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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
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| THE CENTRAL CAMP “SWIMMING POOL” |
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This empty basin, once filled with water, is of incalculable
value to the revisionists, being clear proof of the existence of a
SWIMMING POOL at Auschwitz concentration camp. There is no need to
dwell on its importance. The presence of this installation is
considered to be incompatible with the so-called “extermination”.
This basin was actually built as a reservoir for
firefighting purposes, but was clearly adapted so that it could also
be used as a swimming pool. The revisionists claim that the
prisoners swam in it in summer. I ask them for photographic proof of
this practice, for I am convinced that it was reserved for the SS.
The presence of a swimming pool has no value as negative evidence
against the gassings at Birkenau. In the yard behind Krematorium II
there were football matches between the Sonderkommando and the SS.
On the east side of Krematorium III there was a sports ground that
enabled the Capos and Vorarbeiter to work off the excess calories
they stole from the vast majority of prisoners who were constantly
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Photo 8:
Northeast end of the “firefighting reservoir / swimming
pool” located between Block 6 and the southeastern barbed wire
enclosure of the Stammlager (main camp) View of the low diving
board. |
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Photo 9:
Overall view of the reservoir / swimming pool, looking east.
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Photo 10:
The reservoir / swimming pool, looking southwest,
with the high diving board at the far end. |
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Photo 11:
The
high diving board, north-south view. |
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Photo 12:
The
high diving board, north-south view. The take-off board itself is
missing. | |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
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