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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and Operation
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the Gas Chambers © |
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Photos 3a, 3b, and 3c
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by Michel Folco] |
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Front (3a) side/rear (3b) and rear
(3c) views of the coke-fired single-muffle H Kori furnace installed
under the Bunker at KL Mauthausen, which entered service in May 1940. This
"brick built" furnace has a double system for closing the muffle: a
double door, and inside this a "guillotine" plate, the latter being
operated by means of a counterweighted handle at the side of the furnace. It
would appear that the Topf engineer Prüfer was inspired by this model in
designing the guillotine closing system for the muffles of his four muffle
furnaces at the end of 1941. His doors were a much tighter fit and in general
the Topf furnaces were much more sophisticated than the Kori furnaces, while at
the came time allowing more muffles in a given space.
It should he
pointed out that following the installation of this "brick-built"
model, a second Kori furnace, but this time one of the oil fired
"mobile" type [like the one at the Trzebinia labor camp], was
installed at Mauthausen. It entered service in February 1942 and was dismantled
in 1945, before the camp was liberated. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique and operation
of the gas
chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
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