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Page 55 AUSCHWITZ:
                        Technique and Operation
                            of the Gas Chambers ©
 
 
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Drawing 2: Bauleitung drawing 801 of 8/11/1941
[PMO neg. No. 209321/I ] 
 
ENTLAUSUNGSANLAGE FOR KGL / delousing installation for prisoner of war camp

Scale 1:100
Drawn 8th November 1941 by prisoner No. 127,
checked on 10th by SS Untersturmführer Walther Dejaco
and approved on 11th by SS Hauptsturmtführer Karl Bischoff, head of the Bauleitung.  
 
Drawing 2
 
Translations of the inscriptions
the four BW 5a and 5B drawings: 
     
 
The same terms found on different drawings are
translated only once, in the order
of their appearance) 
 
  Ansicht / elevation    
  Giebelansicht / gable end elevation   
  Windfang (WF )/ windbreak    
  Aborte / toilets   
  Grundriss / plan view    
  Gaskammer / gas chamber   
  Schleuse / airlock    
  Rollierung / smoothing by roller    
  Vorraum / vestibule Schnitt A-B / cross section A-B ("clean" side)  
  Schnitt C-D / cross section C-D (of the gas chamber)   
  Wasch und Brauseraum / washing and shower room   
  Unreine Seite, Auskleideraum / dirty side, undressing room   
  Reine Seite. Ankleideraum / clean side, dressing room   
  Drainage / drainage    
  Klappe / trap.    
 
AUSCHWITZ:
Technique and operation
of the gas chambers

Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
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