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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
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| CRIMINAL TRACES FOR KREMATORIEN IV AND
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[The criminal traces found in Files
BW(worksite) 30b and 30c, Krematorien IV and V respectively,
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discussed together because the orders were as a rule issued for both
buildings together.] |
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12 Stuck gasdichlen
Türen ca 30/40 cm
12 gas-tight doors approx 30 x 40
[4 mentions]
[File BW 30/31, incorrectly known as
"Schlosserei", (Bestellscheine des Zentral-Bauleitung, 1943), page
385] |
[photo 19] |
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Order of 13/2143 for Krematorien IV and V of
the KZL issued by the Central Construction Management to the
woodworking shop of the Auschwitz Deutsche Ausrüslungs-Werke, to
he delivered on 20/2/43:
“Anfertigung von:
12 Stück
gasdichten Türen ca 30/40 cm genau wie bereits angefertigte in der
Häftlingstischlerei mit Riegel u. Verschluss."
Production
of:
12 gas-tight doors approximately 30 x 40 cm exactly as
already made in the prisoners’ woodworking shop. with bolt and
catch.”
Signed by the civilian employee Teichmann and
countersigned by Bischoff. Received by the DAW on 15th February
1943. |
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Although the word
“Türen / doors” is hardly suitable for openings of 30 by 40 cm, more
the size of small windows, it was nevertheless used 4 times before
the civilian workers of Riedel & Sohn, who had to fit some of
them in the gas chambers of Krematorium IV, began to call them more
correctly “gas-tight windows”. Each of the Krematorien had 6 such
windows, while their gas chambers had 7 Zyklon-B introduction
openings to be fitted. This discrepancy can be explained now (see
point 22). It is apparent from the three windows remaining after the
dismantling of Krematorium IV and the destruction of Krematorium V,
that two types of “gasdichte Fenster” were made. The first,
made in accordance with the order of 13th February 1943, required
TWO operations for opening or closing, while the second required
only ONE. This order is the first link in a chronological chain
proving the existence of gas chambers in Krematorium IV, their rooms
on the west side being fitted with gas-tight doors and windows.
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| 17a. |
12 Stück gasdichte
Türen ca 30//40 cm
[File BW 30/31, page 385a]
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[Photo 20] |
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Verso of the order of 13th February 1943
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Production of door fittings by the DAW WL
metalworking shop of 24th February 1943 with a description of the
iron used to make them. [Photo 20, upper] |
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Production and assemhly of the “doors” by
the woodworking shop on 25th February 1943. Gas-tightness was
obtained through strips of felt [Filz] on both door and frame, some
of this material being found on the three still remaining. [Photo
20, lower] |
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The 12 “doors” were
delivered on 26th February 1943. |
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| 17b. |
Delivery note for
the door fittings of 24th February 1943
[File BW
30/31, Page 386] |
[Photo 21] |
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Filled in by the DAW
administrative office, this note covered the transfer of the door
fillings completed by the metalworking shop to the woodworking shop
where the doors where made and assembled. |
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Photo 21
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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