Well, whoever "put up the story," it doesn't make any sense. And you posted it here, so I am dealing with you.
Who is confused about this? Again, what are you talking about? I am not aware of any mix-up between gas chambers and fumigation rooms.
Eric Hunt doesn't know what he is talking about. E.g., a large part of his case relies on a lie - that prisoners entered the bathhouse at Majdanek only from the north. This dishonesty is shredded
here,
here,
here,
here,
here, and
here. Hunt also lied about the location of cremation sites relative to the gas chambers and bathhouses. He repeatedly ignored evidence that is readily available but which undermined his dishonesty.
Frankly, if you can't even tell me what building you are talking about, I can't see how this can be discussed productively.
Hunt's video is a piece of trash.
Well, HDenier, since you prefer not to explain what your post about Majdanek is referring to, I decided to do your work for you and poke around the page you linked to. Is this what the comment you quoted pertained to?
The gas chambers at Majdanek are on the other side of the camp. . . . The Nazis claimed that the Jews were only taking a shower, not being gassed to death, in this building. The identical building right next to the gas chamber building is closed to tourists. The clothing of the Jews was disinfected in this building, in order to kill the lice that spreads typhus.
If so, the article is flat-out mistaken. The gas chamber building is unique. There are two closely matching but not identical bathhouses at the north end of the Economics Sector at Majdanek. These are B&D I (no. 41) and B&D II (no. 42), respectively the men's and women's bathhouses. No. 42 is the building closed to tourists. Closely adjacent to no. 41, a few feet north of it, is a bunker housing three gas chambers - one large room to the west, two smaller rooms to the east. The gas chamber structure is not "identical" to a building next to it - there is no building next to it!
The gas chambers are not in no. 41, as the article implies, according to the museum. They are in the bunker to the north. Both nos. 41 and 42 were used for processing arriving prisoners and showering/delousing prisoners. Most people studying the camp today are of the opinion that a room at the northern end of no. 41, marked "IV" on a diagram of the building made by a Polish-Soviet investigating commission in 1944, was used to disinfest clothing.
To help you understand this, here is an aerial view of the buildings made recently:
[imgw=800]http://i.imgur.com/us2120v.png?3[/imgw]
"GC" is the gas chambers bunker, and 41 and 42 are the bathhouses described above. During the war, when the camp was operating, the bunker was under a pavilion-style roof and surrounded by barbed wire. (A route which prisoners' commonly took on entering the camp is marked with yellow arrows, and 43 and 44 were called the Effektenkammer; these were the buildings where incoming prisoners surrendered their valuables before being taken into the bathhouses or to a waiting area for the gas chambers.)
Much more can be said. But for now let's just note that the article is mistaken.
In fact, the only people confused here are whoever wrote the article you linked to and "rizolitv," whose comment, as I already noted, is nearly unintelligible.
Edited by jsfisher:
IMGW tags substituted for IMG tags to produce an image of reasonable width.
