressac is continued to be praised as the expert regarding the technique of Auschwitz.[95] The installations of the Auschwitz I camp, also known as the Stammlager (main
camp) and located on the outskirts of the city of Auschwitz, originally formed part of the barracks of the Austrian-Hungarian
Monarchy (later Poland), and were transformed into a concentration camp after the German invasion of Poland in September
1939. Camp II, located in the vicinity of the city of Birkenau (known as Auschwitz-Birkenau), was rebuilt after the start
of the Russian campaign, officially as a Waffen SS prisoner of war camp for the reception of Russian POWs. Both camps belonged
to the same complex, with over 30 additional smaller camps in Upper Silesia, intended to supply manpower, etc., for the
chemical works recently built by the Germans on a large scale at Auschwitz, in particular the BUNA works of the German industrial
giant I.G. Farbenindustrie AG for coal
refining (liquefaction and gasification plants for artificial rubber and fuel production), located close to the settlement
Monowitz east of Auschwitz, see Fig. 10. Birkenau camp was used, among other things, for the reception of unfit prisoners.
The intended camp capacity of 200,000 to 300,000 inmates, according to the final planning situation, was unique among the
concentration camps of the Third Reich. This capacity was however never even approximately achieved. The cramming together of large number of people in the most restricted areas of the camp, the sanitary infrastructure
of which was just being developed, caused serious health problems in all camps of the Third Reich. Both inmates and hundreds
of civilians working in the camps could introduce all sorts of parasitic insects into the camp, in particular lice and fleas.
Lice are the chief carriers of epidemic typhus which was a widespread disease in Eastern Europe. Therefore, the camps were
equipped with hygienic installations, including extensive disinfestation installations, in which the clothing and personal
effects of newly arriving inmates were disinfested, for instance with the insecticide Zyklon B (a porous carrier material
soaked with liquid hydrogen cyanide), a product frequently used for this purpose. The inmates themselves were given a haircut[96] and were made to shower thoroughly. Since the camp was at times insufficiently equipped with disinfestation
installations and materials, also aided by the carelessness during disinfestation on the part of civilians working in the
camp, typhus epidemics broke out repeatedly killing large numbers of inmates as well as guards. Due to the high mortality rate, these camps were equipped with cremation facilities. After a devastating typhus
epidemic during the summer of 1942, during which more than 300 people died per day in peak times, plans were made to build
four cremation facilities at Birkenau in the hope of being able to cope with the amount of corpses. Of these four crematoria,
however, two were severely damaged shortly after they were put into operation. Since it turned out that the capacity of the
four Birkenau crematoria was much higher than needed, the two damaged crematoria were not repaired but were allowed to remain
idle. The main camp in Auschwitz possessed only one crematorium installation which was put out of operation with the opening
of the installations at Birkenau.
Historians today usually assume that the
above mentioned cremation installations were not only used for the purpose initially planned, i.e., the incineration of inmates having died of natural causes, but were later misused for the mass extermination of
the Jews, among others. According to these historians, the term "arbeitsunfähig" (unfit for labor),
used in relation to prisoners, was equivalent in meaning to 'undeserving of life'. This implies that any arriving inmates
who were unable to work were killed immediately. For this purpose, human beings are said to have been killed ('gassed'),
after a few structural modifications, in a few rooms in the particular cremation installations, using Zyklon B-actually intended
for vermin control. Allegedly, the victims were then burnt, some of them in the cremation ovens and some in open ditches. According to eyewitness accounts, a homicidal gas chamber is supposed to have existed
in the crematorium of Auschwitz I; this location still exists today, intact, but has been the object of serious manipulation,
as we shall see. Additional homicidal gas chambers are said to have existed in the Birkenau camp, Auschwitz II, located
approximately three kilometers away. These gas chambers were allegedly located in the four crematoria of that camp, as well
as in two farmhouses outside the actual camp itself, modified for homicidal gassing purposes. Of the installations used for disinfestation in the Birkenau camp using Zyklon B, only buildings 5a and
b (BW 5a/b) in construction sections 1a/b (Bauabschnitt 1a/b) remain intact. In these buildings, one wing each
is said to have been temporarily used for the disinfestation of personal effects with hydrogen cyanide. The following is
an architectural and structural description of the individual structures of the Auschwitz main camp and Birkenau, Figs. 11
and 12.
| 
| | Fig. 10: Map of the surrounding vicinity of Auschwitz during the Second World War. The boundary lines of the terrain of the
IG Farbenindustrie factories were entered later, and are only an approximate indication of the factory terrain. The terrain
of Birkenau concentration camp corresponds to the planning situation of 1945, which was, in fact, never completed.
| | 
| | Fig. 11: Map of Auschwitz I/Main Camp (concentration camp), according to the information brochure of the Auschwitz State Museum
in 1991. |
| Block 1-28: |
inmate barracks | | | | a:
| commandant's house | h: |
crematorium I with 'gas chamber' | | b: | main guard station | i:
| guard station near camp entrance gate
| | c: | camp commandant's office | |
(block leader room) |
| d: |
administration building | j: | camp kitchen
| | e: | SS hospital | k: | inmate
registration building | | f,
g: | political division
| l: |
camp warehouse, theatre building | | | | m:
| new laundry |
| | 
| | Fig. 12: Map of POW camp Auschwitz II/Birkenau, approximately 2 km north-west of the main camp, construction situation as of the
end of 1944. The shaded buildings still exist, some of them, however, only in the form of ruins or foundations (crematoria
II-V), the rest having been torn down by Polish civilians for building materials after the war. According to the information
brochure of the Auschwitz State Museum, 1991. | | BI-III:
| building sector I to III |
K IV: |
crematorium IV with 'gas chamber' | | Bla / b: | women's camp | K V: | crematorium
V with 'gas chamber' | | rolls;
| quarantine camp | S: | 'Zentralsauna', hot-air/steam disinfestation | |
beep: |
family camp | T: | pond
| | BIIc:
| Hungarian camp | 1: | building sector 5a-Zyklon B disinfestation | |
Bid: |
men's camp | 2: | building
sector 5b-Zyklon B disinfestation | | BA:
| gypsy camp | 3: | inmate barracks no. 13 | | aerosol: | inmate hospital | 4:
| inmate barracks no. 20 |
| K II: | crematorium II with 'gas chamber' | 5: | inmate barracks no. 3 | | K III: | crematorium
III with 'gas chamber' | | |
| 5.2. Epidemics and the Defense Against them
5.2.1. Danger of Epidemics[97] Before the era of modern warfare, it has always been taken for granted that during a war epidemic disease caused
more deaths among the soldiers and civilians than the use of weapons. It took the atomic bomb, deployed in a ruthless and
criminal manner by the United States against unarmed people and in contravention of international law, to change this assumption. The epidemic most feared in World War I at the eastern front was typhus.[98] Typhus epidemics claimed uncounted thousands of lives among German soldiers at the Russian front and
could be prevented from spreading into German territory after the end of the war only by the most rigorous of measures.
Since that time, the danger of epidemics has been taken seriously by medical and military offices and personnel.[99] For example, the German encyclopedia Der große Brockhaus,
vol. VI of the 1930 Leipzig edition, contains a comprehensive article on epidemic typhus. This acute infectious disease is
spread only by the body louse:[100] "The disease is caused by Rickettsia prowazeki (discovered in 1910 by Ricketts and in 1913 by Prowazek),
a micro-organism found in the intestines and salivary glands of infected lice. [...] Epidemic typhus occurs chiefly where unfavorable social and sanitary
conditions prevail: in dank overcrowded living quarters, hospitals, prisons, emigration ships, caused by crop failures and
price increases, thus also known as starvation, hospital, prison, ship or war typhus. Typhus is endemic in Russia, the Balkans,
northern Africa, Asia Minor, and Mexico. According to Tarrassevich, 25-30 million people suffered from epidemic typhus in
Russia in 1918-1921, which amounts to 20-23% of the population. [...] Successful control and prevention of epidemic
typhus consists of enforcing all measures available to destroy the body louse."
The
experiences of German physicians during WWII were no different.[101],[102] The topic of epidemics can be found in countless publications. Practical experiments were also conducted
which increased the knowledge about fighting the causes of this disease. Professor
Dr. F. Konrich was completely justified in stating, in his publication "About sanitation facilities of German POW
camps"[103] that epidemics such as those in question "[...] had long been extinct
here [in Germany]." However, it also becomes quite understandable
why all of the offices and institutions involved over-reacted when epidemic typhus broke out in the Auschwitz concentration
camp in early July 1942.[104] The outbreak was traced to the civilian laborers brought in to work in the camp, rather than to inmates
deported to Auschwitz. Also, due to drastic measures taken to isolate and eradicate this epidemic, its spreading to the camp's
nearby civilian population could be prevented. 5.2.2. Epidemic Control with Zyklon B One of the most efficient methods to fight lice and thereby to contain
and eliminate typhus-but also to kill other vermin like grain beetles, bugs, cockroaches, termites, mice, rats and many
more-is their poisoning with highly volatile hydrogen cyanide. Liquid hydrogen cyanide has a short
shelf life and is extremely dangerous with incorrect handling. At the end of the First World War, hydrogen cyanide was introduced
onto the market in an easier to handle and safer form: porous materials soaked with hydrogen cyanide with the addition of
a stabilizer and an irritant warning material, intended to warn people of low concentrations of hydrogen cyanide, which
in lower concentrations has only a slight odor and that many people cannot even smell at all. This product, called Zyklon
B, was then packed in tin cans, which can only be opened with a special tool. The number of patents filed for the additives
to Zyklon B shows that there was no simple, clear solution to the problems relating to the stabilizers and irritant warning
materials.[105] Legally, there was a great difference between the stabilizer for Zyklon B and the irritant warning material.
A stabilizer for Zyklon B was required by German law,[106] while an irritant warning material, by contrast, was not legally required.[107] Zyklon B was licensed and produced by the DEGESCH[108] corporation residing in Frankfurt.[109] Until the end of the Second World War, it played an extraordinarily important role in the struggle against
insect pests and rodents[110],[111] in food warehouses, large-scale means of transport like trains, ships, both in Europe and in America.[112] For example, Dr. G. Peters reports in his work Blausäure zur Schädlingsbekämpfung (Hydrogen Cyanide for Pest Control)[113] about the fumigation of ships with hydrogen cyanide, which happened in the United States as early as
1910, and about tunnel facilities, in which entire railway trains could be driven into in order to be disinfested (see Fig.
13). The use of Zyklon B in public buildings, barracks, prisoner of war camps, concentration camps was also featured in the
literature of that time.[114],[115],[116],[117] Of course, there were several other gaseous pest control agents in addition to
Zyklon B.[118],[119] Zyklon B continued to play an important role even after the war, until it was largely replaced by DDT
and its successors.[120],[121] | 
| | Fig. 13: A lice-ridden train enters a railway gassing tunnel in Budapest.[112] | A large number of publications are available from both the wartime and pre-war periods, to which reference is made.[113],[114],[117],[122],[123],[124],[125],[126] There are also guidelines on the fumigation of property and rooms, describing the procedures in detail,
both before and afterwards.[127],[128] These do not considerably differ from the regulations in application today.[129] Based upon this, the following is a brief discussion of the technology and method of procedure employed. Initially, for the disinfestation
of personal effects, ordinary rooms (10 to 30 m2 surface area) were temporarily modified,
by making the windows and doors as gas-tight as possible by means of felt sealant material and paper strips, while providing
for proper heating and ventilation of the rooms. Workers wearing gas masks spread Zyklon B evenly on the floor of the room
containing the property to be disinfested. This procedure was similar to what was then the regular fumigation of ordinary
rooms for the destruction of vermin. Such converted rooms may be seen even today in the main camp of Auschwitz I. The use
of temporarily sealed rooms for fumigation purposes is not without risk since the sealing is never perfect. | 
| | Fig. 14: DEGESCH delousing chamber with circulation feature.[130] | Later, special gas-tight installations without windows were built, equipped with efficient heating and ventilation
systems, and later also with circulating air systems for a more rapid circulation of the gas inside the room (so-called "DEGESCH-Kreislaufverfahren,"
DEGESCH circulation procedure, see Fig. 14). Cans of Zyklon B were opened by means of an exterior mechanism, so that the
workers were no longer exposed to danger. The bottom of the can was automatically punctured and the preparation fell into
a basket, into which a fan blew hot-air, thus quickly evaporating the hydrogen cyanide and carrying the fumes away. These
installations, with the so-called circulation procedure, were relatively small in size, a few m3,
to economize on the highly-expensive vermin destruction product. These professional installations
were often part of an entire hygienic complex. As a rule, this building complex was organized approximately as follows in
terms of purpose (see Fig. 15):[103] - Undressing room, 'dirty side'. People to be
deloused removed their soiled clothing and handed them over for disinfestation/disinfection.
- Shower. Prisoners washed themselves after undressing, plus sometimes other procedures,
such as haircuts, medical examinations, including a sauna.
- Dressing
room, 'clean side'. Their own cleaned and sanitized clothing was given back to the prisoners or substitute clothing was
issued to them since the cleaning may have lasted many hours.
- Disinfestation/Disinfection
room. An area to clean and process the clothing combined with a laundry.
 | | Fig. 15: Schematic
organization of a hygiene complex
à Clothing pathway; è Inmate
pathway | It was not uncommon for a crematorium to be installed in the same building
complex, as may still be seen at Dachau concentration camp today (near Munich), in which the new hygienic installation possesses a series
of DEGESCH circulating air installations for the disinfestation of clothing, with an undressing and redressing room to the
right and left of the inmate showers, as well as a crematorium. (The room described as a "gas chamber"
at Dachau today is actually the inmate shower, which is indispensable in the above schema, and which has been intentionally
mislabeled by the Museum.) The applicable concentrations during the disinfestation of clothing might be very different according to the type
of vermin and exterior conditions, and usually ranged from 5 to 30 g of hydrogen cyanide per m3 of
air. The application time varied just as greatly, from under two hours up to ten hours and more. In the more modern installations
with heating (higher than 25°C) and circulating air/ventilation installations, good results could be attained with concentrations
of 20 g per m3, already after 1 to 2 hours. Disinfestation in ordinary rooms, on the other
hand, could last up to 24 hours or more. 5.2.3. Epidemic Control in Auschwitz 5.2.3.1. Terminology Used and Responsibilities
We shall use the technical
terms established in the 1939 German Army Regulations (Heeresdienstvorschrift 194),[127] since these determined how the personnel, i.e., the physicians and
those who disinfected the camps, were to proceed: "Disinfection" Disinfection means [...]:
destroying the disease-(epidemic-)causing agents on objects, in rooms, in excretions and on the bodies of infectious persons. Disinfestation
Disinfestation means: ridding rooms, objects and
people of vermin (small life forms) that can transmit pathogens, cause economic damage or annoy man." The regulation quoted lists all known physical and chemical means of disinfection and disinfestation. Similarly,
a "work guideline" was released in 1943 by the Sanitation Institute of the Waffen-SS: "Entkeimung,
Entseuchung und Entwesung"[114] (Sterilization, Disinfection and Disinfestation). | 
| | Fig. 16: Typical advertisement of the firm DEGESCH about the broad variety of applications of gassing methods offered: Flour
mills, ships, stores, grain storages, houses, railroad cars, trucks.[131] | The authority in charge of sanitation in the Waffen-SS as well as in the concentration camps was the "Hygieneinstitut der Waffen-SS"[132] (Sanitation Institute of the Waffen-SS), established in 1942 in Berlin, which set up a branch office
in 1943 in Rajsko near Auschwitz, with its "Hygienisch-bakteriologischen Untersuchungsstelle Südost d. W-SS"
(Sanitary and Bacteriological Testing Station Southeast of Waffen-SS). The files from this testing station have survived (151
volumes dating from 1943 to 1945).[133] The garrison physician (army medical officer) and the medical personnel were
in charge of implementing all sanitary measures. This physician-and this was the case at Auschwitz as well-was to be consulted
as subject expert in all relevant matters of construction planning and other things. Where hydrogen cyanide was to be used,
requirements called for specially trained expert personnel. In Auschwitz, this role was filled by the "disinfectors". 5.2.3.2. Procedures Used Generally, four procedures were used at Auschwitz for disinfestation and disinfection: - hot
air
- hot steam
- hydrogen cyanide
- microwaves
Data
on the disinfestation and disinfection installations in operation in Auschwitz camp may be taken from a listing dated January
9, 1943: "Hygienische Einrichtungen im KL und KGL Auschwitz"[134] (Sanitary Facilities in the POW and Concentration Camp Auschwitz) directed to the Amtsgruppenchef C (Berlin),
and an "Aufstellung über die im KL. und KGL. Auschwitz eingebauten Entwesungsanlagen Bäder und Desinfektionsapparate"[135] (List of Disinfestation Facilities, Baths and Disinfection Systems Installed in
the POW and Concentration Camp Auschwitz), dated July 30, 1943. The following capacities, taken
from the last-mentioned document, relate to a 24-hour a day operation period. - In
the concentration camp (protective custody camp):
-
Block
1: One hot air disinfestation installation, manufactured by the Klein corporation for 1,800 people and approximately 3,600
blankets since the fall of 1940. Block 3: One hydrogen cyanide gas disinfestation
installation (i.e., Zyklon B), for 1,400 people and approximately 20,000 pieces of laundry.[136] Block 26: One hot air installation for 2,000 people.
Disinfestation building at Deutsche Ausrüstungs-Werke (German Equipment
Works, i.e., Canada I): 1 hydrogen cyanide gas disinfestation installation (BW 28) for approximately 30,000
pieces of laundry, blankets, etc. (in operation since the summer of 1942).
Civilian worker disinfestation barracks: One hot air disinfestation installation, manufactured
by the Hochheim corporation, with a daily capacity for 2,000 people, with large shower bath installation
and disinfection apparatus, permanently installed.
- In
the POW camp (K.G.L., Birkenau):
-
BW 5a in B Ia: One
disinfestation apparatus (manufactured by Werner) and one hot air apparatus (manufactured by Hochheim)
in operation since November 1942 for 2, 000 people. -
One chamber for hydrogen cyanide fumigation has been built for 8,000 blankets and has been in operation since the
fall of 1942. BW 5b in B Ib: Installation as in BW 5a.
All the facilities listed therein
were subject to modifications. The number of sanitary facilities increased with the number of inmates, as the two aforementioned
documents already show. Pressac mentions 25 chambers operated with Zyklon B, without providing a verifiable source.[137] 5.2.3.3. Results The results could only be compiled if one knew the number of persons disinfested by means of the installation.
These numbers have thus far remained unclear. Although Danuta Czech claims in her book[89] that such documents on large time periods are available in the Auschwitz archive, we have so far been
unable to examine them. As of the present writing, it is still impossible to make a reliable statement as to whether or not
the existing disinfestation installations were consistently reliable for the indicated number of persons. Pressac, in the
conclusions to his second book,[138] indicates the peak of the first epidemic between "7./11. September" 1942 with "375
deaths per day", which clearly indicates that the capacity of the facilities available did not suffice. 5.2.3.4. Basic Policy Decisions Two policy decisions made by the SS-Hauptamt Haushalt und Bauten (SS Main Office Budget and Construction) in the Reich Administration of the SS and its successor no doubt also influenced
the measures taken in the camp. The first decision of June 5, 1940,[139] stated that HCN would no longer be used, and replaced instead with a hot-air method. The reason for
this was probably that the use of HCN in makeshift delousing chambers was not reliable and had caused many accidents and
was thus deemed too dangerous. The second decision, issued on March 11, 1942,[140] 21 months later, seems to have reversed that first decision by calling for the "[...] conversion
of all delousing facilities to operation with HCN", in which regard it was noted: "Deviations
therefrom-delousing by means of hot air or hot steam-is only permissible insofar as they involve temporary installations,
in which the necessary safety for the handling of HCN is not assured." A further
letter from the Office C VI of February 11, 1943,[141] to the Commandant again expressly states, probably with reference to the letter of June 5, 1940: "[...] as
per the prohibition against the use of HCN for disinfestation [...]". This means that all efforts were to
be made to convert all facilities to be operated with the only really reliable method available-HCN-but that the use of HCN
was allowed only where and if the necessary safety and reliability of the method was assured, i.e., makeshift
delousing chambers were not allowed to be operated with HCN. Men in positions of authority,
accustomed to decision-making, and faced with a dangerous epidemic capable of spreading to the civilian population with
incalculable consequences, will always take suitable measures and act accordingly. Hydrogen cyanide (= Zyklon B) was the most
reliable disinfestation agent of its time (for details, please see "Blausäure als Entlausungsmittel
in Begasungskammern",[142] or "Entlausung mit Zyklon-Blausäure in Kreislauf-Begasungskammern".[143] The only problem was in finding a safe location for such facilities, perhaps outside the actual camp
(see chapter 5.4.3.). 5.2.3.5. The Army Medical Officer On September 9, 1942, Dr. E. Wirths was stationed in Auschwitz as garrison physician. From
the records we may say that he performed his duties correctly; in this context, reference is made, in particular, to his
massive criticism of the highest echelons. As time went by, the number of
inmates increased steadily, and unfortunately there were more than just one epidemic. We shall therefore briefly summarize,
by means of examples, the conclusions reached by this physician and the steps he took in consequence. On December 4, 1942, Dr. Wirths reported to headquarters about a discussion held in the administrative council
of Bielitz District. The subject was epidemic typhus. A considerable number and range of persons had participated in the
discussion, including the medical officer, the Wehrmacht, and representatives of the government. This illustrates how seriously
the epidemic was taken to be:[144] "He reports that at present three large disinfestation, shower, and sauna facilities could be put into operation, specifically
two facilities for the inmates and one for the members of the SS troops. The capacity of these facilities is some 3,000 to
4,000 persons per 24 hours. Zyklon B disinfestation has been discontinued entirely, since it has been found that success
is not 100% certain with this procedure." Buildings BW5a
and 5b were intended for the inmates. The capacity of these disinfestation facilities was probably adequate for the number
of inmates at this time. One must consider, however, that at this same time the structural shell for another 19 DEGESCH circulation
fumigation chambers was being completed in Building BW160 of the Main Camp (Admissions building). Another paragraph of the
above letter states that the garrison physician of Kattowitz had provided the loan of two mobile boiler installations. On April 18, 1943, Wirths reports to the Commandant, with warning reference to the
sewer system in Birkenau, and concludes that "[...] great danger of epidemics is inevitable."[145] On May 7, 1943, in a discussion with the chief of Amtsgruppe C, SS Brigadier
General and Major General of the Waffen-SS engineer Dr. Kammler, and others, the garrison physician set out in chapter "II.
Bauten in Zuständigkeit des Standortarztes" (II. Buildings Under the Charge of the Garrison Physician):[146] "[...] that the continued health of the inmates for the major tasks is not guaranteed, due
to the poor toilet conditions, an inadequate sewer system, the lack of hospital barracks, and separate latrines for the
sick, and the lack of washing, bathing, and disinfestation facilities."
Dr.
