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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
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Photo 14:
[Source: Warsaw Central Commission, Stanislaw
Luckzo
series, sygn. 5149]
“DANCE ON THE ROOF OF THE OLD
CREMATORIUM”. |
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View of the roof of Krematorium
I, looking south north, in 1945 (May?). The chimney has not yet been
rebuilt. The features of the roof are: |
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· two
ventilation chimneys for the furnace room [two tone
with a dark
cap]
· two other brick chimneys, probably
for ventilating the air raid shelter
in
view of their newly built appearance
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addition, on a line parallel to and left of that, on which the two
brick
chimneys are built, it is possible
to see THREE places where the
former
traps for introducing Zyklon B have been filled in, thus indicating
that the morgue had been used as a gas
chamber. |
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Above the stage, dominated by a
red star with the hammer and sickle , fly the flags of Poland [left]
and the Soviet Union [right]. with lamps mounted above them. This
photograph proves that a dance was organized in 1945 on the roof of
Krematorium I, and that people actually danced above the homicidal
gas chamber. This episode appears almost unbelievable and sadly
regrettable today, and the motives for it are not known. The photo
also proves that the present covering of roofing felt and the zinc
surround of the roof are not original. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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