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AUSCHWITZ:
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| Document 24: |
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Translation of the photocopy of
page 116 of PMO file BW 30/34 [“Krematorium II und III/BW 30 und
30a”, Schriftwechsel Buchstube 215 (microfilm 1060)]. |
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| Correspondence register no 715 ?/41 Ho.
22nd
October 1941 |
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Order for three-muffle Topf
furnaces, suction type forced draught installation and waste
incinerators. |
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Conversation between our
Director of construction K. Bischoff and your Mr. Prüfer.
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Messrs. J. Topf & Sons,
Erfurt
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| The Auschwitz Waffen-SS and Police Construction
Management, referring to the conversation between your Mr. Prüfer
and our construction Director K. Bischoff, hereby orders:
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5 Topf three-muffle furnaces
with pulsed air installations |
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2 Topf suction-type forced
draught installations, each of approximately 10,000m3 per
hour |
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1 Topf waste
incinerator. |
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With the furnaces you are to deliver all the
refractory and insulating materials, as well as all cast iron
components, ducting and pulsed air components. The Construction
Management here will supply the other materials necessary for
building the furnaces, such as bricks, sand, lime and cement and the
wrought iron anchoring components.
For this order we would
ask you to furnish a detailed quotation whose prices will be the
basis for the contract. We should also like a quotation for air
extraction systems for the two corpse cellars, the dissecting room
and the furnace room.
This project being urgent, we would
ask you to immediately draw the plans for the foundation of the
furnaces and associated flues and channels and submit these drawings
to the Bauleitung within 14 days.
The furnace components
listed above shall be delivered within three months.
In
about 8 weeks you shall make available to our Bauleitung one of your
fitters who will supervise the building of the foundations.
Mr. Prüfer has already been given two drawings concerning
this project. On the basis of these drawings, you are to furnish the
Bauleitung with data concerning the required section and height of
the chimney. |
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For Second-Lieutenant Janish [copy of BW 30/27]
For Second-Lieutenant Kirschnek [copy of BW 30/34] |
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There are two copies of this letter, one for Janisch,
the other for Kirschnek. both Bauleitung Untersturmführer (SS
Second Lieutenant). The respective references of these letters
are:
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BW 30/27, page 27;
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BW 30/34. page 116, microfilm 1060.
This letter is the
first concerning the installation of what was to become the future
Birkenau Krematorium II, but was at that time planned as a new
Krematorium at the main camp. No “criminal premeditation” can be
attributed to the ventilation, since it concerns BOTH corpse
cellars, the dissecting room and the furnace room.
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
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