Wirths clearly pointed out the inadequacies and also how to rectify them. At
this point we must warn the reader, who may perhaps not be sufficiently aware of the historical context, not to jump to
false conclusions. The reader may well lack an understanding of all the problems that were involved in obtaining materials
as well as all the other necessities required to build these facilities in wartime. Figuratively speaking, a written permission
was required to purchase every brick. We must also point out that, in
those days in eastern Europe, a sewer system of any kind at all was exemplary to start with, and that this is all the more
true for sewage treatment facilities, which were built for both camps at great expenditure in resources and according to
high technical standards. The above quoted document continues: "The Brigadier General acknowledges the foremost urgency of
these matters and promises to do everything possible to ensure rectification of the shortcomings. He is somewhat
surprised, however, that the medical side presents him with reports giving a very favorable account of the sanitary and hygienic
conditions on the one hand; while he is then immediately confronted with reports to the exact opposite effect on the other
hand. The Chief of the Zentralbauleitung is hereby instructed to present suggestions for rectification by May
15, 1943." (Emphasis added.) It began with the toilet facilities, with regards to which he enforced
changes that he considered necessary. For example: lids on the toilets, because otherwise "[...] a great danger
of epidemics is inevitable."[147] These lids were ordered by the Head of Department C of the WVHA (Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt,
Economic Administrative Main Office) on May 10, 1943.[148] It ended with roofing matters related to the gypsy kindergarten:[149] "For the damaged roofs of kindergarten blocks 29 and 31 in the Gypsy Camp I request 100 rolls of roofing felt
(very urgent.)" In between, on May 28, 1943,[150] he selected six circulating air delousing facilities which-as was noted down in handwriting-were ordered
on May 29, 1943, by the Building Administration's expert on heating matters, Jährling. Then there is an account of
a water quality test on June 1, 1943,[151] etc. This extensive correspondence resulted in separate subject files in the filing system of the Zentralbauleitung,
such as "Sanitary Conditions".[152] The physician's field of work was great and varied and deserved its own monograph.
He was even responsible for ensuring that the inmates' kitchen personnel were frequently examined-including laboratory tests
of their stool, etc. That Dr. Wirths truly saw to absolutely everything is obvious from the documents. The garrison physician's reminders and admonitions increased over time. On balance, one must conclude that, just
as today, while there were opportunists and careerists in those days, there were also-as our example shows-SS-men with backbone
and a sense of duty, professional ethics and the courage to stand up for their beliefs. At the end of the comments section of the Memorandum of May 9, 1943, we find:
"As stop-gap measure until that time, the Brigadier General provides
the loan of a new short-wave delousing platoon." (Emph. added.)
5.2.3.6. Short-Wave Delousing Facility Perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of Auschwitz concentration camp is the installation
of a stationary short-wave installation, the world's first technological predecessor to the microwave ovens in common use
today. This technology was invented by Siemens in the late 1930s and developed to mass-production readiness during the war.
This was a by-product of the powerful radio tubes built for the television transmission of the Berlin Olympics in 1936, the
energy-rich radio waves which killed the insects in the vicinity of the antenna. The development took place with financial
assistance from the Wehrmacht, which hoped to achieve a perceptible improvement in the struggle against the epidemics raging
in the east. Since the inmates assigned to the armaments industries in the concentration camps were particularly valuable
towards the end of the war, the Reich leadership decided not to put the first installation into operation at the front for
the disinfestation of soldiers' clothing, but rather, in the largest Labor complex in the Reich, in Auschwitz. Due to Allied
bombing attacks, however, there was a one-year delay in the completion of this installation, which probably cost the lives
of tens of thousands of inmates. The Auschwitz camp administration had anticipated its installation as early as 1943 and
had therefore postponed other delousing projects. This facility, put into operation during the summer of 1944, proved in
fact to be of revolutionary effectiveness, both quick and cheap: personal effects were moistened and placed on one end of
a conveyor belt and emerged at the other end a few minutes later, completely free of vermin and sterile.[153] 5.2.4. Disinfestation installation BW 5a and 5b The only buildings remaining intact
in Auschwitz-Birkenau today, possessing a wing for the disinfestation of personal effects with Zyklon B, are buildings (Bauwerk,
BW) 5a and 5b in building sections B1a and B1b, respectively. Both buildings were planned as mirror images of each other.
The west (resp. east) wing of these buildings were used, at least temporarily, for disinfestation with Zyklon B. These rooms
were expressly labeled "Gaskammer" (gas chamber) in the building plans, see Fig. 17. | 
| | Fig. 17: Ground
plan of the HCN disinfestation wing of building 5a before building alterations (mirror image) and BW 5b today. BW 5b Sample
taking locations drawn in.[154] | | 
| | Fig. 18: Ground
plan of the hot air disinfestation wing of building 5a after building alterations in 1943. BW 5a sample taking locations
drawn in.[154] |
This is no triviality: rather, it is important proof that the term 'gas chamber', at that time, referred
exclusively to installations for the disinfestation of personal effects, both by architects during the planning of such
buildings, and by disinfestation experts. The title of one of the most important contemporary publications on the subject
of cyanide disinfestation by F. Puntigam, H. Breymesser, E. Bernfus: Blausäuregaskammern [sic!!!] zur
Fleckfieberabwehr [hydrogen cyanide gas chambers for the prevention of epidemic typhus],
or the term used in an advertisement of the firm DEGESCH: "gas chambers", see Fig. 16, p. 66. This was
simply the ordinary designation for rooms used for the disinfestation of personal effects.
Therefore, we must always assume, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that use of the word 'gas chamber'
in a German document from this period refers to a room for the disinfestation of personal effects!
For this reason, in
the following, the term gas chamber will be placed in single quotation marks at all times ('gas chamber'), whenever
the word refers to chambers for the execution of human beings. There are two reasons for this:
- The German technical term Gaskammer originally
pointed exclusively to disinfestation chambers operated with toxic gas. To apply the same term to chambers intended for
the execution of human beings is an incorrect use of the term at that time.
- Simply for the
purpose of avoiding confusion as to the meaning of the word 'gas chamber' in each case, a distinction must be made in writing.
Fig. 17 shows the ground plan of
the two disinfestation gas chambers of building 5a and 5b approximately in their original condition. The chamber in building
5a was transformed in the summer of 1943 and received two small hot air chambers, visible in Fig. 18.[154] The buildings have ordinary brick walls and a concrete foundation built level with the ground, plastered
and whitewashed on the interior with chalk-based mortar. The room in building 5b has no separate ceiling, the roof's framework
is covered from underneath with boards of an unknown material (perhaps Heraclite). Originally without windows, like building
BW 5b today, the disinfestation wing of BW 5a was equipped, during the building alterations, with windows firmly walled in
which cannot be opened.
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| | Fig. 19: Ventilation
outlets from the disinfestation wing of building BW 5b, without equipment today. The ends of the water pipes are visible
inside; see also Fig. 20. | | 
| | Fig. 20: Water
pipe system with shower heads in the disinfestation wing of building BW 5b. These water pipes have no connection; they terminate
in the ventilation outlets. See Fig. 19. | In the gable wall of the disinfestation room in BW 5b are two circular
openings, approximately 50 cm in diameter, corresponding to the former ventilation exhaust and air intake channels, Fig.
19. The roof has three ventilation chimneys; there must have been three ovens in this room during the time of operation.[155] The double doors, opening inwards and drawn onto the plans, have been replaced with single doors, also
opening inwards. For the time being, one can only speculate on any equipment of the disinfestation chambers. The room has a surface area of approximately 130 m2,
is open to the framework of the roof, and therefore has a volume of at least 400 m3. However,
the space above 2 m in height must probably be considered to have been unusable dead space, resulting in the waste of huge
amounts of HCN/Zyklon B, since a quantity of Zyklon B of at least 4 to 5 kg (10 g per m3)
cyanide content was necessary for just one gassing,[156] regardless of whether the room contained only a few personal effects or whether the available area
was filled. For example, with 100 fumigation cycles per year (one every 3 or 4 days) approximately 0.8 tons of Zyklon B would
have been consumed by this installation alone and by building 5a, corresponding to 10% of the entire Zyklon B deliveries
to Auschwitz in 1942, with a total delivery of 7.5 tons.[157] When one considers that there were other HCN disinfestation installations in
Birkenau in addition to this one; that the deliveries to Birkenau camp also supplied the related labor camps (more than 30
in number); and the fact that inmate barracks were also occasionally fumigated with this insecticide,[158] it will be seen that the quantities of Zyklon B delivered to Auschwitz camp can actually be explained
by normal delousing activities. The annual delivery quantities were too low to ensure successful disinfestation of all personal effects and buildings
in all camps in the Auschwitz complex, since typhus epidemics were never entirely eliminated. How frequently the delousing chambers of BW 5a and 5b were actually used for HCN disinfestation has to remain open
for the time being, since no documentation about this has been found yet, and also because the document cited above states
that the use of Zyklon B had to be abandoned as early as December 1942 (at least in unsafe installations), i.e.,
just a few weeks after this installation was put into operation (see p. 70). A
remarkable feature of this room in building BW 5b is the intricate construction of the water pipes, laid in the hooks fastened
to the diagonal roof girders, visible in Fig. 20. A few of the pipe endings are equipped with shower heads. The water pipes
have no connection. Paradoxically, they end in the above mentioned ventilation outlets, and can only have been installed
after the removal of the ventilators installed there. There are, of course, shower rooms in these buildings, but in a very
different location (see Fig. 17). The shower installations once in existence there, however, have been entirely dismantled.
Since the doors to these rooms are open, any visitor may examine this peculiar construction. The original German drawings
and documents of this building do not indicate that these pipes were installed during the German occupation, which means
that they were probably installed after the war for an unknown reason. 5.3. 'Gas Chamber' in the Auschwitz I Main Camp According to Pressac, no material or documentary evidence of the 'gas chamber'
in the crematorium in the main camp exists, but there are many eyewitness accounts:[159] "As evidence to establish the reality of homicidal gassings there remain only the testimonies of participants,[...]" These accounts, according to Pressac, are characterized by many contradictions, technical impossibilities, and
general incredibility. He observes a "general tendency to exaggerate", and explains the gross errors and
technical impossibilities in the eyewitness accounts and writings of camp commandant Höß by stating: "He
was present, without seeing." That is, Pressac alleges that Höß had no
idea of the methods, risks and dangers involved in the handling of Zyklon B. But this is in contradiction to an order issued
by commandant Höß calling for caution during the fumigation of barracks with Zyklon B[158]-caution which had become necessary in view of several cases of poisoning. This special order of the commandant
warning of accidents involving Zyklon B gas, an order which was distributed throughout the camp, indicates a duty of care
with regards to those inmates who were, allegedly and nevertheless, doomed to die from the effects of that same gas sooner
or later. We will have occasion to speak of Höß's testimony at a later time. Pressac, moreover, explains the form and basic tone of the testimony of SS man Pery Broad as incorrect because
this testimony is soaked in Polish patriotism, to say nothing of the transparent Polish hatred against SS men, although Broad
was an SS man himself and had no links to Poland, and because Pressac found out that this 'testimony' has been slightly
reworked by the Poles, the original of which is missing. In other words, this 'document', obviously patched together by the
Poles, is quite worthless insofar as a critical examination of its source is concerned. Nevertheless, Pressac considers
the basic testimonies with regards to homicidal gassings to be correct.[160] The 'gas chamber' in the main camp is a room in a ground level building, which
replaced a former kitchen building of the former Austro-Hungarian barracks located at the same spot.[161] The floor and ceiling of crematorium I are of reinforced concrete while the exterior walls are of brick
masonry, insulated on the exterior by a coating of tar. Except for the access ways, the building is practically underground
due to the fact that dirt has been piled up against the walls. The interior walls are plastered and whitewashed. | 
| | Fig. 21: Ground
plan of crematorium I in Auschwitz I/main camp in its original condition. The morgue was later alleged to have been
used as a 'gas chamber'.[162] 1:
Vestibule; 2: Laying-out room; 3: Wash room; 4: Morgue;
5: Oven room; 6: Coke; 7: Urns |
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| | Fig. 22: Ground
plan of crematorium I Auschwitz I Main Camp after conversion to air raid shelter, 1944.[166] 1:
Sluice; 2: Operating room; 3: Former washroom, now air raid shelter with toilet; 4: Air raid shelter; 5: Former oven room.
| | 
| | Fig. 23: Ground
plan of crematorium I in Auschwitz I/Main Camp today, after subsequent fakery.[168] 1:
'Gas chamber'; 2: Fake Zyklon B introduction holes; 3: Toilet drains; 4: former partition morgue-washroom; 5: Ventilation
chimney from air raid shelter; 6: Air raid chute, today referred to as victim entryway; 7: Urns, 8: Coke; 9: Reconstructed
ovens; 10: Newly pierced entry to oven room; painted: old entryway; 11: Remains of the old oven; 12: Fake chimney.
| Fig.
21 shows the building plan of the building at the beginning of the war, planned and constructed as a normal crematorium,
with a morgue.[162] This also explains the piles of dirt, which were intended to ensure an even, cool temperature. For
the same reason, the partition between the morgue and the oven room is double-walled with a heat-insulating air-barrier in
between. As far as I know, no documents exist concerning the installation of a
ventilation system into this morgue, though it appears inconceivable to operate a morgue without windows, exterior doors,
and any kind of forced ventilation.
The morgue was later alleged to have been
'converted' into a 'gas chamber'. Three to four hatches are later said to have been pierced through the roof for the introduction
of the Zyklon B for homicidal gassings, as well as two hatches for the incorporation of heavy ventilators.[163] The head of the Auschwitz Museum, Franciszek Piper, however is of the opinion that:[164] "In the case of Crema I there were no ventilators. The doors were
opened and the gas was allowed to ventilate by convection."
Pressac reproduces a photo of the roof of
the crematorium, taken by the Soviets shortly after the liberation, in which three dark spots on the roofing felt are alleged
to be troughs of former Zyklon B introduction holes, allegedly now covered up.[163],[165] The photograph reproduced in his book is, however, too poor in quality to permit anything to be seen
with clarity, much less permitting any conclusion as to the construction or engineering. Pressac's speculation must therefore
be viewed as groundless. In the autumn of 1944, the crematorium was converted
into an air raid shelter. The building alterations, especially the replacement of the thin partition by thick walls, can
be seen in Fig. 22.[166] The alleged Zyklon B introduction holes as well as the ventilation holes are alleged to have been sealed
at that time-assuming that they ever existed. The building work undertaken for
this conversion is described in a document into the smallest detail.[167] There is no mention of any filling in of any old existing holes pierced in the roof but rather of the
incorporation of gas-tight windows and doors as well as the piercing of new holes: "Installation of
gas-tight doors, window shutters, and windows, Manufacture of the openings in the masonry necessary for the heating ovens, as well as for the ventilation outlets
and intakes and pipes." This is a strong indication that before this time there
were neither gas-tight doors and windows nor any other openings for ventilation installations or for any other purpose (Zyklon
introduction holes); otherwise such old openings would have been used for this purpose, or their filling would have been
mentioned. Direct access to the air raid shelters, which evolved from the multiple
division of the morgue/'gas chamber', was possible through a newly added entrance with sluice, which today is represented
as the entryway taken by the victims, although the 'gas chamber' had no entrance in that location-as a matter of fact, it
had no direct entrance from the outside at all.[163] Toilets were likewise built into the former washroom at this time. Fig. 23 shows the ground plan of the crematorium in its present condition.[168] According to Pressac, the access from the morgue/'gas chamber' to the present cremation room was newly
placed after the war-not quite at the original location. The partitions in the air-raid shelter, including the wall to the
washroom, which was, however, never part of the morgue (the later 'gas chamber'), were torn down. Accordingly, the irritated
visitor sees two discharge pipes from two toilets inside the alleged 'gas chamber'. According to Pressac, who gives no source
for this statement, the roof was newly covered with tarpaper during which the traces of the Zyklon B holes and ventilation
holes of the 'gas chamber' were allegedly covered over. The renewed incorporation of four staggered Zyklon B introduction
stacks by the Polish Museum after the war is therefore not alleged to have taken place in the same location. This argument,
on Pressac's part, must cause astonishment, since from the inside, the roof/ceiling is of unplastered bare concrete. It
should have been quite possible to determine the location of the original openings-now allegedly sealed-from the interior
and it would also have been quite possible to make openings in the same place. As
confirmed to visitors by the Museum administration upon inquiry, the two chimney openings in the cremation room, as well
as the chimney itself, which is without any functional connection outside the building, were built after the war as a "reconstruction
for Museum purposes" on the location of the alleged original installations.[169] The French journalist and well-known anti-revisionist, Eric Conan, writes:[170] "Another delicate subject: What to do with the falsifications left behind by
the communist administration? In the 50s and 60s, several buildings which had disappeared or had been misappropriated were
rebuilt with gross errors and displayed as authentic. Some, which were 'too new', have been closed for the public. Not to
mention the delousing gas chambers which were sometimes presented as homicidal gas chambers. Those aberrations have helped
the deniers a lot, which took the essence for their legends out of it. The example of the Crematory I is typical. In its
morgue, the first gas chamber was installed. It operated for a short period of time in early 1942. The blocking of this area,
which was essential for the gassings, disturbed the operation of the camp. End of April 1942, it was therefore decided to
move the deadly gassings to Birkenau, were it was conducted on an industrial scale mainly with Jewish victims. The Crematory
I was subsequently converted into an air raid shelter with a surgery room. In 1948, when the Museum was created, Crematory
I was reconstructed in a supposed original state. Everything in it is false:[171] the dimensions of the gas chamber, the locations of the doors, the openings for pouring in Zyklon B, the ovens,
rebuilt according to the recollections of some survivors, the height of the chimney. At the end of the 70s, Robert Faurisson
exploited those falsifications all the better because at that time the Museum officials balked
at admitting them.[172] An American revisionist[88] has shot a video in the gas chamber, still presented as authentic: one may see him questioning the visitors with
his 'revelations'. [...] For the moment, things remain as they are, and the visitors are not
told anything. This is too complicated. One shall see later what to do." (Emphases added.) According
to the inflection: they were lying, they are lying, they will be lying... In
view of this unrealistic 'reconstructions' carried out after the war, the Jewish-American professor of architecture Robert
van Pelt, who actually is only a professor for cultural history, in co-operation with the Jewish-Canadian Holocaust historian
Deborah Dwork, arrives at the following, no less unequivocal conclusions:[173] "The architecture designed to enact the metamorphosis from Mensch to Untermensch was
intact when the Soviets liberated the camp in 1945. All traces of it were removed subsequently. The guidebook for sale in
the bookstore does not mention the building [crematorium I] at all. Perhaps the men and women who created
the museum could not reconcile its implications with their ideology of a resistance: an ideology that denied total victimization.
Perhaps it was simply a question of resources and the need for tourist services. Whether for doctrinal or practical reasons,
the destruction of the original arrangement within the present visitor reception center is a postwar obfuscation and a loss. There have been additions to the camp the Russians found
in 1945 as well as deletions, and the suppression of the prisoner reception site is matched by the reconstruction of crematorium
I just outside the northeast perimeter of the present museum camp. With its chimney and its gas chamber, the crematorium
functions as the solemn conclusion for tours through the camp. Visitors are not told that the crematorium they see is largely
a postwar reconstruction. When
Auschwitz was transformed into a museum after the war, the decision was taken to concentrate the history of the whole complex
into one of its component parts. The infamous crematoria where the mass murders had taken place lay in ruins in Birkenau,
two miles away. The committee felt that a crematorium was required at the end of the memorial journey, and crematorium I
was reconstructed to speak for the history of the incinerators at Birkenau. This program usurpation was rather detailed.
A chimney, the ultimate symbol of Birkenau, was re-created; four hatched openings in the roof, as if for pouring Zyklon B
into the gas chamber below, were installed, and two of the three furnaces were rebuilt using original parts. There are no
signs to explain these restitutions, they were not marked at the time, and the guides remain silent about it when they take
visitors through this building that is presumed by the tourist to be the place where it happened." This argument of the "usurpation" is packed with dynamite,
because it suggests that the events alleged to have taken place in crematorium I, events described by eyewitnesses Rudolf
Höß, Pery Broad and a few others actually never took place at this location. But this undermines the credibility
of all other eyewitnesses from the very outset, including those from Birkenau. We wonder if the authors are aware of this? It may at least be stated without fear of contradiction that the ceiling, exterior
walls and pillars as well as the foundation of the building are in their original condition. If Zyklon B introduction stacks
and ventilation openings had existed in the reinforced concrete roof, breaks in the reinforced concrete structure would be
visible from the interior in the corresponding places, since these cannot have been made to disappear without leaving visible
traces. In addition to today's Zyklon B introduction stacks there are, however, no indications of any former openings in
the roof. The holes allegedly made in another location therefore never existed! | 
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| | Figs.
24 and 25: Symptoms of decay visible on the interior ceiling of the morgue of crematorium I in Auschwitz Main
Camp. After more than 50 years, the rusting of the steel reinforcement rods near the surface has begun cracking the concrete.
The provisional attempts of the Museum administration to plaster these holes (right) will prove useless.
| The
openings in the concrete visible today are neither plastered, nor have the remains of the cut steel reinforcement rods been
removed in a professional manner. The holes have been planked with wood and sealed with tar. Such poor workmanship reflects
neither the care required in handling a poisonous gas, nor standard German craftsmanship. If the SS had put these holes in the concrete during the war, one must assume that they would have taken care to
evenly distributed these holes in the ceiling of the original(!) morgue in order to ensure an even distribution of the Zyklon
B inside the room. The stacks today, however, are only evenly distributed in the ceiling of this room if one considers the
washing room, which was only incorporated after the war(!), as an integral part of the morgue ('gas chamber'.) (See Figs.
21 and 23). Thus, the arrangement of today's introduction holes only make sense if they were created especially for its
present status as a falsely dimensioned "reconstruction for Museum purposes" (B. Bailer-Galanda)[169] after the war. This by itself is strong circumstantial
evidence that those holes were chiseled in after the interior walls of the former air raid shelter-one too many of them-had
been torn down by the Soviets or the Poles. This is also supported by the fact that it has been generally assumed until the
present day-without contradiction by any side-that the introduction holes visible today were indeed created after the war without recourse to the alleged remains of old,
walled-up holes.[174] The flat roof of the crematorium,
like all flat roofs, is not water-tight. Due to decades of erosion by rain water and the steel reinforcement rods, lying
near the surface, rusting over time and splitting the concrete,[175] the interior of the room exhibits clear signs of decay; see Figs. 24f. The Museum administration has,
of course, attempted to plaster these places, but the plaster is immediately destroyed by the crumbling of rust from the
steel reinforcement rods. Janitors from the Museum are compelled to sweep away falling pieces of crumbling mortar and concrete.
It would be entirely incorrect to explain these signs of deterioration as the remains of former introduction holes through
the roof. Such a claim is refuted by four facts: - The steel reinforcement rods would have had
to have been removed during the opening of any holes.
- A border between the old concrete of
the ceiling and the filling material added later would also be visible. The corrosion locations all indicate a homogenous
structure of the concrete.
