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THE STRUTHOF
ALBUM STUDY OF THE
GASSING AT NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF
by Jean-Claude Pressac
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at about 9 o’clock, in a delivery
van. I told these women that they were going into a disinfection room [and
not for a shower or a bath, as has often been claimed since], without
letting them know that they were going to be asphyxiated.
Assisted by
several SS-men, I had them take off all their clothes and pushed them into the
gas chamber once they were completely nude.
As soon as I locked the
door, they started to scream. Once the door was closed, I placed a fixed
quantity of the salts in a funnel attached below and to the right of the
peep-hole [a glass covered observation aperture]. At the same time, I
poured in a fixed amount of water which flowed, together with the salts, into a
pit made inside the gas chamber under the peep-hole. Then I closed the opening
of the funnel by means of a tap, fitted into the bottom of the funnel, which
ran into a metal pipe. This metal pipe took the salts and the water into the
pit inside the gas chamber, which I have just told you about. [If he had
proceeded this way, J. Kramer would have asphyxiated himself.] I
illuminated the chamber’s interior by means of a switch located [at the
same level as and to the right of the peep-hole] near [above] the
funnel, and I observed what was happening inside the chamber through the
outside peep-hole.
I noted that the women continued to breathe for
about half a minute, and then fell to the ground. When I opened the door, after
having simultaneously switched on the ventilation inside the air circulation
flue [not likely, surely before opening the door], I noted that these
women were stretched out lifelessly and that they had lost control of their
bowels.
I entrusted two SS Male nurses with placing the corpses in a
delivery van, on the next morning at about half past five, in order to have
them taken to the Institute of Anatomy as Professor Hirt had asked.
A
few days later, under the same conditions as described above, I again brought a
number of women to the gas chamber, and they were asphyxiated by the same
procedure. A few more days after that, some fifty men, perhaps fifty-five, were
taken to the gas chamber on my orders, on two or three occasions, and killed
there by means of the same salts that Hirt had given me.
Following
an interpellation: I do not know what Hirt was going to do with the corpses
of these prisoners, assassinated at Struthof on his instructions. I did not
think it appropriate to ask him
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