Zyklon B quotes
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Blue staining (lack
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Exhaust system (lack of)
Temperature (too low)
Armontrout was asked about the feasibility of using gas in a room thirty metres long and seven metres wide. He replied that he believed it would be dangerous if it got loose that way. Without proper ventilation, it would be very dangerous. (32-8892) [Bill M. Armontrout] The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel -- 1988
[2008] German Poison Gas (1914 - 1944) by Richard A. Widmann So, the story goes, that on one hand, the Nazis were using Zyklon B to delouse the camps and thereby prevent the spread of typhus, while on the other hand they were using the same agent to kill the very inmates whose lives they were attempting to save......Based on the development of sophisticated poison gases including Tabun and Sarin, and their manufacture in huge quantities, the official Holocaust story appears absurd. Holocaust historians have yet to answer the question why the Nazis would not have used Tabun or Sarin had they wanted to carry out an extermination of the Jews. .....Had the Nazi leadership wanted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, they had far more sophisticated and lethal means to carry out such a plan. The official Holocaust gassing story requires a suspension of reason and a belief in the absurd.
Blue staining (lack of) [see:
Birkenau delousing buildings]
[Krema III] In Leuchter's opinion,
the facility did not indicate even reasonable gas chamber design, it being
identical to Krema II. It was not tarred or pitched. There was no ventilation.
It was cold and damp. It had no means of introducing the Zyklon B material.
(32-9093) Nowhere did he see any blue staining. (32-9195)
[Fred A. Leuchter]
The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel -- 1988
James Roth, director of a laboratory in Massachusetts, then testified on the analysis of the 32 samples, the origin of which he was unaware of: all the samples taken in the homicidal "gas chambers" contained a quantity of cyanide which was either unmeasurable or infinitesimal, while the sample from the disinfection gas chamber, taken for comparison's sake, contained an enormous amount of cyanide (the infinitesimal quantity detected in the former case can be explained by the fact that the supposed homicidal gas chambers were in fact morgues for preserving bodies; such morgues could have been occasionally disinfected with Zyklon B).The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988) by ROBERT FAURISSON
The only area in Birkenau which indicated any blue staining was Delousing Facility No. 1, from which control sample 32 was removed. [Fred A. Leuchter] The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel -- 1988
Felderer showed a slide of an
outside wall of the delousing building in the women's camp which indicated a
significant blue colour. Felderer was told by Auschwitz officials that the blue
staining resulted from the use of Zyklon B. (19-4383) Felderer believed the
colour got on the walls when mattresses which had been deloused inside the
building were then taken outside for airing, leaned against a wall and beaten
for a length of time to get any Zyklon B out of the material. The powder
material which was the inert carrier of the Zyklon B would stick to the wall and
produce the distinct blue colouration. Felderer noted that this blue colour was
not found in the alleged gas chamber at Auschwitz at all. (19-4383, 4384)
The delousing buildings, which were
not open to the public, contained autoclaves used to decontaminate materials
using steam. (19-4384, 4385) Rooms inside the building also indicated blue
staining, which Felderer concluded was authentic and not simply painted on
afterwards. Felderer told Zündel that the discovery of the delousing buildings
was a tremendous step in their investigation. The blue staining was the Zyklon B
mark and it was astonishing that this colour was not found in the buildings
where it was claimed people were gassed to death using Zyklon B. (19 4376, 4387,
4388)
Posters on the walls of the
delousing building warned inmates that "One Louse Means Your Death" and "To be
Clean is Your Duty." Felderer testified the Nazis were very fearful of lice
because they brought great epidemics into the camps. (19 4392)
[Ditlieb Felderer]
The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel -- 1988
Exhaust system (lack
of)
[Right] The gas chamber at Parchman, Miss, seen from the outside. It is isolated
from other buildings. Note the pipe for the exhaustion of the gas. There are no
such pipes in the alleged German chambers, nor is there any trace or any such
pipes.
