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Remarks on documents 9, 10,
11 and 12
[PMO neg. nos. 893 to 896] |
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In “AMIDST A NIGHTMARE OF
CRIME,“ (Notes of prisoners of Sonderkommando found at
Auschwitz), special issue of the Auschwitz Notebooks. PMO 1973. the
unknown author relates on pages 120 and 122 |
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"Today. November 25[1944.
Himmler is thought to have ordered the dismantling of the remaining
Krematorien on the 26th the demolition of crematorium II was
begun, the next to be demolished will be crematorium III. It is
interesting that first of all the ventilating motor [den gegen
ventilatonischen Motor / the air extraction motor] and pipes
[airducts] were dismantled and sent to [other] camps — some to
Mauthausen, others to Gross–Rosen. Since they serve to gas people on
a larger scale, as there were no mechanical appliances of that kind
at all in crematoria IV and V, suspicion is aroused that on the
terrain of those camps identical points for the extermination of
Jews will be established...” |
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Actually. the reasons for this dismantling appear to
be other than those invoked by the unknown author: a desire to
remove all traces of the massacres and the urgent need to recover
metals in view of the catastrophic military situation. What is more,
the description of the ventilation system given by this witness can
apply only to the undressing rooms.
Henryk Tauber says that
the dismantling commenced in autumn [end November] 1944 and that the
dismantled components were taken to the station and shipped off and
that some of the material was abandoned on the Auschwitz I “Bauhof”
and found intact in 1945. He recognised “parts of the ventilation
system.” These were from of the undressing rooms, since those of the
gas chambers in Krematorien II and III were of a different design.
These two witnesses indicate that the SS had the ventilation
systems of Leichenkeller 2 of Krematorien II and III dismantled at
the end of November 1944. This proves that the systems had indeed
been installed.
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
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of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
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