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Technique
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| THE TWO DELOUSING CHAMBERS IN BLOCK
26 |
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According to the "DECLARATIONS" conserved at the PMO, volume
100, page 49, a clothing delousing installation was installed in two
rooms of the ground floor of Block 26 [Drawing 2]. The work
commenced in summer or early autumn 1940, was done with diligence,
by the prisoners. It was probably finished at the end of 1940 or
early in 1941.
The disinfestation agent is not known. The
plans on the inventory drawing suggest a complex installation using
steam, the situation dating from February 1942 and, it would appear,
definitive since the installation was designed almost a year and a
half earlier. It could be that initially it functioned in a
primitive manner as gas chambers using Zyklon-B, made gas-tight by
using strips of paper, and ventilated by two air extraction fans.
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Drawing 2: Bauleitung
drawing 1046
[Montage of the
identification block and the ground floor plan of the drawing
1046] |
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Inventory Drawing of building No. 11
(designating the building as No. 11 corresponds to the first set of
numbers given by the Bauleitung. This block subsequently had the number 18
and then was given its final designation "Block 26". These changes
in the numbers were brought about by successive stages in the development
of the main camp). |
Drawing 1046, scale 1:200.
Drawn
by prisoner No. 20033 on 19th
February 1942,
Checked by Dejaco on
20th February
and approved by Bischoff on 22/2/42. |
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Translation of the inscriptions:
ERDGESCHOSS / GROUND FLOOR |
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Room 1: |
Erkennungsdienst /
identification service (photographs
of prisoners) |
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Rooms 2, 3: |
Dunkelkammer / dark room(for
developing the
photographs). |
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Rooms 4. 5: |
W. C. |
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Rooms 6. 7: |
Entlausung /
delousing. |
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Room 8 |
Magazin / store. |
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Room 9: |
Auskleideraum / Undressing
room. |
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Room 10: |
Waschraum / washroom (fitted
with 24 showers). |
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Room 11: |
No designation. |
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Rooms 12. 13 |
Effekten / effects. |
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Gang / corridor
Warmwasser / hot water (pipes) |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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