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Document 22
[PMO file BW 30/34, page
100 and annex 5 to Volume II of the Hoess Trial (page
64)] |
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| Translation: |
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| [Manuscript] SS Second Lieutenant (Specialist)
Kirschnick! |
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| 29th January 1943 |
| Correspondence register no. 22250/43/Bi/L |
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Subject: Krematorium
II. State of construction
Reference: SS WVHA
telegram 2648 of 28/1/43
Enclosure: 1
Inspection Report
Head of Amtsgruppen C
SS Lieutenant
General and Waffen SS Major General
Dr Ing [Engineer] Kammler
Berlin Lichterfelde West
Unter den Eichen 126-135
Krematorium II has been completed but for minor details,
thanks to employing all available forces, despite enormous
difficulties and freezing weather, using day and night shifts. The
furnaces have been lit in the presence of Herr Chief Engineer Prüfer
of the firm responsible for their construction, Topf & Sons of
Erfurt, and they function perfectly. Because of the frost, it has
not yet been possible to remove the formwork from the ceiling of the
corpse cellar. This is of no consequence, however, as the gassing
cellar can be used to this end [i.e, as a morgue].
Because
the wagons are blocked, Messrs Topf & Sons have not been able to
deliver on time the ventilation and air extraction installations as
requested by the Bauleitung. These will be fitted as soon as they
arrive, so that it is probable that the installation will be
entirety ready for service on 20th February 1943.
Please
find enclosed a report by the inspecting engineer of Topf &
Sons, Erfurt. |
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Head of the Auschwitz Waffen SS and Police
Central Construction Management
[signed] Bischoff
SS
Captain |
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Distribution:
1 SS Second Lieutenants Janisch and Kirschneck
1 Registration F
or Archives
(signed) Pollok
SS
Second Lieutenant
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
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