Camps

The German concentration camp system in general. In its sub-categories you can find contributions focusing on certain camps.

Some Technical and Chemical Considerations about the “Gas Chambers” of Auschwitz and Birkenau

1. Introduction Prior to the Leuchter Report[1] no scientific studies of any significance had ever been conducted about the homicidal 'gas chambers'[2] of Auschwitz and Majdanek, which is astonishing in view of the importance of the topic. Even in the great Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt in the mid-1960s, the expert reports that were commissioned had…

The Gas Chamber at Dachau: Now You See It, Now You Don't

We are all familiar with an instrument called the kaleidoscope, in which loose bits of glass are reflected by plane mirrors showing each bit of glass in 6 places at once, creating the illusion of a symmetrical design. A similar phenomenon occurs in “War Crimes Trials,” in which gas chambers are shown in 3 different…

Auschwitz: A Re-evaluation (1996)

Official Estimates of the Number of Victims Auschwitz was both the largest and most notorious of the Nazi concentration camps. Auschwitz is central to the literature on the Holocaust and Nazi crimes. At one time, it was claimed that as many as four million people were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Through the…

Witnesses to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz

1. Summary[*] Eyewitness testimony must always be verified. There are two essential means of verifying such testimony in criminal cases: confronting the account with the material elements (in particular, with expertise as to the crime weapon), and the detailed cross-examination of the witness on what he/she purports to have seen. Thus, in the proceedings where…

The Gassed People of Auschwitz: Pressac’s New Revisions

Regarding “Le macchine dello sterminio Auschwitz 1941-1945”; the Italian book purporting to be a translation of the original French book by Jean-Claude Pressac, “Les Crematoires d'Auschwitz: La machinerie du meuertre de masse.” 1. The New Thesis of Jean-Claude Pressac In the section headed The Extermination of Hungarian Jews in our study, Auschwitz: The End of…

The Diesel Gas Chambers

1. Diesel Exhaust and Zyklon B Most National Socialist homicidal gassings were supposedly committed with Diesel exhaust rather than cyanide or Zyklon B. Although this is contrary to popular perceptions about the Holocaust story, Diesel exhaust has been dominant, at least in terms of numbers of victims, in the claims of holocaust scholars since the…

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