That's only half the story — at most. To say Gerstein was a member of the resistance is not to also say he was the chief requisition officer for the Reich Office of Hygiene. For him not to have obeyed an order to order Zyklon-B without indicator might have compromised his cover.
To the best of my knowledge he was not the chief requisition officer for the Reich Office of Hygiene, rather he was Chef der Abteilung Gesundheitstechnik for the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS. We don't know if he received an order to remove the warning agent from Zyklon because he provides no testimony on that point. Normally he appears not to be involved in Zyklon B ordering for the HSP since his G036 account was a special account set up under his private name. We know this firstly from Peters testimony at Nuremberg
That again I tried to contradict in view of our obligations towards Testa and Heli as main agents through whose hands all quantities of zyklon used for decontamination had to be used. Gerstein told me that he absolutely rejected the intervention of Testa and Heli and the rest was none of my business for what final purpose the individual deliveries were to be used. He said I didn’t have to worry about our contracts with Testa and Heli because he would give me the order to deliver these shipments within the scope of the top secret matter and that was a case of force majeur which would cover me at all times with regard to the contracts with Testa and Heli.
We also have the account books of the agent Heli that showed copious amounts were sent to the HSP
I haven't seen that proved yet, but I'm not sure it matters.
Well now you have. See above.
Absolutely unproved by you.
If I can refer you to account G036 you will see that as of 31.12.1944 there was mentioned as Zahlungsausfall the sum of 17,000 RM, it is true, however, that this account was credited with 2000 RM in the first month of 1944 for the delivery of 1440 kilograms of Zyklon B in the second half on 1943 - of which it appears 600 went to Auschwitz and 840 kilograms went to Oranienburg. Thus around 90% of the Gerstein private account remained unpaid. Furthermore if you read his testimony you will see this
The invoices [notas — sic] for this supply, altogether 2,175 kg.,
enough to kill several millions of men, I have on me. I had them written
in my name, for—as I said—discretion, in truth to be somewhat free
in the disposal and to be better able to divert the toxic acid.
I never paid the delivery.
False. Only a special order of Zyklon-B that he suspected would be used against German civilians was diverted. See that material I cited.
See the material you mis-cited. If you continue reading on it is quite clear that the material diverted to disinfection was his entire series of orders for 1944, ie 2,100 kilograms.
To use Text II of Gerstein's statement (Roques numbering)
But I thought later of the words of Goebbels "to close the doors
after them, if Nazism should never succeed." Perhaps they wanted to
kill a great part of the German people, perhaps the foreign workers,
perhaps the prisoners of war—I do not know! In any case, I diverted
the acid immediately after its arrival for disinfection duties. This was somewhat dangerous for me, but if anyone had asked me
where the toxic acid was, I would have replied: it was already in a
dangerous state of dissolution, and for that reason I had to use it up for
disinfection—I am sure that Guenther, son of the Rassen-Guenther,
to use his own words, had the order to obtain the acid for—eventually —killing millions of men, perhaps also in the concentration camps.
I have on me the invoices for 2,175 kg, but in truth it concerns about
8500 kgs, enough to kill 8 million men.
He is talking about his entire orders for 1944 (2175 kg) - the figure of 8500 kilograms is Gerstein's fantasy and nothing appears in G036 for 1944 apart from the invoices he presented to War Crimes prosecutors for 2175 kilograms.
Well perhaps you will accept the word of the Frankfurt court
Nach den Feststellungen dieses Zeugen betrug der Gesamtumsatz der Testa an Zyklon B im Jahre 1942 79069,9 kg und der Gesamtumsatz im Jahre 1943 119.458 kg. Von den 79069,9 kg des Jahres 1942 gingen an den HSP 11.232 kg, an SS-Organisationen 15776,6 kg, an das KZ Auschwitz 7478,6 kg und an andere KZ 1.618 kg. Von den 119.458 kg. des Jahres 1943 gingen an den HSP 19.982 kg, an SS-Organisationen 11472,2 kg, an das KZ Auschwitz 12174,9 kg und an andere KZ 5749,1 kg. Von der Testa bekam also das KZ Auschwitz 1942 fast 7,5 t. und 1943 fast 12,2 t.
Actually I don't think these figures have a solid foundation as when you use the Versandbuchs of the various factories the numbers diminish substantially.
Für das Jahr 1944 lassen sich die entsprechenden Zahlen nur noch aus den Versandbüchern Dessau und Kolin der Degesch entnehmen, die vorliegen. Nach dem Zyklon-Versandbuch haben erhalten: Auschwitz 1.998 kg, SS-Einheiten und sonstige KZ 6.928 kg. Nach dem Zyklon-Versandbuch Kolin haben erhalten: Zentralsanitätslager der SS 1.720 kg.
Hiernach sind also folgende Zyklonlieferungen nach Auschwitz nachgewiesen: 1942 = ca. 7,5 t.; 1943 = ca. 12,2 t.; 1944 = ca. 2 t. Hierbei sind die Lieferungen unberücksichtigt, die, wie später dargelegt werden wird, im Rahmen des Gersteinauftrages nach Auschwitz und Oranienburg gesandt wurden.
However, you will doubtless accept these figures. So for 1943 Gerstein delivered 600 kilograms via his private account G036 to Auschwitz, while Testa, the official supply agents delivered 7000 kilograms.
I hope that is sufficient proof.
Well, one shipment did. That much we know.
That much YOU know. Gerstein presented the entire invoices for 1944 (I expect he lost the 1943 invoices when he needed to get his Degesch account paid). The 1944 invoices show equal quantities going to Auschwitz and Oranienburg - ie around 1100 kilograms each.
I'm not sure why any of this matters. We know why the indicator was removed because Peters said so.
Well exactly, it was removed because a leading member of the German resistance set up a private account and ordered irritantless Zyklon B and then the first opportunity he got handed as many invoices as he could over to War Crimes Prosecutors.
And we know human beings were gassed with Zyklon B at Auschwitz.
Well, we certainly know this irritantless Zyklon B was used for normal disinfection purposes because Gerstein specifically told us so.
We also have a letter of late May 1944 specifically stating his special Zyklon B had not been used and asking if it would still be OK to use for normal disinfection
So what do you think any of this proves?
That you misquote documents, cherry-pick testimonies and misrepresent evidence - but we already knew this.
It also proves that there are people out there prepared to put in the work to track down the documents to correct your howlers. To which we all owe a debt of gratitude