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Document 87
[Sketch by David Olère, 1945]
View of the
furnace room at work. The scene shows the charging of corpses using
a “corpse stretcher”. On the right is the trough of water making it
possible to slide the corpses more easily from the lift to the
durance. This lift, which brought the corpses up from the basement,
is seen at the far end of the furnace room, loaded. |
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Document 88
[Final photograph in the "Auschwitz Album” by Serge
Klarsfeld]
Partial view, showing two muffles of one of
the Topf three-muffle furnaces in the Krematorium of Buchenwald
Concentration Camp, found intact at the Liberation. The photograph
is from an unknown American source. These furnaces were identical to
those installed in Birkenau Krematorien II and III. They were
designed by Topf chief engineer Kurt Prüfer. |
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Document 89
[Sketch by David Olère, 1945]
View of
Krematorium III, looking southeast/northwest, as remembered by David
Olère. Despite certain errors, particularly in the form and number
of skylights in the roof, the building is very well depicted, with a
clump of trees in the background that still exists today. The pile
of logs was found in the same place at the Liberation (see
Document 71). The lightning conductors, twisted by the
intense heat, are incorrectly placed but nevertheless constitute the
kind of detail that can hardly be invented. Despite these faults,
this sketch is almost as good as a photograph. |
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Document 90
[Sketch by David Olère, 1947]
Scene
representing three SS men sitting in the “Capo’s room” and consuming
“the leftovers” of a convoy of French Jews while watching the
“unfit” from this convoy being incinerated in Krematorium III.
According to the ground floor plan of the building, this
surveillance window should be a sliding window with no horizontal
division, but it could nevertheless have been as David Olère drew
it. The position of the furnaces with respect to the window proves
that this must be Krematorium III. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
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of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
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