[WW2] - Auschwitz

The closing plates had the usual form and a construction of rectangular boxes for the equipment of ventilation openings. They were made of zinc sheet. The surfaces of all parts were covered with white, strongly adherent lining.

The examination was prepared by scraping the surface of one ventilator up to the blank metal, which was done to the whole inner side of the plate and the part of the grid turned towards the gas chamber. 7.2 grams [of examination material] were obtained.

The examination equipment consisted of a small glass bulb with a separating funnel and a gas absorption device with three gas absorption bottles. Into each of these bottles about 4 ml of 10% potassium hydroxide solution were poured.

The lining scraped off was mixed with water in the bulb, and after the bulb had been linked to the absorption vessel, concentrated sulfuric acid was added drop-wise with the separating funnel so that gas developed evenly but not tempestuously. The reaction was carried on, under slight warming at the end, until complete dissolution of the contents of the bulb. The absorption bottles were emptied and their contents submitted to the following examinations:

a) * * * * 4 ml of the liquid were strongly cooled and carefully neutralized with diluted sulfuric acid, alkalized with a few drops of sodium carbonate - sodium hydrogen carbonate buffer with pH 8.0, mixed with a small amount of iron(II)sulfate, left standing for 30 minutes under occasional shaking and then carefully acidified with sulfuric acid. There developed a bright green-blue coloring of produced Prussian Blue.

b) * * * * 4 ml of the liquid were mixed with some drops of ammonium poly-sulfide solution and kept at easy simmering for 5 minutes. The cooled mixture was precipitated with an excess of cadmium nitrate and filtered. The filtrate was acidified with hydrochloric acid and mixed with a solution of iron()sulfate. The result was a clear orange coloring of produced Rhodanide.

Both experiments described above prove that the examination material
contained connections of prussic acid.

Faurisson, Irving and Company claim there were absolutely no openings in the roof. Thus, no Zyklon B could have been thrown into the murder chambers. Thus, the Holocaust is an invention.

To be sure numerous witness statements, from concentration camp survivors even to SS people, acknowledge the existence of these openings, as well as a photo from the construction period of the death factory and two aerial photographs of the Allies from August 1944. Nevertheless such holes cannot be recognized in the ruins of the cellars of the two crematoria that the SS blew up at the end of 1944.

In the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies, three colleagues of the research network Holocaust History Project resolve the question of the holes exhaustively. Daniel Keren, Jamie McCarthy and Harry W. Mazal have investigated the ruins of of the two gas chambers in Birkenau as well as the gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz.

Their results concord exactly with the preserved and already known circumstantial evidence: the smaller cellar of Krema II had 4 approximately 60 centimeters square openings in the concrete ceiling. They were not in a row, but slightly staggered along the longitudinal axis of the gas chamber, alongside the seven concrete columns that supported the roof. The US scholars were able to identify three of the four openings in the ruins, the fourth is covered with debris. All alleged "arguments" of the Auschwitz deniers are refuted on the level of physically provable facts: the small cellar rooms of the two crematorium buildings were built as gas chambers and were used as such, in order to murder hundreds of thousands of human beings.

"---One day the captive mice are processed out of camp and shipped by train back to Poland. In Lublin the Nazi authorities fritter away yet another opportunity to exterminate them by permitting their release to Jewish "relatives" (for a fee). Vladek makes his way back to the family at Sosnowiec. from this point on much of the tale revolves around the sufferings of rich mice forced to have recourse to the black market to maintain their standard of living. None of this suffering is unique to Jews, of course, but although Maus tends to obscure the universality of this fact of wartime, it also makes quite plain that hoarding, speculating, and black-market profiteering quickly became Jewish specialties; for example, Vladek described half his relatives as Kombinators - connivers.

While the extended Spiegelman family enjoys escape after miraculous escape from Nazi attempts to control the currency and regulate economic activity (see, for instance, pp. 79 and 85), rumors are flying thick and fast, and the cats take their sweet time ghettoizing the mice. Four are hanged "for dealing goods without coupons," "to make an example of them!" (p. 83). In fact, these the only authenticated executions in Maus; hearsay and assumptions account for the rest ("This I didn't see with my own eyes..."). With one exception: Art's elder brother Richiev does not "come out from the war" with his supematurally fortunate parents, for the simple reason that the aunt who is caring for him, in a moment of blind panic upon hearing that her town is to be evaculated to Auschwitz

poisons him, her own two children, and herself to death (p.109).

Suffice it to say that the Final Solution was somewhat lacking in finality when it came to the Spiegelman clan - like so many others. Vladek even emerges from the war with valuables he now keeps in a Queens safe deposit box.---"

"Hade de inte liknande dörrar för det?"

Nej, verkligen inte: http://www.giwersworld.org/holo2/dachgas.phtml

"Sådana dörrar som i USA behövs inte."

Så du anser att en otät, vanlig trädörr är tilräckligt. Mycket bra. Kan du förklara det trevliga stora glasfönstret i en av dörrarna? De döende judarna måste ha krossat det under gasningen och de tittande SS-männen fått en dos Zyklon-B. Men de kanske var immuna mot gasen?