| (25) |
Four: |
| Probably correct, if
they are 1.5 kg cans, as this corresponds to the figure of 6 kg
cited by Hoess. |
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|
| (26) |
Grass: |
| Correct. Visible on
PMO photo neg. no. 20995/460. |
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|
| (27) |
thirty yards: |
WRONG. Every 7 or 8
meters. Repetition of an error already pointed out.
(Multiplier:
4) |
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|
| (28) |
short concrete
pipes: |
| Correct. Though
perhaps “chimneys” gives a better picture. They were about 40-50cm
high and three of the four are clearly visible under construction on
PMO photo neg. no,. 20995/504. |
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|
| (29) |
concrete: |
| Henryk Tauber confirms
that the covers were of concrete with two handles, but an inventory
drawn up when Krematorium II was handed over to the camp
administration on 31st March 1943 indicates “4 Holzblenden / 4
WOODEN covers”. |
| |
|
| (30) |
A mauve granular
substance: |
| Actually pale
blue-green. |
| |
|
| (31) |
Chlorine (not in the English
version of the book]: |
| WRONG. The poison was
hydrocyanic (prussic) acid. |
| |
|
| (32) |
never a
stock: |
| Questionable. Henryk
Tauber relates that the Zyklon-B was stored in a small basement
room. |
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|
| (33) |
3,000
innocents: |
| See the comment on
“3,000 people” above. |
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|
| (34) |
Twenty minutes later, the
electric ventilators were set going: |
| Correct. The sequence
of operations is well-described. Twenty minutes after the
introduction of the gas the extraction fans were switched on and
then the door was opened afterwards. In the description by Hoess,
this order is reversed: |
| |
"The door was opened half an
hour afer the introduction of the gas, and the ventilation switched
on. Work was immediately begun on removing the corpses.:.
[“Commandant of Auschwitz”, page 224] |
This inversion by
Höess is of little importance and no consequence. He was first and
foremost the Camp Commandant and he had other things to worry about
than the precise sequence of events during a gassing operation in an
unidentified gas chamber, one of the seven locations where homicidal
gassings were carried out, a sequence that any SS NCO in Krematorium
I, II, or III would know perfectly well.
I would point out
that the first “shock” argument used by R Faurisson in his
“Mémoire en Défense”, La Vieille Taupe, pages 158 and
159 on “The material impossibility of the Auschwitz gas chambers
(documents)” is based on this “contradiction”. A true indication of
the trivial nature of his argument! |
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|
| (35) |
disinfect: |
| More accurately
disinfest. This was done in a gas chamber, again using Zyclon-B, in
Kanada I. |
| |
|
| (36) |
“Exhator”
[“exhaustor” in the Hungarian and French
versions]: |
| Dr Nyiszli is the only
one to give this name. It is not confirmed in any surviving
document. |
| |
|
| (37) |
it caused a suffocating
cough... gas masks: |
| This cough was
provoked by the warning agent in the Zyklon-B, a lacrymogenic and
sternutatory “Bromessigester / bromacetic ester”. This observation
by Nyiszli means that the Zyklon-B WITHOUT A WARNING AGENT delivered
and invoiced by Degesch in March 1944 to the SS Ustuf Kurt Gerstein
was not generally used in Auschwitz, otherwise the Sonderkommando
members would not have coughed. |
| |
|
| (38) |
powerful jets of water:
|
| The tap or taps were
outside the gas chamber according to the testimony of
survivors, but the inventory drawings of Krematorien II and III show
three taps inside. Even if their initial location was inside
they would soon have been damaged by the desperate victims, which
explains their new location. |
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|
| (39) |
thongs around the
wrists: |
| A technique for
transporting bodies that had spread to all the extermination
points. |
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|
| (40) |
elevators: |
| There was ONE lift. A
300 kg goods hoist was provisionally installed in Krematorium II on
13th March 1943, and was later replaced by a 1500 kg DEMAG electric
lift [BW 30/34, pages 69 and 70, letter of 28th February 1943]
|
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|
| (41) |
Four: |
WRONG AND DELIBERATELY
MISLEADING. All the Bauleitung drawings and the ruins prove that
there was only ONE lift in the type II/III Krematorium. Whom is Dr
Miklos Nyiszli trying to mislead and why?
