From mvanalst@rbi.com Tue Jun 25 14:35:10 PDT 1996 Article: 45896 of alt.revisionism Path: nizkor.almanac.bc.ca!news.island.net!news.bctel.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!rbi142.rbi.com!user From: mvanalst@rbi.com (Mark Van Alstine) Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Re: The obvious question (was: The full story of the reconstruction) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 12:24:52 -0700 Organization: rbi software systems Lines: 136 Message-ID:References: <4q5roo$590@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <4q7a77$2n4@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> <4q8gdp$bae@cnn.cc.biu.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: rbi142.rbi.com X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.5b5 In article <4q8gdp$bae@cnn.cc.biu.ac.il>, schultr@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il (Richard Schultz) wrote: > Prince Myshkin (mgiwer@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > : dkeren@world.std.com (Daniel Keren) wrote: > > :: Why does the gas chamber still have cyanide traces on its walls? > > : Same reason there are traces on the outside walls. It was a large scale > : delousing facility of the pre-Degesh design. Things like mattresses > : were leaned against the outside wall to complete the airing out. > > If this is the case, then an obvious question suggests itself. If > Auschwitz was equipped with such extensive delousing facilities and > these were used to such a great extent, how is it that the people > running the camp were so spectacularly unsuccessful in preventing > typhus epidemics in the camp? I'd still like to hear the Giwer-Troll's source for "it was a large scale delousing facility of the pre-Degesh design. Things like mattresses were leaned against the outside wall to complete the airing out." Mattreses? According to Otto Freidrich in _The Kingdom of Auschwitz_ the prisoners in Auschwitz I "slept in three tiered wooden bunks, half a dozen men to a bunk, often with no mattresses or blankets.... The prisoners' only consolation was that Birkenau was even worse." And which delousing gas chambers, specifically, were mattresses deloused in? Perhaps in Block 3? According to Andreje Rablin (prisoner no. 1410): "...In these rooms ther were wooden frames with hooks on which we hung clothes... There were many lice in the clothes. Sometimes, filling the chamber with clothes took as much as two days...." (_Technique_, p.25>) Nope, not the delousing gas chambers in Block 3. How about Block 26? According to Pressac: "According to < > conserved at the PMO, volume 100 page 48, a clothing delousing installation was installed in two rooms of the ground floor of Block 26.... The disinfestation agen tis not known. The plans on the inventory drawing suggest a complex installation using steam, the situation dating from February 1942 and, it would appear definitive since the installation was designed almost a year and a half earlier. It could be that initially it functioned in a primative manner as gas chambers using Zyklon-B, made gas tight by using strips of paper, and ventilated by two air extraction fans." (Ibid. p. 24.) Hmm. Not likely, as it was probably a _clothing_ delousing installlation that used steam. Block 1? Probably not, as it seems to have been an ad hoc delousing gas chamber dating from about mid-August 1942 (during the typhus epidemic), for delousing personal effects. (Ibid. p.27.) Or the delousing gas chambers in the reception building? Nope. They were used for quick delousing of the clothing of prisoners being admitted and registered into the camp. (Ibid. p.31.) How about the two delousing gas chambers at Kanada I? According to Josef Odi, who worked there in the spring of 1944: "...There I disinfected the effects of people who had been killed. Furs and valuable objects that could not be disinfested by steam were disinfested using Zyklon-B, the same method that was used in the gas chambers to kill men.... The disinfestation was organized as follws: all the furs and valuable objects to be disinfested were hung up.... (Ibid. p.41.) Nope, the disinfestation of the clothes and valuables of the victims took place there. How about the the disinfestation gas chambers of Bauwerken 5a and 5b? Again, according to Pressac: "...Simplifying the procedure somewhat, the prisoners entered, from left to right on the first two drawings [...], through the windbreak entrance into the < > room where they undressed [...] and their clothes were taken through the < > anteroom and airlock to the gas chamber. After the destruction of the lice using hydrocyanic acid, the effects were once more available to the prisoners, rid of parasites but still just as dirty...." [And still full of typhus-carrying lice feces, btw.] (Ibid. p.53.) Nope, sounds like 5a and 5b were used to delouse the prisoners' clothes. So what was that about mattresses propped up against the outside walls of the delousing gas chambers? Sounds like more silly drivel from the Giwer-Troll.... But wait! on page 54 of _Technique_ there's the testimony of Macha Ravine (no. 35,334) regarding a delousing (the first?) of the Blocks in the Woman's camp: "On the appointed day, at 2 o'clock in the morning there was a general turn out. First we had to carry our straw mattresses and blankets to the disinfestation.... After soup (it was 5 o'clock in the afternoon) they took us back, still naked to our Block. By now we were too tired to feel our humiliation so keenly as we had in the morning. The Block, which had been disinfested was not yet open and we had to wait outside.... Finally the door was opened and we rushed inside and went to our bunks of bare boards. The mattresses and blankets were still in the disinfestation building.... A few days later the lice reappeared. The first delousing had thus resulted in nothing other than hundreds of cases of pneumonia and some tuberculosis and we watched our ranks diminish day by day. Still another method of extermination. The camp merited its name: < > (Ibid. p.54.) Ah, so mattresses _were_ taken to a disinfestation facility, according to the _eyewitness testimony_ of Macha Ravine. Oh, my, such a conundrum this must put the Giwer-Troll in! After all, the Giwer-Troll says eyewtness testimony is unreliable and cannot be used as evidence! But given that the Giwer-Troll is a hypocrite, I'm sure he'd insist that Ravine's testimony is valid. That mattresses _were_ disinfested. But was it done in a gas chamber? Was Zyklon B used to disinfest them? The disinfestation facility in the women's camp used _hot air_ to disinfest. As did the one in the Gypsey camp. The disinfestation facility in the Zentral Sauna [the "Sauna"] used hot air, steam, and Karbol, Lizol, or water containing hydrocyanic acid. (Ibid. pp.58, 63, 65.) Oh well, it looks like the Giwer-Troll was simply spouting drivel after all.... Why am I not suprised? Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties--but right through every human heart--and all human hearts." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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