Holocaust: Belief and Facts
By Walter Lüftl
In March 1992, a prominent Austrian engineer made headlines when a
report he had written about alleged German wartime gas chambers was
made public. Walter Lüftl concluded in his controversial report,
"Holocaust: Belief and Facts," that the well-known stories of mass
extermination of Jews in gas chambers at the wartime camps of
Auschwitz and Mauthausen are impossible for technical reasons and
because they are incompatible with observable laws of nature.
Lüftl further characterized the often-repeated stories of Jews
being gassed with diesel engine exhaust (at Treblinka, for example)
as a sheer impossibility. (See the IHR Newsletter, April 1992, p.
6.)
Lüftl, 59, is a court-recognized expert engineer and heads a
large engineering firm in Vienna. On the basis of a well-established
reputation as a particularly precise and exact specialist, he was
chosen to serve as president of the Austrian Engineers Chamber
(Bundes-Ingenieurkammer), a professional association of 4,000
members.
In spite of his reputation, he was obliged to resign as president of
the engineers' association in the uproar that followed news reports
about his iconoclastic report. A leading official of the governing
People's Party expressed fear that Lüftl's report could harm
Austria's image abroad.
A few days later, Austrian police raided Lüftl's residence,
turning it inside out in a "Stasi"-like search for possibly
"incriminating material" that might show that he had violated a
recently enacted law that makes it a crime in Austria to deny the
"National Socialist crimes against humanity."
To insure that Lüftl is not brought into any further legal
jeopardy, it should be stressed that his report is published here
(for the first time in English) without the author's authorization or
cooperation. The text has been slightly edited, and the editor has
added some clarifying words in brackets.
Lüftl's report is further authoritative confirmation of the
findings of American gas chamber expert Fred Leuchter, who testified
about his on-site investigation of the supposed "gas chambers" of
Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek in the 1988 trial of German-Canadian
publicist Ernst Zuendel. (A deluxe illustrated edition of The
Leuchter Report, with a foreword by Robert Faurisson, and an
introduction by David Irving, is available from the IHR for $20.00,
plus $ 2.00 for shipping.)
Lüftl's report also corroborates Leuchter's findings from his
1989 investigation of the supposed extermination "gas chamber" at the
Mauthausen camp. (This "Second Leuchter Report" was published in the
Fall 1990 IHR Journal.)
Introductory statement by the author:
The following remarks are intended neither to threaten the
democratic order that has prevailed in the Republic of Austria since
1945, nor to advocate or promote the reintroduction of National
Socialism. These remarks are intended solely to correct one-sided
presentations of historical events, and to do so taking into
consideration the laws of nature and technical limits, which are of
course beyond dispute both politically and historically.
These remarks are not intended to "quibble over the number of
victims" or to "defame the victims." Rather, they are intended to
serve as a scientific clarification of the number of possible victims
on basis of technical and organizational considerations. These
remarks are also intended to encourage further investigation into the
actual events and the search for truth.
Because "Holocaust literature" tends to be so one-sided, it is
unfortunately not possible to provide a "balanced presentation" here.
A critical examination of the limited area of the overall topic under
discussion has shown that the accounts of "eyewitnesses" in
particular have been immensely exaggerated and unbelievable; so much
so that a balancing of the discussion appeared indispensable. The
impossible does not become any "truer" when it is claimed by many
people. In cases of contradiction between witness testimony and
objective proof, the latter takes precedence in every modern
constitutional state. In the case of the "Holocaust," though, this
has obviously been otherwise.
1. Foreword
The author would like to anticipate the proposed introduction of Section 283a of the Criminal Code [of Austria], according to which "the offense . . . [has been] committed whenever a person denies the fact that millions of human beings, especially Jews, were systematically exterminated in a genocidal way in the concentration camps of the National Socialist regime." Such a legal provision could have the effect of rendering the following remarks punishable, in spite of the fact that they are based on scientific considerations treated in a manner subject to experimental duplication.
What is the Holocaust?
