Crematories and Cremations

All – or at least almost all – the remains of the six million murdered Jews are said to have disappeared tracelessly by means of incinerating them in crematories or on pyres. Such cremations are technically more or less demanding and can thus be scrutinized.

Tree-felling at Treblinka

1. Introduction It is commonly alleged that a small (approximately 14 hectares large) camp in eastern Poland, usually denoted Treblinka II, served as a “pure extermination camp” for Jews between the end of July 1942 and August 1943. It is further alleged that at this camp somewhere between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were killed with…

England’s Keele University Spreads Holocaust Propaganda

Picture as published by Spiegel magazine.[1] Below: section enlargement with explanatory captions. I think it was in the late nineties that a small news item in England mentioned that millions of air photos of WWII taken by the Royal British Air Force (and perhaps even some photos by the German Luftwaffe confiscated after the war…

Reply to Carlo Mattogno and the Editor on the Gas Detectors

I wish to reply to Carlo Mattogno’s articles on gas detectors for the crematorium at Auschwitz (TR, pp. 140–155, May 2004), and the editor’s prologue to those articles. In 1998 Mattogno and I wanted to air this issue in the Journal of Historical Review, but the editor declined to carry the exchange. I am grateful…

Engineer’s Deathbed Confession: We Built Morgues, not Gas Chambers

Who is Walter Schreiber? Walter Schreiber was born in 1908 and died in 1999 at the age of 91 in Vienna. He studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Vienna and worked first on the construction of the alpine high altitude road "Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße" as assistant to the construction manager. After an extended period of…

A Somewhat Different Auschwitz Trial

Walter Dejaco (left) and Fritz Ertl (right): The contractors of the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Thanks to an expert report they were acquitted. During the years 1964/65, a giant Auschwitz trial took place in Frankfurt, Germany. Almost all defendants accused of having participated in the crimes claimed to have been committed in this camp were eventually…

Cremation Pits and Ground Water Levels at Birkenau

The article “Grundwasser im Gelände des KGL Kriegsgefangenenlager Birkenau” (“Ground Water Levels at Birkenau Prisoner of War Camp”) by Michael Gärtner and Werner Rademarcher,[4] published in German for the first time in 1998 and reproduced in this edition, attempts to show that the existence of “cremation pits” in the courtyard of Crematorium V and the…

Ground Water in the Area of the POW camp Birkenau

1. Preliminary remarks about the Birkenau Camp Illustration 1: POW camp Birkenau in May 1942:alleged location of Bunker 1 (click to enlarge). The camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which is today generally referred to as "concentration and extermination camp", was originally designated as a "prisoner of war camp" at the end of 1941 by the German authorities.[4] The…

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