By Nick Kollerstrom – 30th June 2010
'The Chemistry of Auschwitz.'
I used to work at University College, London, getting by as a science historian.
Having written papers on various suitably obscure subjects - from Newton’s lunar
theory to the discovery of Neptune - three years ago I made what in retrospect
looks like a rather large mistake. I began to take an interest in the published
chemical evidence relating to the ‘gas chambers’ at Auschwitz/ Birkenau.
Maybe it was foolish to imagine that hard scientific data was of relevance in
this case. It strangely turned out that I was engaging with a predominantly
religious issue, and I simply became damned as a heretic.
There is no disagreement that cyanide gas chambers existed at many WW2
concentration camps. These were delousing rooms built to kill the bugs that
threatened the health of the camp inmates. They were designed to keep the
prisoners healthy so that they could carry out their work effectively. Their
purpose was hygienic.
We can nowadays agree that many tons of cyanide (in granular form as the
insecticide Zyklon) was used during the WW2 for hygienic delousing technology.
Before DDT was invented around 1945, Zyklon was the normal delousing method.
Special gas chambers made by a firm called Degesch, 10m3 in volume, were
installed in all the German labour-camps in 1942, the year when typhus hit the
camps. That epidemic is spread by bugs, so all clothing and bedding had to go
repeatedly into the delousing chambers. It was a procedure designed to be safe
for regular use.
These chambers still exist at four WW2 labour camp ruins, Madjanek,
Dachau, Auschwitz and Birkenau, and can be easily identified because their walls
are mostly turquoise blue. There is iron in the walls of the old chambers at
Auschwitz and Birkenau and this combined permanently with the cyanide
then used, the brick walls being very porous to the cyanide gas. These walls are
blue on the inside and on the outside, showing that the cyanide soaked
right through them. The blue in the walls is ferrocyanide – just like the colour
in a tube of turquoise oil paint.
In contrast to these real gas chambers, the walls of the alleged human gas
chambers have no such blue colouring. This simple and obvious fact was one of
the first causes of skepticism for some of those who visited the camps.
My contribution to ‘Holocaust Studies’ related to this issue: I spent a while
integrating the Leuchter and Rudolf reports – the two big chemical surveys of
the walls - and ascertaining what they found to be the control-background
levels of residual cyanide. These are levels in samples where no-one is
suggesting that mass cyanide gassing took place. Putting together the combined
measurable data of these two chemical surveys (42 samples) I got the following
three groups:
Delousing chambers 5000 ppm* (15 samples) *parts per million
Washrooms, Kitchens etc (‘Controls’) 2 ppm (11 samples)
Alleged human gas chambers 3 ppm (16 samples)
The ‘official’ explanation given for these figures is that ‘bugs are harder to
kill than humans.’ No wonder the cyanide levels in the delousing chambers are
higher, they had to kill all those little bugs... well, have a look at those
figures. There is no significant difference between the control, background
levels of cyanide (2 ppm) and those for the alleged human gas chambers (3ppm).
Absolutely none. The fact that there are measurable levels for cyanide in
ordinary rooms at Auschwitz is probably because of occasional fumigation to kill
bugs living in cracks and crevices in the walls etc.
Whereas there is a two-thousandfold difference between the ‘control’
measurements and the delousing chambers – where the Zyklon was indisputably used
hour after hour, day after day. Here the cyanide content, at an average value of
around 5000 ppm, is about half of one percent of the samples taken.
The modern books that continue to roll off the presses about Auschwitz and ‘The
Holocaust’ advocate a view that some Zyklon went to the delousing chambers,
whereas some was ‘diverted’ for ghastly human use. It is important to note here
that in 1946 at Nuremberg, no such dual use was posited. All knowledge of the
normal, hygienic function was blotted out, and it was assumed that any
can of Zyklon was for the ‘human gassing.’ Operators of the delousing chambers
did not get to testify.
Over the years there has appeared a growing difference of opinion on the ‘human
gas chambers’ issue... In fact it’s almost hard to believe that such a vast,
dizzying difference of opinion over a single issue can exist in the world today.