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One must ask how, for example in the case of Auschwitz II or Birkenau, one
could bring 2,000 people into a room measuring 210 square meters in area, and
then in this highly crowded situation throw in the very strong pesticide Zyklon
B, and then immediately after the deaths of the victims let a work crew
without any gas masks enter the room in order to take out the bodies which had
been thoroughly saturated with cyanide.
Two documents [8] from the German industrial archives which
were registered by the Americans at Nuremberg tell us that the Zyklon B had a
strong tendency to adhere to surfaces and could not be removed from an ordinary
room with a strong ventilator, but only by natural aeration for almost 24 hours.
Additional documents may be found only at the site in the
Auschwitz Museum archives, which were never described elsewhere, but which show
that this room of 210 square meters, which is today in a dilapidated condition,
was only a very simple mortuary, which (in order to protect it against heat) had
been located underground, and which was provided with only a single door which
served as both an entrance and an exit. [2005] The
Problem of the Gas Chambers By Robert Faurisson 2005
[Krema I] The alleged gas chamber area had no exhaust system
for removing the gas. It simply had three vents in the roof. Assuming the area
was used as a gas chamber, it would take the better part of a week to air it out
before any humans could go in to remove anything that was inside the chamber
area. (32-9071)
There were two drains in the area that was alleged to be the
gas chamber. These drains were tied into the main drainage system of the camp.
Leuchter testified that if the area were utilized as a gas chamber, liquid
condensed hydrogen cyanide gas would get into the drains, mix with the water and
eventually wind up coming out every storm drain and possibly every sink drain
and toilet in the camp. The drains made the room a very dangerous place to
utilize as a gas chamber. (32-9068; Photograph of drain on the floor of the
alleged gas chamber at Krema I entered as part of Exhibit 145).....Leuchter
testified that he knew from the inspection of the facility that there was no
ventilation system at Krema II of any type and no provision in the construction
of the building for any. (32-9273) [Fred A. Leuchter]
The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel -- 1988
On top of the gas chamber was a blower which sucked the air out of the
chamber itself and expelled it into the atmosphere through a 40-foot stack.
Two guard towers located near the stack had to be vacated when the gas was
expelled. Armontrout testified that he would not want to expel any gas into the
atmosphere unless it was well above the prison wall. The gas chamber was
located at the lower level of the prison in a dead spot as far as air
circulation was concerned. He believed some of the gas could hang there and be a
danger to staff and witnesses. (32-8874, 8875, 8882)
After the execution, the ammonia
was released and the gas expelled out of the chamber. All staff and witnesses
were removed from the area. The ventilation fan ran for approximately an hour
before two officers equipped with Scott air-packs (self-contained breathing
apparatus which firemen use to enter smoke-filled buildings) opened the hatch of
the gas chamber and removed the lead bucket containing the cyanide residue. The
two officers wore rubberized disposable clothing and long rubber gloves. They
hosed down the condemned man's body in the chair, paying particular attention to
the hair and the clothing because of the cyanide residue, then removed him and
placed him on a gurney where further decontamination took place. The officers
then hosed the entire inside of the gas chamber with regular cold water.
(32-8883, 8884, 8894)
The ventilation fan was a very
powerful squirrel-cage type fan that was encased in the stack. (32-8904)
Armontrout testified that he had no idea how long it would take to ventilate the
gas chamber without the ventilation fan. He believed he would have to abandon
the complete area, open the ammonia and air valves, and hope for enough draft to
clear it. It would take many, many hours. (32-8887)
[Bill M. Armontrout] The 'False News' Trial of
Ernst Zündel -- 1988
Temperature (too low)
[Krema 1 & II] There was no heating capability in any of the
facilities which would have been required, firstly, to drive the gas from the
Zyklon B and mix with the air, and secondly, to avoid condensation of the gas on
the walls, floor and ceiling. When the hydrogen cyanide condensed into a liquid,
it was absorbed by brick and by mortar. Condensation would have made the area
very dangerous for anyone who came into the facility to remove corpses.
