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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and Operation
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the Gas Chambers © |
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INTERNAL VIEWS OF KREMATORIUM I
(Furnace room
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Photo 22:
[Source: PMO]
View of furnace 1, looking east, with the
doors of the two cremation muffles (above) and the human ash collection doors
(below) open. The two corpse charging trolleys, set on rails, were not in their
present position at the Liberation, but were reinstalled after being found
abandoned in the main camp. Neither of them is complete: one, (left) lacks a
wheel, the other (center), its maneuvering handle. They were used exactly as
related by Sonderkommando member Henryk Tauber [see Part III, Chapter
3] |
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Photo 23:
[Source: PMO]
View of furnace 1, its two muffles gaping,
looking southeast. The metal plate covering the chest of the trolley on the
right is missing. The chest was filled with stones and metal objects to provide
a counterbalance to the weight of the two meter long corpse slide trough that
entered the furnace. |
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Photo 24:
[PMO neg. no. 20788/2]
North/south view of furnaces 1
(left) and 2(right). It is obvious on this photo that furnace 2 is a
reconstruction as the upper part of the metal frame supporting the brickwork is
missing, unlike that of furnace 1. The two furnaces, dismantled by the SS, were
rebuilt after the liberation. The original drawings were missing, so the
reconstruction depended on the memories of former prisoners and the
availability of metal parts found in the camp. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique and operation
of the gas
chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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