In the view of those who believe -- or cause others to believe --
in the [Holocaust], mass gassings, especially of Jews, were
carried out in the concentration camps of the Third Reich. Above all
in Auschwitz (hence the term "Auschwitz Myth"), four million Jews
were gassed. [The Nuremberg Tribunal "established" that four
million people (Jews and non-Jews) had been killed (by all means) at
Auschwitz.] Currently, though, unimpeachable sources are seeking
to reduce this [sic] figure to 1.5 million. On mathematical
grounds alone, the "symbolic figure of Six Million" should be reduced
by 3.5 million. Of course, such a reduction does not lessen the
[gravity of the] crime in any way, because even one victim is
one too many.
All the same, the question remains whether mass gassings took place
at all, or could possibly have taken place.
Insofar as possible, the author has carefully examined many reports
of "eyewitnesses," as well as "confessions" of SS men. If one
examines the "eyewitness" testimony, doubts still persist, even if
one believes everything that appears in the Holocaust literature.
These doubts become even greater when one studies the "confessions"
of those who were later found guilty [of crimes].
The author does not "deny" anything. (In proper legal terminology,
this should really mean "to dispute.") He does not wish to minimize
or glorify anything. To use a currently fashionable phrase, he wishes
only to "inquire into" [the truth of] the "Auschwitz
myth."
The author wishes to focus on the critical core of the "Auschwitz
myth": the technical possibilities of industrial mass killing with
Zyklon B.
Zyklon B is the cornerstone of the Auschwitz myth
If Zyklon B is unsuitable for use in "deliberate genocidal extermination," then the entire Auschwitz extermination story ["Auschwitz-Mythos"] falls apart. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
The war of belief
Because the Auschwitz extermination story
["AuschwitzMythos"] has so far not been subjected to
scientific analysis, the discussion has been dominated by belief.
Even intelligent, well-educated people believe in the "atrocities
confirmed by many eyewitnesses." In doing so, they forget that in any
modern constitutional state, forensic evidence and documentary proof
carry more weight than witness testimony.
Witnesses may err; their memories may deceive; witnesses may
exaggerate their own importance and repeat hearsay. Witnesses have
also been known to lie. Even the "confessions" of allegedly guilty
individuals (which may be extorted through torture or obtained
through promises of lesser punishment) are worthless without the
support of objective proof. Anyone who doubts this should check
Solzhenitsyn. . . [In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn cites the case of the Bavarian Jupp Aschenbrenner, who
"confessed" to serving in a German wartime murder commando. Only
later, in a camp in 1954, was he able to prove that at the time of
the alleged crimes, he was in Munich learning to be a
welder.]
All the arguments against the Holocaust [story] will be
meaningless if people are not willing to accept the truth. In the
words of Schopenhauer:
Nothing is more galling
Than to fight with facts and arguments
Against an adversary
In the belief
That one is dealing with his understanding,
When in reality
One is dealing with the will,
Which obdurately closes its mind to the truth.
One must understand that reason
Applied against the will
Is like seed sown on bare rock
Like light arrows against armor,
Like the stormwind against a beam of light.
Nothing can be done for those who do not want to face the truth. But
perhaps, after reading the following, some will be ready to want to
comprehend.
The gas chambers
According to the Holocaust literature, the victims were "packed" into the gas chambers and then poisoned with hydrogen cyanide (Prussian Blue) vapors from Zyklon B. The bodies were burned in crematory ovens, and the ashes were strewn on hillsides or in water.
Organizational problems
Because certain organizational problems arise even in mass extermination -- for example, varying killing capacities of the gas chambers or varying crematory capacities in disposing of the bodies -- it should be obvious even at this point that events cannot have transpired as described in the Holocaust literature. We shall nevertheless limit our discussion to the essentials.
The handling of Zyklon B
What is Zyklon B? Zyklon B is a pest control agent, the active
ingredient of which is Prussian Blue (hydrocyanic acid, HCN).
