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Bauleitung
drawing 1300
[PMO File BW 30/09, neg no. 20922/2]
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Krematorium - Entwassering /
Drainage
Maßstab/Scale 1:100 and 1:500
Drawn on 18/6/42 by
Prisoner 17133
checked on 9/7/42 by SS Second Lieutenants
Eggeling and [Identification uncertain] Töfferl and approved on
10/7/42 by SS Captain Bischoff |
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| Eggeling was a Bauleitung SS Second Lieutenant
(specialist), an agricultural engineer, at first responsible for
drainage and irrigation on the camp farmland, then, as from 31st
January 1942, in charge of road building and water supply and
drainage in the Birkenau camp. It is in this latter capacity that he
signed this drawing. Töfferl [if the signature next to that of
Eggeling does indeed correspond to this name] was another Bauleitung
SS Second Lieutenant (Specialist), a civil engineer working in the
surveying office who was made available to help the SS engineers of
other services when required. |
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| Explanatory description:
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This drawing is based on 932, the basement plan. On
this very simplified plan, the different drains and associated
pipework (for waste water and rainwater) are drawn with the relevant
collector sinks (numbered I to XV). Also shown are the diameters of
the pipes, the depths at which they are to be laid and their
slope.
The three longitudinal section drawings on the
left concern the location of the twelve sewer manholes (I to XII)
and the slopes between them: |
1st section: manholes I to VIII
2nd section:
manholes IV to XI
3rd section: manholes IX to XII
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| The scale for the depths is 1:100 and for the lengths
1:500. Associated with these three sections are two tables
summarizing the characteristics of the installation, specifying:
ground level, depth of sewer, diameter and slope, distance between
manholes. |
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Translation of inscriptions
(left to right and top to bottom) |
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| Längsschnitt zwischen Revisionachächten 1-VIII
/ Longitudinal section between manholes I and VIII : |
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OF [Oberfläche] / Surface [of
ground] |
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Geländerhöhen /
Levels |
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Kanalsohlenkoten / Depth of
sewers |
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Querschnitt u. Gefälle /
Cross-section and slopes |
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Entfernungen /
Distances |
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| Längsschnitt
zwischen Revisionachächten IV-XI / Longitudinal section between
manholes IV and XI: |
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| Längsschnitt
zwischen Revisionachächten IX-XIII / Longitudinal section
between manholes IX and XII: |
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Gefälle / Slopes |
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Bemerkung / Remark |
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Kanalhöhe / Sewer
height |
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zum Graben / to the ditch
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| Erläuterungen /
Key |
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Innere Kanalisation / Internal
drains |
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Aussere Kanalisation mit
Regenwasser / External drains with rainwater |
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Die unter der Decke verlege
Abfluß Leitungen / Runoff pipes laid under the roof [key not
used] |
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Automatische Rückstauklappe d.
15 mit Zusätl. Handbetäitigung / Automatic 15 [cm] diameter
non-return valve also fitted with a manual control |
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Angegebene Höhen für die
Kanalsohle / Indicated heights for bottom of sewer |
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Geländehöhen /
Levels |
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Bogen mit Putzmöglichkeit /
Elbow with cleaning trap |
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The main sewer for all the waste water from
Krematorium II, planned as a 25 cm pipe, has been crossed out with
two red pencil crosses along its route and from manhole II there
runs a red arrow and underneath it is written “zum [to the]
Königsgraben” [the name of a main drainage ditch in the camp]. On
the site, however, the concrete cover of manhole I can still be seen
in place, and is to the southwest of Leichenkeller 1. The
modification hand-written on the drawing was therefore not
implemented, though this makes little difference in the end for
there were only two places the main sewer could run to: the
Königsgraben (to the west), or the “Kläranlage I/ Water purification
plant I” (to the south), which again finally led to the
Königsgraben.
The sewer manholes associated with Krematorium
II were of square section, brick-built and with a metal ladder built
in, whereas those installed for Krematorium III were simply made of
a few sections of 1 meter diameter concrete pipe, with no internal
ladder. The construction of the Kr III drainage system was greatly
simplified as compared with that of Kr II.
The complete
separation of the drainage system of Leichenkeller 1 from that of
the rest of the building (as fore shadowed on drawing 932), is the
first trace of the criminal conversion of Leichenkeller 1 into a gas
chamber.
This drawing must have later been modified slightly
to take account of the new features in Bauleitung drawings 1311 and
2003, which split up the area occupied by Leichenkeller 3, and to
allow for the creation of the direct access stairway from the
outside to Leichenkeller 2 (the undressing room). The final version
of the Krematorium II drainage system is to be seen on Bauleitung
drawing 2197 [a and b] of Soviet source.
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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