- These locations would have to be evenly distributed over the ceiling
of the original morgue.
- These locations would have to exhibit an even, regular
form (round, square or rectangular).
Based on all these arguments, it can be concluded with certainty that at the time of the alleged use of this rooms
as a 'gas chamber', there were no openings for the introduction of Zyklon B. There is no indication of a former device to
ventilate the room either. Furthermore, there was no direct access to the 'gas chamber' from the outside. The victims would
have had to enter through the corpse room (laying out room), or through the oven room. They would, therefore, have had to
file past the corpses of their already-murdered companions in misery-truly a macabre spectacle. There could be no successful
deception of the victims and camouflage nor could there be any hope of willing co-operation or acquiescence on the part of
the inmates under such circumstances. Or, to put the lack of direct access doors to the 'gas chamber' in Robert Faurisson's
words: "No doors, no destruction." 5.4. 'Gas Chambers' in Birkenau Camp
5.4.1. Crematoria II and III 5.4.1.1. Starting Situation
These crematoria are entirely comparable
in size, equipment, and manner of construction to other similar installations built in the Third Reich at that time, as
well as with those built today.[176] In this connection, reference is made to the trial of the builder of the cremation installations in
Birkenau camp. In 1972, the court acquitted the two defendants, master builder W. Dejaco and master builder F. Ertl, since
suspicion of aiding and abetting in mass murder could not be corroborated.[177] An expert report drawn up during this trial on the surviving plans and documents on the construction
of the crematoria led to the conclusion that these buildings could not have been used or modified so as to serve as instruments
of mass murder.[85] In an eyewitness statement made recently, one of the master builders at Auschwitz, Walter Schreiber,
stated as follows on the planning of these crematoria:[178] Question: In
which positions were you active? Answer: As supervising engineer, I inspected the Huta Corporation and dealt with the Zentralbauleitung
of the SS. I also audited the invoices of our firm. Q.: Did you enter the camp? How did that happen? A.: Yes. One could walk everywhere without hindrance on the
streets of the camp and was only stopped by the guards upon entering and leaving the camp. Q.: Did you see or hear anything about killings or mistreatment
of inmates? A.: No.
But lines of inmates in a relatively poor general condition could be seen on the streets of the camp. Q.: What did the Corporation build? A.: Among other things, crematoria II and III with the large
morgues. Q.: The
prevalent opinion is that these large morgues were gas chambers for mass killings. A.: Nothing of the sort could be deduced from the plans made
available to us. The detailed plans and provisional invoices drawn up by us refer to these rooms as ordinary cellars. Q.: Do you know anything about
introduction hatches in the reinforced concrete ceilings? A.: No, nothing more from memory. But since these cellars were also intended to serve
the auxiliary purpose of air raid shelters, introduction holes would have been counter-productive. I would certainly have
expressed an objection to such an arrangement. Q.: Why were such large cellars built, when the water table in Birkenau was so extremely high? A.: I don't know. Originally,
however, above-ground morgues were to be built. The construction of the cellars caused great problems in retention and sealing. Q.: Would it be conceivable that
you were deceived and that the SS nevertheless had gas chambers to be built by your firm without your knowledge? A.: Anyone who knows anything
about what happens on a building site knows that that is impossible.
Q.: Do you know any gas chambers? A.: Naturally. Everyone in the east knew about disinfection
chambers. We also built disinfection chambers, which look quite different. We built such installations and knew what they
looked like, even after the necessary installations. As a building firm, we often had work to do after installation of the
machinery... Q.: When
did you learn that your firm was supposed to have built gas chambers for industrial mass killing? A.: Only after the end of the war. Q.: Weren't you quite amazed about it? A.: Yes! After the war I made contact with my former boss in
Germany and asked him about it. Q.: What did you learn? A.: He also only learned about it after the war, but he assured me that the Huta Corporation certainly
did not build the cellars in question as gas chambers. Q.: Would building alterations be conceivable after the withdrawal of the Huta Corporation? A.: Conceivable, sure, but I
would rule that out on the basis of time factors. After all, they would have needed corporations again, the SS couldn't
do that on their own, even with inmates. Based on the technical requirements for the operation of a gas chamber, which only
became known to me later, the building erected by us would have been entirely unsuited for the purpose in regard to the
necessary machinery and practicable operation. Q.: Why didn't you publish that? A.: After the war, first, I had other problems. And now it is no longer permitted. Q.: Have you been interrogated
as a witness in this matter? A.: No Allied, German, or Austrian agency has ever taken an interest in my knowledge of the construction
of crematoria II and III, I or my other activity in the former general government. I was never interrogated in this matter,
although my services for the Huta Corporation were known. I mentioned them in all my later CVs and recruitment applications.
Since knowledge of the facts is dangerous, however, I never felt any urge to disseminate it. But now, when the lies are
getting increasingly bolder and contemporary witnesses like myself are slowly but surely dying off, I am glad that someone
is willing to listen and set down the way it really was. I have serious heart trouble and can die at any moment, it's time
now. Prof. van Pelt has stated as follows on crematorium II:[179] "Auschwitz is like the Holy of Holies. I've prepared for years to go there. And to have a fool [Leuchter] come
in, coming completely unprepared, it's sacrilege! Somebody who walks into the Holy of Holies and doesn't give a damn." [00:44:30] "Crematorium II is the most [word
indistinct: notorious?] of Auschwitz. In the twenty-five hundred square feet of this one room more people lost
their lives than in any other place on this planet. Five hundred thousand people were killed. If you would draw a map of
human suffering, if you create a geography of atrocities, this would be the absolute center." [01:00:00] "If the Holocaust revisionists
would be shown to be right we would lose our sense about the Second World War, we would lose our sense about what democracy
was. The Second World War was a moral war; it was a war between good and evil. And so if we take the core of this war, which
is in fact Auschwitz, out of the picture, then everything else becomes unintelligible to us. We collectively end up in a
madhouse." [01:23:30] We will not allow ourselves to be distracted by the notion that Prof. van Pelt considers internment in a madhouse
the only alternative to believe in the Holocaust. Van Pelt's testimony does, however, emphasize the importance of crematorium
II (and crematorium III, built as a mirror image of crematorium II, although allegedly not used quite so intensively), which
will be discussed in the following.
| 
| | Fig. 26 (top): Ground
plan of morgue 1 (alleged ‘gas chamber’) of Crematoria II and III (mirror symmetrical) in Auschwitz II/ Birkenau
camp. Click on Map for details. Fig. 27 (bottom): Cross-section
of morgue 1 (alleged 'gas chamber') of crematoria II and III (mirror symmetrical) in Auschwitz II/Birkenau camp.[180] - Ventilation outlet
- Ventilation inlet
- soil
| A special, separate morgue with better ventilation w\as then used, as is usual today, as a laying out room for
the victims of possible epidemics. This cellar is designated as an "Infektionsleichenkeller" (infection
corpse morgue) in the technical literature. Fig. 26 is the ground plan of morgue 1 (alleged 'gas chamber') of crematorium
II, which was designed mirror symmetrically to crematorium III. Fig. 27 shows the cross section through morgue 1.[180] As may be seen from the cross-section, these morgues, for the most part, are located below ground. The long and slender
type of construction, the underground location, as well as the lack of contact with the cremation rooms result in an even,
cool temperature in these areas. This corresponds to their having been planned as morgues, which is how they are designated
in the building plans. The planning of such large cellars is not astonishing,
furthermore, when one considers that several hundred corpses a day had arrived during the worst periods of the epidemics
raging in Auschwitz, and that these corpses had to be stored somewhere. The compelling interpretation of the non-criminal
planning of these rooms as harmless morgues is shared even by Pressac. The
documentation reproduced by Pressac shows that this installation was derived from an earlier 1941 plan for a new crematorium
in the main camp.[181] The access street to the crematoria in Birkenau was located on the side of the chimney wing (see Fig. 29). The original
plan for the main camp, however, provided for an access street on the other side of the building. Moreover, the high water
table of the terrain in Birkenau did not permit location of the morgue quite under ground.[182] The cellars were therefore raised so as not to swim on top of the ground water. Together with the layer of earth on
top of the cellars, these were insurmountable for vehicles and carts. Direct access to the cellars from the outside was
therefore blocked. For this reason, an additional flight of stairs was incorporated to the offices of morgue 3 as well as
a flight of stairs at the end of morgue 2 (see Fig. 29). Possibly as a result of the dramatically
altered military situation after the German defeat of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43, all construction plans were reduced
in costs and required manpower wherever possible. Hence, the new stairways did not have corpse chutes as the old stairway.
Several other cost-reducing changes were made on crematorium III.[183] Defects in the quality of the cheap material used for crematoria IV and V must have led to their early breakdown (see
next chapter). The original basement stairways with corpse chutes of crematoria II and
III had already been finished by then, although they could only be accessed with difficulty. That these stairs were built
at all, indicates an over-hasty transmission of the old plans for the main camp to the new situation in Birkenau. The walls of the morgue consist of double brick masonry with a layer of tar in between
for insulation.[183] The interior walls are plastered with a hard, cement-rich material, the ceiling and support pillars of reinforced
concrete show the marks of wooden planking and are therefore not plastered. The roof, made of reinforced concrete, is isolated
by a layer of tar, which is protected from environmental and mechanical damage by a rather thin layer of cement covering
it. The layers of tar both on top of the roof as well as between the two brick walls was indispensable as a water barrier
due to the high ground water in the swampy region of Birkenau. Both morgues had several drains. 5.4.1.2. The Obsessive Search for "Criminal Traces" Jean-Claude Pressac was the first researcher to dig through the mountains
of documentation at the Auschwitz Museum and later through the documentation of the Zentralbauleitung stored
in Moscow. He was also the first one to create the now-widely used term "criminal trace". Based on
the total absence of documents proving the erection of homicidal 'gas chambers', Pressac resorted to a semantic trick by
attributing a criminal significance to harmless documents, which were said to constitute a clue that something was not quite
right about the crematoria at Auschwitz. Based on the progress in research, however, all these 'criminal traces' compiled
by Pressac and others and accompanied by sometimes fantastic cerebral acrobatics have collapsed. The most notable of them
are listed and briefly refuted in the following. 5.4.1.2.1. New Cellars Stairways Fact 1: Additional access ways via stairways from the outside were later incorporated
into the cellars of crematoria II and III. Incorrect additional allegation:
The corpse chute at the old, original stairway entrance was demolished.[184] Incorrect conclusion: The construction of new stairways without corpse chutes with the simultaneous demolition in the original stairway access way could mean only one thing: no
more corpses were to go sliding into the cellars but rather people who were still able to walk down a few steps. Hence they
had to be alive while entering, and were killed after they
had entered the building.[185] Correct conclusion: The new stairways were necessary based on the alteration in
the plans, see the chapter above. This is supported by the heading of the plan for the new stairways: "Change of
cellar access to street side".[186] The corpse chute, furthermore, was not even demolished. In fact, it appears in all following plans as
shown by Carlo Mattogno:[187] | 
| | Fig. 28: Schematic
location of the new crematorium as originally planned for the Auschwitz main camp. | | 
| | Fig. 29: Schematic
location of crematorium II, altered plan. To adjust it to the higher location of the morgue and the access in Birkenau from
the other side (mirroring crematorium III). | "- Plan 2136 of the Zentralbauleitung of 22 February 1943 for crematorium III;[188] - Plan 2197 of the Zentralbauleitung
of 18 March 1943 for crematorium II;[189] - Plan 109/15 of the
firm Huta of 24 September 1943 for crematoria II and III;[190] - Plan 109/16A of the
firm Huta of 9 October 1943 for crematoria II and III.[191] Moreover,
the 'chute' is mentioned as existing in ordinances 200 and 204 of the Zentralbauleitung to the Häftlingsschlosserei
of 18 March 1943 respecting crematorium II.[192] " Furthermore, crematoria II and III were undoubtedly used during their entire
period of operation for the temporary storage of the bodies of persons having died of 'natural' causes (epidemics, exhaustion,
age, etc.), awaiting cremation, which amounted at least to thousands of bodies. If it were true that stairways without chutes
could only be used by living persons still capable of climbing stairs on their own, then one might be permitted to ask:
how did the corpses of persons having died of 'natural causes' get into the morgue (or wherever they were stored)? Did they
walk by themselves? Of course not. They were carried, and sometimes certainly even a few steps up and down-and not only
inside the crematorium. Was it therefore impossible to get corpses into a building not having a chute? Certainly not. Would
missing chutes therefore prove that only living people could enter? Of course not. So why did the SS not build a new corpse
chute by the new stairway? Perhaps simply because the costs of the crematorium were running out of control due to the constant
changes in plans, and because it was desired or necessary to keep the costs down? Would that not be a much simpler and more
logical explanation? 5.4.1.2.2. Gassing Cellar, Undressing Room, and Showers Fact 1: There are documents of SS Zentralbauleitung which
mention an "Auskleidekeller" (undressing room) in crematorium II.[193] Fact 2: There is a document
which mentions a "Vergasungskeller" (gassing cellar,) in crematorium II.[194] Fact 3: There is a document
which lists "14 Brausen" (14 showers) for crematorium III.[195] Fact 4: Pieces of wooden
planking left in the underside of the ceiling of morgue 1 in crematorium II are visible even today.[196] Incorrect conclusion: Morgue 1 of crematoria II & III was built as homicidal
'gas chamber', equipped with "false" shower heads, which were fastened to the pieces of wood left in the
concrete and used to deceive the victims; morgue 2 was used as the undressing room for the victims.[197] Correct conclusion: It is not known which room is being referred to by means of
the term "Vergasungskeller" in the above mentioned document. Since there were still no proper means to
drill holes in concrete ceilings and no neat plastic rawl plugs in the 1940s, there was only one way to fasten installations
to bare concrete walls: conical pieces of wood were cast in the concrete onto which the electrical lines, water pipes, and
other installations were screwed tightly. The existence of such pieces of wood in the ceiling of morgue 1 does not prove
that shower heads were fastened there. It is more probable that lamps or electrical lines were fastened there. Nor is there
any proof that the "showers" mentioned in the document were "false", as stated by Pressac.
In actual fact, the Zentralbauleitung temporarily considered expanding the Birkenau
crematoria into hygiene centers equipped with disinfestation installations, inmate showers and undressing rooms but nevertheless
later abandoned these plans. Carlo Mattogno has produced extensive documentation in support of this argument:[198] | 
| | Fig. 30: "Re.: Auschwitz crematorium [...] Caulking work performed for the disinfestation installation"
TCIDK, 502-1-316, p. 431, "duplicate" in 502-1-323,
p. 137th | | 
| | Fig. 31: "Re: BW: 32 = Disinfestation installation [...] Caulking work performed for the disinfestation
installation" TCIDK, 502-1-316, p. 430. | | 
| | Fig.
32: "2 Topf disinfestation ovens for crematorium II in the Prisoner of War Camp,
Auschwitz." Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum w Oswiecimiu, BW 30/34, p. 47. |
| "Now in an 'Aufstellung' (itemization) by the Topf company dated 13 April, 1943, concerning requested metals
to be used in the construction of certain machinery for crematorium II at Auschwitz, the following piece of information
appears:[199] '2 Topf disinfestation heaters
for crematorium II in the prisoner of war camp Auschwitz.' On 14 May, Bischoff sent Topf the following 'urgent telegram':[200] 'On Monday bring the overdue
warm water project for approximately 100 showers. Installation of water heater or boiler in the still under construction
trash incinerator crematorium III or flue for the purpose of utilizing the high emission temperature. Contingently higher
walling of the oven for the purpose of accommodating a large reserve container is possible. It is being requested to send
along the appropriate designs with Herrn Prüfer on Monday, May 17.'
On June 5, 1942, Topf sent Drawing D60446 to the Zentralbauleitung
'regarding the installation of the boilers in the rubbish incinerator'. This project involved the installations intended
for crematorium II.[201] In
an undated 'questionnaire' apparently written in June 1943 regarding the Birkenau crematoria, in answer to the question,
'Are the exhaust gases utilized?', the head of the Zentralbauleitung, Bischoff, responded: 'planned but not carried out',
and in response to the following question: 'If yes, to what purpose?', Bischoff answered: 'for bath facilities in crematorium
II and III'.[202] Finally,
there is an invoice from the firm VEDAG Vereinigte Dachpappen-Fabriken Aktiengesellschaft (United Roofing-Felt Factories,
Incorporated) dated July 28, 1943, with the subject 'Auschwitz-crematorium' referring to 'completed sealing work for the disinfestation facility'
(emphasis added) which was carried out between May 21 and July 16, 1943, cf. Fig. 30.[203] Before drawing any conclusions,
a few explanations are required. While both Topf disinfestation heaters were then installed in the Zentralsauna, the document
cited above refers them to crematorium II. The project for the installation of 100 showers in crematorium III (and in crematorium
II) could not have been for the prisoners of the 'Sonderkommando' of the crematoria, since only 50 showers were installed
in the shower room of the Zentralsauna, which had been designed for the inmates of the entire camp;[204] therefore it is clear that the 'bath facilities in crematorium II and III' in the 'questionnaire' quoted above,
were intended for the prisoners of the entire camp as well. This means that it was planned to convert the crematoria II and
III into hygienic centers. The
purpose of such centers was to cleanse the inmates and their clothing, i.e., to free them from dirt and disease-carrying
parasites. But this necessarily included a disinfection or disinfestation installation. The expansion of the crematoria was
not however completed because work had already begun in the meantime on the central sauna which was better suited for this
purpose. The documents cited here nevertheless prove a temporary intent on the part of the Zentralbauleitung to perform
cremation, inmate cleaning and the disinfestation of clothing in the same building. Now
I think that it is not irrelevant to note here that in this project the water heating system for the showers was connected
to the garbage incinerator and not to the crematorium oven, as for example in the five-muffle oven of the Lublin KL. In my
opinion, the reason for that decision was the fact that the crematorium ovens did not ensure a continuity of use to be able
to provide sufficient hot water throughout the entire day; in other words, the crematorium ovens were not used enough to
ensure efficient operation of the water heating system. That the VEDAG-Invoice[203] indeed refers to the hot-air disinfesting chambers installed in the Zentralsauna, is definitely proven by a VEDAG
single invoice which has the same date and the same contents as the first invoice noted above, but it refers to the 'BW 32
= disinfestation facility', that is to say, precisely in the Zentralsauna. [cf. Fig. 31,[205] But for what reason does the invoice have as its subject: 'Auschwitz-crematorium'? This heading has an obvious
relationship to the aforesaid Topf 'itemization' of April 13, 1943, concerning '2 Topf disinfestation heaters for Crema
II' which were then installed in the Zentralsauna. In any case, the two documents establish the correlation crematorium-disinfestation
and portray the expression of a plan or at least of a Zentralbauleitung intention to combine cremation and disinfestation
within the same edifice." Since, as shown in chapter 5.2.2., the installation
of hygiene centers with showers, disinfestation, undressing and dressing rooms and adjacent crematoria is not at all unusual,
the "traces" adduced by Pressac and van Pelt may be seen to have been incorrectly interpreted. | 
| | Fig. 33: Wooden
disinfestation chamber door at Auschwitz, rendered provisionally gas-tight with peephole and metal protection grid. This
is what the gas-tight doors for the homicidal 'gas chambers' are supposed to have looked like. Note the extremely flimsy
lock. | 5.4.1.2.3. "Gas-tight Doors" for Crematorium II Fact 1: Morgue 1 in crematorium II was equipped with
gas-tight doors with a peephole.[206] Fact 2: An initially planned double door opening to the inside of morgue 1 was
replaced by a double door opening to the outside.[207] Incorrect conclusion 1: Morgue 1
in crematorium II was converted into a homicidal 'gas chamber', equipped with gas-tight doors.[208] Incorrect conclusion 2: Doors opening
to the inside of morgue 1 would have been blocked by gassing victims piling up in front of it so that the doors could not
have been opened. Realizing this, the SS changed the doors to open to the outside. Correct conclusions 1: Even if a peephole was not entirely necessary for a disinfestation chamber, it has nevertheless
been proved that the disinfestation chamber doors installed in Auschwitz were also equipped with exactly such peepholes,
as shown in the photograph reproduced here (Fig. 33).[209] One document indicates that gas-tight doors measuring 100 cm × 192 cm were ordered for morgue 1
(the 'gas chamber') of crematoria II and III.[210] On the delivery plan, i.e., the final plan
for crematorium II, the size of the doors is nevertheless drawn in as 190 cm × 200 cm, as on all previous plans, so
that these gas-tight doors would not have fitted.[211] Based on the ruins, it must be possible even today, to establish whether the door was possibly walled
in to make it narrower and whether there are any traces of door frames. Excavations would be necessary to determine this. The engineers Nowak and Rademacher have shown that the 'gas-tight' doors manufactured
at Auschwitz by inmates from wooden planks could not have been gas-tight in a technical sense, the planks did not close hermetically,
the fittings were simply fastened through the wood by means of bolts, and the seals consisted of felt strips.[212] One has to consider that a hypothetical homicidal 'gas chamber' door would have
to open outwards-a door opening inwards would be blocked by inmate bodies lying in front of the door. Such doors would require
an especially stable arrangement as the locks and hinges would have to be capable of resisting the pressure of hundreds of
panicking people. The pressure exerted by such masses of people becomes apparent when one recalls the photographs of panicky
spectators at football/soccer matches. Separating fences and partitions between individual spectator blocks are commonly
trampled down like mere blades of grass in such situations. In any case, a simple wooden door, rendered provisionally gas-tight,
as has been found in Auschwitz, a photograph of which is reproduced by Pressac in his book (see Fig. 33),[213] could never have resisted such pressure. The camp administration could actually
have ordered solid, technically gas-tight steel doors (air-raid shelter doors, Fig. 34) since they were offered such doors
but it can be proven that they did not order them. One must assume that they had no serious need for them.[212]  | | Fig. 34: German
air-raid shelter door from 1939 in the cellar of a private house in Karlsruhe © Photo: R. Faurisson, 1991 | In this context, a comparison of the flimsy wooden
doors as found in Auschwitz (used for delousing purposes only) with technically gas tight, massive iron doors as used for
executions in U.S. homicidal gas chambers is revealing, compare Fig. 33 with Fig. 5 (page 24). The installation of a door with felt seals in crematorium II may have been temporarily considered either in connection
with the temporarily considered expansion into a hygiene center or because it was desired to use the only solid reinforced
concrete cellar in Birkenau camp as an air-raid shelter, as remarked by senior engineer Schreiber. This cellar was actually
used as an air-raid shelter for inmates as suggested by a few eyewitness testimonies.[214] This would also explain other more minor 'traces' which cannot be discussed here. Samuel Crowell has
shown in several articles the extent to which the SS actually built air-raid shelter installations not only for themselves
but also for the camp inmates.[215] Correct conclusions 2: The change in orientation of the doors was probably caused
by the design of this morgue's ventilation system. Since the air inlet of this system had a higher resistance than the outlet
(see next chapter), a considerable subpressure was caused in morgue 1, constantly sucking air in from the rest of the building.