Hydrocyanic acid is a highly toxic, highly flammable liquid that
vaporizes at 25.7 degrees Celsius. The vapors released upon
evaporation are lighter than air (density: 0.95). The ignition point
of hydrocyanic acid is 535 degrees Celsius, but the acid can be
ignited at temperatures as low as -17.8 degrees Celsius. The
explosion point in air at 20 degrees Celsius ranges from 5.4 to 46.6
percent by volume percent, or between 60 and 520 grams per cubic
meter (m3).
Among other uses, gaseous hydrogen cyanide is used as a fumigant
gas.
What is the effect of hydrogen cyanide gas on human beings?
- 10 ml/m3 is harmless over an eight-hour exposure;
- 90 ml/m3 is dangerous or fatal upon protracted exposure;
- 80-270 ml/m3 is rapidly fatal. Alcohol, even if consumed in only small quantities prior to exposure, dangerously enhances the effects of cyanide gas.
For safe handling, hydrocyanic acid is absorbed in diatomite
(following the admixture of an irritant for safety purposes), and is
stored and transported in air-tight metal cans. The product is
generally used within three months. Because the Zyklon B
manufacturing facilities were totally destroyed in bombing attacks in
early 1944, gassings with Zyklon B could not have taken place after
the summer of 1944.
The trade weight of the cans was 100, 200, 500, 1000, and 1500 grams
HCN content. The total weight of a can corresponds to approximately
three times the HCN content.
Hydrocyanic acid vapors are not released immediately after the cans
are opened. The evaporation of Zyklon B requires as many as 32 hours
or as few as six hours, depending on whether the ambient temperature
ranges from five to 30 degrees Celsius. The evaporation rate is not
exactly proportional to time.
The gassing procedure according to the Holocaust literature
The victims were led to gas chambers, which were disguised as
shower baths, and were deceived by being handed soap and a towel. But
what for? Who takes a shower holding a towel in his hands? But let's
not detain ourselves with such trivia.
It is said, for example, that a hundred victims were packed into a
chamber of 20 square meters, that is, five persons per square meter.
(Witnesses sometimes even speak of as many as 25 victims per square
meter.) At five persons per square meter, the victims wouldn't even
be able even to soap themselves, due to lack of space. So what would
they need the soap for? Soap was a commodity in short supply, but was
permitted to fall on the floor unused, and become unusable. But let's
move along.
The doors of the 2.5 meter-high chamber were hermetically sealed. An
SS man wearing a gas mask threw Zyklon B, a mixture of hydrocyanic
acid and irritant (added as a warning substance, since some people
cannot smell hydrocyanic acid, the odor of which peculiarly resembles
that of bitter almonds) absorbed in a carrier substance, from a can
containing 200 grams of HCN in each case, from above. (This is the
usual procedure described in the Holocaust literature. According to
some sources, it was done differently only at Mauthausen.) The
mixture fell to the floor, and the hydrocyanic acid began to escape.
The gassing procedure normally lasted 15 to 20 minutes. (According to
some sources, it lasted from five to as long as 30 minutes.)
Assuming that the floor temperature was 25 degrees Celsius (which is
quite warm, since the gas chambers were mostly cold, damp cellars),
let us also conservatively assume a gassing time of one half hour.
After one half hour, there would have been at most 16 grams of HCN in
the air of the chamber. The volume of air would be 44 cubic meters.
(That is, 50 cubic meters, minus the volume of the victims, estimated
at six cubic meters, assuming an estimated average body weight of 60
kilograms per person, which would mean a volume of 6 cubic meters for
the victims.) The hydrocyanic acid content in the air of the chamber
would thus have been 363.6 mg/m3. (That is, 16,000 mg/44 m3 = 363.6
mg/m3.) That certainly would have been enough to kill them. (That is,
270 ml/m3 x 1.23 = approximately 330 mg/m3.)
The one hundred victims would now therefore be dead, if we assume
that the hydrocyanic acid did not condense on the cold ambient
surfaces inside the room -- perhaps the room was pre-heated to a
comfortable temperature.
At this point, the "chief of the gassing operation" looked through a
peephole in the door to see whether any of the victims showed signs
of life. But just how he could have done that at Mauthausen, looking
through a peephole 1.20 meters above the ground in a door that is
only 1.68 m high, is a matter that merits further study.
