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                        Technique and Operation
                            of the Gas Chambers ©
 
 
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Drawing 1173-1174 (p)
Drawing 1173-1174 (p)


 Translation of inscriptions:
(left to right and top to bottom) 
 
Drawing 1174: 
 
- Erdanschüttung / earth bank. 
- Vorlage / hard fill. 
- Gewachsener Boden / natural earth. 
- Absetzgrube / drainage ditch. 
- Rutsche / [corpse] chute.  
- Belüftung / ventilation 
- Unterzug / joist.  
- Eisenbeton - Bohlendecke / reinforced concrete roof beams. 
- Aufzug / corpse lift.  
- Entlüftung / air extraction.  
- Entlüftungskanal / air extraction duct. 
- Verbrennungsraum / incineration room [furnace room]. 
- Betonboden m[it] Glattstr[ich] / concrete floor with smooth screed. 
- Vorlage 18cm HGH [?] / 18cm hard fill ...
- Gewachsener Boden / natural earth. 
 
 
Drawing 1173:  
 
- Anschüttung / earth bank.
- Belüftungskanal vom Dachgeschoss / ventilation duct from roof space. 
- Entlüftungskanal - Verbindung [unter d. N.G. Fussboden] / air extraction duct junction [below new ground level].  
- Belüftungskanal - Verbindung / ventilation duct junction.  
- Anschüttung / earth bank. 
- Entlüftungskanal zum Dachgeschoss / extraction duct to roof space. 
- Neue Geländehöhe / new ground level.  
- Gewachsener Boden / natural earth. 
- KREMATORIUM — Zutritt verboten / CREMATORIUM — keep out  
 
AUSCHWITZ:
Technique and operation
of the gas chambers

Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
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