| However, drawing 2197 from the
“October Revolution” archives indicates that
Leichenkeller 1 had 16 lamps and 3 taps and Leichenkeller 2, 10 lamps and 5
taps. There has been inversion of the lines on the inventory as from the number
of lamps. The document should read: |
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| 1st
line: |
Room 1 —
Leichenkeller [1]: 16 lamps. 3 taps. 4 introduction devices, 4
covers. |
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| 2nd
line: |
Room 2 —
Leichenkeller [2]: 10 lamps, 5 taps. |
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The aerial photograph of 24th August 1944 taken
by the Americans shows that the 4 introduction devices were indeed installed in
Leichenkeller 1 / gas chamber 1 of Krematorium II, and not in Leichenkeller 2 /
undressing room.
Thus, Leichenkeller 1 of Krematorium II, named in fact
in a letter of 29th January 1943 as “Vergasungskeller / gassing
cellar” and fitted with a “Gasdichtetür / gas-tight
door” [PMO, BW 30/43, page 34], has 4 wire mesh introduction devices,
closed by wooden covers [or flaps]. It would be too much to expect the SS to
have formally written that Zyklon-B was poured into these introduction devices.
As this product was composed of small pellets of silica*, an absorbant
substrate for prussic acid, it is obvious that a wire mesh column with a cover
COULD SERVE ONLY for pouring the pellets into the interior. The mesh retained
the solid pellets and allowed the gas to diffuse. The fundamental,
complementary, and supplementary proofs described above establish beyond any
shadow of a doubt that in Krematorien II and III. their Leichenkeller
1: |
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| 1. |
Were no longer “typical morgues”: |
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| 2. |
Were fitted with gas-tight doors (Leichenkeller of
Krematorium I I also being designated as a “Vergasungskeller”):
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| 3. |
Had dummy showers (14 in Krematorium III and something over
twenty in Krematorium II): |
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| 4. |
Included four devices for introducing Zyklon-B (with
supporting concrete evidence of this in the case of Krematorium II). that have
been perfectly described by former prisoners who were employed in the DAW
metalworking shop because it was they who made them. |
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| DOCUMENT
PMO BW 30/43, PAGE 24 IS DEFINITIVE PROOFOF THE PRESENCE OF A HOMICIDAL
GAS CHAMBER IN LEICIIENKELLER 1 OF KREMATORIUM III. |
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| [* Note by the transcriber: A subsequent analysis of Zyklon-B
pellets supplied by the Director of the Auschwitz State Museum has revealed
that the absorbant substrate was not silica as stated by Pressac, but of
calcium sulphate, an inexpensive industrial absorbant. Copies of the images
produced with a scanning electron microscope and elemental analysis undertaken
with an energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer are available on request from:
hmazal@mazal.org ] |
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