How could he see anything when the victims were "packed together,"
and therefore could not fall down even in the remotest corners of the
room? Nevertheless, after a brief look, the SS executioners turned on
the ventilators to air out the gas chamber. And here we hit the first
snag. The ventilators must, of course, have been exhausters. For them
to work (that is, to exchange the air in the chamber), the gas
chambers would have to have been equipped with air intake channels
and chimneys equipped with blowers. Nothing of the sort has ever been
found in any [alleged homicidal] gas chamber!
Are the Nazis supposed to have caused all of this equipment to
disappear without a trace in the confusion of defeat? Apart from
that, some concentration camps were liberated intact by the
Allies.
The ventilation lasted 30 minutes, and, finally, the door was opened
(!) to determine whether the room was gas-free. "The gassing chiefs,
wearing gas masks" carefully held up a strip of [chemically
sensitized] paper inside [the chamber]. When the room was
free of gas, the doors were opened and the blue
[skin-colored] corpses were taken by prisoner members of the
crematory work team to the morgue, or straight to the crematory.
(However, any textbook on toxicology will confirm that the skin color
of victims of hydrocyanic acid poisoning is red.) Then the gas
chambers -- heavily soiled with blood, excrement, and vomit -- were
cleaned.
What is the evidence against such a procedure? Zyklon B!
Holocaust writers have overlooked the fact that, during the
ventilation process, Zyklon B would still have retained 92 percent of
its hydrocyanic acid content, and would thus continue merrily on its
way, releasing hydrocyanic acid gas. At 25 degrees Celsius, it would
continue to do so for fully 15 1/2 hours, and even longer yet at
lower temperatures.
Of course, one could have sent work team members into the gas chamber
wearing gas masks and protective clothing to remove the Zyklon B
[carrier material], which would at that point still be only
partially gas-free. But just how they could remove this [carrier
material] from the midst of the tightly packed piles of corpses
covered with excrement, vomit and blood, defies explanation.
The bodies could have been removed, and the gas chamber then cleaned,
only by men wearing gas masks and protective clothing. But this would
mean a huge pile of excrement, vomit, and similar material,
thoroughly contaminated with 184 grams of hydrocyanic acid (which
would still continue to evaporate, although slowly). But the
remaining 184 grams of hydrocyanic acid would still be enough to kill
approximately 3,000 persons (at 0.001 gram per kilogram, assuming an
average body weight of 60 kg per person).
This is the flaw in the Holocaust literature!
How did they get rid of the remaining Zyklon B from the midst of the
one hundred corpses, without lengthy ventilation periods, and without
causing mass deaths outside the gas chamber?
The procedure described above might have worked at Mauthausen, if
people were really gassed at intervals of weeks or months. If we are
to believe Hans Marsalek, the Mauthausen "historian," an interval of
17 months elapsed between the fourth and fifth gassings at Mauthausen
(April 17, 1943, and September 25, 1944). But at Auschwitz, people
are said to have been gassed [continuously] on an industrial
basis.
In fact, Zyklon B is utterly unsuited for purposes of systematic mass
murder. It can be used to fumigate, and it could be used to gas a
group of persons occasionally. But for time considerations alone,
quasi-industrial killing would simply be impossible.
Although the Prussic (hydrocyanic) acid contained in Zyklon B can, of
course, kill quickly and certainly, the handling requirements for
Zyklon B and the circumstances involved rule out any significant use
for the mass killing of people. This eliminates Zyklon B as a direct
instrument of the Holocaust. The "eyewitness accounts" in this regard
are false. The witnesses could never have seen an actual gassing. The
events described never took place.
There remains the possibility of Zyklon B being used as a carrier
material for hydrocyanic acid in gas generators.
The description of the [gassing] procedure given during a
trial before the German district court [Landesgericht] at
Hagen suggests the existence of a gas generator of almost ingenious
simplicity of design. (The evidence for gassing in the Mauthausen
camp was provided by the document archives of the Austrian Resistance
Center [DOeW].)