This is a desired effect for a morgue where many corpses had to be stored, so that unpleasant smells would not reach other
parts of the building. A double door opening to the side with a lower pressure (inside morgue 1) would open automatically,
whereas a door opening to the side of higher pressure closes automatically. 5.4.1.2.4. Ventilation Installations Fact: All rooms in crematoria II and III were equipped with efficient ventilation
installations.[216] Incorrect conclusion: Morgues 1 of crematoria II and III were converted into
homicidal 'gas chambers' equipped with installations for the intended purpose of evacuating poison gases.[217] Correct conclusion: It is in fact inconceivable that a large morgue without windows
and with only one door filled with innumerable bodies of the victims of epidemic disease would not be
equipped with a ventilation installation. The efficiency of the ventilation, however, proves that these installations were
designed for typical morgues.[218] The efficiency of the blowers may be seen from the invoices sent to the Zentralbauleitung by
the Topf corporation after installation of the systems.[219] According to the invoices, both morgues #1, i.e., the alleged 'gas chambers' (in the invoice
designated as the "B-room"), were each equipped with a 4,800 m3/h intake and outlet blower,[220] while for the "L-room" (the so-called "undressing room") only one
outlet blower was installed, with a capacity of 10,000 m3/h.[221] When considering the volume of the two morgues (morgue 1÷504 m3; morgue 2÷900 m3),
the results for the alleged, planned 'gas chambers' (4,800/504 =) are approximately 9.5 air exchanges per hour and for the
undressing room (10,000/900 =) approximately 11 air exchanges per hour. Does anybody seriously believe that, at the end of
May 1943, i.e., two months after the beginning of the alleged mass murders, it was assumed that the 'gas chambers'
would need less ventilation than the undressing rooms, or even less than the dissecting rooms, laying out rooms and wash
rooms, the ventilation efficiency of which were even greater-approximately 131/3air exchanges per hour? Wilhem Heepke's classic work on the construction of crematoria states that a morgue
requires a minimum of 5 air exchanges per hour and 10 during intensive use.[222] Thus it is clear that the ventilation installations provided for the morgues were designed, in terms of orders of
magnitude, for morgues in intensive use or for morgues containing the bodies of epidemic disease victims. For comparison:
Zyklon B disinfestation chambers with circulating air systems were equipped with 72 air exchanges per hour.[223] Furthermore, it should be mentioned that the original plans for a new crematorium in the main camp
from 1941-a time when even Pressac admits that the SS had no criminal intentions-provided for 17(!) air exchanges per hour
for the dissecting room(!) and the morgues.[224] This exchange rate is considerably higher than what was later realized for all rooms of crematoria II and III, including
the alleged 'gas chambers'. Thus, on the way from beneficial planning to (allegedly sinister) construction, the air exchange
rates had been drastically reduced (probably in order to reduce costs). Does anybody seriously believe, the SS would have
lowered the ventilation capacity when changing the designation of a morgue from a beneficial use to a homicidal 'gas chamber',
instead of increasing it? This is thus the final refutation of any argument on the alleged criminal characteristics of the
ventilation installations in these crematoria. 5.4.1.2.5. Pre-heated Morgues Fact: The morgues of crematoria II and III were never heated, although a heating system was
temporarily considered; water pipes in morgue 1 were removed.[225] Incorrect conclusion: Morgues need no heating for normal operational functioning.
Crematoria II and III were converted into homicidal 'gas chambers', (intended to be) equipped with a heating system so that
'the gas would work more rapidly'. It was necessary to eliminate the plumbing system in the morgue because panic-stricken
inmates would have damaged the pipes.[226] Correct conclusion: According to expert literature, morgues do indeed need some
kind of heating equipment, because corpses must be protected from the effects of frost and freezing temperatures in winter.[227] Hence, under normal operation, morgues would have been equipped with heating devices, but the initial
plans to equip the morgues in Auschwitz with heaters were cancelled,[228] rendering the argument irrelevant. Regarding the removal of the water pipes, a 'non-criminal' explanation
follows logically: Since no heating was ever installed in these morgues, there was a danger that the water pipes would have
burst in freezing temperatures due to the lack of any heating. In order to prevent burst pipes and a subsequent flooding
of the morgues, the pipes had to be removed. 5.4.1.2.6. "Cremation with Simultaneous Special Treatment"
Fact: With regards to the "Electrical
supply and installation of the concentration camp and prisoner of war camp" the documentary note ("Aktenvermerk")
of the Auschwitz Zentralbauleitung of January 29, 1943, states:[229] "This putting into operation [of crematorium II] can however only extend to restricted
use of the available machines (in which case cremation with simultaneous special treatment [original: "Sonderbehandlung"] will
be made possible) since the [electrical] supply leading to the crematorium is too weak for its output consumption." Incorrect conclusion: Since the "special treatment" mentioned apparently required electricity
and because the homicidal 'gas chamber' possessed an electrical ventilation, R.J. van Pelt concludes that "Sonderbehandlung"
referred to homicidal gassings, which was made possible by operating the ventilation despite a reduced power supply.[230] Correct conclusion: First, it is not apparent from this document whether or not
electricity is required for "special treatment". Furthermore, on January 29, 1943, the ventilation installation
for the morgue had not yet even been delivered, let alone installed and put into operation. Commencement of construction
was not anticipated before February 10.[231] Installation was only charged to the account on February 22, 1943.[232] Therefore, the "available machines" on January 1, 1943, in no way included the morgue
ventilation installations. Actually, the concept "special treatment" in this connection has no 'criminal'
significance at all, as W. Stromberger[104] and recently C. Mattogno have pointed out:[233] "By considering the historical context-a typhus epidemic increase so dangerous in 1942 as to induce [...] Major
General of the Waffen SS Glücks to command on February 8, 1943, the complete quarantine of the camp[234]-the meaning of the term 'special treatment' in the memorandum of January 29, 1943, could only be an extension
of its hygienic-sanitary meaning which emerges from other documents.[235] That is, from the hygienic-sanitary point of view, the 'existing machines' would have guaranteed proper
cremation with limited capacity. This is confirmed by a document going back a few weeks. On January 13, 1943, Bischoff wrote a letter to the
firm Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke in Auschwitz with the subject 'Fulfillment of carpentry jobs for the building planning
room.' In this document, Bischoff complained about the delay in receiving doors 'for crematorium I in the KGL',
explaining in detail:[236] 'Above all, the ordered
doors of Bftgb. No. 17010/42/Ky/Pa of order letter dated 26.10.42 for crematorium I of the concentration camp is urgently
needed for carrying out special measures.' The expression 'carrying out special measures' had no criminal significance at all. On the contrary,
it denoted the construction of hygienic-sanitary installations, including the hospital for the prisoners (Häftlingslazarett)
projected for the BIII sector of Birkenau. Therefore, if the crematorium was made for 'carrying out special measures,'
it means that it was a part of these installations and its hygienic-sanitary function was exclusively the cremation of dead
bodies of deceased camp prisoners." 5.4.1.2.7. "Gas Testers" and "Indicator Devices for HCN Residues" Fact 1: There is a telegram of
February 26, 1943, by means of which heating technician Jährling of the Topf & Söhne oven construction firm
orders "10 Gas testers" for crematorium II. Fact 2: There is a letter from the
Topf corporation of March 2, 1943, which, referring to the above telegram, mentions "Anzeigegeräte für
Blausäure-Reste" (indicator devices for HCN residues). Incorrect
conclusion: The SS ordered the indicator devices in order to verify whether the ventilation of the 'gas chamber' was successful
after completion of mass murder with hydrogen cyanide in crematorium II.[237] | 
| | Fig. 35: Photograph
of two indicator devices from the Siemens corporation for the CO2 and/or CO+H2- gas content in
%. Component of a gas tester.[241] | Correct conclusion: According to the technical literature, "Gas testers" are flue gas analyzers
intended to determine the exhaust gas composition of oven gases.[238] Such devices were standard equipment in crematoria. That the above mentioned order referred to such
devices is clear from the fact that they were ordered by a heating technician from an oven construction firm. The letter
in reply from the Topf corporation dated March 2, 1943, stating that one must first find out who marketed these devices,
has been revealed on several occasions to be an absurdity:[239] - According to contemporary literature, devices for the detection of HCN residues were called
"Blausäurerestnachweisgeräte" (HCN residue detection devices) or "Gasrestnachweisgeräte
für Zyklon" (Gas residue detection devices for Zyklon).[128] Since the Topf & Söhne corporation according to the letter had already received information on the possibility
of procurement of such devices from three firms, the correct name of these devices must in the meantime have penetrated
even to Topf & Söhne.
- Furthermore, these detection
devices are based on a wet chemical method which possessed no "indicator" and could not, therefore, be
designated as indicator devices.
- On the other hand,
the gas testers mentioned in the telegram had a physico-chemical sensor connected to a dial (see Fig. 35).
- According to contemporary prescriptions, testing with HCN residue testing devices
was obligatory in every disinfestation action using hydrogen cyanide in order to test whether the ventilation of a fumigated
room had been successful before it could be entered without a gas mask. Since disinfestation had been performed on a large
scale in Birkenau since 1941, it is absolutely incredible that no one should have concerned himself with the possibility
of ordering such devices before early 1943!
- Since the
creation of Birkenau camp in 1941, the SS garrison doctor for Auschwitz camp was responsible, among other things, for the
ordering, administration, and use of Zyklon B and all materials for its handling (disinfestation installations, gas masks,
HCN residue detection devices, etc.). He therefore had three years experience in this business. Why then should the Zentralbauleitung,
which was not competent in this matter, in addition to being unauthorized, have issued the order for the procurement of HCN
residue detection devices in 1943?
- In addition to crematorium
ovens, the Topf corporation also produced hot air disinfestation ovens, as well as silo fumigation installations which were,
however, not operated with HCN.[240] Why then should the heating technician Jährling, a civilian engineer, order devices of which he had no knowledge
from a firm which obviously did not even know the supplier of the devices when the health service of Auschwitz camp had
already been regularly supplied with these devices by the Tesch und Stabenow corporations for two years and therefore knew
the supplier? There was very probably a supply of them in storage at the camp.
It is therefore the conviction
of W. Rademacher, C. Mattogno, and myself that this reply from the Topf corporation is a forgery, in which a word such as
"Anzeigegeräte für Rauchgasanalyse" was perhaps replaced by the word "Anzeigegeräte
für Blausäure-Reste" (Indicator Device for Smoke Analysis by Indicator Device for HCN Residues). 5.4.1.2.8. Zyklon B Introduction Holes and Columns Fact 1: There are eyewitness testimonies claiming that there were three
or four square holes measuring 70 cm in the roofs of both morgues 1 of crematoria II and III.. According to some witnesses,
columns fabricated of mesh metal ran from the floor of the morgues through the holes in the ceiling and protruded over the
roof. Zyklon B is alleged to have been thrown into these columns for the purpose of mass killings.[242] | 
| | Fig. 36: Photograph of crematorium II of Birkenau taken in February 1943.[244] | | 
| | Fig. 37: Magnification of detail from Fig. 36 with outlines of the morgue and scale of measurements drawn in. The width of the
three objects in Fig. 36 shows strong variation between ca. 50 and 75 cm. Furthermore, it is notable that the shady side
of the first object, seen from the left, is considerably weaker than those of the others. | | 
| | Fig. 38: Schematic drawing of a view onto morgue 1 of crematorium II. Longitudinally painted: the concrete longitudinal beam
with the 7 supporting pillars. Drawn in as intersecting lines: base-lines, upon which the middle of the three objects located
on the roof must have been located.[245] Obviously, they were not evenly distributed along the roof. Grey rectangle: actual location of the two openings in existence
today. | | 
| | Fig. 39: Photograph of crematorium II from Jan. 20, 1943, similar in perspective as Fig. 36, but without objects on the roof of
morgue 1. | | 
| | Fig. 40: Enlargement of Allied air photo RG 373 Can F 5367, exp. 3185 of Birkenau camp, taken on August 25, 1944. An interesting
feature is the dark spots on morgue 1 ('gas chambers') of both crematoria (arrow), of which it is known today that there
are no introduction stacks for Zyklon B. | | 
| | Fig. 41: Schematic drawing of the air photo in Fig. 40. It is immediately apparent that the spots on the roofs of morgues 1
cannot be introduction stacks: too large, too irregular, wrong direction for 'shadows'. |
 | | Fig. 42: Schematic drawing of the location and size of the spots (3) on the roof of morgue 1 (the 'gas chamber') of crematorium
II (1) visible on the air photos, as well as the location (2) of the only holes to be found today.[250] | | 
| | Fig. 43: Interior photograph taken from the ruins of morgue 1 ('gas chamber') of crematorium II. The arrow points to the photograph
taking location (see chapter 8.3.3.). | | 
| | Fig. 44: Alleged Zyklon B introduction hole in the ceiling of morgue 1 ('gas chamber') of crematorium II, entry to the still
passable part of the cellar. | | 
| | Fig. 45: Ceiling of morgue 1 ('gas chamber') of crematorium II. Sample taking location of samples 1 and 2. |
| 
| | Fig. 46: Alleged Zyklon B introduction hole in the roof of morgue 1 ('gas chamber') of crematorium II in December 1991. It is
clearly visible that it was not cleared from the steel reinforcement rods. These were simply bent backwards.
| | 
| | Fig. 47: Hoop iron with dovetail, cast in cement in a hole in concrete. | |
Fact 2: There
are two photographs showing objects on the roof (see further below). Fact 3: There is a document mentioning "Drahtnetzeinschubvorrichtungen"
(wire mesh push-in devices).
Incorrect conclusion: The eyewitnesses are
right. Correct conclusion: Pressac reproduced a photo of crematorium II showing
square objects located on the roof of morgue 1 (the fourth object obviously lies behind the cellar).[243] The same photograph also appears in Danuta Czech's book.[244] It was taken in early February 1943, see Fig. 36, the decisive detail of which being magnified in Fig.
37. If these objects are really Zyklon B introduction holes, as Pressac believes, then one must assume that the objects are: - of equal size
- regularly aligned
- regularly
distributed along the roof
- nearly the same color and
- casting approximately
the same shadows.
Fig.
37 points out the outlines of the cellar, indicating its width as well as the approximate width of the three objects. Despite
the mediocre resolution of the photograph, it may be concluded that these objects are of unequal width, not evenly distributed
over the roof, but stand, on the contrary, close together. It also seems peculiar that the shady side of the first object
seen from the left, compared with those of the other two objects, is remarkably light in color. Fig. 38 shows the alignment
of perspective, viewed from above, on which these objects can possibly be located.[245] As none of the requirements set forth above is met, the argument that these objects are above-roof
parts of Zyklon B introduction stacks must be abandoned. It should be mentioned in passing
that these objects are not to be seen in other photographs of the morgue, see Fig. 39 taken on January 20, 1943,[246] as well as another photograph reproduced by Pressac and taken in the summer of 1943.[247] It will therefore be necessary to find another explanation for the objects in the photograph taken in
February 1943, such as, for example, that some sort of objects had been placed on the roof-perhaps in the course of constructing
the building, undertakings which were obviously still underway-or horribile dictu, but less likely, that the
picture has been retouched at a later date. Fig. 40 shows an enlargement of
an Allied air photo of Birkenau camp taken on August 25, 1944.[248] Darkened areas (arrow) are clearly visible on the lateral wing, the roof of morgue 1 ('the gas chamber')
of crematorium II. A stereoscopic evaluation of this air photo shows that these darkened areas on Fig. 40 cannot have possessed
any height.[249] If the Zyklon B introduction stacks really possessed the dimensions of 70 cm (21/3 ft) on each side as described by the eyewitnesses, this cannot be reconciled
with the spots on the air photo, which are approximately 2 to 3 m2 in area (20-23 ft2). It must be noted that the chimneys of the inmate barracks as well as the large crematorium chimneys are rich
in contrast, symmetrical, and straight. The spots on morgue 1 of both crematoria, by contrast, form an angle of approximately
75-80° (crematorium III) or 80-90° (crematorium II, irregular) to the arrangement of the main wing of crematorium
II (see schematic drawing Fig. 41). If these spots were objects of any kind, they would have to exhibit the same alignment
as the shadows of the crematorium chimney of crematorium II, the chimney of an inmate barracks, and other sharply conspicuous
parts of the picture. The actual shadows, in contrast to the spots above, form a 45° angle to the main direction of crematoria
II and III (see Fig. 41). We know that the crematorium chimney of crematorium
II was 15 m high.[180] It throws a shadow on the picture which is five times as long as the spots on the roof of morgue 1
('gas chamber') of crematorium III (length of shadow of chimney: 20 m, that is, the angle of the sun was approximately 37°,
length of the spots on morgue 1 ('gas chamber') of crematorium III: approximately 4 m). This means simply that the alleged
Zyklon B introduction stack must have projected 3 m above the roof of morgue 1 ('gas chambers') of crematorium III in order
to cast such long shadows, which may be ruled out as impossible. Absence of spatial height, irregular
shape, incorrect size (length and width), and wrong, irregular direction of the spots therefore prove definitively that
these spots are not the shadows of any objects, nor can they be the legendary Zyklon B introduction stacks. The irregular,
vague nature of these spots, as well as the fact that they are missing on at least one air photo,[251] gives rise to the conclusion that they are the retouching of a forger, added at a later time. An expert
study prepared in late 1992 by John Clive Ball, a professional air photo interpreter in Canada, has since proven that the
air photos were faked while they were in the possession of the CIA- surprise, surprise![252] As a result of the long-lasting wrong interpretation of these spots on this air
photo, the otherwise unfounded allegation was made that the alleged Zyklon B introduction stacks were aligned linearly on
the middle of the roof in case of morgue 1 ('gas chamber') of crematorium II, and aligned alternating to the left and to
the right of the middle of the roof in case of morgue 1 of crematorium III, according to the location of the spots on this
air photo. The alternating alignment, however, would contradict the argument that the Zyklon B introduction columns were
aligned behind the concrete support pillars in order to conceal them so that the entering victims would not become suspicious.
As a matter of fact, no introduction column could have been hidden behind a concrete pillar, because this would have necessitated
the opening of a hole not only through the reinforced concrete roof, but also through the massive longitudinal support beam,
see Fig. 26, which would have compromised the stability of the entire morgue. Hence, an alignment to the left and/or right
of the support pillars would have been unavoidable. After the building was destroyed
towards the end of the war-by whom does not matter-one occasionally encounters the attitude that the remaining ruins are
fakes, and that the original installations have disappeared without a trace. This would mean that the Poles rebuilt the crematoria
true to the original for many millions of Zlotys after the war, only in order to blow them up. A grotesque idea. Thus the
author of the present book was rejected as an expert witness by a court on December 6, 1991, and May 5, 1992, on the grounds
that his research on the 'gas chambers' was fully irrelevant since, as it was allegedly well known, the structures in Auschwitz
were only fakes, the authentic 'gas chambers' having disappeared without a trace.[253] Such allegations are, of course, absurd, and only testify to the technical incompetence
of the judges entrusted with these matters. It is a shame that such individuals are given the power to decide the fate of
others in these disputes.[254] The roofs of morgue 1 ('gas chambers') of both crematoria today are broken in
pieces and have collapsed, but the ceiling of morgue 1 ('gas chamber') of crematorium II is still relatively intact. The
next to the last of the seven pillars of morgue 1 ('gas chamber') of crematorium II, seen from the south, still bears a piece
of the ceiling. There, one can still climb down into the interior of the cellar through a hole in the ceiling (Fig. 44,
p. 120) (see also Figs. 43 and 45), in which the ground water stands on the floor even in summer during a fairly lengthy
dry season. Large parts of the masonry work and concrete ceiling accessible there are in original condition, protected from
wind and weather. There are no visible signs of erosion or corrosion. In his book, Pressac shows illustrations of the circular,
intact ventilation pipe openings through the ceiling of morgue 2 of crematorium II as well as through the concrete ceiling
of the oven room of crematorium III.[255] Figs. 49-53 (p. 126) show the five openings in the ceiling of the oven room of
crematorium III as of December 1991. They were used to withdraw radiant heat from the crematorium ovens. The ceiling collapsed
during the demolition of the oven room and most of the five holes were partially destroyed during the process. If the Zyklon B introduction holes described by eyewitnesses really existed, with
the wire mesh columns installed inside them, then what else is to be expected? 1.
According to eyewitness Henryk Tauber, the victims would have demolished all the equipment in this room:[256] "The people going to be gassed and those in the gas chamber damaged the electrical installations, tearing the
cables out and damaging the ventilation equipment." 2. Several hundred people, locked
into a cellar with a very small surface area, anticipating death, would panic and attempt to escape, damaging everything
that stood in their way. So what would the victims locked into the cellar have done to the wire mesh columns described by
the eyewitnesses? If these columns actually existed, their outer framework would have to have been of solid steel, but certainly
not of fragile wire mesh construction. 3. These columns would, in addition,
have had to have been solidly anchored in the concrete ceiling, the floor, and the concrete pillars. But since solid anchoring
dowels did not yet exist at that time, hoop irons would have been cast into the concrete during the construction of the cellar,
spread out to a 'dovetail' inside the concrete.[257] If carried out after completion of the building, holes would have been chiseled into the concrete,
and the hoop irons would have been cast in cement filling these holes, see Fig. 47. In both cases, a removal of such cast-in
hoop irons would have been impossible. All one could do is cut them off with a saw or a welding torch.[258] Hence, if any introduction device was ever installed in these morgues, traces of such hoop irons must
still be present. 4. Furthermore, the steel reinforcement rods in the
reinforced concrete would have to run wreath-like around the hole, and would be capable of verification by means of induction
devices, even today. 5. Since, in addition, the morgues' roofs were covered
with a layer of soil approximately one half meter thick, the entire construction would have to be protected against the
intrusion of soil and rain water, and in so doing it would have been indispensable to raise the edges of the holes above
the surface of the roof like miniature chimneys. Nothing of the kind can be found
on the roof of morgue 1 of crematorium II which has remained largely intact. The only two holes which can be found today
of anything approaching the diameter involved were obviously crudely pierced at a later time, as may been seen in Figs. 46
and 44 (p. 120). Even Pressac admits that these are the only holes visible today.[259] Nevertheless his richly illustrated book includes not one clear photograph of the two existing holes. All other smaller breakthroughs, cracks, and openings in the roofs of morgues 1 ('gas
chamber') of crematoria II and III visible today are breaks in the reinforced concrete effected at a later time with the
iron reinforcing rods sticking out. Nowhere does one find cleanly poured concrete edges or rough, chiseled out edges with
some remaining plaster work; there are no remains of ascending concrete or brick/mortar stacks; no steel reinforcement rods
running other than would be expected for an ordinary flat roof without holes; and there are no traces of any hoop irons,
dovetails, or any other means of anchoring any device to the morgue's floor, ceiling, or concrete pillars. | 
| | Fig. 48: Notch (fatigue) effect resulting at inserted openings from the application of force. The only crack running through
the wall proceeds, naturally enough, from the corner of the window.[260] | If any of these holes were used as Zyklon B introduction holes, they would have to have been broken through following
completion of the roof, i.e., shortly before the commencement of
the alleged mass murders.[261] Such holes with no plasterwork to polish off their rough edges, however, could neither have been sealed
against escaping poison gas, nor against intruding soil and water, nor would it have been possible to safely install any
panic-proof introduction devices in them. Using such crude holes would truly be an incredibly stupid piece of bungling. But there is more. In the opening shown in Fig. 46 the reinforcement rods were only
separated and bent back. They possess their full length even today. One could bend them back again and weld them back together
with their stumps, which are also visible to the left of the photograph (covered with snow).[262] Nor is there any trace of reinforcement rods running in a wreath-like pattern around the hole. This
hole, therefore, can never have been used as an introduction hole; it was never finished. And what makes matters worse:
this is still the 'best' of all holes and cracks in this roof in existence today. All others are even more irregular and
filled with reinforcement rods.
