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                        Technique and Operation
                            of the Gas Chambers ©
 
 
 
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Document G1a
Document G1a
 
Translation of Document G1a
[PMO, file BW 11/1. p.1]

 J. A. TOPF & SOHNE  
24 Sept.41  
To
Reichsführer SS
and Chief of German Police
and Waffen SS Bauleitung
Auschwitz. Upper Silesia  
 
Subject  
Topf cremation furnace
 Your ref      Our Ref D IV
                 Prf [Prüfer}
 
Further to the conversation between the representative of your director of construction, Oherscharführer U r b a n c z e k and our chief engineer, Mr Prüfer, we enclose herewith three copies of the operating instructions for the Topf cremation furnaces and the Topf forced-draught installation. We would ask you to post a copy of each set of instructions under glass cover in the furnace room, to ensure that the furnaces are operated correctly.

We greet you 
with Heil Hitler!

J A TOPF & SONS
Two signatures illegible
 
Auschwitz SS Construction Management
Received 26th Sept 1941 
 
 
Enclosures:   3 operating instructions for cremation furnaces
                        3 operating instructions for forced draught installation  
 
 
AUSCHWITZ:
Technique and operation
of the gas chambers

Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
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