In this case, Zyklon B was not thrown in from above. (Even though
this is what a commemorative plaque tells us, Marsalek reports
differently.) Why this brilliant procedure was never used in other
concentration camps remains a mystery. At Mauthausen, the gas
generator consisted of a sheet metal box with a lid, in which a hot
brick (that had been heated in the open fire of the crematorium) was
laid. This means that the SS could have gassed people only when
bodies were already being burned. Zyklon B was then strewn onto this
hot brick. But because of the temperature, this would mean an
explosively rapid vaporization of the gas, resulting in an explosion
of the HCN itself.
This version of gas generation may clearly be relegated to the realm
of fairy tales. But it was believed by the Hagen district court, just
like the fairy tale of blue (actually, red) victims of hydrogen
cyanide poisoning. [The red coloring is confirmed, for example,
in: Allgemeine und spezielle Pharmakologie und Toxikologie (Dr. W.
Forth, et al., eds.), Mannheim, 4th ed., p. 645.]
Nothing is known of any other gas generators.
Summary
An absolutely unbiased study of the problem must conclude that, by
and large, the views of the so-called "Revisionists" -- the so-called
"deniers" -- are far more in line with the laws of nature, logic, and
technical realities than the accounts in the Holocaust literature (in
which, moreover, scientifically verifiable data is generally
lacking). When, as an exception, verifiable data is given in the
Holocaust literature, a critical examination of such data leads to
absurd results (25 persons per square meter, and so forth).
The decisive error in the Holocaust literature is the belief that the
hydrocyanic acid contained in Zyklon B could be fully released in the
alleged time span of 15-30 minutes required for the gassing, and that
the carrier material would simultaneously and completely vaporize
like a moth ball. The [fact of the] residue of Zyklon B makes
the Auschwitz extermination story ["Auschwitz-Mythos"]
obsolete.
2. The Gerstein Report: An 'eyewitness report' of mass gassings
Preliminary note: The "Gerstein Report" discussed here is the
"confession" of an "informed" SS man, and is a cornerstone of the
Holocaust literature. [For a detailed analysis, see The
'Confessions' of Kurt Gerstein, by Henri Roques. Available from the
IHR.] It should therefore be critically examined for its
technical correctness with regard to the reported mass gassing.
Note: The quotations [from the "Gerstein Report" given] here
are from the book Der Nationalsozialismus: Dokumente, 1933-1945 (W.
Hofer, ed.), Fischer, 1957, pp. 307-311.
First of all, this writer has made a remarkable observation: the
terms "Zyklon B" and "mass gassings with hydrocyanic acid" appear
nowhere in the entire chapter [about persecution and
extermination of Jews]. Didn't Hofer think that they were worth
mentioning in 1957?
According to the book Judenfeindschaft: Darstellung und Analysen
["Hostility to Jews: Description and Analysis"], (K. Thieme,
ed.), Fischer, 1963 (p. 277), Gerstein was assigned ". . . to pick up
100 kilograms of hydrocyanic acid. Gerstein carried out the order,
and became an eyewitness to the extermination of Jews in the
concentration camp at Belzec . . ." Apparently he must have left the
hydrocyanic acid in his luggage once he got there, because
[according to Gerstein] he witnessed a gassing
[there] with carbon monoxide.
Was the Zyklon B story invented between 1957 and 1963? This is a
possible subject of research for contemporary historians! But back to
the "eyewitness."
Gerstein relates:
. . . The rooms are five by five meters, and 1.90 meters high . . . The SS forced 700-900 people into 25 square meters, 45 cubic meters. [Actually: 47.5 cubic meters.] The doors close . . . The people are to be put to death with diesel exhaust gas. But the diesel doesn't work! . . . Yes, I see everything! And I wait. My stop watch has recorded everything perfectly. Fifty minutes, 70 minutes, the diesel still won't start! The people wait in their gas chambers. In vain. We hear them cry, sob . . . After two hours and 49 minutes -- the stop watch has registered everything -- the diesel starts . . . Another 25 minutes go by . . . After 28 minutes, only a few of them are still alive. Finally after 32 minutes, all are dead . . .
