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  HUTA DRAWING 109/16A OF 9/10/43 [Regularization]
[PMO Archives file BW 30a/16, neg. no. 20922/8]    
     
  Bauherr: Waffen SS u. Polizei Auschwitz / Auschwitz Waffen SS and police
Betr,: Krematorium 2 (3) / Subject: Krematorium 2 (3) [II and III]
Erdgeschoß u. Schnitte / Ground floor and sections
Technical no. 109, Sheet 16a
Project 7015
Scale 1:100  
 

Translation of inscriptions:  
· Schnitt / Section 
· Querschnitt dd. Keller / Leichenkeller cross-sections  
   
Inscriptions on the ground floor plan:   
· Im Keller Vollmauerwerk / Built into the basement wall brickwork [refers to the air extraction ducting
for Leichenkeller 2]  
· Im Dachgeschoß / In the roof space [refers to the chimney containing the four air outlets on the
Krematorium:  
  · Leichenkeller 2; 
  · dissecting and washing room;  
  · furnace room; 
  · Leichenkeller 1] 
   
Section l m:    
· Kellerdecke /Basement roof  
   
Section i k    
· Betonplatten / Concrete slabs 
· Decke über Erdgeschoß / Ceiling over ground floor  
   
Underneath the Huta identification block:   
· Bemerkung / Note: 
· Die in () Kalmmern eingegebenen [?] Zahlen beziehen sich auf Krema 3 / The figures in round brackets refer to Krematorium III  

Huta drawing 109/16 concerns both Krematorium II and III. In producing it, Huta used the following Bauleitung drawings:    
   
· Section a b: 934;  
· Basement cross-section: Leichenkeller 2 (above) and 1 (below): 934;  
· Section e f: probably from Bauleitung drawing 1434, not found; 
· Section c d: 1174, but with the floor thickness greatly increased;  
· Section g h: 1173/1174, omitting the front elevation of the future Kr II; 
· Ground floor: 933, and 980 for the ventilation chimney;  
· Section i k and 1 m: drawn by Huta on the basis of the relevant Bauleitung drawings. They show the exact trace and dimensions of the Leichenkeller 1 ventilation duct. 
 
The original dissecting room has been divided in two by a thin partition wall to create a smaller dissection room and a laboratory. 
 
Huta drawing 109/16a contains no “criminal traces” but gives details of the ventilation system of Leichenkeller 1 (future gas chamber), in particular the fresh air duct.  
 
AUSCHWITZ:
Technique and operation
of the gas chambers

Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
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