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Part I
The Existence of Gas
Chambers
Our knowledge concerning the gas
chambers is based on three sources of information: 1) the archives of the Nazi
administrations; 2) the statements of particularly qualified members of the SS
and 3) the numerous declarations of former prisoners of camps such as Auschwitz
Belzec or Treblinka. Naturally, the part of personal accounts in this
information is considerable. Among them, a particular attention must be
accorded to those given before the end of the war or during the first years of
the post war period, when memories were still keen and precise and when the
absurdity of the fable of the Jewish plot to obtain German reparations is
obvious. At that time, neither the State of Israel nor the Federal Republic of
Germany, the two parties to the future agreements (1), had yet come into existence. However, an exception to
this rule must be made for what concerns the "evidence" of Thies
Christophersen. This is not because the document is especially serious or
convincing, but rather because the author is the sole "witness" among the
apologists of Nazism who even so knew the camp of Auschwitz a little and, above
all, because the exploitation of his story for the last five years has become
the immutable rule for all of the other neo Nazi polemists. This account dates
from 1973, or twenty eight years after the war.
A: The Gas
Chambers at Auschwitz
It is perhaps not useless for the clarity of this
exposé to briefly recall the essential part of our current knowledge on
the subject of the gas chambers at Auschwitz and which is denied as a whole.
The camp of Auschwitz was originally and for the first two years of its
existence (May 1940 spring 1942) a camp which resembled many
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