In Holocaust-History.org an inventory list of "Krematorium III" from Auschwitz Birkenau is presented (it seems to be a template for ordering inventory items with pre selected items for which the number of items to be ordered was added).
http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/19430624-inventory/
That list in the link is called, quote:
This inventory is absolute and irrefutable proof of the existence of a gas chamber fitted with dummy showers in Krematorium III.
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The source is given with:
This document is reproduced in Pressac, Jean Claude, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York, 1989, p. 432. Its source is given as Auschwitz State Museum Archive reference BW 30/43, p. 24.
If the statement of being an "irrefutable proof" is from the original source or is an own conclusion or statement of the authors of the page in the link is not clearly visible.
The statement is based on the fact that the order list contains 14 "Brausen", no water piping, that 14 shower heads are not enough for a room of such size, quote:
As Pressac points out (p. 429), there are no water pipes to the showerheads, nor is 14 anywhere near enough showers for such a large room. Therefore, these items were: ...DUMMY SHOWERS, made of wood or other materials and painted, as stated by several former members of the Sonderkommando End of quote
In addition the addition of a "gas tight door" to the order is seen as proof that the room labeled as "Leichenkeller I" (Morgue I) was a gas chamber.
Comment:
1. The German word for "shower" is "Dusche". "Brause" means "sprinkler" and "soda" (In North German slang "Brause" is used for "Dusche". Auschwitz however is not in North Germany). The order therefore most likely was for 14 hand sprinklers, common in any morgue in the world. The absence of an order of water piping material simply is explained by those pipings being present is any raw building and not necessary to be ordered later. If those would be "dummies from painted wood" that fact certainly would have to be mentioned on a template (but isn't).
2. The order of a gas tight door is following the German routine of all air raid shelter doors being gas tight, as shown in "Gasschutz und Luftschutz" (Gas Protection and Air Raid Protection) 4/33 page 96: How to render common air raid shelter doors gas tight.
Rooms being changed into air raid shelters received a pre produced steel door with rubber fittings and a peep hole for fears of air raids with gas containing ammunition and to check if the outer area still would be contaminated (see all other issues of Gasschutz und Luftschutz from 1931 until 1945 in the link below).
http://www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Service/F... und Luftschutz/Gasschutz_und_Luftschutz.html
3. The order from Ausschwitz also contains 31 "Kugellampen" (ball shaped lamps). According to Dötzer, Walter: Entkeimung, Entseuchung und Entwesung, Arbeitsanweisung für Klinik und Laboratorium des Hygieneinstituts der Waffen SS, Berlin, Heft 3, Urban & Schwarzenberg Publishers, Berlin, Wien, (Year Illegible) Preussische Verlagsdruckerei Berlin, page 107, chapter: Disinfestation by chemical measures , disinfestation by highly toxical chemicals (
Disinfection, sterilization and disinfestation. Instructions for clinic and laboratory from the Insitute of Hygiene of the Waffen SS, Berlin) quote (translation below):
Offenes Licht ist von dem Kammerbereich fernzuhalten. Desgleichen ist das Rauchen, die Benutzung von offenem Feuer (Streichhölzer, Feuerzeuge usw.) verboten.
Elektrisches Licht darf nicht in der Kammer selbst, sondern nur unter Verwendung explosionssicherer Spezialleuchten ausserhalb der Kammer vor einem eingelassenen Fenster angebracht werden
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Translation: The use of open lights has to be kept away from the chambers. Also smoking and the use of open fire (matches, lighters etc.) is prohibited. Electrical lighting must not be used in the chamber itself but must be provided by explosion safe special lamps from outside through a countersinken window.
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The order of 31 standard ball shaped lamps nebst the general unfeasibility of a crematory to be used as a gas chamber is more a proof for what the room not was intended to be used: as a gas chamber.
http://nsl-archiv.com/Buecher/Bis-1...uchung und Entwesung (1943, 177 S., Scan).pdf
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