Post by Nessie on Nov 11, 2021 19:53:24 GMT
Here is a link to documents found by Jean-Claude Pressac, when he researched the gas chamber claims, at the A-B Construction Offices, that reference the construction of gas chambers inside the Kremas in 1943. The construction and design work was by the German company Topf & Sons, whose engineers gave evidence that they knew the gas chambers were to gas people.
- Memo from Fritz Sander of 17 February 1943 on “the gas cellar” in crematorium 2 [Schüle, Industrie und Holocaust, p. 456, back-up 1st and 2nd page]
- Order of 13 February 1943 on “12 gas tight doors approx. 30/40” for crematorium 4 and 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 444]
- Order of 15 February 1943 on “210 anchors for gas tight doors” for crematorium 4 [Pressac, Technique, p. 448]
- Order of 13 February 1943 on “12 gas tight doors approx. 30/40” for crematorium 4 and 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 444]
- Order of 15 February 1943 on “210 anchors for gas tight doors” for crematorium 4 [Pressac, Technique, p. 448]
- Order of 19 February 1943 on “4 tight doors” for crematorium 4 [Pressac, Technique, p. 452]
- List of materials of 24 February 1943 on “12 gas tight doors approx. 30/40” for crematorium 4 and 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 444]
- Delivery note of 24 February 1943 on “fittings of 12 gas tight doors” for crematorium 4 and 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 443]
- Work time sheet of 28 February 1943 on “fit gas tight windows” in crematorium 4 [Pressac, Technique, p. 445]
- Work time sheet of 2 March 1943 on “concrete in gas chamber” in crematorium 4 [Pressac, Technique, p. 446]
- Letter from Topf to central construction office Auschwitz of 2 March 1943 on “display devices for hydrogen cyanide residues” for crematorium 2 [Pressac, Die Krematorien von Auschwitz, p. 92]
- Order of 5 March 1943 of “handle for gas door” for crematorium 2 [Pressac, Technique, p. 433]
- Delivery note of 24 February 1943 on “fittings of 12 gas tight doors” for crematorium 4 and 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 443]
- Work time sheet of 28 February 1943 on “fit gas tight windows” in crematorium 4 [Pressac, Technique, p. 445]
- Work time sheet of 2 March 1943 on “concrete in gas chamber” in crematorium 4 [Pressac, Technique, p. 446]
- Letter from Topf to central construction office Auschwitz of 2 March 1943 on “display devices for hydrogen cyanide residues” for crematorium 2 [Pressac, Die Krematorien von Auschwitz, p. 92]
- Order of 5 March 1943 of “handle for gas door” for crematorium 2 [Pressac, Technique, p. 433]
- Order from Karl Bischoff of 31 March 1943 on “3 gas tight doors” of crematorium 4 and 5 and “gas door 100/192 for corpse cellar 1…with double 8 mm glass and peephole” of crematorium 2 and 3 [Pressac, Technique, p. 436]
- Transfer document of 31 March 1943 on “gas door” in crematorium 2 [Pressac, Technique, p. 437]
- Transfer document of 31 March 1943 on “gas door” in crematorium 2 [Pressac, Technique, p. 437]
- Order of 6 April 1943 on “24 anchor bolts for gas tight doors” for crematorium 4 and 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 454]
- Material list of 13 April 1943 on “extension of the aeration and deaeration device (warm air supply) of the crematorium II” [Rudolf Report, 2nd edition]
- Order of 16 April 1943 on “iron for fittings for 5 gas doors” for crematorium 4 and 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 438]
- Order of 16 April 1943 on “fitting for 1 gas door” for crematorium 3 [Pressac, Technique, p. 439]
- Work time sheet of 16 April 1943 on “fit gas door” in crematorium 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 454]
- Order of 16 April 1943 on “iron for fittings for 5 gas doors” for crematorium 4 and 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 438]
- Order of 16 April 1943 on “fitting for 1 gas door” for crematorium 3 [Pressac, Technique, p. 439]
- Work time sheet of 16 April 1943 on “fit gas door” in crematorium 5 [Pressac, Technique, p. 454]
- Transfer inventory of 24 June 1943 on “14 showers” and “1 gas tight door” in crematorium 3 [Pressac, Technique , p. 430]
A number of the documents are from Topf & Sons engineers, who, when questioned, admitted that they knew the gas chambers were being built to gas people;
Kurt Pruefer
"Question: Did you know that in the gas chambers and crematoria an extermination of completely innocent people was carried out?
Answer: Since the spring of 1943 I knew that at Auschwitz concentration camp completely innocent people were destroyed and their corpses then burned in the crematorium.
Question: What did Schultze Karl tell you about the corpses that you saw lying at the crematorium?