"Eyewitness" Gerstein never saw a gassing. He produced an absurd
confession, perhaps to alert others that this atrocity story was
extorted out of him. This writer wonders why the people who have used
this confession never examined it in its physical and physiological
aspects. They overlooked that any confession requires technical
examination. A confession can become a liability if used without
examination. The Gerstein Report is a particularly important
indication of the incorrectness of the Holocaust literature. Nothing
reveals the absurdity of this "eyewitness report" more than an
examination of the verifiable facts described.
There were [according to Gerstein] 700-800 persons -- that
is, an average of 750 persons -- in the chamber, weighing an average
of 60 kilograms, and with a density of approximately one
[sic], a volume of 45 cubic meters (m3).
How the people could be "packed" into a room measuring 47.5 cubic
meters is a mystery. Such an attempt would be absurd and unthinkable.
At the most, ten persons can fit into one square meter. (Using rather
slender persons, experimentation has usually yielded a result of
eight persons.)
Two hundred and fifty persons displace 15 cubic meters, which means
an air volume of 32.5 cubic meters (47.5 - 15 = 32.5). The breathing
time volume (BTV) of those people will amount, on the average, to 7.5
liters per minute. Therefore, 250 people will require 250 x 60 x 7.5
/ 1000 = 112.5 cubic meters of air to breathe in one hour. In 32.5
cubic meters of room space, this air, therefore, will pass through
the lungs of the people shut up in that room 3.45 times in one hour.
It will therefore take 17 minutes and 20 seconds for the air to pass
through their lungs once.
Dry air contains approximately 21 percent oxygen and only traces of
carbon dioxide. Exhaled air contains approximately 15 percent oxygen
and 4.4 percent carbon dioxide, as well as six percent water vapor.
After 34 minutes and 40 seconds, the air will have passed through
their lungs a second time, and will now contain approximately ten
percent oxygen, but already eight percent carbon dioxide. After a
(hypothetical) third passage through the lungs, the air in the
chamber would contain approximately five percent oxygen, but at least
eleven percent carbon dioxide, after only 52 minutes.
But unconsciousness and anoxia would have appeared after 30 to 45
minutes. And five minutes of anoxia means brain death.
Therefore, the people in the "gas chamber" could not, first of all,
have waited two hours and 49 minutes for the diesel engine to start.
Nor could they have cried and sobbed after 50 minutes of hopeless
waiting. They would certainly have been dead by that time. And how
could 700-800 people -- assuming they could be packed or forced into
the chamber at all -- have breathed at all if they were "packed
together"? They would have been unconscious soon after the doors
closed, and in another five minutes they would have been dead.
The Gerstein Report is no report, but a whopping lie. This
"eyewitness" (or rather, those who told him what to write, or who
made it up themselves) was lying! As shown by the calculations given
above, this "eyewitness" is quite obviously lying.
3. Mass gassings with diesel engine exhaust gas
In addition to the "Gerstein Report," there are a number of
reports that describe the "genocidal extermination of millions of
people, particularly Jews" in gas chambers in the concentration camps
of the National Socialist regime, as well as reports of so-called
"gas vans." In addition to Prussic acid [HCN] gas, which came
from the pest control agent Zyklon B, carbon monoxide from diesel
exhaust gas was [reportedly] also used.
It is true that carbon monoxide is a dangerous poison. The many
unemployed people in Vienna who, during the 1930s, used illumination
[coal] gas (which contained carbon monoxide) to commit
suicide were very well aware of that. [On the toxicity of carbon
monoxide, see, for example: Allgemeine und spezielle Pharmakologie
und Toxikologie (Dr. W. Forth, et al., eds.), Mannheim, 4th ed., pp.
643-645.]
The toxicity of carbon monoxide is undisputed. As always, though, the
question remains: How could this dangerous poison have been applied
to the victims in a quasi-industrial manner?
