| However, drawing 2197 from the “October
Revolution” archives indicates that Leichenkeller 1 had 16
lamps and 3 taps and Leichenkeller 2, 10 lamps and 5 taps. There has
been inversion of the lines on the inventory as from the number of
lamps. The document should read: |
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| 1st line: |
Room 1 — Leichenkeller [1]: 16
lamps. 3 taps. 4 introduction devices, 4 covers. |
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| 2nd line: |
Room 2 — Leichenkeller [2]: 10
lamps, 5 taps. |
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The aerial photograph of 24th August 1944 taken by the
Americans shows that the 4 introduction devices were indeed
installed in Leichenkeller 1 / gas chamber 1 of Krematorium II, and
not in Leichenkeller 2 / undressing room.
Thus,
Leichenkeller 1 of Krematorium II, named in fact in a letter of 29th
January 1943 as “Vergasungskeller / gassing cellar” and fitted with
a “Gasdichtetür / gas-tight door” [PMO, BW 30/43, page 34],
has 4 wire mesh introduction devices, closed by wooden covers [or
flaps]. It would be too much to expect the SS to have formally
written that Zyklon-B was poured into these introduction devices. As
this product was composed of small pellets of silica*, an absorbant
substrate for prussic acid, it is obvious that a wire mesh column
with a cover COULD SERVE ONLY for pouring the pellets into the
interior. The mesh retained the solid pellets and allowed the gas to
diffuse. The fundamental, complementary, and supplementary proofs
described above establish beyond any shadow of a doubt that in
Krematorien II and III. their Leichenkeller 1: |
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| 1. |
Were no longer “typical morgues”: |
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| 2. |
Were fitted with gas-tight doors (Leichenkeller of Krematorium I
I also being designated as a “Vergasungskeller”): |
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| 3. |
Had dummy showers (14 in Krematorium III and something over
twenty in Krematorium II): |
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| 4. |
Included four devices for introducing Zyklon-B (with supporting
concrete evidence of this in the case of Krematorium II). that have
been perfectly described by former prisoners who were employed in
the DAW metalworking shop because it was they who made
them. |
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| DOCUMENT PMO BW 30/43,
PAGE 24 IS DEFINITIVE PROOFOF THE PRESENCE OF A HOMICIDAL GAS
CHAMBER IN LEICIIENKELLER 1 OF KREMATORIUM
III. |
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Note by the transcriber: A subsequent analysis of Zyklon-B pellets
supplied by the Firector of the Auschwitz State Museum has revealed
that the absorbant substrate was not silica as stated by Pressac,
but of calcium sulphate, an inexpensive industrial absorbant. Copies
of the images produced with a scanning electron microscope and
elemental analysis undertaken with an energy dispersive x-ray
spectrometer are available on request from: hmazal@mazal.org
] |
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