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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: "...perfectly orderly fashion..."
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.120103.14427@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 12:01:03 GMT
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- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
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- From a report entitled "Resettlement of Jews" written by
- SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Alfred Franke-Gricksch for SS-Col. M. von Herff and
- RF-SS H. Himmler, after inspection of Auschwitz camp on 14-16 May 1943.
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- '..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'.
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- Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the gas chambers, by Jean-Claude
- Pressac, published by the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, Library of congress
- Catalogue Card Number 89-81305. p. 238
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