First, permit me to digress: According to the Holocaust literature,
submarine motors and tank diesel engines are supposed to have been
used. These details are intended to enhance the credibility of the
claims. It is nevertheless worth noting that submarine motors, or any
other kind of ship's diesel engines, were not readily available, and
that German tanks -- incomprehensibly, due to the greater fuel
consumption and considerably greater danger of fire in the event of a
direct hit -- were exclusively equipped with spark-ignition
(gasoline) engines. The only diesel motors available would have been
those from captured tanks after the beginning of the Russian
campaign. However, their use would hardly have been advisable due to
the difficulty of obtaining spare parts. But that is beside the
point, only a noteworthy detail.
What the Holocaust writers have obviously overlooked is the fact that
diesel motors are particularly unsuited for the efficient production
of carbon monoxide (CO). The SS would have gone over to
spark-ignition [gasoline] engines immediately after the first
alleged attempts to kill the victims with diesel exhaust gases.
Spark-ignition engines can certainly produce eight-percent carbon
monoxide by volume with poor idle adjustment, but diesels are
practically CO free.
. . . Spark-ignition [gasoline] engines deliver up to 120
times as much carbon monoxide (CO) [as diesel en-gines], and
diesel exhaust gases cannot produce enough CO.
And something else is interesting here:. . . If the reader compares
these figures [Fuehrer]with those of diesel exhaust gases, he
will quickly notice that this [diesel exhaust] is less toxic.
The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is also poisonous gas, is
less, the amount of carbon monoxide (CO) is negligible, and the
amounts of oxygen and nitrogen are nearly the same. Just what does
this mean in plain language?
It means that nobody can be gassed with diesel exhaust. Instead,
victims would more readily suffocate from using up the oxygen in the
"gas tight" chambers. In fact, if diesel exhaust gas is introduced
into the chamber, the people inside would actually receive more
oxygen than they would from breathing the air in the closed chamber
after it passed twice through their lungs!
This [twice-breathed] air would have only ten percent oxygen
left in it, but would already contain eight percent carbon dioxide.
The oxygen content would continue to drop as the people [in the
chamber] continue breathing, and the carbon dioxide (CO2) content
would continue to rise. Anoxia (oxygen deprivation) would occur very
quickly, and five minutes after that, the end will come quickly
through brain death.
The victims -- who would otherwise die quickly -- would easily live
longer as a result of "gassing" with diesel exhaust, because of its
high oxygen content. This means that the diesel engine is not suited
for quick killing, assuming this could be done at all. On the other
hand, if the victims were gassed with exhaust from spark-ignition
engines, death would come much more quickly as a result of oxygen
deprivation and the high carbon dioxide (CO2) content than death by
carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.
Any executioner would have chosen spark-ignition [gasoline]
engines to suffocate victims in the gas chamber: the first time he
tried a diesel motor, it would quickly become obvious that he had
chosen the wrong method of execution.
Furthermore, a diesel motor with a five liter displacement running at
1000 revolutions per minute would create an overpressure of one (1)
atmosphere after ten minutes in a 50-cubic meter (m3) large air-tight
chamber, and two (2) atmospheres after 20 minutes. That's more than
the air pressure inside an automobile tire. This means that after ten
minutes, there would be twelve tons of pressure against the "gas
chamber door," and 24 tons after 20 minutes. (The measurements of the
door at Mauthausen are 72 x 166 cm.) How long would it take to blow
open the door?
This proves that the testimonies about mass killings with diesel
exhaust gas (such as given in the Gerstein Report) are objectively
untrue. They do not stand up to scientific examination.
4. The flames from the chimneys
In the Holocaust literature one can often read reports of
eyewitnesses who saw dense smoke coming from the chimneys of the
crematories in German concentration camps. Inmates also often saw
flames "many meters long" shooting out of the chimneys. People with
especially good eyesight even saw such phenomena from as far away as
20 kilometers from Auschwitz.
