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Page 318 AUSCHWITZ:
                        Technique and Operation
                            of the Gas Chambers ©
 
 
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Document 4    Document 4
   [PMO file BW 30/30,
    page 1 (microfilm 1255)]  

Translation:   
   
[manuscript] Subj: Krema   
19th December 44
Jes/Wi                 
 
   
To the
Waffen SS and Police Central
Construction Management
Auschwitz
Handed to SS Lieutenant Jothan[n] 
 
   
As agreed, we transfer to you 15 sheets of original drawings and prints to be used as you see fit.   
   
Heil Hitler!
H u t a
Hoch- und Tiefbau A-G
Kattowitz Branch 
 
   
Encl.:
Original drawings
No. 109/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
         8, 9, 10, 11, 13+14
Prints:
No. 109/15 and 16 
 

 
HUTA DRAWING 109/10 OF 13/11/42
[PMO Archives file BW 30/21, first drawing, neg. no. 20946/4]  
 
Betr. Auschwitz Kr/ Subject: Auschwitz Krematorium
Decke über dem Müllverbrennungsraum/ Ceiling over the waste incinerator room Scale
1:25
Projekt Nr. 7-15/IV, Blatt Nr 10/ Project no. 7015/IV, Sheet 10 

Translation of inscriptions:
From top to bottom and left to right): 
 
· Unterzug I u. II / Beams 1 and 2 
· Pos. 41 u. 42 / Positions 41 and 42 [refers to the supplementary static calculations for Krematorium II of 12th November 1942 by Dziubany, a Huta employee (PMO BW 30/40)]  
· Bügel / Stirrup reinforcement 
· Schnitt a- / Section a-a 
· Pos. 6, 7, 8, 9 und für Unterzug II Pos. 42 / Positions 6, 7, 8, 9 and for beam II position  42 [refers to Huta static calculations of 29th August and 22nd October 1942 for:
· the external walls of Leichenkeller 1 (pos. 6),  
  · the reinforced concrete roof of Leichenkeller 2 (pos. 7) 
  · the longitudinal beam above the supporting pillars of Leichenkeller 2 (pos. 8) 
  · and the cross-beams perpendicular to the row of pillars of Leichenkeller 2 (pos. 9)]  
· Türstürz Pos. 16/ Door linter pos. 16 [BW 30/40]  
· Schnitt b-b/ Section b-b  
·  
Column headings:
   
· Nr / No.  
· Anzahl / Number 
· Diameter /Diameter
· Länge/ Length 
· Ges. Länge / Total length 
· Ges. Gewicht / Total weight  
 
This Huta drawing is of little interest except as an illumination of the degree of civilian participation in the design and construction of the Birkenau Krematorien.  
 
AUSCHWITZ:
Technique and operation
of the gas chambers

Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
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