No apparatus, using the technology available
at that time, could be anchored in such crudely pierced, unplastered holes, from which the reinforcement rods were not even
removed; therefore, no gas introduction device could ever have been firmly installed, let alone sealed from the exterior.
This means that the entire environment including the supposed perpetrators would have been endangered by the gas streaming
out of the opening. The supposed victims could furthermore only have been prevented by force from escaping through these
holes, or even throwing the Zyklon B back out through the hole, since these holes were obviously incapable of closing. We might even go much further in this direction: we can tell from the concrete when
at least one of the two large holes was pierced. An opening pierced through the concrete in the roof of either morgue 1 ('gas
chamber') in consideration at a later time would inevitably have had the consequence, when the building was blown up, that
the breaks and fissures caused to the roof by the explosion would have run preferentially through these holes. | 
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| | Figs. 49-53: The five properly constructed ventilation holes in the ceiling of the oven room to the upper story, crematorium III;
condition: December 1991. Note the cracks caused by the explosion. | |
The reason
for this is that explosions exert extraordinarily great forces, and that the formation of cracks is favored by any weakness
in the structure, since the tension peaks attain very high values in the vicinity of acute angles (notch effect, see Fig.
48). Such holes, in particular, which would already have damaged the structure of the concrete due to their incorporation
following completion of the structure, represent not only points of likely fracture, but points of inevitable fracture. This
is made more obvious by Figs. 49-53 (p. 126). Although the explosion pressure in the oven room, on an even level with the
ground, could turn aside in all directions, and the roof remains relatively intact to the attic, three of the five oven room
ventilation holes, cleanly cast and reinforced in the concrete roof, were completely destroyed. In the case of two of the
other holes, clearly visible cracks formed at the corners, visible in the photos reproduced by Pressac.[255] In the morgues of crematoria II and III, the explosion pressure could only turn
upwards, causing their roofs to be much more seriously damaged than the roof of the oven room. The alleged Zyklon B introduction
holes in the roof of morgue 1('gas chamber') of crematorium II however are conspicuous for having remained relatively intact;
in the case of the hole in Fig. 46 all the cracks and fissures run around this hole! On the spot, one furthermore recognizes
the arbitrary arrangement of this hole in a location at which the roof of the morgue is undamaged. This alone proves with
building engineering certainty that this hole was broken through after the destruction of the roof! The chisel marks on the edge of the hole in Fig. 44 are so similar to those in Fig. 46 that it must be assumed
that both holes have the same history.[263] There were therefore no holes in the ceilings of these rooms through which the
poison gas preparation could be introduced by means of "wire mesh pillars" or otherwise, as described by eyewitnesses. Prof. van Pelt remarked accurately
in this regard:[264] "Today, these four small holes that connected the wire-mesh columns and the chimneys [on the roof
of morgue 1, crematorium II] cannot be observed in the ruined remains of the concrete slab. Yet does this mean they
were never there?" An interesting question, which the professor of architectural history answers
as follows: "While there is no certainty in this particular matter, it would have been logical to
attach at the location where the columns had been some framework at the bottom of the gas chamber ceiling, and pour some
concrete in the holes, and thus restore the slab." Van Pelt's claim that the camp
administration could have filled the holes in the ceiling with concrete in the fall of 1944 in order to restore the ceiling,
is without proof. But at least Prof. van Pelt believes that the SS administration acted logically, in that they allegedly
attempted to wipe away all trace of their alleged crime. But does van Pelt really believe that it would have made more sense
to fill up the holes with concrete instead of removing the entire roof of the 'gas chamber', as was done with the roofs of
morgues 2, the "undressing room"? An Allied air photo taken on December 21, 1944, shows that the roof
of the other morgue, which is not alleged to have been used to commit any murders, was completely removed.[265] Obviously the whole matter makes no sense. To believe van Pelt, we must believe, that the SS arbitrarily
created architectural relics to confuse later tourists and Holocaust researchers instead of destroying the roof entirely,
as in the case of the undressing room. This seems too absurd to be taken seriously. But if van Pelt had the most rudimentary knowledge of architecture, he would know that it is impossible to remove
holes measuring 70 × 70 cm (that is almost half a square meter!) from a concrete roof without leaving clearly
visible traces. Actually, however, there are no traces of openings in the roof later closed with concrete. In addition, concrete patches filled in later would have flown out of these holes
like corks out of a shaken champagne bottle during an explosion, thus making the holes just as visible as they were before.
On closer inspection, Prof. van Pelts allegation turns out to be not only demonstrably wrong, but utterly absurd. But at least Prof. van Pelt agrees with the revisionists that there are no remains
of these alleged holes. In remarking that there are no such traces, van Pelt has in fact proven that there were never any
holes in the ceiling of this room, and, consequently, no Zyklon B introduction holes of any nature whatever, and, consequently,
no introduction of any poisonous substances whatever in the manner described by the 'eyewitnesses'. He has proven that his
'eyewitnesses' were lying. He has proven that there is no proof for the mass murders in Auschwitz. Actually, he has proven
that there is no proof for the Holocaust. "No holes, no 'Holocaust'" (Robert Faurisson). It is beautiful
to see the great Professor of Architecture Robert Jan van Pelt in the year 2000 come to the same conclusion as myself in
the year 1991, when I investigated the ceiling of the alleged 'gas chamber' of crematorium II of Birkenau. Only our conclusions
are somewhat divergent. At this point, I would like to introduce a witness
who contacted David Irving by e-mail after conclusion of Mr. Irving's legal proceedings against Deborah Lipstadt in May
2000. He is an engineer named Barford; his colleagues are assisting in the conservation and restoration of the camp for the
Auschwitz Museum administration. He informed David Irving that, during his trial, investigations were made in complete secrecy
at Auschwitz with regards to the mystery of the holes, and then remarked: "[W]hat happened to
their [the Auschwitz Museum's] tests on the roof of Crema II mentioned in the attachment. Did they find
the Zyklon B holes or not? Did they report those results to Lipstadt's lawyers, and when! [...] As you can guess, despite my belief that you and the Revisionists
are wrong, and despite spending half an hour examining the collapsed roof of the underground gas chamber of crematorium II
from different angles, I found no evidence of the four holes that the eye-witnesses say were there [...]. Secondly several areas of the slabs
are covered in small rubble from an outer layer of concrete which was fractured by the blast. Now I would have expected
these fragments to have fallen through the holes, if they were there, into the void beneath. [...] I remain puzzled
by the lack of physical evidence for these holes." In early 2000, Charles D. Provan
distributed a paper claiming he had located the missing holes in the roof of morgue 1 of crematorium II.[266] What Provan did, however, was simply to declare those cracks as 'holes', which were caused by the concrete
support pillars piercing through the collapsing roof and cracks caused by the roof bending over the longitudinal beam. All
holes described by Provan are full of reinforcement bars, they lack regular shape, have no straight edges and corners (as
is to be expected for regular, planned-in holes), no traces of plaster (as is to be expected if holes were chiseled in later),
no traces of chimney extensions to lead these stacks through the soil, no traces of anchoring devices (rawl plugs, hoop irons,
dovetails...). In his schematic drawing of the roof, Provan even possesses the boldness to display these cracks as holes
with regular shapes.[267] C. Mattogno has pointed out in detail how unfounded and distorted Provan's claims really are.[268]  | | Fig. 54: J.-C. Pressac's drawing of the legendary "Zyklon B introduction columns" as described by Michal Kula.[270] | | 
| | Fig.
55: Handwritten entries in an inventory list of crematorium II for morgue 2. The lower one reads "Holzblenden"
(wooden blinds). Can anybody guess what the upper one means?[195] | Finally, I want to focus on those legendary "Zyklon B introduction columns" for which Michal Kula
is the most frequently quoted 'eye witness'. He gives a detailed description of these columns which he claimed he had built.[269] J.-C. Pressac[270] (see Fig. 54) and Prof. van Pelt[271] have prepared drawings of these columns based on Kula's description. Firstly, there neither exists material
nor documentary evidence that these columns existed.[268] All we actually have in this regard is a handwritten entry in an inventory list for crematorium II,[195] of which some people claim it means "4 Drahtnetzeinschubvorrichtungen", which, literally
translated means something like 'wire mesh push-in device'. I have reproduced this handwritten entry in Fig. 55. The following
points deserve to be taken notice of: - this entry is basically illegible and could
also mean something else;
- it is unknown, by whom and when this handwritten entry was made;
- this entry is made for morgue no. 2, the alleged undressing cellar, not(!) for morgue 1, the alleged 'gas chamber';
- if Kula's introduction columns would be included in this inventory list, they would appear with an appropriate
name describing the whole thing, not just a 'push-in device,' which could only be the inner part of Kula's device;
- in German, schub describes horizontal (pushing) movements,[272] whereas for vertically lowering an object, the word laß is used, i.e., Einlaßvorrichtung instead of Einschubvorrichtung.
Whatever this handwritten entry really refers
to, one thing is clear: it does not support Kula's claim of the existence of complex Zyklon B introduction devices(!) in
morgue 1(!) of the crematoria II and III. Furthermore, M. Kula's credibility
as a witness must be considered very low, since he claims for example that he saw how corpses of gassing victims were carried
away: "I saw then that they [the corpses] were greenish. The nurses told me that the corpses were cracked,
and the skin came off." As will be shown in chapter 7., victims of Zyklon B
gassings aren't greenish (they are pinkish-reddish), and there is no reason for the corpses to crack and for their skin
to come off. This is nothing but atrocity propaganda. But let us assume for a moment, the SS would have faced the problem of introducing
HCN into the morgues 1 of crematoria II and III after their roofs had been finished. I offer two options to solve the problem,
and every reader might pick the solution that seems more likely: - Pierce (2×4=) eight holes through the
reinforced concrete roofs - a laborious and expensive task, leading to massive, irreparable damage to the roofs' layer of
tar and upper cement layer; add (2×4=) eight brick or concrete chimneys of at least 1 m height to lead the holes through
the layer of soil on top of the roofs, and attempting to repair the damage done to the roof by the violent hole piercing
process - another laborious, material consuming, and expensive task; design and construct (2×4) eight wire mash columns
3 m high, consisting of three parts: a panic-proof, outer column made of massive steel, a middle wire mesh column (with no
purpose at all but to hinder the HCN from spreading out), and a removable inner wire mesh column, another laborious, material
as well as time consuming, and expensive task; finding a way to anchor these eight devices panic-proof in the concrete floor,
ceiling and pillars, another laborious and expensive task; all these works had to be planned, approved, tested, and material
had to be allotted, leaving a thick and long 'paper trail' of documents (which, by the way, doesn't exist); but finally,
all one would possess at the end would be a primitive device allowing for the simple introduction of Zyklon B by pouring
it into the inner column; one had to sit and wait for a long time until a lethal amount of HCN had evaporated from the Zyklon
B carrier and had spread into the morgue, or alternatively, one had to apply an excessive amount of Zyklon B to ensure high
evaporation rates for quick execution success, and remove and destroy the Zyklon B after the gassing, though only a fraction
of the HCN had been released by then.[273]
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But there was a second, much simpler option:
- Installing a simple basket - to hold Zyklon B - in the air intake shaft of morgue 1 right
after the easily accessible intake ventilator, which then would blow the HCN vapors right into the 'gas chamber', similar
to the DEGESCH circulation procedure; thus reducing the gassing time and the amount of Zyklon B required to a fraction compared
to any scenario where Zyklon B is simply kept closely together on heaps without any moving air.[274]
Also, one could have drastically increased the evaporation rate of the Zyklon
B in this basket even further, hence accelerating the execution procedure. All that would have been required was to alter
an idea the Topf engineers had in early March 1943. When facing cooling problems of the cremation furnaces' forced draught
blowers, the Topf engineers suggested to use the excess heat produced by these engines to pre-heat the morgue. The only
constructional change needed for this was to redirect this excess heat into the morgue's air intake duct.[275] Though the forced draught blowers overheated and were damaged shortly thereafter,[228] it would have been easy to construct a short air duct from the furnace chimney to the air intake duct of morgue 1
instead. In this way, warm air coming from the crematory ovens would have been redirected over the Zyklon B basket into
morgue 1, supplying this room with warm air enriched with HCN.
I assume the point I am making
is clear: there were all sorts of cheaper and less complicated solutions available than suggested by Michal Kula. His solution
is simply impracticable and is an insult to every engineer's and architect's intelligence-naturally bearing in mind the fact
that the ruins of crematorium II clearly prove that no such columns were ever installed anyway. 5.4.1.2.9. Conclusions Pressac's "criminal traces" have been refuted on structural engineering grounds. So, too, have
all the 'eyewitnesses', who have been discredited without exception. The alleged homicidal 'gas chambers' are therefore
refuted upon the grounds of building engineering. Or, in Robert Faurisson's words:
"No Holes, No 'Holocaust'"
In summary, the arguments relating to the
introduction columns may be listed as follows: Table 1: Arguments relating to the Zyklon B introduction columns
|
Allegation | Fact
| | Zyklon B introduction stacks are visible on morgue 1 ('gas
chamber') crematoria II and III on an air photo. | An
analysis of this air photo proves that the spots visible have no spatial height, have an irregular shape, an incorrect size
(much too long and wide), and irregular directions different from real shadows; these spots can therefore neither be shadows
of any objects, nor can they be the legendary Zyklon B introduction stacks. | |
The filling stacks are visible on a ground photo of crematorium II. |
These three objects are only visible on one photograph; on others they are missing. They
stand closely together, have different dimensions and irregular alignment. Introduction stacks would have the same size,
a regular alignment and evenly distributed over the roof. The objects do not accord with the holes actually found, either
in location or in number. | | For planned introduction
holes, cleanly cast and reinforced holes with concrete/brick stacks protruding over the layer of soil laying on this roof
would have to be expected. | The only two holes
deserving this name clearly show chisel marks; the concrete structure was destroyed at a later time; there are no smooth,
cast concrete edges and surfaces, no stack-like elevation to prevent the entry of rain water and soil into the hole. All
other cracks and openings are highly irregular, filled with reinforcements rods, and obviously caused by the collapsing
roof being pierced by pillars and bent over the longitudinal beam. | |
For holes chiseled in, the reinforcement rods would have to be removed, the edges polished off, and a protruding
stack built. Such holes would be severely damaged by an explosion. | In all cases the reinforcement rods still project into the holes; in one case, these were only cut through and
bent back. The edges of all holes and cracks were not plastered; the tar insulation is openly visible; there is no trace
of any stacks added. The 'best' of these holes is in an area unaffected by the explosion that blew up this morgue, proving
that this hole was chiseled in after the war. | | The
installation of introduction devices running from the ceiling to the floor requires panic-proof fixtures, like massive rawl-plugs
and hoop irons with dovetails | No trace of
such fixtures can be found anywhere, hence no such devices were ever installed. |
5.4.2. Crematoria IV and V | 
| | Fig. 56: North lateral view (above) and ground plan (below) of crematorium IV and/or V (mirror image) in Auschwitz II/Birkenau
camp.[276] 1: Alleged 'gas chambers'; 2: Alleged Zyklon B introduction hatches;
3: Heating ovens; 4: Coke room; 5: Doctor's office; 6: Morgue; 7: Ventilation chimneys; 8: Gullies; 9: Oven room; 10: Crematorium
ovens | "[...] the
least known of the instruments of extermination [...] a comparison of such testimonies reveals inconsistencies." "There
were plans for mechanical ventilation of the Zyklon B, but these were not put into effect. Evacuation of the gas was instead
achieved by convection, that is, by merely opening the doors."
In his new book, Pressac
leaves these arguments unchanged.[284] Since the mass extermination of the Jews was supposed to have been already fully underway-particularly,
in farmhouses I and II-when crematoria IV and V were being planned, it is, of course, absurd to believe that these installations
could have been incorrectly designed and built. Today, therefore, Pressac assumes a "criminal planning" of
the crematoria.[285] Proof of such criminality is alleged to have been supplied by various documents, mentioning the "installation
of gas-tight [sic] windows", "pouring concrete floor in gas chamber", and repeated mentions of gas-tight doors in various connections.[286] As already shown in the chapter on the disinfestation of personal effects, the
German word "Gaskammer" (gas chamber) was the designation commonly used at that time for the disinfestation
of personal effects. The combination of crematoria and disinfestation installations in one and the same building was very
common practice at that time.[287] Indications have since been found leading to the inference that it was initially planned to use the rooms
referred to in some documents as "gas chambers" for disinfestation purposes. One factor in favor of this
hypothesis, for example, is that the ovens for the heating of these rooms had to be heated from the hallway, and that the
lamps planned for installation in these rooms had be to explosion-proof, and installed in a recess.[288] In the case of crematoria IV and V, one must assume that the rooms in question
here were intended for disinfestation purposes, but never completed for this purpose, let alone used. In any case, there
is no evidence that ventilation systems absolutely necessary for the use of HCN were ever installed.[289] The reason for this may lie in the fact that starting in early 1943, the Germans were working on the
completion of a large hygienic complex with a large hot air disinfestation installation (the so-called 'Zentralsauna')
in the immediate vicinity of these crematoria, and were also anticipating the early use of microwave disinfestation installations
as promised by Berlin (see chapter 5.2.3.6.). W. Rademacher has remarked that
Pressac personally quotes a document by means of which "210 Gas door anchorings" were ordered in Auschwitz.
This document indicates that the term gas-tight ("gasdicht") does not necessarily constitute a reference
to execution of disinfestation chambers, since it has never been claimed that there was a need for roughly one hundred doors
for homicidal 'gas chambers' at Auschwitz.[290] It is entirely possible that all doors and windows were designated as 'gas tight' if they were equipped
with felt insulation and were, therefore, sealed off against air currents, a characteristic not at all common in windows
for inmate barracks in a concentration camp.[291] Pressac himself provides yet another item of proof that the term 'gas chamber'
has no criminal significance in Auschwitz documents. One document states: "1 key for gas chamber". Since
all 'gas tight' doors found at Auschwitz, as well as all surviving photographs of such doors, show that these doors had no
locks, this document must refer to a door for another type of room, such as a room for the storage of Zyklon B, which truly
required storage under lock and key.[292] The walls of crematoria IV and V, which were built entirely above ground, were
of simple brick masonry. After they were blown up, both buildings were demolished to their foundation walls and concrete
foundations. The foundation wall of crematorium V, which is approximately 1 m high, is supposed to have been rebuilt.[293] The foundation wall of crematorium IV, which is approximately 50 cm high, is also supposed to have been
rebuilt out of other rubble at a later time.[56] Even these ruins can still speak to us, even if, in this case, only the concrete
foundations are authentic, since everything else is probably not authentic. Another technical precondition for the use of
the rooms alleged to have been homicidal 'gas chambers' would be that it would have to have been rendered impossible for
the victims on the inside to get anywhere near the introduction hatches, since otherwise they could have simply pushed the
SS man off the ladder while he was throwing the Zyklon B into the chamber; they could then have attempted to escape. A U-shaped,
solid steel grid construction anchored in the floor and in the masonry of the walls with steel hoop anchors spread out into
dovetails would have been necessary to keep the victims on the inside at arm's length from the hatches. The concrete floors
of these rooms surviving today, however, make it clear that nothing of the sort was ever anchored in the floor. 5.4.3. Farmhouses 1 and 2 According to eyewitness accounts, there are supposed to have been two farmhouses
(sometimes referred to as bunkers 1 and 2), located west-north west of the Birkenau camp, which were converted into homicidal
'gas chambers'. Their location and construction are not, however, exactly described. Pressac mentions contradictory eyewitness
reports in this regard.[294] Relating to the testimony of P. Broad, for example, he writes.: "[...] not exploitable [...],
since it has been rewritten by and for the Poles [...]", and: "It is impossible to make a synthesis
of all these accounts". Höß's report relating to the characteristics and location of these buildings
is only superficial.[295] According to remarks in the judgment to the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial,[296] the homicidal mass gassings are supposed to have taken place in a manner similar to those in the chambers
of crematoria IV and V, described above. This procedure is clarified by the testimony of Richard Böck,[297] and, to a certain extent, by Milton Buki,[298] Rudolf Höß, Szlama Dragon, Maurice Benroubi, Moshe Maurice Garbarz, Johann Paul Kremer (at
the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial), and André Lettich.[299] Pressac has published a photograph of what are alleged to be the remains of the
foundation walls of farmhouse 2.[300] According to analyses of Allied air photographs, there was only temporarily a building in the vicinity
of the location ascribed to farmhouse 2; there is no trace of farmhouse 1.[252],[301] The extermination of the Hungarian Jews is supposed to have been underway when the air photos were
taken, with many thousands of victims per day and strongly smoking cremations in large open ditches precisely in the area
analyzed.[302] There is no trace of large cremation ditches, large fires giving off copious smoke, or large stockpiles
of fuel. Only on air photos made during the winter of 1944/1945, a few mass graves can be seen west of crematorium III-probably
for the victims of the chaotic circumstances in the camp after the Germans started to shut down and dismantle the equipment
in fall of 1944 during their withdrawal.[303] Recently discovered documents prove that one of these farmhouses actually existed-and
was used for disinfestation. The SS, in particular, was prohibited from carrying on the disinfestation of personal effects
with Zyklon B inside the camp whenever there was a safety risk. The conversion of a farmhouse, which was located outside
the camp, and whose utilization as provisional HCN disinfestation installations would not have involved any safety risk
for the camp itself, could have resulted from this difficult situation. Several documents are now available which refer to
an "existing building" outside of construction section B III, in which a bath installation and
sauna were to be installed.[304] In late 2001, several European newspapers reported that an Italian scholar had
discovered the 'bunker 1' in Birkenau.[305] As C. Mattogno has shown, however, this is nothing but a hoax. The farmhouse allegedly identified as
the old bunker is at a totally different location than the alleged bunker 1 supposedly was, and it was never anything else
but a farmhouse.[306] 5.4.4. The Drainage System in Birkenau 5.4.4.1. Background: Eyewitness Accounts J.-C. Pressac quotes various eyewitnesses claiming that due to the restricted
capacity of the Auschwitz crematoria, a large portion of the bodies of the victims of homicidal mass gassing were cremated
in open-air pits. These pits were allegedly located north of crematorium V as well as close to the farmhouses (bunkers) 1
and 2. The size of these pits is described as roughly 20-60 m long, 3-7 m wide, and 1.5 to 3 m deep.[307] 5.4.4.2. The Ground Water Table in Birkenau In his expert report, Fredrick Leuchter pointed out that due to the high
ground water table he found in Birkenau in 1988, it would have been impossible to dig deep pits and to light and maintain
a fire in them.[26] The reason for the high ground water table is that the Birkenau camp lies in the immediate vicinity
of the confluence of the Sola river into the Vistula river. A few hundred meters away from the camp one finds today swampy
meadows. Leuchter, however, did not investigate the important question of whether
the ground water table was similarly high in 1942-1944, when the events attested to by the witnesses took place. It has
been pointed out that the Birkenau camp had a sophisticated grid work of drainage canals which lowered the ground water table.[308] This drainage system is still functioning fairly well to this day. Whereas the ground water table around
the camp is basically right at the surface, it is today lowered to 60 to 70 cm under the surface within the camp, obvious,
for example, from Figure 57. The photo was taken on August 15, 1991, during a long period of drought. It shows a construction
trench in front of the Zentralsauna located in the western part of the camp. But how effective was this drainage system in 1942-1944, and most importantly, how effective was it in the area
north of crematorium V and in the vicinity of the alleged farmhouses, which were located outside of the
camp's drainage system?
 | | Fig. 57: Then and today-the unchanged ground water state in the Birkenau camp, here in midsummer 1991, in a construction trench
in front of the Zentralsauna, approximately 70 cm. Incinerations of corpses in pits many meters deep, in accordance
with witness testimony, were not possible. | There are two pieces of circumstantial evidence indicating that the water
table was not much different then than it is today. The first evidence is the well known small pond in the vicinity of crematorium
IV, which is supposed to have existed the same way during the war. If the drainage system had lowered the water table by
several meters, the pond next to crematorium IV, contrary to many witness statements, would have dried up. This proves the
unchanged water table from then until now. The second evidence is the subterranean location of the morgues of crematoriums
II and III, as well as some of the building sections of the Zentralsauna. They all were constructed by insulating
the buildings' basements from intruding water with a waterproof layer of tar, which indicates that there was a need to protect
against such water in the first place. Also, since the drainage ditches in the camp are only 1 to 1.5 meters deep, they
could not have lowered the water table to less than one meter. This maximum value, though, can only be achieved in the immediate
vicinity of the ditches. In complementary studies, Michael Gärtner and Werner
Rademacher on the one hand[182] and Carlo Mattogno on the other hand[309] have shown, with a vast amount of contemporary German documents dealing with the camp authorities'
problems caused by the high water table, that between the end of 1941 and middle of 1944, the water table in Birkenau in
general and outside the camp perimeter in particular was very high, coming close or even reaching the surface and turning
the entire area into a swampy region. All three authors showed that construction on buildings with basements was possible
only by permanently pumping off ground water, and Mattogno even found documents expressively forbidding the
digging of pits for outhouse latrines, because this would contaminate the drinking water of the entire Auschwitz region.
