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DIE ZENTRALBAULEITUNG DER
WAFFEN-SS UND POLIZEI AUSCHWITZ
AUSCHWITZ WAFFEN-SS AND POLICE
CENTRAL CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT |
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| PHOTO 1 shows some of the staff of
the Auschwitz Zentralbauleitung on the steps of their main office
building (located a few hundred meters northeast of the main camp,
on the banks of the Sola) in winter 1941 42 or 1942 43. Those in the
photograph are SS Captain Karl Bischoff, Head of the Bauleitung (in
the center, with the edge of a paper showing above his left cuff);
eight of his Second Lieutenants and a probable future Second
Lieutenant; three civilian workers and, lastly, seven NCOs and men.
It is practically impossible to identify the NCOs and men (out of 90
known) or the civilian workers (out of 20 known).The young Acting
Corporal or Corporal on Bischoff's right is not there by chance,
but, as his attitude shows, he must be in Bischoff's good books and,
probably the holder of a diploma in “Bauwesen”, he is destined to be
rapidly promoted to SS Second Lieutenant (Specialist) [SS
Untersturmführer [S] for “Sonderführer” (Nov. 41 June 42) or after
[F] for “Fachführer”.] This type of military career was followed by
seven of the fifteen known Second Lieutenants in the Bauleitung:
called up in the Waffen SS, these young men with a building or civil
engineering qualification were recruited as privates, then posted as
Acting Corporals or Corporals to some SS Bauleitung, where,
depending on their work and achievements, they were likely to be
promoted Second Lieutenant (Specialist). It would seem that the
Second Lieutenant] on Bischoff’s left is Dejaco, the head of the
Drawing Office. At the beginning of 1943 there were seventeen people
employed in this Office: its Head, Dejaco; a Sergeant, Ulmer, who
drew the first drawings of the future Krematorium II; two civilian
workers: two privates working on technical drawings of a certain
complexity; and, lastly, ten prisoners working on drawings of the
POW camp and making prints. The fifteen known Auschwitz Bauleitung
SS Second Lieutenants are: |
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Dejaco, Eggeling, Ertl,
Janisch, Jothann, Kastner, Kirschneck,
Peetz, Pollok, Schenk, Semena [?], Töfferl,
Urbanczyk (first Head of the Auschwitz Bauleitung before Bischoff
arrived on 1st October 1941), Wallerang and
Wolter. |
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| Those whose names are underlined
participated in various ways in the construction of the four
Birkenau Krematorien, but the others were all perfectly well aware
of their "abnormal" purpose (in a list showing the allocation of
work covering the whole camp among the members of the Bauleitung,
there appears in brackets under the heading of section II
“Bauleitung des Kreigsgefangenenlagers” the explanation
“(Durchführung der Sonderbehandlung / Implementation of special
treatment” [Photo 2]. This list was circulated to
everybody. |
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Photo 1:
[PMO
neg. no. 422] |
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| Fifth page of a six
page document listed the allocation of work at the main camp and
Birkenau between the members of the Bauleitung. Undated, but
probably drawn up in March or April 1942. From the “October
Revolution” Central State archives in Moscow.
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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