You folks are a lost cause here here you go putting up pictures of fumigation chambers and calling them homicidal gas chambers....I'm curious how did the deadly gas get into this "sealed" room? . . . . The only thing killed in this room were lice...LOL
JR
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Your argument is self-contradictory: you imply that "deadly gas" could not be introduced into the pictured room, but then you say the room was used for disinfestation of lice.
First, let's note that you were unable to locate a window in the gas chambers; so you simply denied that the room was a gas chamber. What is your proof for your claim that the room was used only for delousing?
Second, as noted, you've confused yourself about whether gases were introduced into this room. Let me explain some of what is known about the room, in this regard: The killing agent, CO, was introduced into this chamber at Madjanek by means of pipes. The pipes led into the chamber from a small SS man's "cabin" just off the chamber, to its south. This is described in the first photo (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Majdanek_Komora_Gazowa.JPG) (on the sign in the photo and also the caption, "Carbon monoxide was fed with a tube from the SS-man's booth."). The pipe for CO is clearly visible in the 2nd photo (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...Concentration_Camp_-_Lublin_-_Poland_-_03.jpg).
Supporting sources:
* SS orderly August Reinartz told postwar investigators that "In the front, on the side of the entrance, there was a vestibule with equipment and a sight glass [the "cabin"]. The equipment had bottle connectors, i.e., pipes with fittings which could be attacked to something [the CO bottles]." Reinartz did not enter the chamber so did not see the pipes inside the dark room. (Kranz, The Extermination of Jews at Majdanek Concentration Camp, p 46)
* However, according to a postwar Polish-Soviet Commission report made in fall 1944 the chamber had pipes connecting back to the SS-man's booth: "Gas Chamber No. III is equipped with a gas pipe of galvanized iron, 1.5 inches in diameter. It spans the entire length of the room at a height of 30 cm above the concrete floor. Both ends of the pipe have openings through which the gas is discharged. These openings are protected with cast-ion gratings cemented into the wall. The pipe leads from the room where the gas bottles were stored / Equipment Room No. 14 / into the Gas Chamber." (Graf & Mattogno, Concentration Camp Majdanek, p 121)
* Pressac confirmed the existence of these pipes in his essay "The Deficiencies and Inconsistencies of 'The Leuchter Report'," p 52 (the chamber “has a CO infusion apparatus installed, with gas coming from the second steel bottle under the lean-to-roof outside. It consisted of a length of pipe . . . running along the inside of the south wall, 30 cm above the floor. The gas diffused out of either end of the tube through perforated steel plates. . . .”).
* A recent researcher, Mailänder, in Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 192-1944, p 173, also describes the single gas pipe that conveyed CO from the SS-man's cabin to this chamber.
* The general set-up and process were further summarized by Rajca & Wiśniewska, Majdanek Concentration Camp, p 24.
Prisoners in the Sonderkommando were forced to move the bodies from this chamber, same as with the one to its east; the Germans had experience forcing inmates to do heavy and ugly work like this, so they simply adapted methods to Majdanek.
You may have this room confused with others, such as so-called gas chamber IV in B&D I which was used for delousing or the stations in Interfield I. The room in the photos was in the bunker north of B&D I.
Would you care to provide us with evidence that the Nazis used CO to delouse clothing?