Mass incinerations of corpses in deep pits, of course, would have contaminated the drinking water as well, hence would never
have been permitted. 5.4.4.3. Open-Air Incineration in Pits In general, it is of course possible to burn corpses in open-air pits,
though it certainly takes more time and fuel than any cremation in a crematorium, and it also leaves many more traces due
to incomplete combustion. In 1999, Dr. Myroslaw Dragan conducted an experimental incineration of an 80 lb. deer in a pit
roughly 1 m deep, 70 cm wide, and 1.2 m long. This incineration with a relatively small amount of wood lasted some 4-5 hours
and was almost completely successful.[310] Dr. Dragan found out that for open-air incinerations, small, narrow holes are advantageous over large,
wide holes or, even worse, cremations on ground level, since the soil walls of a pit act like the walls of a crematorium
oven, storing and reflecting a great deal of the heat produced by the fire-provided that the soil has a considerable amount
of clay stabilizing the wall of the pit, and, of course, that no ground water flows into the pit and extinguishes the fire. The situation in Birkenau, however, was drastically different from that. Not only
did the witnesses claim that those pits were very wide, but as Gärtner, Rademacher, and Carlo Mattogno have shown, the
extremely high ground water table in the areas around the alleged location of those cremation pits was so high that it would
have been impossible to dig such deep pits, arrange hundreds of corpses and fuel in them, and maintain a fire for many hours
without these pits quickly filling with water. These findings show clearly that the attested burning of corpses in pits many
meters deep was impossible under such conditions, since these pits would have filled up with ground water rather quickly.  | | Fig. 58: White
circles: possible sites of old mass graves of typhus victims in Auschwitz. | It is known that in Birkenau the corpses which had accumulated during the
typhus epidemic of the summer of 1942 were first buried in mass graves. Due to the danger of the contamination of the ground
water, however, they had to be exhumed in the spring of 1943. Since the new cremation facilities still were not capable of
functioning at that time, it is possible that at least a portion of the corpses were burned on funeral pyres. For this purpose,
as a rule, one removes the turf and the upper layer of topsoil in order to preserve them from damage and to absorb the ashes
of the wood and the corpses. But holes many meters deep are not dug. Indeed,
one can unearth in excavations west of the Birkenau camp ashes and bone splinters (whether from humans or cattle remains
open) to the depth of several decimeters, intensively mixed with all kinds of refuse (glass and porcelain shards, slag, bits
of iron, etc.). Apparently this place served as a rubbish heap for the camp under German administration and/or after the
war under Polish administration.
In his detailed study of aerial photos of
the Birkenau camp made by the allied surveillance planes, J.C. Ball has revealed that at no point in time in the summer
and autumn of 1944 in the camp or in its environs were large incineration pits-and fuel stockpiles necessary for that-to
be seen, let alone flames and smoke, as they are repeatedly attested to.[311] He did, however, locate the places were mass graves had existed (see Fig. 58).[303] 5.5. Construction Conclusions Even the most primitive temporary disinfestation installations-whether in the initial period of the life of Auschwitz
camp or elsewhere-were always equipped with a ventilation and heating system, the last being, of course, useful but not absolutely
necessary. But no room possessing no ventilation system need even be seriously considered as a room for fumigation with
poisonous gases, whether for lice or human beings. Homicidal 'gas chambers' must furthermore be equipped, apart from the
entry doors, with an opening for the introduction of the poison gas material from the outside; this is not absolutely necessary
for disinfestation installations, but is nevertheless useful. It must be concluded, therefore, that no installation possessing
neither a poison gas introduction device from the outside, nor any possibility of ventilation, can be taken seriously as
a homicidal 'gas chamber'. If one considers the rooms discussed above in a summary manner, the results are shown in Table
2. Not taken into consideration in the above, among other things, is the fact
that hypothetical homicidal 'gas chambers' would have to be escape-proof, that their equipment had to be panic-proof, that
their ventilation would have to be efficient enough for homicidal purposes, which, in view of the above, was not the case,
and finally that the evacuation of the poison gas into the environment after the execution required special measures in
order to avoid that people close to the 'gas chambers'-both inside the building as well as in its vicinity-get hurt or even
killed. | Table 2: Equipment and suitability of actual or alleged 'gas chambers'
| | Equipment/
Suitability Building | Poison gas introduction | Heating
| Ventilation | Suitability
as disinfestation chamber | Suitability as execution chamber |
| Disinfestation chambers | ¡ | l |
l
| yes | if
with means of
introduction | | Crematorium I | × | ×
| ¡
| hardly/perhaps | no
| | Crematoria II and III | ×
| × |
l
| perhaps | no
| | Crematoria IV and V | l | l
| × |
hardly | hardly |
| Farmhouses I and II | ¡ | × / ¡ |
× / ¡
| hardly/perhaps |
no | | l = present or possible; ¡ =
possibly present; × = not present | Although the literature is generally unanimous as to the equipment of the
rooms in crematoria IV and V, the information is, to a certain extent, speculative, due to the lack of documents and material
evidence. The same is true for the information relating to the farmhouses, on which there are practically no documents available. Fortunately, it is precisely the one 'gas chamber' in which the largest number of
people was allegedly killed by poison gas during the Third Reich which has remained almost entirely intact: morgue 1 of
crematorium II. Contrary to all eyewitness testimony, this cellar, during the period of its operation, possessed no Zyklon
B introduction holes in the roof. It is only logical and consequent to transfer these conclusions also to the mirror-symmetrically
built, but otherwise identical crematorium III, even though we do not possess any physical evidence for this due to the almost
complete destruction of the roof of its morgue 1. If this is so, those rooms cannot have been used as locations for mass
homicide using poison gas, as alleged by witnesses. When one considers the technical
circumstances prevailing in and around Auschwitz, in the broadest sense, one becomes aware of the absurdity of the entire
claim of homicidal mass gassings. The camp management was fully aware of the methods and technical preconditions for Zyklon
B disinfestation, and was even informed as to the latest developments in the related technology.[143] But instead of using these methods, it allegedly had recourse, for mass gassing purposes, to extremely
crude methods, particularly where bunkers I and II, and, later, crematoria IV and V, were concerned: Allegedly, hundreds or thousands of people were killed with highly poisonous gas in rooms, - which
had walls and ceilings made of a material absorbing huge amounts of the poison gas and letting it penetrate;
- which did not have escape-proof doors and windows;
- which did not have panic-proof equipment;
- which did not have technically gas tight doors and shutters;
- which had no provision
to quickly release and distribute the poison gas;
- which had no effective device to ventilate
or otherwise render ineffective the poison gas after the end of the execution.
At the same time, the most modern
disinfestation installations were being built all over German-occupied Europe, - which
had walls and ceilings covered with gastight coatings;
- which were equipped with escape-proof
doors and had no windows;
- which had technically gas tight doors;
- which had devices to quickly release and distribute the poison gas;
- which had effective
devices to ventilate or otherwise render ineffective the poison gas after the end of the gassing procedure.
There
were never any perceptible delivery problems for these installations. In the Auschwitz main camp, the latest technology
for disinfestation using HCN was even incorporated (cf. chapter 5.2.3.5.), while the Zentralsauna at Birkenau
was even equipped with the most modern hot air disinfestation technology! And to top it all: the Germans even invented the
microwave technology, which is so well-known today, to kill lice! They erected these installations, which were
still very expensive at that time, in Auschwitz camp, to save inmate lives! And we are supposed to believe
that the Germans were incapable of installing adequate technical equipment for Zyklon B gassings in at least one of their
alleged homicidal 'gas chambers'! Can anything be more insulting to the human mind? So much for the claim that homicidal 'gas chambers' existed at Auschwitz. We have also proven that the largest
room, the one allegedly most-often used as a homicidal 'gas chamber', could not have been used for that purpose as stated
by alleged eyewitnesses. Together with the untruthful witnesses to a homicidal 'gas chamber' in the Main Camp (see chapter
5.3.), and in view of the fact that there is no documentary indication of a criminal use of these rooms, we must conclude
that there is no credible proof, and no "criminal trace", in support of the claimed existence of homicidal
'gas chambers' in Auschwitz.
Considering these facts, it can not really
come as a surprise that finally even the mainstream historians and media are taking notice of them: In May 2002, Fritjof
Meyer, a senior editor at Germany's largest, left-wing weekly magazine Der Spiegel, stated in an article that
documents and witness statements regarding the alleged gas chambers in the crematoria II and III of Birkenau "rather
indicate that attempts were made in March and April of 1943 to use the mortuary cellars for mass murder in the early summer
of 1943. Apparently, the tests were not successful [...] The actually committed genocide probably took
place mainly in the two converted farmhouses outside of the camp."[312] In other words: there is a tendency to abandon those locations which Prof. Dr. R. van Pelt called "the absolute
center" in the "geography of atrocities" (see page 91), or even the Birkenau crematoria altogether,
since, according to Meyer the genocide is now supposed to have taken place mainly in those ominous farmhouses or bunkers
of which we possess hardly any documentary evidence. Following Meyer, the final destruction
of the corpses of the alleged victims of mass murder is now supposed to have happened almost exclusively by means of open-air
incinerations in deep pits. However, all claims made regarding the alleged open-air incineration of corpses in deep pits
are obviously untrue because no traces of such incinerations can be found on contemporary air-photos, and because the high
water table in Birkenau would have prevented the maintenance of fires in deep pits. Those readers who take no interest in the chemical problems relating to the alleged 'gas chambers' in Auschwitz
may skip the following chapter 6. Prior to a solution to the problem of how the poisonous preparation was introduced into
the presumed 'gas chambers', further speculation as to the manner and method of the murders, and their possible chemical
traces, remains a mere academic exercise, with no basis in reality. Our study of Auschwitz could, therefore, conclude here. However, because the chemical questions involved attracted so much attention, caused
the hottest controversies, and stirred the most intensive debates, detailed remarks are nevertheless in order, below, about
the chemical questions, raised by Faurisson and Leuchter, relating to the formation of residues (Iron Blue) caused by the
reactivity of hydrogen cyanide.
Notes | [88] | "David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper, Director, Auschwitz State Museum" , VHS Video, distributed
by CODOH, P.O. Box 439016, San Diego, CA 92143, USA (online: codoh.com/cole.ra (includes audio)); for the abridged text-only version, see: David Cole, "A Jewish Revisionist's Visit to Auschwitz", JHR 13(2)
(1993), pp. 11-13 (online: codoh.com/gcgv/gcgvcole.html (excerpt)) | | [89] | Calendar of events in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau 1939-1945
, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek., 1989 | | [90] | J.-C. Pressac, Les crématoires d'Auschwitz. La machinerie du meurtre de masse, CNSR, Paris
1993; German: Die Krematorien von Auschwitz. Die Technik des Massenmordes, Piper, Munich 1994; if not mentioned
otherwise, back references to this footnote refer to the French original. | | [91] | For a criticism of Pressac's first book, see R. Faurisson, JHR, 11(1) (1991), pp. 25ff.; ibid.,
11(2) (1991), pp. 133ff. (online French.: www.vho.org/F/j/RHR/3/Faurisson65-154.html); F. A. Leuchter, The Fourth Leuchter Report, Samisdat Publishers Ltd., Toronto 1991 (online: www.zundelsite.org/english/leuchter/report4/leuchter4.toc.html); for critique of Pressac's second book see: Herbert Verbeke (ed.), op. cit. (note 43); for a criticism
of the principles underlying Pressac's methodology, see G. Rudolf, "Gutachten über die Frage der Wissenschaftlichkeit
der Bücher Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers und Les Crématoires
d'Auschwitz, la Machinerie du meurtre de masse von Jean-Claude Pressac", in: W. Schlesiger, Der
Fall Rudolf, Cromwell, London 1994 (Engl. online: www.vho.org/GB/Books/trc/index.html#expert-report); Pressac has since been the target of massive, quite unscientific, attacks from Jewish quarters as well; see also Rivarol,
March 22, 1996, p. 8 (online: www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/archFaur/1995-2000/RF960322.html); ibid., April 12, 1996, p. 4; see also Pierre Guillaume's criticism, De la misère intellectuelle
en milieu universitaire, B.p. 9805, 75224 Paris cedex 05, 1995 (online: www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/archVT/vt97/vt9309xx1.html). | | [92] | Robert van Pelt, Deborah Dwork, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present, Yale University Press, New Haven and
London 1996; see also Carlo Mattogno's criticism "Architektonische Stümpereien zweier Plagiatoren", VffG,
4(1) (2000), pp. 25-33 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/2000/1/Mattogno25-33.html; Engl.: "Auschwitz 1270 to the Present" (online: http://www.codoh.com/granata/irving-eng.html). | | [93] | See, in this regard, Norman G. Finkelstein's condemnation in Norman G. Finkelstein, Ruth Bettina Birn, A
Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth, Metropolitan Books, New York 1998; see also Richard Widmann's
criticism, "Holocaust-Literatur versus Holocaust-Wissenschaft", VffG 2(4) (1998), pp.
311ff. (online: www.vho.org/VffG/1998/4/Buecher4.html). | | [94] | Chranenija Istoriko-Tsentr dokumental'nich Kollektsii (hereafter TCIDK
); see also the documents in the Gosudarstwenny Archiv Rossiskoy Federatsii. | | [95] | Cf. Manfred Köhler, "Pressac und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit", in: Herbert Verbeke, op.
cit. (note. 43), pp. 19-30 (online: www.vho.org/D/anf/Koehler.html); Engl.: "Pressac and the German Public", online: www.vho.org/GB/Books/anf/Koehler.html | | [96] | In the Third Reich, hair cut to a certain length is alleged to have been collected for industrial purposes, after
previous delousing, see note 75. | | [97] | The following remarks are largely based on H.J. Nowak's study, "Shortwave Delousing Facilities in Auschwitz",
in: E. Gauss (ed.), op. cit. (note 43), pp. 312-324 (online: www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndNowak.html). | | [98] | Epidemic Typhus, which is also called European, Classic, or Louse-Borne Typhus, or Jail Fever, is a louse-borne
disease caused by bacteria belonging to the Rickettsia group. Whereas Typhus is the term used in English to refer to all
diseases caused by various Rickettsia bacteria, the German term is "Fleckfieber", which, in English, is used only
for one type of typhus, the so-called Rocky Montain Spotted Fever that is transferred by ticks; see http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section13/chapter159/159a.htm | | [99] | O. von Schjerning, Handbook of medical experiences in the World
War 1914/1918 , volume VII hygiene, JA Barth Verlag, Leipzig 1922, in Particular, pp. 266ff:
" Rehabilitation institutions at the frontier ." |
| [100] | The Brockhaus Encyclopedia
Refers to the article by A. Schittenhelm, " typhus "
in Handbook of Internal Medicine , 2 nd
ed. 1925. | | [101] | R. Wohlrab, " typhus fighting in the General Government
", Munich Medizinische Wochenschrift , 89 (22) (1942),
pp. 483-488. | | [102] | W. Hagen, " war, famine and pestilence in Warsaw 1939-1943
", health and disinfection , 65 (8) (1973), pp. 115-127; ibid.
, 65 (9) (1973), pp. 129-143. | | [103] | Friedrich Konrich, " About the rehabilitation institutions of the
German POW camp ," Health Engineering
, July 19, 1941, pp. 399-404. | | [104] | Cf. Wilhelm Stromberger, " What was the 'special treatment'
in Auschwitz? ", Germany, past and present
, 44 (2) (1996), pp. 24f. (online: www.vho.org/D/DGG/Strom44_2.html). | | [105] | See also, in this regard, Wolfgang Lambrecht, Otto Karl, Das Handelsprodukt Zyklon B, soon to be published
on the internet at www.vho.org/D/Beitraege/Zyklon.html. | | [106] | German Reichsbahn railway traffic regulations (EVO, German Reich railway regulations), annex C to Section
54 EVO, rules on the only partially accepted for carriage objects from October 1, 1938
(Regulations on Objects Permissible for Restricted Transport Only, dated 1 October 1938) ,
p. 50:
"The hydrocyanic acid must be used to recognized by the Chemical-Technical
Institute on the type and amount of additive which may be a warning agent at the same time, be made resistant." (The
hydrogen cyanide must be stablized by at additive, Which may therefore be of irritant, in the manner and quantity Recognized
by the Chemical-Technical Reich Foundation.) | | [107] | L. Gaßner, " The law of the application of highly toxic gaseous
substances for pest control in Germany" (The legal provisions Relating to the use
of highly poisonous gaseous materials for pest control in Germany) in Karl Greimer, manual
of practical disinfector , Th. Steinkopf, Dresden 1937, pp. 185f. The
factthat Auschwitz concentration camp received Zyklon B without at irritant is THEREFORE not so unusual as sometimes Represented
in the literature, ie , as a 'criminal trace'. The
well-known exceptional regulations for the Waffen SS are no exception; They Merely referred by to the applicable
regulations and Reichs implementation provisions regulating the use of Zyklon B; see German Empire, " the
use of highly toxic substances for pest control by the Waffen-SS ", round-decree of the
Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture on April 3, 1941, quoted acc. to Journal
of Zoology hygiene and pest control , 33 (1941), p. 126th |
| [108] | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpung (German Society for Pest Control),
a subsidiary of the I.G. Farbenindustrie AG. | | [109] | On the history of the firm, mixed with Holocaust story telling, see Jürgen Kalthoff, Martin Werber, Die
Händler des Zyklon B, VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1998; much more factual and technically correct is the work by Wolfgang
Lambrecht, Otto Karl, op. cit. (note 105). | | [110] | O. Hecht, " Blausäuredurchgasungen for pest control
", the natural sciences , 16 (2) (1928), pp. 17-23. |
| [111] | G. Peters, W. Ganter, " On the question of killing the grain beetle
with cyanide ," Journal of Applied Entomology
, 21 (4) (1935), pp. 547-559. | | [112] | G. Peters, " A modern railway disinfestation"
, indicator of pest customer , 14 (8) (1938) pp. 98f
.; cf. FP Berg, op. cit. (note. 131). |
| [113] | Gerhard Peters, cyanide for pest control
, Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1933rd | | [114] | Walter Dötzer, " sterilization, disinfection and disinfestation
", in J. Mrugowsky (ed.), Work instructions for clinic and laboratory of the Hygiene
Institute of the Waffen SS , 2nd ed., Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1,943th |
| [115] | FE Hague, storage hygiene, Paperback of the military doctor
, vol. VI, F. Lehmann Verlag, Munich 1943rd | | [116] | F. Puntigam, " The transit camp of labor administration as health
care institutions ," Health Engineering
, 67 (2) (1944), pp. 47-56. | | [117] | For a more recent treatment of the topic, see: F.P. Berg, op. cit. (note. 131). |
| [118] | G. Peters, The highly effective gases and vapors in pest control
, F. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1942nd | | [119] | DEGESCH, Acht Vorträge aus dem Arbeitsgebiet der DEGESCH, 1942, p. 47; Document NI-9098 from
the Nuremberg Trials, table of properties of the gaseous insecticide/pest control product used by DEGESCH. |
| [120] | H. Kruse, a guide for training in disinfection and pest control
, pattern-Schmidt, Goettingen 1948th | | [121] | H. Kliewe, guide the disinfection and disinfestation
, F. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1951st | | [122] | F. Puntigam, H. Breymesser, E. Bernfus, hydrogen cyanide gas chambers
typhus defense , special publication of the kingdom worksheet, Berlin 1943rd |
| [123] | G. Peters, " safe use of the highly toxic hydrogen cyanide in delousing
," Occupational Safety , 5 (III) (1942), pp. 167f. |
| [124] | F. Puntigam, " space solutions of delousing
" Health Engineering , 67 (6) (1944), pp. 139-180. |
| [125] | E. Wüstinger, " Increased use of cyanide delousing
" Health Engineering , 67 (7) (1944), p. 179th |
| [126] | A more recent summary of this topic was prepared by Friedrich P. Berg, "The German Delousing Chambers", JHR,
7(1) (1986), pp. 73-94 (online: codoh.com/gcgv/gcdelouse.html); cf. also Berg, op. cit. (note 131). | | [127] | Entseuchungs- and Entwesungsvorschrift for the Wehrmacht , H. Dv.
