Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: LEST WE FORGET: Evidence of Gassings Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: gassing,Auschwitz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Report entitled "Resettlement of Jews" written by SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Gricksch for SS-Col. von Herff and Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, after inspection of Auschwitz camp on 14-16 May 1943. [Pressac, p. 238] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The unfit go to cellars in a large house which are entered from outside. They go down five or six steps into a fairly long, well-constructed and well-ventilated cellar area, which is lined with benches to the left and right. It is brightly lit, and the benches are numbered. The prisoners are told that they are to be cleansed and disinfected for their new assignments. They must therefore completely undress to be bathed. To avoid panic and to prevent disturbances of any kind, they are instructed to arrange their clothing neatly under their respective numbers, so that they will be able to find their things again after their bath. Everything proceeds in a perfectly orderly fashion. Then they pass through a small corridor and enter a large cellar room which resembles a shower bath. In this room are three large pillars, into which certain materials can be lowered from outside the cellar room. When three- to four-hundred people have been herded into this room, the doors are shut, and containers filled with the substances are dropped down into the pillars. As soon as the containers touch the base of the pillars, they release particular substances that put the people to sleep in one minute. A few minutes later, the door opens on the other side, where the elevator is located. . . . Then the corpses are loaded into elevators and brought up to the first floor, where ten large crematoria are located. (Because fresh corpses burn particularly well, only 50-100 lbs. of coke are needed for the whole process.) The job itself is performed by Jewish prisoners, who never step outside this camp again. Letter from Dr. Erhard Wetzel to Reichskommissar Lohse, October 25, 1941 [REIT, p. 137] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Herr Viktor Brack, Oberdienstleiter in the Fuehrer's Chancellory, is ready to collaborate in the installation of the necessary buildings and gas plants. He thinks its easier to construct the latter, of which we are short, on the spot. He would like to send his chemist, Kallmayer, to Riga. I request you to communicate with Brack through your higher police leader, I permit myself to observe that Major Eichmann is in agreement. He informs us that the camps are intended for Riga and Minsk where even Jews from the old Reich may be sent. At the present time Jews who are evacuated from the old Reich are sent to Lodz and other camps, from which they leave for the east or for labour camps if they are suited. To judge from the actual situation one need have no scruple in using Brack's method to liquidate Jews who are unsuitable for work. In this way incidents will no longer be possible or tolerated such as occurred during the shooting in Vilna - and these shootings were public, according to the report that I have before me. On the other hand, Jews suitable for work will still be sent east to be attached to the labour service. Naturally the employable men and women must be separated from each other. Letter from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Bischoff, of the Auschwitz construction department, to SS General Kammler, January 29, 1943 [REIT, p. 158] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Crematorium No. 2. The completed furnaces have been started up in the presence of Engineer Prufer from Messers. Topf (of Erfurt). The planks cannot yet be moved from the ceiling of the mortuary cellar on account of frost, but this is not important, as the gassing cellar can be used for that purpose. The ventilation plant has been held up by restrictions on rail transport, but the installation should be ready by February 20th. Letter from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Jahrling to SS-General Kammler estimating the number of corpses that can be disposed off in 24 hours in the Auschwitz crematoriums, June 20 1943 [Pressac, p. 247] ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.) Crematorium I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 x 2 muffles 340 persons 2.) Crematorium II ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 x 3 muffles 1440 persons 3.) Crematorium III ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 x 3 muffles 1440 persons 4.) Crematorium IV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8 muffles 768 persons 5.) Crematorium V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8 muffles 768 persons === The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, Canada === For an extensive bibliography dealing with the Holocaust, and containing over 1100 citations, contact kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca - it will be sent to you by return email. Additions to this bibliography are actively solicited.