It remains that all decent citizens believe that millions of people, mainly
Jews, were gassed in huge, cyanide gas chambers, over 1942-45, as the ultimate
industrialised mass killing in human history. On the other hand, there are a few
down-and-out, ethically-damned loners who have the nerve to affirm that such
mass human gas chambers have never existed on Planet Earth…..
Nowhere!
Never!
….and, apart from that, had they existed they would be, in practice, totally
unworkable. But that’s another story.
Over the last few years I have noticed that one side of this argument proceeds
by trying to debate the evidence while the other uses every time, without
exception, name-calling, abuse and ethical damnation.
Understandably it is a subject which many people find unbearable to
discuss.….but on even this ‘sacred’ ground the earth is moving. Since startling
revelations about 9/11 have been exposed there are increasingly massed ranks of
ordinary but shocked and awakened people, now terminally cynical about the
capacity of the powerful to lie and deceive in the service of their own
interests.
Today, I believe we should formulate the unbearable Big Questions as:
Were the deadly Nazi gas chambers of WW2 used to kill Jews…..or bugs?
Did they work to take lives……or save them?
Did they have people ..... or clothing, put into them?
(Warning: a ‘wrong’ answer here can land you in jail, in ten European nations.)
I’m intrigued by historical questions with a chemical twist to them. Admittedly
this one lost me half of my friends, got me thrown out of my College, made me
virtually unemployable, and closed the doors of publishers and public venues.
However, I cannot regret publishing what I believe to be true about this
profoundly important issue. I hold the view that, if the truth about such an
important matter is to remain out of bounds and beyond debate, then there is
really no point in getting out of bed in the morning.
The truth has to matter.
The truth about the ‘human gas chambers’ particularly matters because much of
modern history (and modern calamities) is founded on it.
As a vision of ghastly horror it has become the Most Holy Mystery in this
spiritually bankrupt culture of ours. It has a transcendental function in
expressing Ultimate Evil. It even seems to be morphing into a new religion,
which has replaced the suffering of Christ by the ‘suffering of The Jews.’ The
word ‘Holocaust’ actually means a fiery sacrifice.
This has to be the original WMD hoax - but, more than that, the total absence of
any physical or chemical evidence for it, is precisely what has lead to ‘the
Holocaust’ taking on its present numinous, transcendental nature.
So, are we discussing science or religion? I say that a scientific, rational
approach to the subject became possible for the first time in 2003, when two
published, chemical investigations appeared in the English language, and were
concordant. But, I noticed that my fellow countrymen behaved as if the issue was
a theological question about which the expression of doubt was a most serious
sin.
Personally I prefer living in the real world and that has to mean discerning the
difference between what is real and illusory. It will be a Copernican Revolution
when the truth on this issue becomes widely understood. The lid cannot be kept
on such lies indefinitely. I’d say that Mother Nature played the trump card:
slowly, after the war, the walls of those delousing chambers turned blue, as the
ferrocyanide complex developed.
I believe that no happy future can lie in store for humanity, so long as
we continue to believe in this nightmare-hallucination. Belief in it is a badge
of enslavement, it is the supreme sacred Myth of the New World Order.
Plato in his Republic said every civilisation needed a founding myth – but, he
added, that myth did not have to be true. Karl Popper the philosopher of science
was shocked by this and disagreed – it had to be true, he averred. I know who I
want to believe. The consequences of founding society’s culture and
relationships upon false narratives is provably disastrous. We get wars based on
lies, global tyranny by bankers, debased, demoralised populations and now quite
possibly World War Three.
No photo exists from an ‘extermination camp’ of any huge pile of
stripped-naked mixed-gender corpses (as would have been created by such
industrialised mass-killing), nor is there any photo of anything resembling a
human mass-gassing chamber.
Modern accounts of such ‘mechanised killings’ by cyanide originate from Rudolf
Hoss, Kommandant of the Auschwitz camp, who gave the story at Nuremberg in 1946
- after torture by a British army team for three days and three nights.
His story had one or two thousand people marching into a washroom, or what
looked like a washroom, then dying within twenty minutes. Re-tellings have to
follow this story, because he’s the source! Thank you Fred Leuchter, and thank
you Germar Rudolf. Only using their work can we drive a stake through the heart
of this nightmare-horror.