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| 11th February 1943 |
| 22957/43/Jäh/Pa. |
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Subject:
Ref.:
Enclosure: |
Krematorium III - POW -
Auschwitz - Upper Silesia
Telegram from the Auschwitz
Central Construction Management of 10/2/43 - 20.05-hours.
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Messrs.
J.A. Topf & Sons
Engineering Works
Erfurt
Dreysestraße 7/9
The
above-mentioned telegram once more confirms the order already issued
for the complete mechanical installations, including 2 permanent
corpse lifts and I provisional corpse hoist to be delivered rapidly,
as well as a practical installation for delivering coal and removing
ash. You arc thus to supply and ft the complete K III installation.
We now trust that everything will be done to ensure that the
mechanical components are manufactured immediately and dispatched to
the site.
It is essential that the complete installation
come into service by 10th April 1943.
The Central
Construction Management expects that in meeting this deadline you
will make up for your non-respect of contract in not keeping
promises and issuing numerous documents not corresponding J to the
facts on the subject of the delivery of the furnaces for
Krem.[atorium]Il of the PWO camp. Thus you write on 21st January
1943 that all the materials for the ventilation and air
extraction installations would be sent on 22nd January 1943. When
the wagon arrived, these components were missing, so that your
fitter Messing was unable to continue. On the telephone, Mr. Prüfer
told us that all the material had been sent. After many further
enquiries, another of your people told us that the remaining
material had not yet been completed. Finally, the completed
materials were supposed to have been put into store. Now, a
consignment note arrives with a consignment date of 6th February
1943, After examination of this and a conversation with your fitter,
it appears that a No. 450 blower with a 3.5 HP motor is still
missing, and it is precisely this blower destined for the C-cellar I
for which our need is the most urgent. Also, a 7.5 HP motor for
the No. 550 air extraction blower for C-cellar 2.
We
therefore telegraphed you once more: “dispatch immediately blower
450 and 3.5 HP motor for C-cellar I and 7.5 HP motor for air
extractions blower No 550 for C-cellar II, not appearing on dispatch
note of 6.2.1943, otherwise the installation cannot be brought into
service. Reply by telegraph.”
This negligence on your part
is causing the Central Construction Management the greatest
difficulties. We would ask you therefore to immediately dispatch the
missing material by express in order that the installation may at
last he completed. |
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Head of the of the Auschwitz Waffen-SS and
Police
Central Construction Management
[signed] Bischoff
SS-Captain |
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Distribution:
1 Civilian
Specialist Jährling 1
SS-Second Lieutenant Janisch
1
SS-Second Lieutenant Kirschneck
1 Records (file BW 30
Krematorium)
F.d.R.d.A. [For file)
Signature
SS-Second Lieutenant (S [specialist])
(Handwritten)
F.d.R.d.A.
Pollok SS-Second Lieutenant |
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Document 7: |
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Verso of page 87 of BW 30/34,
letter of 11th February 1942 signed by Bischoff and addressed to
Messrs. Topf, indicating [passage underlined in red] “in addition a
7.5 HF motor for air extractor blower No. 550 for Leichenkeller II
is also missing]”. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
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