Answer: At that time, in the spring of 1943 in the morning in the crematorium, Schultze told me regarding the corpses of up to sixty men, women and children lying there, that they had been murdered in gas chambers.
Question: What equipment for the gas chambers did the company Topf design?
Answer: The gas chamber was initially called «room for corpses», where a ventilation was installed by the company Topf, but later it became clear that this was a gas chamber for killing people.
Answer: Since the spring of 1943 I knew that at Auschwitz concentration camp completely innocent people were destroyed and their corpses then burned in the crematorium.
Question: What did Schultze Karl tell you about the corpses that you saw lying at the crematorium?
Answer: At that time, in the spring of 1943 in the morning in the crematorium, Schultze told me regarding the corpses of up to sixty men, women and children lying there, that they had been murdered in gas chambers.
Question: What equipment for the gas chambers did the company Topf design?
Answer: The gas chamber was initially called «room for corpses», where a ventilation was installed by the company Topf, but later it became clear that this was a gas chamber for killing people.
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Question: Were the crematoria tested during your stay at Auschwitz concentration camp?
Answer: Of the six times on which I visited Auschwitz concentration camp only once, at the beginning of 1943, the testing of two of the five new ovens installed in the crematorium which had been built by myself, was carried out. In all of them six corpses of men of various ages were burnt, and there in the crematorium also lay the corpses of women and children, who had been murdered in the gas chamber and were to be burned in the crematorium. The total number of corpses was about sixty."
Answer: Of the six times on which I visited Auschwitz concentration camp only once, at the beginning of 1943, the testing of two of the five new ovens installed in the crematorium which had been built by myself, was carried out. In all of them six corpses of men of various ages were burnt, and there in the crematorium also lay the corpses of women and children, who had been murdered in the gas chamber and were to be burned in the crematorium. The total number of corpses was about sixty."
Karl Schultze
"Question: What did your notice at the time of your stay in Auschwitz concentration camp, while you were in the immediate surroundings of the crematorium and the gas chambers?
Answer: When I was at Auschwitz concentration camp, I personally saw, twenty steps away from me, how SS-men from the camp chased up to three hundred people before them - men, women and children. Of which nationality they were I could hardly determine, but according to their outside appearance they had no idea where they were being led. They chased them all into a huge wooden barracks without windows, which was electrically lighted inside.
From the outside this barracks was connected with the gas chamber through a closed corridor, where I installed the ventilation.
This I watched at around 16 hours. On the following day I was in the crematorium and saw sixty corpses of men, women and children of different age lying there. They lay on the floor without clothes, to be introduced into the crematorium oven. According to their aspect they had been murdered in the gas chamber."
Answer: When I was at Auschwitz concentration camp, I personally saw, twenty steps away from me, how SS-men from the camp chased up to three hundred people before them - men, women and children. Of which nationality they were I could hardly determine, but according to their outside appearance they had no idea where they were being led. They chased them all into a huge wooden barracks without windows, which was electrically lighted inside.
From the outside this barracks was connected with the gas chamber through a closed corridor, where I installed the ventilation.
This I watched at around 16 hours. On the following day I was in the crematorium and saw sixty corpses of men, women and children of different age lying there. They lay on the floor without clothes, to be introduced into the crematorium oven. According to their aspect they had been murdered in the gas chamber."
Fritz Sander
"Question: What did Prüfer and Schultze tell you after their business trip to Auschwitz concentration camp?
Answer: In the summer of 1942 Prüfer and Schultze told me that in the concentration camps [plural] of Auschwitz they destroyed many people in gas chambers and burned their corpses in the crematoria [Plural], the burden on the crematoria being so huge that they put three corpses into an oven opening [at the same time].
Question: Does this mean you knew that in the concentration camps [plural] at Auschwitz they destroyed completely innocent people?
Answer: Yes, since the summer of 1942 I knew that in the concentration camp at Auschwitz wholly innocent people were destroyed there, whereupon their bodies (plural) were burned in the crematoria [plural]. Prüfer told me about colossal transports of people being taken from Poland, Greece and other countries to the concentration camps Auschwitz and destroyed there."
Answer: In the summer of 1942 Prüfer and Schultze told me that in the concentration camps [plural] of Auschwitz they destroyed many people in gas chambers and burned their corpses in the crematoria [Plural], the burden on the crematoria being so huge that they put three corpses into an oven opening [at the same time].
Question: Does this mean you knew that in the concentration camps [plural] at Auschwitz they destroyed completely innocent people?
Answer: Yes, since the summer of 1942 I knew that in the concentration camp at Auschwitz wholly innocent people were destroyed there, whereupon their bodies (plural) were burned in the crematoria [plural]. Prüfer told me about colossal transports of people being taken from Poland, Greece and other countries to the concentration camps Auschwitz and destroyed there."