(Multiplier: 4)
|
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|
| (42) |
Twenty to twenty-five corpses
to an elevator: |
| With the “to an”,
Nyiszli confirms his claim that there was more than one lift. 20 to
25 corpses is reasonable, as with an average of 60 kg this would
give a load of 1200 to 1500 kg, the latter being the maximum
capacity of the Demag lift. |
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|
| (43) |
at the crematorium’s
incineration room: |
More correctly “at one
end of”.
There is no indication here of more than one
lift. |
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|
| (44) |
large sliding doors opened
automatically: |
| We have no details on
these doors apart from the sketch of the furnace room by David
Olère. |
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|
| (45) |
chutes which unloaded them in
front of the furnaces: |
| No doubt a
mistranslation due to lack of familiarity with the premises. There
were no chutes here and only way the bodies were made to “slide” to
a position before the furnaces was to drag them along a broad trough
in the floor that was kept full of water. |
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|
| (46) |
Hair: |
| This was collected
throughout Europe during the war. This practice had nothing macabre
about it except in Auschwitz, where people were killed before being
shorn. |
| |
|
| (47) |
delayed action bombs:
|
| More commonly known as
time bombs: a “war story” pure and simple. The hair was transformed
into industrial felt and even into cloth to make slippers for
submarine crews and felt stockings for Reichsbahn railwaymen.
[Letter of 6th August 1942. Doc. URSS-511, in: “Le IIIème
Reich et les Juifs” by L Poliakov and J Wulf, NRF Gallimard,
1959, pages 67 and 68] |
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|
| (48) |
slogans: |
| Quite correct. The
proclamations about the value of work in the Third Reich and the
morbid pillage of gold in the Krematorien make a sickening contrast.
|
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|
| (49) |
the “tooth-pulling kommando.
which was stationed in front of the ovens” |
| A sketch by David
Olère shows the “dentists” and “barbers” at work IN THE GAS CHAMBER
of Krematorium III. Both methods of working were no doubt used.
|
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|
| (50) |
necklaces, pearls, wedding
hands and rings: |
| Gold teeth and
fillings were not the main source of gold, but rather rings, as Dr
Nyiszli honestly says, unlike others who keep silent on this
point. |
| |
|
| (51) |
from 18 to 20
pounds: |
| Impossible to verify
at present, without the consignment notes or Reichsbank
receipts. |
| |
|
| (52) |
laid by threes on a kind of
pushcart made off sheet metal: |
| For charging the
bodies into the furnace there was in front of each muffle a set of
rails for a charging trolley of the type now visible in the “Old
Krematorium” [Krematorium I] of the main camp. This technique,
considered too complicated, was abandoned in favour of charging by
means of a metal stretcher whose two edges fitted on to a pair of
rollers located in front of the furnace door. There was just one
pair of rollers for a 3-muffle furnace. They slid along and could be
placed before each of the three openings. A David Olère sketch shows
charging by this method. |
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|
| (53) |
Automatically:
|
| Pure invention. They
were operated by hand. |
| |
|
| (54) |
Twenty
minutes. |
| Rather short — more
like half an hour. |
| |
|
| (55) |
several thousand people could
he cremated in a single day: |
Even assuming that 3
corpses per muffle could be incinerated in 20 minutes, the 15
muffles of Krematorium II could take only 3240 corpses in 24 hours.
If all the Krematorien were identical, this would give a total for
the 4 Krematorien of 12,960 rather than the 20,000 claimed in the
Hungarian and French versions. These results obtained on the basis
of Nyiszli ’s data are first of all inconsistent with his own
figures and in any event exaggerated, since the “throughput” of a
type II/III Krematorium was between 1000 and 1500 in 24 hours and of
type IV/V 500 in 24 hours.
The legend of 20,000 to 25,000
victims a day was transmitted by the members of the Sonderkommando.
(Multiplier for Krematorium II: 2 to 3) |
|
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| THE
MULTIPLIER |
| |
| The average of the different multipliers almost
exactly 4. If we apply this to the official total of 4 million
victims we arrive at a figure much closer to reality: 1 million.
This calculation is by no means scientific or rigorous, but it shows
that DOCTOR NYISZLI, a respectable ACADEMIC, TRAINED IN GERMANY,
multiplied the figures by FOUR when describing the interior of
Krematorium II and when speaking of the number of persons or
victims |
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