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Technique
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Photo 21:
[PMO neg. no.
826] |
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Sketch of Krematorium II hard at work.
Northwest/southeast view, drawn in 1945 by a member of the Soviet
Commission and based on the Bauleitung project drawings 936 and 937
of 15/1/42.
As it was based on early drawings and not the
inventory drawing 2197 of 19.3.43, it contains a number of
inaccuracies. |
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No enclosed yard behind the
waste incinerator wing; |
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No ventilation or air extraction
chimneys; |
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No northern access stairway to
the basement; |
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No wall extending the north wall
to prevent earth from the bank on the roof of Leichenkeller 2
sliding into the above stairway; |
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The shadows on the building are
doubly incorrect: as shown in the sketch, the west end seems to be
in the north and the north wing in the east, in fact corresponding
to the location originally planned in the Auschwitz main camp. But
even for the original location, the angles of the shadows are
incorrect, placing the conventional south too far east! |
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Photo 22:
[PMO neg. no.
827] |
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| Cut-away drawing of Krematorium II, looking
southwest/northeast, probably produced in 1945 by a member of the
Soviet Commission and subsequently labeled in Polish. |
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Translation of
inscriptions: |
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WCHOD / Entrance |
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ROZBIERALNIA / Undressing room
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KOMORA GAZOAW / Gas
chamber |
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WSYP TRUCIZNY / Pouring of
poison |
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PIECE / Furnace |
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| This drawing also unfortunately contains several
errors which were subsequently reproduced in the plaster models now
exhibited by the Auschwitz Museum on the first floor of Block 4, the
“Extermination” section: |
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The western access stairway to Leichenkeller 2 should
be further north; |
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The openings for pouring Zyklon-B were not staggered
as shown here (and as in Krematorium III), but were in a straight
line, between the central pillars supporting the roof of
Leichenkeller 1; |
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Between the WC/shower room of the laboratory (which
had only one door, not two as shown here), were the corpse washing
room and the lift, forgotten here. The model of Krematorium II
visible in Block 4 is based on this first representation of the
functioning of a Krematorium. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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