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Document 4
[PMO file BW 30/27,
page 7] |
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Document 2
[PMO file BW
30/27, page 5] |
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3rd copy |
To the
Waffen SS and Police
Central
Construction Management
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| Auschwitz/East Upper Silesia |
Erfurt [Wednesday) 7/7/43 |
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| Subject:
Your
ref. |
Our division D IV |
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| Your letter of 2nd incl.
Corres.
reg. |
Prf [Prüfer) |
KL Auschwitz
31718/43/Jäh/Wb
KGL Krematorien IV and V
BX 30b and 30c |
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Attached please find for your information a photocopy
of the contract letter from Reichsführer SS. Berlin, of 4.12.1941
and the carbon copy of our letter of 9.12.1941 confirming acceptance
of the contract.
As can be seen from the contract and
acceptance letters, four double four-muffle cremation furnaces were
ordered from us for a total price of 55,200 RM or a unit price of
13,800 RM per furnace.
A letter of 26.8.42 from the SS
Economic Administration Head Office, Berlin, requested us to divert
2 furnaces from the Mogilew contract to the Auschwitz Central
Construction Management, which we duly did.
As you are not
unaware, for this contract we had to build the f i r s t large
capacity furnace. However, this installation necessitated several
trips to Berlin for meetings with the Head Office. At a result of
these |
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Document 3
[PMO file BW 30/27, page
6] |
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| 7.7.43 |
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meetings, we frequently had to alter or add to our drawings; in
addition we had to produce completely new moulds for the furnace
frames, etc.
To cover these expenses we had reckoned on and
incorporated 6% of the contract price. [Supplement already
included in the 13,800 RM. which was the gross price of one of
the four Mogilew contract furnaces].
Your telegram of
26.10.42 wanted to know the ex works price for these eight-muffle
furnaces. For this we gave the price of 13,800 RM in which we had
included the anchor irons for the furnace, an extra item that also
coincidentally amounts to 6% = 828 RM.
Your letter of 10.
11.42 requested a price far the same furnace, but without anchor
irons which we gave in our quotation of 16.11.42 as 12.972 RM.
[13.800 - 828 = 12,972]
As you can see from the above, we
reduced the Mogilew [13,800] price by 6%: [828] because first, we
already had the drawings and molds available, and second, we assumed
that you intended to buy another eight-muffle furnace from us.
However, as Auschwitz did not order 2 furnaces, as we had
reckoned on, but as already mentioned, 2 furnaces from the
Mogilew contract were installed at Auschwitz : we therefore
invoiced you at the Mogilew price of |
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| 13,800 RM per furnace |
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| [i.e. 13.800 (Mogilew price) - 828 (anchor irons) + 828
(reintegration of initial expenses) = 13,800) |
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Document 4
[PMO file RW 30/27. page
7] |
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| 7 7.43 -2- |
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Central Construction Management, Auschwitz
as per
the letter from the Head Office. Berlin. We would like to point out
that a half furnace — i.e. 4 muffles — was delivered to Mogilew on
30th December 1941. The remaining 1½ furnaces remain at the
disposition of the Reichsführer SS. Berlin. We have asked several
times that delivery be requested, so that we can free our stores [of
them]. [3 4-muffle half furnaces remain in store at Erfurt]
As can be seen from our above explanation, our request is
justified; there has not yet been any overpayment on your part nor
through the Head Office. Berlin. |
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Heil Hitler!
[rubber stamp] J A Topf & Sons
IV
[signed] Prüfer |
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Enclosure,
2 carbon copies of this letter.
1 photocopy
contract letter Reichsführer SS.
1 carbon copy our confirmatory
letter of 9.12.41 |
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| [manuscript] Original letter and enclosures handed over to
Civilian Worker Jährling to be dealt with. 14.7.43 [unknown
initials] | |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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