(32-9088).......During the time he had inspected the
facility in February, 1988, the temperature in the room was 10 or 12 degrees
Fahrenheit. In Leuchter's opinion, if Zyklon B pellets had been dropped into the
chamber in such circumstances, with no heating capabilities, it would have taken
more than several hours for the gas to leave the pellets and permeate the room.
Holocaust literature alleged that gassings took place in winter. (32-9089, 9090) [Ditlieb
Felderer] The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel -- 1988
In Holocaust literature, the vents were allegedly used as the openings to drop in the Zyklon B, which produced the hydrogen cyanide gas after it reached the floor of the facility. Zyklon B was a special preparation of hydrogen cyanide gas where the gas was forced by compression into particles of chalk or wood pulp. These particles carried the gas and would, upon heating or being exposed to air, release the gas into the area where the gas was to be utilized. One of the main requirements for driving or evaporating the hydrogen cyanide gas out of the Zyklon B was excessive temperature. It had to be heated to above 78 or 79 degrees Fahrenheit. If the temperature was not near the 78 degree point, it would be released much slower and over a much longer period of time. Leuchter pointed out that of the four vents, one was in the area of a washroom and not in the presumed gas chamber at all. The alleged gas chamber room was extremely cold and damp. [Fred A. Leuchter] The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel -- 1988
The on-site inspection of these structures indicated extremely poor and dangerous design for these facilities if they were to have served as execution gas chambers. There is no provision for gasketed doors, windows or vents; the structures are not coated with tar or other sealant to prevent leakage or absorption of the gas. the adjacent crematories are a potential danger of explosion. The exposed porous brick and mortar would accumulate the HCN and make these facilities dangerous to humans for several years. Krema I is adjacent to the S.S. Hospital at Auschwitz and has floor drains connected to the main sewer of the camp -- which would allow gas into every building at the facility. There were no exhaust systems to vent the gas after usage and no heaters or dispersal mechanisms for the Zyklon B to be introduced or evaporated. The Leuchter Report The End of a Myth!
Also included in the private collection were gas masks and filters used by the Germans while fumigating the camp with Zyklon B. Felderer indicated that Zyklon B was sold in Sweden prior to the Second World War as an insecticide to kill lice, rats and bugs. In Auschwitz, it was used for the same purpose. Piper told Felderer that the camp had copies of the special instructions which the exterminators followed during the fumigation process, such as how the gas mask was to be worn, the complications of the gas and the required airing of the room. Felderer was very curious as to why the gas masks and other related items were not in the main display at Auschwitz. His conclusion, which he related to Zündel, was that when one talked about gassing, one did not want the people to realize that there were technical problems involved with it. Instead, one wanted to portray to the people that there was really nothing much to it and that it could be done very quickly. (18 4317, 4318) [Ditlieb Felderer] The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel -- 1988
When American and British forces overran western and central Germany in the
spring of 1945, they were followed by troops charged with discovering and
securing any evidence of German war crimes. Among them was Dr. Charles Larson,
one of America's leading forensic pathologists, who was assigned to the Judge
Advocate General's Department. Dr. Larson performed autopsies at Dachau and some
twenty other German camps, examining on some days more than 100 corpses. After
his grim work at Dachau, he was questioned for three days by U.S. Army
prosecutors.
Dr. Larson's findings? According to an interview he gave to an
American journalist in 1980, "What we've heard is that six million Jews were
exterminated. Part of that is a hoax." And what part was the hoax? Dr.
Larson, who told his biographer that to his knowledge he "was the only forensic
pathologist on duty in the entire European Theater," informed "Wichita Eagle"
reporter Jan Floerchinger that there "never was a case of poison gas
uncovered." Neither Dr. Larson nor any other forensic specialist has ever been cited by
any Holocaust historian to substantiate a single case of death by poison gas,
whether Zyklon-B or any other variety. The Liberation
of the Camps by Theodore J. O'Keefe