194, M. Dv. No. 277, L. Dv. 416 Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1939th |
| [128] | Guidelines for the use of hydrogen cyanide ( Zyklon)
for vermin ( disinfestation)
, Health Institution of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Prague undated; Document NI-9912 (1) at the
International Military Tribunal, reproduced by Herbert Verbeke (ed.), Op. Cit. (note
43), pp. 94-99. | | [129] | Technical Rules for Hazardous Substances , Rule 512, fumigations,
BArbBl. no. 10/1989, p. 72: Robert Kuhn, Karl Birett, leaflets
Hazardous Substances , ecomed, Landsberg 1990th | | [130] | Ludwig Gaßner, " traffic hygiene and pest control
," Health Engineering , 66 (15) (1943), pp 174ff .;
cf. FP Berg, op. cit. (note 131). |
| [131] | Der praktische Desinfektor, Heft 2, Verlag Erich Deleiter, Berlin 1941, inside cover; cf. F.P. Berg, "Typhus
and the Jews", JHR, 8(4) (1988), pp. 433-481 (online: www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/8/4/Berg433-481.html). | | [132] | TCIDK 502-1-26-117. | | [133] | Heinz Bobrach et al., Inventar archivalischer Quellen des NS-Staates, K. G. Saur, Munich
1995, volumes 3/1, 1991. So far, we are aware of approximately 110,000 laboratory examinations. Many probative and highly
informative facsimiles are to be found in Hefte von Auschwitz, nos. 1 through 19, special editions, Auschwitz
State Museum Publishers, Auschwitz Museum, since 1959. | | [134] | TCIDK 502-1-332-46 / 46a. | | [135] | TCIDK 502-1-332-9 / 10. | | [136] | According to Pressac, in operation since 1941/42, op. cit. (note 67), p. 25. |
| [137] | Ibid. P. 550. | | [138] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 90), p. 157 | | [139] | TCIDK 502-1-333-145 | | [140] | TCIDK 502-1-336-94 | | [141] | TCIDK 502-1-332-37 | | [142] | Gerhard Peters and W. Rasch, " The cyanide as delousing in fumigation
chambers ," The practical disinfector
, September 1941, pp. 93-96. | | [143] | Gerhard Peters, Emit Wüstinger, " delousing with Zyklon prussic
acid in circulation fumigation chambers. Property-delousing in cyanide chambers ",
Journal of Zoology hygiene and pest control , issue 10/11 (1940),
special printing. TCIDK 502-1-332-86 / 90; it
arrived at the Auschwitz construction office on July 3, the 1,941th | | [144] | TCIDK 502-1-332-117 / 119 | | [145] | TCIDK 502-1-332-219 | | [146] | TCIDK 502-1-233-33 / 38 | | [147] | TCIDK 502-1-322-219 | | [148] | TCIDK 502-1-322-31 | | [149] | Taken from a letter of March 23, 1944 to the Zentralbauleitung (Central Construction Office) in Auschwitz, TCIDK 502-1-332-175. |
| [150] | TCIDK 502-1-332-28 | | [151] | TCIDK 502-1-332-212 | | [152] | TCIDK 502-1-149-135 | | [153] | See also, in this regard, H.-J. Nowak, op. cit. (note 97); H. Lamker, "Die Kurzwellen-Entlausungsanlagen
in Auschwitz, Teil 2", VffG 2(4) (1998), pp. 261-272 (online: .../1998/4/Lamker4.html); an English
summary appeared by Mark Weber, "High Frequency Delousing Facilities at Auschwitz", JHR,
18(3) (1999), p. 4. (www.ihr.org/JHR/v18/v18n3p-4_Weber.html) | | [154] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 55-58, Plans of Buildings 5a/b, pp. 59f. exterior photos.
Building alteration plan no. 2540 for conversion to hot air delousing installation, dated July 5, 1943. |
| [155] | Ibid. P. 53. | | [156] | The gross mass given on the label of a Zyklon B can always refered to the net HCN content of the can, i.e., excluding
the mass of the carrier material. That means for instance that a 1 kg Zyklon B can consisted of 1 kg HCN plus some
2 kg of carrier material, i.e., a 1 kg can had a total mass of some 3 kg. | | [157] | Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, British Military Tribunal, Case against B. Tesch et al.,
here, the sworn statement of A. Zaun, Hamburg Oct. 24, 1945, Document No. NI-11 396; quoted according to U. Walendy, Auschwitz
im IG-Farben-Prozeß, Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, Vlotho 1981, p. 62. |
| [158] | See also the Höß order relating to the avoidance of accidental poisoning during the disinfestation of
barracks, reproduced by J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 201. For each barracks with a volume of
approximately 40m×12m×3.5m > 1,500 m3, this means a requirement of 15 kg Zyklon B; the 100 barracks
in Birkenau camp alone would require 1.5 tons! | | [159] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 123. | | [160] | Ibid. Pp. 126-128. | | [161] | Ibid. P. 129. | | [162] | Ibid. Pp. 151/153. | | [163] | Ibid. Pp. 131f. | | [164] | D.D. Desjardin, "My Visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 30-31, 1996", Interview mit F. Piper, online:
codoh.com/newrevoices/nddd/ndddausch.html. | | [165] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 149; photograph of the roof of crematorium I immediately
after the liberation. | | [166] | Ibid. P. 156. | | [167] | " Production required for the Beheitzungsöfen, and for the extraction
and ventilation wall openings and hoses ", letter from the Auschwitz Air Raid Warden,
Aug. 26, 1944, TCIDK 502-1-401. |
| [168] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 159. | | [169] | Ibid., p. 133; see also the confirmation of changes in the partial recreation of the installation in the
letter from the Auschwitz State Museum to Joel P. Hayward, ref. I-8523/26/2120/ 91, dated May 7, 1991; B. Bailer-Galanda, Informationen
der Gesellschaft für politische Aufklärung, Innsbruck, June 1991, no. 29, p. 1, relating to Leuchter's statement
relating to crematorium I: "Er verwechselt museale Rekonstruktionen der Gaskammern, die dem Betrachter einen
Eindruck der damaligen Geschehnisse vermitteln sollen, mit real funktionierenden Gaskammern."(He confuses a museum
reconstruction of the gas chambers, intended to provide the observer with the impression of the events at that time, with
authentically functioning gas chambers.); Letter from Dr. Scheel, Bonn, German Foreign Office, Jan. 8, 1979, ref. 214-E-Stuparek:
"Auch mir ist bekannt, daß es im Lager Auschwitz keine Gaskammern gegeben hat. Die Gaskammern befanden sich
im ca. 3 km davon entfernten KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau." (I know as well that there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz
camp. The gas chambers were located in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, located approximately 3 km away.) | | [170] | " Auschwitz: memory trouble ",
The Express , 19.-25. January 1995; voir
aussi, in this regard, Robert Faurisson's remarks: "In Auschwitz, slowly, the truth
takes its course " (The truth about Auschwitz is Slowing reclaiming rights ict), Feb.
4, 1995 (online: www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/archFaur/1995-2000/RF950204.html). | | [171] | In the original: " Everything is false:
[...]" | | [172] | See Serge Thion (ed.), op. cit. (note 33), pp. 316f.; R. Faurisson, "The Gas Chambers...", op.
cit. (note 35), p. 335. | | [173] | Op. cit. (note 92), pp. 363f. | | [174] | See, in this regard, the interview with D. Cole, op. cit. (note 88). | | [175] | Steel reinforcement rods in concrete are only practicable when the iron is deeply embedded in the concrete and
therefore protected for decades against corrosion by the very durable alkaline environment of the concrete, since concrete
is only slowly carbonated by the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the environment, resulting in a neutralization of its
pH value. The reinforcement rods in the ceiling of the morgue in question lie directly on the surface, where the pH value
would fall very quickly (i.e., would become less alkaline), particularly when rain water containing CO2 penetrated
the concrete; see the crack in Fig. 25 which would quickly allow the entry of rain water. | | [176] | The present writer has before him a sketch of the ground plan of the crematorium, built in 1939, in the Sachsenhausen
concentration camp, which is similar in design and dimensions with crematoria II and III at Auschwitz, yet no mass murders
are alleged to have occurred at Sachsenhausen. Reference should also be made to the construction design of modern crematoria:
H.-K. Boehlke, Friedhofsbauten, Callwey Verlag, Munich 1974, in particular, the crematorium diagram on p. 117,
including a doctor's office; E. Neufert, Bauentwurfslehre, Ullstein Fachverlag, Frankfurt 1962, pp. 423f. |
| [177] | Proceedings against master builders W. Dejaco and F. Ertl (note 84). | | [178] | Schreiber was the Supervising Engineer at the Kattowitz agency of the Huta corporation, which built the crematoria
at Birkenau. See also Werner Rademacher, "In memoriam Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Walter Schreiber", VffG 4(1)
(2000), pp. 104f. (online: www.vho.org/VffG/2000/1/Rademacher104f.html). He died in 1999. | | [179] | Van Pelt's testimony in Errol Morris' documentary movie Mr Death, op. cit. (note
9), time given in [min:sec:frame]. | | [180] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 319-329. Plans for crematoria II and III. |
| [181] | Ibid., p. 183, on the non-criminal planning of crematoria II and III, see, in particular, p. 264. |
| [182] | See also Michael Gärtner, Werner Rademacher, "Grundwasser im Gelände des KGL Birkenau (Auschwitz)", VffG 2(1)
(1998), pp. 2-12 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/1998/1/GaeRad1.html); Engl.: "Ground Water in the Area of the POW camp Birkenau", The Revisionist, 1(1) (2003),
pp. 3-12 (www.vho.org/tr/2003/1/GaertnerRademacher3-12.html). | | [183] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 187, costs and survey of construction design of crematoria
II and III. | | [184] | Judgment of Judge Gray, D. Irving vs. D.E. Lipstadt, op. cit. (note 66), §7.61, 13.76, 13.84. |
| [185] | On Gray, see preceding footnote; J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 213, 218. |
| [186] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 183f., 302f.; with regards to the original plans by Walter
Dejaco, see J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 90), Document 9. | | [187] | The following list was taken from Carlo Mattogno's "Architektonische Stümpereien...", op.
cit. (note 92), p. 29. | | [188] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 305. | | [189] | Ibid. P. 307. | | [190] | Ibid. P. 327. | | [191] | Ibid. P. 328. | | [192] | The Trial of Höß, volume 11a, p. 88. | | [193] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 433ff. | | [194] | Ibid. P. 432. | | [195] | Ibid. P. 430. | | [196] | Ibid. P. 488. | | [197] | See also four Pressac footnotes above; see also Gray, judgment, op. cit. (note 66), §13.69,
13.82. | | [198] | C. Mattogno, "Leichenkeller von Birkenau: Luftschutzräume oder Entwesungskammern?" VffG 4(2)
(2000), pp. 152-158 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/2000/2/Mattogno152-158.html); Engl.: "Morgue Cellars of Birkenau: Gas Shelters or Disinfesting Chambers?" (online: http://www.codoh.com/granata/leichen.html). | | [199] | Archives of the State Museum in Auschwitz (hereafter
APMO ), BW 30/34, p. 47. | | [200] | APMO, BW 30/34, p. 40. | | [201] | TCIDK, 502-1-336 (page number illegible). | | [202] | TCIDK, 502-1-312, p. 8. | | [203] | TCIDK , 502-1-316, p. 431, " duplicate
" in 502-1-323, p. 137th | | [204] | Inventory of the delivery negotiations relating to the "Desinfektions- und Entwesunsanlage" (Zentralsauna)
of 22. January 1944. TCIDK, 502-1-335, p. 3. | | [205] | TCIDK, 502-1-316, S. 430. | | [206] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 434-436. | | [207] | Ibid., Pp. 285, 302. | | [208] | See also Pressac footnote above; see also Gray, judgment, op. cit. (note 66), §13.84. |
| [209] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 49. | | [210] | Ibid., p. 436. In the inventory list on p. 430, a handwritten entry mentioning a gas-tight door only appears
in crematorium II. | | [211] | Ibid. Pp. 227, 311, 312. |
| [212] | H.J. Nowak, W. Rademacher, "'Gasdichte' Türen in Auschwitz", VffG 2(4)
(1998), pp. 248-261 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/1998/4/NowRad4.html); Engl.: "'Gas-Tight' Doors in Auschwitz", in: E. Gauss (ed.), op. cit. (note 43),
pp. 324-336 (online: www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndNowak.html). | | [213] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 46-49, 425-428, 486, 500. | | [214] | Miklos Nyiszli's book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, Arcade Publishing, New York 1993,
alleges, on p. 128, that the inmates took refuge in the gas chamber during air raids. Martin Gilbert's Auschwitz
and the Allies (Henry Holt & Co., New York 1981), p. 309, contains the testimony of a female survivor, according
to which she, together with many other female arriving inmates, was led to a darkened room to remain there during an air
raid. What is most interesting about this testimony is the description of the manner in which some of the women became hysterical
during the air raid and believed that they were inhaling poison gas. Another conclusion which could be drawn from this testimony
is that the SS were concerned with protecting their inmates from air raids, and that there must have existed several such
air raid shelters at Birkenau, which must have been gas-tight, that however remained entirely unnoticed and unstudied (from:
S. Crowell, "Technik und Arbeitsweise deutscher Gasschutzbunker im Zweiten Weltkrieg", VffG 1(4)
(1997), p. 242, fn. 4 online: www.vho.org/VffG/1997/4/Crowell4.html; Engl.: "Technique and Operation of German Anti-Gas Shelters in WWII: A Refutation of J.C. Pressac's Criminal Traces",
online: www.codoh.com/incon/inconpressac.html). Another survivor reports that the inmates were regularly led into an air raid shelter during Allied air raids in 1944:
Colin Rushton, Spectator in Hell. A British Soldier's Extraordinary Story, Pharaoh Press, Springhill (Berkshire)
1998. | | [215] | Samuel Crowell, ibid.; see also "Defending Against the Allied Bombing Campaign: Air Raid
Shelters and Gas Protection in Germany, 1939-1945", online: www.codoh.com/incon/inconabr.html; "The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes: An Attempt at a Literary Analysis of the Holocaust Gassing Claim",
online: www.codoh.com/incon/inconshr123.html; "New Documents on Air Raid Shelters at Auschwitz Camp", online: www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/documents/LSKeller/MoscowDocs.html; "Comments on Mattogno's critique of the bomb shelter thesis", online: www.codoh.com/incon/inconscrmtgno.html; "Bombenschutzeinrichtungen in Birkenau: Eine Neubewertung", VffG 4(3&4) (2000),
pp. 284-330; Engl. "Bomb Shelters in Birkenau: A Reappraisal", online: www.codoh.com/incon/inconbsinbirk.html. | | [216] | The ventilation ducts of morgue 1 are visible in the plans published by J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note
67), pp. 224, 289; chapter on the ventilation installations of crematoria II and III: ibid., pp. 355ff.; engine
power of the ventilation installations for all rooms in crematoria II and III: ibid., p. 374 and 377; size of
the ventilation outlets: ibid., p. 234; Fig. of an outlet cover in the ventilation outlets. |
| [217] | For Pressac see footnote above; a similar opinion has been expressed by Van Pelt, Pelt Report, op.
cit. (note 66), p. 208, as well as by Judge Gray in the Irving vs. Lipstadt trial, op. cit. (note
66), §7.62. | | [218] | See also, in this regard, Carlo Mattogno, "Auschwitz. das Ende einer Legende", in: Herbert Verbeke
(ed.), op. cit. (note 43, also the English version), pp. 134f. (online: Ger.: www.vho.org/D/anf/Mattogno.html; Engl.: www.vho.org/GB/Books/anf/Mattogno.html). The following remarks are closely patterned after Mattogno; for further details, see Mattogno. | | [219] | Invoice no. 729 dated May 27, 1943. APMO, D-Z/Bau, nr. inw. 1967, pp. 246f.; ibid.,
231f.: invoice no. 171 dated 22. February 1943 for crematorium II. | | [220] | The engines had a nominal output of 2 HP (approximately 1.5 KW). The output data relate to a back-pressure of 40
mm water column. The increment calculations for estimating the ventilation shaft resistances in crematoria II & III
according to engineering handbooks have shown that the back pressure to be expected would probably have been higher (in the
region of 50-60 mm water columns), due, particularly, to the primitive lids with many small holes covering the ventilation
slit. Two blowers were probably used for this reason. Personal communication from Hans Lamker, a certified engineer. |
| [221] | J.-C. Pressac gives the output of these blowers at 8,000 m³/h, but without proving it (together with Robert
van Pelt in: Yisrael Gutman, Michael Berenbaum (ed.), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, Indiana University
Press, Bloomington 1994, pp. 210, 232). Perhaps he simply crudely added the output of the two blowers together, which is
impermissible, since the blowers did not work in parallel, but rather, in series (behind each other). | | [222] | W. Heepke, The corpse incineration institutions
, C. Marhold, Halle 1905, p. 104th | | [223] | Gerhard Peters, Emil Wüstiger " Sach-in delousing cyanide chambers
", Journal of Zoology hygiene and pest control , 10/11
(1940), pp. 191-196, here p. 195th | | [224] | Pressac, the crematoria of Auschwitz
, op. cit. (note 90) p. 18. |
| [225] | Pre-heating: J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 221, 223. Demolition of the water pipes: ibid.,
p. 286; for further details in this discussion, which is just as fruitless, since they are based on the "criminal
traces" dreamed up by Pressac, see also, generally, H. Verbeke, op. cit. (note 43). |
| [226] | See also the above footnotes referring to Pressac, in particular, relating to the water pipes; a similar opinion
expressed by Van Pelt, Pelt Report, op. cit. (note 66), p. 296, as well as by Judge Gray
in the Irving vs. Lipstadt trial, op. cit. (note 66), §7.68. | | [227] | E. Neufert, op. cit. (note 176). | | [228] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 230. The waste heat of the forced draught blowers was
to be used, but since these burned out and were removed, the entire pre-heating project for morgue 1 was cancelled. |
| [229] | TCIDK 502-1-26-21, Jan. 29, 1943. | | [230] | Robert van Pelt, Deborah Dwork, op. cit. (note 92), p. 330. | | [231] | Memorandum from Kirschnek dated 29 January 1943. APMO, BW 30/34, p. 105. | | [232] | Topf, invoice no. 171 dated 22. February 1943 relating to the installation for the ventilation of crematorium II. TCIDK,
502-1-327, pp. 25-25a. See also C. Mattogno, op. cit. (note 218), pp. 136-139. | | [233] | See also C. Mattogno, "Architektonische Stümpereien...", op. cit. (note
92), p. 31. | | [234] | APMO , site command, D-AuI 1, p. 46th |
| [235] | For this, see Carlo Mattogno, "Sonderbehandlung" at Auschwitz.
Genesis and Meaning , Ar Edizioni, Padua 2001. | | [236] | APMO, BW 30/34, p. 78. | | [237] | See the two footnotes above, with relation to Pressac; van Pelt, Pelt Report, op. cit. (note
66), pp. 200, 254. | | [238] | Academic Club hut (ed.), Hut , Ernst
und Sohn, Berlin 27 1942, p. 1087 |
| [239] | Werner Rademacher, "The Case of Walter Lüftl", in Ernst Gauss (ed.), op. cit. (note
22), pp. 78ff. (online: www.vho.org/D/gzz/3.html); C. Mattogno, "Die 'Gasprüfer' von Auschwitz", VffG 2(1) (1998), pp.
13-22 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/1998/1/Mattogno1.html). | | [240] | Hydrogen cyanide would form poisonous residues with moist food. The gas Areginal and Cartox
were used; So see G. Kunike, The ABC of supply and house pests and their
control , Theodor Soft, Berlin 1941, pp. 53f. | | [241] | Alberto Cantagalli, theoretical and practical notions for the conductors
of boilers and steam generators , G. Lavagnolo Publisher, Turin 1940, p. 308;
taken from C. Mattogno, op. cit. (239
notes), p. 19. | | [242] | Henryk Tauber: J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67) p. 484; Filip Müller, Sonderbehandlung,
Steinhausen, Munich 1979, p. 95; Charles Sigismund Bendel: E. Kogon et al., op. cit. (note
42), p. 227; Michal Kula: E. Kogon et al., op. cit. (note 42), p. 231; for a summary and
critique of these and other witness accounts on these alleged openings and introduction devices, see G. Rudolf, op.
cit. (note 68), pp. 34-37. | | [243] | Op. cit. (note 67), crematorium II, p. 340, taken ca. between Feb. 9 and 11, 1943. |
| [244] | D. Czech, op. cit. (note 89), p. 454. | | [245] | Taken from Jean-Marie Boisdefeu, the controversial on the extermination
of Jews by the Germans , Volume 1, Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, Berchem 1994, p. 168. |
| [246] | From D. Czech, op. cit. (note 89), p. 398, and J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note
67), p. 335. | | [247] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 341. Pressac, of course, alleges the existence
of Zyklon B introduction apertures; in actual fact, however, nothing of the sort is to be seen. | | [248] | Alliied aerial photographs, National Archives Air Photo Library, Washington, D.C., RG 373 Can F 5367, exp. 3185,
published by CIA employees D.A. Brugioni and R.G. Poirier, Le Monde Juif, no. 97, January-March 1980, p. 2,
allegedly on their own, private, responsibility. | | [249] | R. Lenski, op. cit. (note 25), pp. 356ff., testimony of aerial photographical appraiser Kenneth
R. Wilson, pp. 8927-8941e of the trial transcript; see also B. Kulaszka (ed.), op. cit. (note 25), pp.
353f. According to Wilson, the spots on the photos dated Sept. 13, 1944, cannot be seen. | | [250] | Figure 42 was taken from the Air Photo Evidence website (air-photo.com/altered/altered.html) with John C. Ball's kind permission. | | [251] | J. Ball, op. cit. (note 43), p. 48, morgue 1 of crematorium II, photograph dated 13 September
1944, RG 373 Can B 8413, exp. 6V2. | | [252] | The manipulations on this picture are overly plentiful, such as, for example, an interpolated drawing of a group
of inmates allegedly marching over the roof of a barracks! See also J.C. Ball, ibid., p. 42; Ball, "Air
Photo Evidence" in: Ernst Gauss (ed.), op. cit. (note 22), pp. 271-284 (online: www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndaerial.html). On the alleged original photographs, it may furthermore be seen that the spots on morgues 1 of both crematoria (II +
III) are pointing in different directions; ibid. private communication by J.C. Ball. | | [253] | County Court Munich, ref. 451 Cs 112 Js 3326/90 and ref. 432 Cs 113 Js 3619/90. | | [254] | See, in this regard, the letter from the semi-official German Institut für Zeitgeschichte, in which, with
relation to the Auschwitz State Museum, the reconstruction of the installations in crematorium I is described and the condition
of the original ruins of the crematoria in Birkenau are briefly mentioned: H. Auerbach, Institut für Zeitgeschichte,
Munich, letter dated March 20, 1992. | | [255] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 365f. | | [256] | Ibid., pp. 483f.; Pelt Report, op. cit. (note 66), p. 106. |
| [257] | I am grateful to Carl Hermann Christmann, a certified building engineer, for this information. | | [258] | I am grateful to R. Faßbender, a certified building engineer, for this information, who also provided the
drawings. | | [259] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 354. | | [260] | Courier , Aug. 30, 1992, p. 20: " When
rocks fall ". | | [261] | The ceiling was finished towards the winter of 1942/43, while the mass exterminations allegedly began in March
1943; see also J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 338f. | | [262] | Please do not attempt to bend them back again! More recent photographs show that individuals have obviously broken
off two of the three reinforcement rods during similar such attempts. One of these persons who unintentionally broke off
one rod was Dr. Fredrick Töben in February 1997, as he advised me personally after his visit to Auschwitz. Another rod
was broken off later by unknown person(s), see. Carlo Mattogno, "Keine Löcher, keine Gaskammer(n)" VffG 6(3)
(2002), pp. 284-304 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/2002/3/Mattogno284-304.html). | | [263] | Carlo Mattogno, op. cit. (note 262), has shown that the size of this hole actually increased
over the years, probably because the Auschwitz Museum wants to give it a more regular, rectangular shape. |
| [264] | Pelt Report, op. cit. (note 66), p. 295. | | [265] | Dino A. Brugioni, Robert G. Poirier, op. cit. (note 248), p. 15; see also G. Rudolf, op.
