The Leuchter Report: Introduction &
Editorial Notes
This document provides a counterpoint to assertions commonly made by
those who deny that anyone was gassed at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau and
Treblinka death camps during World War II; who, in fact, deny that
the gas chambers even existed. (At least a million people were
ruthlessly exterminated at
Auschwitz, and seven-hundred-thousand more
at Treblinka - the worst of the Nazi extermination camps in terms of
victims slaughtered.)
The most prestigious source in Germany regarding the crimes of the
Nazis during WW2, the "Institute for Contemporary History" in Munich,
sums up the facts in a recent publication. (For the full document,
get
pub/orgs/german/ifz/ifz.report)
Treblinka (district Warschau, general government) from the end of
July 1942 on had three gas chambers and received at the start of
September 1942 furthermore ten larger gas chambers. Up to the
dissolution of the camp in November 1943 altogether 700,000 Jews
were killed here by carbon monoxide.
Auschwitz-Birkenau (in the formerly Polish, in 1939 adjoined to
the "Reich" upper eastern Silesian area, south eastern of
Kattowitz): The extermination camp in Birkenau, established in the
second half of 1941, was joined to the concentration camp
Auschwitz, existing since May 1940. From January 1942 on in five
gas chambers and from the end of June 1943 in four additional
large gassing-rooms gassings with
Zyklon B have been undertaken.
Up until November 1944 more than one million Jews and at least
4000 gypsies have been murdered by gas. (Note that these numbers include only people gassed - many were
murdered using more "conventional" means)
This is by no means a replacement for serious research - just an
expose of common frauds like the "Leuchter report", and a guide to
scholarly sources.
This document was prepared by Danny Keren and
Jamie McCarthy, and edited to its present form by Ken McVay. Comments, corrections, and additions are welcome.
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