The roof of Krematorium IV was
designed by Konrad Segnitz (drawing 1361), who also drew up timber
lists for the materials required [Photo H] and performed certain
static calculations [Photos I and J]. The roof frame was built,
covered and finished with bituminous felt by Industrie-Bau AG
[Photos K and L] between 4th January and 8th March 1943.
The
roof of Krematorium V was a mirror image of that of Krematorium IV,
so all that was needed was to invert Segnitz drawing 1361. This roof
was probably also built by Industrie-Bau AG, but we have no
documents to prove it. |
The two eight-muffle furnaces
were built under the supervision of a Topf & Sons foreman, Willi
KOCH, who carried out the final adjustments. For a financial
consideration, he wrote and sent orders to the Auschwitz DAW
metalworking shop for Krematorium IV (on 23rd and 27th February and
8th April 1943) and for Krematorium V (on 9th and 10th March and 8th
April 1943). However, the details of the work carried out by Willi
Koch and his weekly summaries of work done on the furnaces of
Krematorien IV and V have not been found. Messrs Josef Kluge appear
to have been responsible for most of the work of building the
furnaces: from 1st February to 10th March 1943 for that of Kr IV and
from 30th January to 25th May 1943 for that of Kr V [Photo M].
During the building of the Krematorium V furnace, Kluge received the
assistance of 3 or 4 bricklayers from Riedel & Son from 19th
March to 10th April 1943. |