cit. (note 68), p. 39. I am grateful to Fritz P. Berg for this argument. | | [266] | "No Holes? No Holocaust? A Study of the Holes in the Roof of Leichenkeller 1 of Krematorium
II at Birkenau" published by author in early 2000; online: http://www.revisingrevisionism.com. | | [267] | Ibid. P. 36. | | [268] | Carlo Mattogno, op. cit. (note 262). | | [269] | Höß trial, vol. 2, pp. 99-100. | | [270] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 487; on p. 287, Pressac shows a rather primitive drawing
with French inscriptions, probably prepared by a former French inmate on request of the Soviet investigation commission
right after the war. | | [271] | R. van Pelt, op. cit. (note 69), pp. 194, 208; caveat emptor: Though van Pelt's
translation of Kula's testimony is erroneous, and though the data supplied in Kula's testimony is rather meager, van Pelt
uses it to make five different, very detailed drawings-some of it necessarily based on van Pelt's fantasy, and the rest
based on Kula's fantasy. | | [272] | E.g., a cabinet's drawer is a Schublade. | | [273] | For evaporation rates of Zyklon B, see chapter 7.2. and 7.3.1.3. | | [274] | The brick-built air intake duct was easily accessible from the attic, where the fans were installed, and the ground
floor; see J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 276, 291, 329, 369. The use of the air intake fan to
introduce HCN would have lead to some HCN losses through the air exhaust chimney already during the gassing, thus endangering
anybody close to those crematoria, but certainly not more than would have been the case when all the HCN had to be removed
after the end of a hypothetical gassing, so this would not be an argument against this technique. Also, such a loss of HCN
is minimal compared to the loss following Kula's scenario. For more on this, see chapter 7.3.1.3. | | [275] | See chapter 5.4.1.2.5. | | [276] | Plan received from R. Faurisson. The same plan is found in J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67),
p. 401, but of very poor quality. | | [277] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), pp. 379ff., chapter on crematoria IV and V. |
| [278] | Ibid., p. 384. For an illustration of the gas-tight door and hatches, see pp. 46-49, 425-428, 486, 500. |
| [279] | Ibid. P. 386. | | [280] | Pressac points to a photo of crematorium IV, ibid., p. 417, as proof of his hypothesis. But since
the photograph was taken from the south side while the corridor lies on the north side of the building, the door shown in
the plan is the access, drawn on the plan, to one of the undesignated rooms. If he means to refer to crematorium V, hidden
in the forest in the background, then it is impossible to claim seriously that anything can be recognized on this photo. |
| [281] | A doctor's office in crematoria, by the way, is quite normal, even today; see also E. Neufert, op. cit. (note
176). | | [282] | Pressac, The Jewish World , no. 107,
Juli-September 1982, pp. 91-131. | | [283] | Pressacs argues this way in his new book as well, op. cit. (note 90), pp. 67, 89. |
| [284] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 386. | | [285] | Ibid. P. 447. | | [286] | Ibid. Pp. 406, 442-455. |
| [287] | For a prominent example, one need only consider Dachau concentration camp, the crematorium building of which contained
a series of DEGESCH circulation delousing chambers, see p. 65. | | [288] | A point which suggests that a fundamental danger of explosion must be reckoned with during fumigations with hydrogen
cyanide; see also chapter 6.3. | | [289] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 90), pp. 89f., alleges, in this regard, that a ventilation installation
was built into crematorium IV only in late May 1944, but his remarks are untenable in this regard; see also Germar Rudolf,
"Some Technical and Chemical Considerations about the 'Gas Chambers' of Auschwitz and Birkenau", in: Ernst
Gauss (ed.), op. cit. (note 22), pp. 347f. (online: www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndgcger.html). | | [290] | W. Rademacher, op. cit. (note 239), p. 80; J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67),
p. 451. | | [291] | At least the windows of those inmate barracks still accessible today in Birkenau have been installed in a very
sloppy way, so that the wind blows intensely through the gaps. It is, however, questionable whether these barracks are authentic
or were rebuilt after the war. | | [292] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 456. | | [293] | Ibid. P. 390. | | [294] | Ibid. Pp. 161ff. | | [295] | R. Höß, in: M. Broszat (ed.), Commandant at Auschwitz
, German publishing house, Stuttgart 1958th | | [296] | Judgment of the so-called Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, ref. 50/4 Ks 2/63, p. 99; see note 83. | | [297] | Interrogation of the eyewitness R. Böck during pre-trial investigations for the so-called Frankfurt
Auschwitz Trial: Public Prosecutor at the Court of Frankfurt (Main), criminal case in Circuit Court Frankfurt (Main) against
Baer and others for murder, ref. 4 Js 444/59, sheets 6878ff. Quoted: sheet 6881f. |
| [298] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 163. | | [299] | See also J. Graf, Auschwitz. Perpetrator confessions and eyewitness
, op. Cit. (note 43). |
| [300] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 176. | | [301] | Pfeiffer, Hansa Luftbild GmbH, aerial photographic analysis of Allied photograph dated Aug. 25, 1944 (note 248),
letter dated July 17, 1991; J. Konieczny, The Soviets, But Not the Western Allies, Should Have Bombed the Auschwitz
Camp, Polish Historical Society, unpublished paper. | | [302] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 253. | | [303] | See J.C. Ball, in E. Gauss, op. cit. (note 252), p. 283. | | [304] | TCIDK 502-1-24-77, Nov. 30, 1942; 502-1-24-33, Dec. 3, 1942; 502-1-332-46a, Jan. 9, 1943; 502-1-26-66,
April 9, 1943; 502-1-238-10, Sept. 30, 1943. | | [305] | Le Monde, Nov. 20, 2001; Bild, Nov. 20, 2001; Corriere della Sera, Nov. 21,
2001, p. 35. | | [306] | C. Mattogno, "Die 'Entdeckung' des 'Bunkers 1' von Birkenau: alte und neue Betrügereien", VffG 6(2)
(2002), pp. 139-145 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/2002/2/Mattogno139-145.html); Engl. see the presentation of Russ Granata, "The 'Discovery' of 'Bunker 1' of Birkenau", www.vho.org/~granata/Discovery.html | | [307] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 162-164, 171, 177 | | [308] | J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 67), p. 209, drainage plan POW camp Birkenau. | | [309] | "'Verbrennungsgruben' und Grundwasserstand in Birkenau", VffG 6(4) (2002),
pp. 421-424 (online: www.vho.org/VffG/2002/4/Mattogno421-424.html); Engl.: "'Incineration Pits' and Ground Water Level in Birkenau", The Revisionist, 1(1)
(2003), pp. 13-16 (online: www.vho.org/tr/2003/1/Mattogno13-16.html). | | [310] | Only small pieces of the skull were left over which were located in a corner of the pit. Communications of Dr.
M. Dragan, whom I helped to investigate the carcass' remains in June 1999. | | [311] | J.C. Ball, op. cit. (note 43). | | [312] | F. Meyer, "Die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz", Osteuropa, 52(5) (2002), pp. 631-641,
here p. 632; for critical reviews of these artciles, see Germar Rudolf, "Cautious Mainstream Revisionism", The
Revisionist, 1(1) (2003), pp. 23-30 (online: www.vho.org/tr/2003/Rudolf23-30.html); Carlo Mattogno, "Auschwitz. The new Revisions by Fritjof Meyer", The Revisionist, 1(1)
(2003), pp. 30-37 (online: www.vho.org/tr/2003/Mattogno30-37.html). |
In a bizarre revenge, the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele will be picked
apart in "scientific experiments". The
Brazilian doctor responsible for carrying out the exhumation and forensic examination - which positively identified the German doctor
buried in an anonymous Sao Paulo grave in 1985 - won the right this month to keep the doctor's bones for medical
research. In
a televised report on Brazilian TV last weekend, Dr Daniel Romero Muniz cut open the plastic sack containing Dr. Mengele’s
parts and took out his skull and bones for the first time in 30 years. Dr Muniz, a professor of medicine at the University of Sao Paulo now
plans to donate Dr. Josef Mengele's skeleton to student doctors for use as part of their medical education. He explained: ‘(Mengele’s) bones will be a really
good example for our students to learn from. They will be used to help train new doctors and will be particularly good for
those students who are studying post mortem examinations.’ Jewish nazi hunters said there was at least a "modicum of satisfaction" the famous German physician
will now be experimented upon in death. Despite repeatedly offering Dr. Josef Mengele’s family the opportunity to collect his
remains, Brazil’s Federal police hit a brick wall as no one from the Second World War fugitive’s family ever
came forward to claim his bones after they were exhumed from a coffin bearing the name of Wolfgang Gerhard. Mengele assumed
the name of a German friend who had lived temporarily in Brazil in the latter years of his life to hide his identity. He drowned in 1979
off a Sao Paulo coast in the small town of Bertioga after suffering a stroke while swimming. Retired policeman Expedito
Dias Romao was the officer who found Mengele’s body. He said: ‘I didn’t know it was Mengele at the time. He
was dead when I found him and his identity card said his name was Wolfgang Gerhard. I didn’t realise that he was one
of the most wanted and hated men in the world.’ Mengele was buried anonymously for six years
until German authorities linked a letter sent from the couple he had been living with in Brazil to his family announcing
his death. They alerted the Brazilian government who exhumed Mengele’s remains in 1985. The forensic examination proved his identity
but Mengele’s bones were never reburied. Instead they were thrown unceremoniously into a blue plastic sack and kept
under lock and key on a shelf in the São Paulo Police Legal Medical Institute (IML) morgue for more than 30 years. Eduardo de Menezes
Gomes, a criminal forensic investigator with the IML confirmed to Globo TV Mengele’s ‘bones stayed here (in the
Institute) under our responsibility and no one has ever shown any interest’. Slicing open the sack containing the German doctor's remains
in front of TV cameras, Dr Muniz took out Mengele’s scapula and laid out his ribs, the bones from the arms, humerus,
ulna and radius, on a medical table. Then carefully, Muniz pulled out Mengele’s skull which has been kept wrapped
in another piece of plastic for extra protection.
The cranium shows the he wore a set of dentures. Holding Dr. Josef Mengele’s head, Dr Muniz
who described the exhumation as ‘one of the most important forensic investigations ever carried out in Brazil,’
pointed to a small hole in the left cheek bone.
He said: ‘This hole showed Mengele suffered from sinusitis which over
the years created an infection and left a small hole in the bone. This helped to identify him.’ The doctor also revealed Dr. Josef Mengele’s
pelvic bone helped confirm who he was. ‘He had a motorbike accident and the pelvis shows a fracture,’ he said. Mengele eluded
capture from jewish "Nazi hunters" after the Second World War with the help of his family in Germany who sent him
funds regularly. In 1949 he escaped to Austria, crossing the border to Italy. With the help of a network of SS sympathisers
he sailed to Argentina the same year. There he lived openly under his real name in Buenos Aires for a decade. He went on
the run again when Israeli secret police captured Adolf Eichmann who was also living in the city at the time. Mengele fled to
Paraguay in 1959 and ended up in Brazil in 1960 living in various cities in Sao Paulo state for nearly two decades. Confident he wouldn’t
be found, he kept his true identity for many years. In an interview in 1986 on The Phil Donahue Show, an American TV chat
show, Mengele’s son Rolf, who works as a lawyer in Munich, Germany, revealed he had visited his father in Brazil in
1977, two years before he died. A photo of them together was shown in the Globo TV report. But despite admitting he could never have betrayed
his father’s whereabouts at the time, Rolf - who changed his surname to Jenckel, distancing himself from his father’s
past - has refused to give his parent’s remains a final resting place. Hiding out in Brazil, Mengele stayed with expat German families who
gave him a roof over his head allowing him to live a near normal life with barbeques, holidays and social parties. Photos show him
posing with a fixed smile with the couples he stayed with. The truth was the German runaway hated Brazil, describing his
South American hosts as a breed of ‘half monkeys’ and a ‘sub-human race’ in copious diaries. In letters dedicated
to his son he talked about committing suicide and his depression about living in a country he despised.
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Germar Rudolf, Eine Zensur findet statt! Zensur in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland | PDF: 376 KB | Kaufe dieses Produkt
In werden unliebsame politische und wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen in Müllverbrennungsanlagen
verbrannt. Autoren, Herausgeber, Verleger, Groß- und Einzelhändler und Mehfach-Kunden werden gnadenlos vor den
Kadi gezerrt und zu Geld- oder gar Gefängnisstrafen verurteilt. Die Zensurbehörden halten die Listen verbotener
Schriften geheim, so daß sich niemand unterrichten kann, was er nicht kaufen und verbreiten oder gar verschenken
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| Germar Rudolf, Holocaust Revisionismus. Eine kritische geschichtswissenschaftliche Methode. | PDF: 580 KB | Kaufe dieses Produkt
Holocaust-Revisionismus ist nicht nur legitim, sondern notwendig. Erst die Herausforderung durch kritische,
zweifelnde Forscher ermöglicht es, Fakten von Fiktion zu trennen und die Starrheit dogmatischer Vorstellungen zu durchbrechen.
Der Holocaust-Revisionismus ist die einzige geschichtswissenschaftliche Schule, die sich von niemandem vorschreiben läßt,
welche Ergebnisse sie zu verkünden hat. Der Holocaust-Revisionismus ist daher die einzige wahrlich unabhängige
Methode zur Feststellung der Wahrheit..... |  |
| Germar Rudolf, Germar Rudolf: Kardinalfragen an Deutschlands Politiker. Aufforderung zur Wiederherstellung der Menschenrechte
in Deutschland | PDF: 2.61 MB | Kaufe dieses Produkt
Germar Rudolf, einer der bekanntesten Holocaust-Revisionisten, beschreibt, was ihnzum Revisionisten machte,
begründet, warum der Revisionismus wichtig und wissenschaftlich ist, und warum die Verfolgung von Revisionisten
menschenrechtswidrig ist. Er beschreibt Strafprozesse, Medien-Hetzkampagnen, gesellschaftliche Ausgrenzung gegen ihn und
analysiert die rechtlichen Grundlage von Zensur und Verfolgung Andersdenkender in Deutschland. |  |
| Germar Rudolf, Vorlesungen über den Holocaust: Strittige Fragen im Kreuzverhör | PDF: 12.0 MB | zipped HTML-Dateien: später | Kaufe dieses Produkt
Didaktisch einfühlsame Darlegung revisionistischer Argumente auf dem neuesten Stand, vorgetragen im Dialogstil
zwischen Referent und den kritischen Fragen der Leser. Die beste Einführung, die es in den Revisionismus gibt. |
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| Walter N. Sanning, Die Auflösung des osteuropäischen Judentums | 0.6 MB | Kaufe dieses Produkt
Wo sind die Juden Osteuropas geblieben? Wie viele Juden wurden Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgung?
Walter N. Sanning stützt sich auf die Ergebnisse von Volkszählungen und anderen Berichte, die er fast ausschließlich
alliierten und jüdischen Quellen entnommen hat. In seiner Gesamtbilanz kommt er annähernd auf 750.000 jüdische
Verschollene während der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkrieges... | |
| Wilhelm Stäglich, Der Auschwitz-Mythos | 2.1 MB | Kaufe dieses Produkt
Der promovierte Jurist Wilhelm Stäglich hat als erster und bisher einziger sachverständiger Forscher
die Nürnberger Tribunale und den Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozeß einer kritisch-juristischen Analyse unterzogen.
Seine Ergebnisse verschlagen dem Leser ein ums andere Mal den Atem angesichts der unvorstellbar skandalösen Art, mit
der die alliierte Siegerjustiz und die bundesdeutschen Strafbehörden das Recht beugten und brachen, um zu politisch
vorgegebenen Ergebnissen zu kommen. Dies ist wahrlich ein Augenöffner... | |
| Udo Walendy, Wahrheit für Deutschland | 2.7 MB | Kaufe dieses Produkt
20 Jahre lang versuchten deutsche Behörden, dieses Buch mit der Begründung zu zensieren, Walendys
Buch lege unwiderlegbaren dar, daß Deutschland nicht Schuld ist am Zweiten Weltkrieg. Da des Buches überzeugende
Beweise die deutsche Jugend geistig “verwirrten,” solle es verboten werden. Aber der versuch mißlang. Walendy,
wie die Alliierten gegen Deutschland intrigierten, um es zu zwingen, sich entweder kampflos den gewalttätigen Plänen
der Alliierten zu unterwerfen oder aber in Selbstverteidigung um seine Freiheit zu kämpfen. | |
| Ingrid Weckert, Auswanderung der Juden aus dem Dritten Reich | 286 KB | Kaufe dieses Produkt
Die profilierte Historikern Ingrid Weckert hat mit dieser Broschüre eine Zusammenfassung der tatsächlich
auf Auswanderung gerichteten Judenpolitik des NS-Staates vorgelegt, die allen Greuelmärchen von der Vernichtungsintention
den Boden entzieht. Ein zur Aufklärung des deutschen Volkes hochwichtiges, flüssig zu lesendes Heft! |
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| Rudolf Aschenauer, Der Malmedy-Fall | 45 KB |
| | Rudolf Aschenauer, Um Recht und Wahrheit im Malmedy-Fall | 0,2 MB |
| | Rudolf Aschenauer, Zur Frage einer Revision der Kriegsverbrecherprozesse | 0,4 MB |
| | Maurice Bardèche, Nürnberg oder das Gelobte Land | 0,4 MB |
| | Roland Bohlinger, Johannes P. Ney, Gutachten zur Frage der Echtheit des sogenannten Wannsee-Protokolls | 5,4 MB |
| | Roland Bohlinger, Johannes P. Ney, Die Stellungnahme der Leitung der Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz | 0,2 MB |
| | Josef G. Burg, Jüdisch-deutscher Dialog | 0,2 MB |
| | Josef G. Burg, Maidanek in alle Ewigkeit? | 0,7 MB |
| | Josef G. Burg, NS-Verbrechen Prozesse des schlechten Gewissens | 0,7 MB |
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Josef G. Burg, Sündenböcke | 0,4 MB |
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Josef G. Burg, Zionnazi Zensur in der BRD! | 1,3 MB |
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Josef G. Burg, Zions trojanisches Galapferd | 0,4 MB |
| | Thies Christophersen, Die Auschwitz-Lüge | 2 MB |
| | Wolfgang Fröhlich, Galilei 2000 — Dokumentation eines politischen Schauprozesses
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Strafsachen in Wien im Jahre 2003 | 12,9 MB |
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Roger Garaudy, Die Gründungsmythen der israelischen Politik | 0,8 MB |
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Rudolf John Gorsleben, Hochzeit der Menschheit | 36,2 MB |
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Jürgen Graf, Der Holocaust auf dem Prüfstand | 0,5 MB |
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Friedrich Grimm, Politische Justiz — die Krankheit unserer Zeit | 0,4 MB |
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Jan van Helsing, Geheimgesellschaften und ihre Macht im 20. Jahrhundert I | Komplett (nicht durchsuchbar) 17,7 MB
Jan van Helsing, Geheimgesellschaften und ihre Macht im 20. Jahrhundert I | durchsuchbar (ohne Anmerkungen) 1,7 MB |
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| Jan van Helsing, Geheimgesellschaften II | Komplett (nicht durchsuchbar) 19,1 MB
Jan van Helsing, Geheimgesellschaften II | durchsuchbar 0,9 MB |
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Gerd Honsik, Freispruch für Hitler? | 14,2 MB |
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Hans-Helmut Knütter, Die Faschismus-Keule | 2,5 MB |
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Johann Neuhäusler, Die Dachauer 'Kriegsverbrecherprozesse' nach eigener Beobachtung | (nicht durchsuchbar) | 2 MB |
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| Friedrich Oscar, Über Galgen wächst kein Gras | 0,2 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Auschwitz: Behauptungen und Sachbeweise | 3.9 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Auschwitz. (Hi)story? | 2,2 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Beweis oder Betrug? | 0.3 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Der Nürnberger Prozess – Eine Spur zur Wahrheit? | 0.9 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Geschichte der Geschichte? | 4,6 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Gesetzlich verbotene Beweise? | 15 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Glauben ohne Beweis? | 0,2 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Majdanek. Behauptungen und Sachbeweise | 0,4 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Mauthausen: Behauptungen und Sachbeweise | 1,2 MB |
| | Herbert Pitlik, Mauthausen. (Hi)story? | 7,3 MB |
| | Paul Rassinier, Die Jahrhundertprovokation | 1,7 MB |
| | Paul Rassinier, Die Lüge des Odysseus | 0,4 MB |
| | Paul Rassinier, Operation "Stellvertreter" | 0,7 MB |
| | Paul Rassinier, Was nun, Odysseus? | 0,3 MB |
| | Henri Roques, Die "Geständnisse" des Kurt Gerstein | 0,6 MB |
| | Heinz Roth, Was geschah nach 1945 – Teil 1, Der Zusammenbruch | 0,6 MB |
| | Dieter Rüggeberg, Geheimpolitik | 1,1 MB |
| | Franz J. Scheidl, Das Unrecht an Deutschland | 1,1 MB |
| | Serge Thion, Historische Wahrheit oder Politische Wahrheit | 0,9 MB |
| | Freda Utley, Kostspielige Rache | 0,8 MB |
| | Herbert Verbeke, Auschwitz – Fakten versus Fiktion | komplett (nicht durchsuchbar) 20 MB |
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| Udo Walendy, Babi Jar – Die Schlucht „mit 33 771 ermordeten Juden“ ?, Historische Tatsachen Nr.
51 | 4 MB |
| | Udo Walendy, Wirbel um den Leuchter Bericht, Historische Tatsachen Nr. 50 | komplett (nicht durchsuchbar) 13 MB |
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| Otto Weidinger, Tulle und Oradour | 50 KB |
| | Dietrich Ziemsen, Der Malmedy Prozess | 0,6 MB |
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