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Photo 7:
[PMO neg. no.
20995/505, Kamann series] |
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View of the east end and north
side of Krematorium II, taken between 20th and 22nd January 1943. On
the east end of the main building, from left to right, are the
double windows of the prisoners' rest room, in which Dr. Miklos
Nyiszli and his assistants lived in the summer of 1944, the single
window of the fuel store and its double door. The last of the three
dormer windows has not yet been tiled.The area around the collective
chimney and the angle between the east and north sides of the roof
of the waste incinerator room also still have to be tiled.
The north side of the chimney has a metal inspection ladder
built on it. The four lightning conductors are in place in the
center of each side of the chimney.
There is no snow on the
roof as from the third former window, for the reasons given in the
comments on Photo 8 below. |
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Photo 8:
[PMO neg. no.
20995/506, Kamann series] |
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View of the south side of
Krematorium II, with in front of it Leichenkeller 1 (the future gas
chamber), taken on a southwest/northeast line on the same day as
Photo 7, i.e. between 20th and 22nd January 1943.
On
the extreme left, two workmen are tiling the roof. Kamann
photographed only the part of the building where the tiling was
nearly finished. The dormer windows are in place, their ridges
waiting to be tiled.
The fresh air intake chimney for
Leichenkeller 1 is completed and the collective chimney containing
the air extraction ducts for Leichenkeller 2, the washing room and
laboratory, the furnace room and Leichenkeller 1 is under
construction.
Furnaces 1, 2, 3 and 4 (but not 5) are being
warmed through to dry out, as can be seen by the fact that there is
no snow on the central part of the roof. In the right foreground,
the structure of Leichenkeller 1 is complete, including the roof.
The chimneys through which the Zyklon-B was poured were installed
later and the roof was covered with an earth bank. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
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