Claim: Inmates were started down into the basement area, where they stripped and processed.
We will start with the crematoria itself and its purpose. A crematoria is to manage the deceased and its disposal. Before bodies are cremated, the oven has to be not in use. Cadavers awaiting processing have to be stored in a morgue. To have a morgue, you must have relatively cool area, like a basement. Therefore, you have direct basement access to place bodies. While you don't need to embalm bodies at all for cremation, those eleven ovens have a processing time of a minimum of 24 hours to cremate a corpse. Therefore, to manage sanitary conditions, the bodies were stored in the morgue, and in periods of excess morality (in respect to the crematoria's capabilities), bodies may have even been embalmed for disease control.
If this was the "stripping room" why did it have to be done down here? You would have to move more shit back to the surface to the "shoe room" and the "clothing room". They could have been told to leave their articles at camp. Which brings us to the . Notice that chamber 3, and its sister both sit at the end of the rail lines with connections to prisoner barracks. It would make sense to have the morgue entrance face that way, because that is where a dead body would come from. Coal for the furnaces could also be unloaded here straight from the rail line.
Claim: Gas columns demonstrate the use of a gas chamber, where Zyclone in pellet form can be dropped from the outside of the building
The depiction of the fenced, unreachable chutes where dropped pellets that were shielded from the inhabitants with wire meshes are an art of fiction from Sam Itzkowitz. There is no example German construction of this contraption, nor any examples found at non-Soviet inspected camps. The only example of such a device comes from the (whose first hand testimony account of the construction and operation procedures was the total plan of Waterloo's "Evidence Room"). If ports in the roof were found, it adds to my claim of it being a morgue, as it would aid in the ventilation of corpse miasma.
Claim: The gas door comes equipped with a port hole that the prisoners vandalized defiantly, so the Germans put a mesh over it to prevent the glass from being pushed out.
For comparison,
Another tale of Sam Itzkowitz. The man who claimed to built the door himself. Since there are no true example of the doors of this morgue existing demonstrating what is in this video, I will suspect they took the artistic liberty to remove the interior handle. Its not unusual for a room meant for storage of environmentally sensitive items, and meant for access by specialized personal like doctors in charge of securing such a room to have exterior-only locking. I have worked in a sound proof room that was once an old freezer in a laboratory, that only locked from the outside. (A simple "flashing light" alarm system was added since someone got trapped in it when it got latched closed by someone outside.) Why no two way latch? That meant there would be a leak through the tolerance for the mechanical mechanism, which would defeat the sealing.
The possible purpose of the peep hole (which the historical photo is a cropped image of the exterior door of bunker 1)? To make sure your partner wasn't in the room when you locked up and turned off the lights for the night. The secondary function was a bomb shelter, hence the mesh on the inside, but that meant the door obviously had to stay unlocked from the outside, like the US bomb shelter I have shown earlier. This is just my speculation.
Why weren't either of these things found at Auschwitz? The popular story (like from jewishvirtuallibrary.com) tries to explain it all away is that SS effectively dismantled the embarrassing parts of the camp to hid evidence of crimes on January 20, 1945, coincidentally the same day an evacuation order was issued from German high command. There is no proof of such a secret order ever existed, and actually executing such an order would risk elite manpower to the advancing Soviet front to a war the Germans still thought they still had a sliver a chance of winning. The counter offenses of Operation Market Garden proves the Germans were still combat capable, and were not a defeated and decrepit enemy the jews depict.
I will talk about some absurdities that always bothered me was the claim of operation capacity. The claims that the vast majority of the genocide happening in 1944 is suspect, but this was the time the camp had all 52 ovens in 5 crematoriums. So that is basically Jan 1 to Jan 20 to get the majority of 1.1 million dead. This requires 2585 deaths per day. Assuming all 52 ovens were working, that means each oven had to process 55 per day. An impossibility. Even assuming the Germans met the halfway mark at 1944 means processing 28 per day. Also an impossibility. Even meeting the 80% mark before 1944 means each oven had to process 10 per day. Again an impossibility.
Enough of the cooking, lets talk staffing. claims the camp had a bunk count of 135,000, with an SS detail overhead of 8,000 (over the size of a legion, if you want to add jewish religious tropes) For comparison, the prisoner population of the largest US Japanese concentration camp was Tule Lake. Tule Lake was well planned with a density of 100 sq ft per person. Auschuwitz's numbers place it about 125 sq ft per person minimum. Why such higher living space for a death than a US concentration camp?
Thanks for your response. He never addresses the math problem in the video. I had never seen the square footage calculation before.
Thanks for your detailed response. It seemed like an especially weak video from a pompous professor.
It's interesting that he says Zyklon B was an anti-lice chemical but never addresses the possibility that it was simply used for mass de-lousing of incoming inmates. Anyone doing de-lousing of a uncooperative group would only have exterior locks to keep people from opening the door during treatment.
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