Home Up One Level What's New? Q & A Short Essays Holocaust Denial Guest Book Donations Multimedia Links

The Holocaust History Project.
The Holocaust History Project.

THE STRUTHOF ALBUM

STUDY OF THE GASSING AT NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF
by Jean-Claude Pressac  

 
Previous Page Back  Page 44 Home Page Home Page  Forward Next Page 
     
 
50.  Caricature of Professor Hirt. 
   
51.  Frontal view of Prof. Hirt’s face.  
   
52.  List of professors at the Strasbourg Faculty. This piece of cardboard was found on Professor Hirt's desk next to his telephone by Dr. Winckler. The camp of Struthof-Natzweiler appears at the top, and underneath there is a list of professors of the German Faculty. 
   
53.  Another view of the vats in the basement. Several corpses of 86 people assassinated in August 1943 in the Struthof gas chamber: 16 of these corpses were found intact.
[According to available sources, the gassings took place on the 11, 13, 17 and 19 or the 14 and 15 (of the women) August 1943.]  
   
54.  View of a vat containing emaciated corpses. 
   
55.  Corpses of probably Jewish (male) subjects who suffered the same fate. 
   
56.  Corpse bearing the identification number 107969 as a tattoo on the left forearm.  
   
57.  Corpse of young and robust subject, on whom an autopsy was per-formed by experts; the identification number tattoo on the left forearm is not visible on the photograph.  
   
58.  Idem. [Ditto]
   
59.  Other corpses brought from the gas chamber. 
   
60.  Idem. [Ditto]
   
61.  Idem. [Ditto]
   
62.  Female corpses lying in a vat (CDJC-CXXIX-78, photo no. 10).
[There are three.]  
   
63.  Idem.  [Ditto]
   
64.  Female corpse.
[The same as the one on the left in photograph 63, removed from the vat and exposed.
   
65.  Idem, [Ditto]
[Woman on the right in photograph 63.]
   
66.  Idem.[Ditto]
[Woman in the middle in photograph 63. These three women all have, at the top and in the middle of the left thigh, a gash for the injection of formol (explanation uncertain; source: legends on Anatomy photographs kept at the Permanent Military Tribunal of Metz) or rather phenol (Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center, Paris, CXXIX-78, caption photo nº 10).  
   
   

THE STRUTHOF ALBUM

STUDY OF THE GASSING AT NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF
By Jean-Claude Pressac

 
Previous Page  Back Page 44 Forward  Next Page

   

Last modified: July 17, 2008
Technical/administrative contact: webmaster@holocaust-history.org