AUSCHWITZ:                         Technique and Operation                             of the Gas Chambers ©    Back   Contents Page 47 Home Page  Forward         . Photo 16 [Soviet Commission, 1945, no reference]  Before the gas-tight door of the disinfestation gas chamber,a low-ranking Russian officer and a civilian member of the first Investigation Commission in the company of two former prisoners are presenting empty Zyklon-B cans found in building 164.    Photo 17: [PMO neg. No. 622]   Enlarged view of four empty Zyklon-B cans, that had held 1.6kg of hydrocyanic acid, standing on their packing case.     Photo 18: [PMO neg. no. 773] A Russian Second Lieutenant presenting for the camera (for the film "Chronicles of the Liberation of the camp, 1945") a gas detector box, probably specific to hydrocyanic acid. Behind him, is the gas-tight door of the "Kanada I" gas chamber. On the right of the picture part of the face of the Russian officer visible on Photo 16.      AUSCHWITZ: Technique and operation of the gas chambers Jean-Claude Pressac © 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation  Back Page 47 Forward
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