Mauthausen "historian" and state official [Hofrat] Hans
Marsalek writes (in the book Das war Mauthausen, p. 14, point 18,
"Bunker"):
. . . Below the bunker was the first crematorium. Its fire burned day and night, and the glare of the flame shooting out of the chimney could be seen far away in the Danube valley . . .
All these "eyewitnesses" (who are now commonly referred to as
"contemporary witnesses") are telling conscious untruths when they
report such things, unless they are the victims of an optical
illusion. Only they themselves know if they are lying.
The origin of such tales is obvious, even if those who speak loosely
without any technical knowledge achieve exactly the opposite effect
by it: they are thinking of an open fire, which burns higher as more
wood is put on it. This is supposed to make the story of mass
cremations -- of more and more people -- appear more credible. These
people confuse a midsummer bonfire with a crematory oven.
First, we will make two demands upon the reader's knowledge of
geometry and sense of logic:
1. Geometry: From a distance of 20 kilometers, even over the
Neusiedlersee [Neusiedl Lake] (which is quite flat), the
influence of the curvature of the earth is enough to cut off any
possible visual contact between the eye of the observer and any high
chimney or high flame, even from a high vantage point (such as the
roof of a railroad car, since the "eyewitnesses" were railroad
workers). In the vicinity of Auschwitz, furthermore, there were
gently rolling hills, which were nevertheless sufficient to shield
the installations from view.
2. Logic: Why did the Germans lay a smoke screen over the "Hermann
Goering Works" in Linz, and order strict blackouts if, at the same
time, (according to Marsalek) ". . . the glare of the flame shooting
out of the chimney could be seen far away in the Danube valley . .
."? This would have been a beacon for US bombers. (I can just hear
the co-pilot reporting to the pilot: "John. I see the lights of
Mauthausen straight ahead! Now five degrees [to the] west for
Hermann!"). Nobody can believe this.
Turning now to technology, because objective proof is always far more
conclusive than witness testimony.
In the book Bauentwurfslehre ["Textbook on Construction
Design"] by Ernst Neufert (Ullstein Fachverlag, 1962), p. 423,
one can read:
Cremation takes place in special ovens which are cokefired, electrically-fired (cremation of a body requires about 45 Kw of energy), or gas-fired . . . [and is] entirely free of smoke [Staub] or odor.
(This puts an end to the fairy tales of noticeable odor of the cremated corpses!)
[The cremation] takes place in dry air heated to 900-1,000 degrees [Celsius], that is without the flame coming into contact with the dead [body]. The oven is heated beforehand for two to three hours, and the cremation process itself requires between an hour and a quarter and an hour and a half.
(See also the Meyer and Brockhaus standard reference works.)
Thus, technology also establishes that the crematory capacity could
never have kept pace with the number of bodies in the "genocidal mass
gassings of millions of people," and that therefore the bodies could
not have been disposed of in sufficient quantity by burning.
That no "flame many meters high" could shoot out of the chimney
should be clear to anyone who has ever watched the burning of wood in
an open fireplace, or who watched the grilling of pieces of meat (a
preliminary stage of cremation) on a charcoal fire.
Contrary to popular belief, corpses are not combustible materials.
Cremation of bodies requires large quantities of fuel. (With a wooden
coffin of 40 kilograms, and assuming 50 percent total efficiency of
combustion, 45 kilowatts [of electrical energy] corresponds
to about 15 kilograms of coke, or eight cubic meters of natural
gas.)
The cremation of four million people using coke would alone require
at least 50 kilograms [per body], which would mean about
200,000 tons of coke!
It is also senseless (and technically impossible) to speak of
cremating several corpses at the same time in the same oven
(witnesses have claimed as many as ten bodies at a time!), because
this would exceed the capacity of the oven.
And what about the flames? Coke is a short-flamed fuel. The flame
could not even exceed the confines of the burning chamber. In
addition, there is a short exhaust channel, the flue, between the
oven and the chimney. The chimney only comes after that. So, using
[such] short-flamed solid fuels, there wouldn't be any
"flame." At most, there would be exhaust fumes at a temperature of
180 degrees Celsius. Otherwise, the chimney would soon be ruined.
Therefore, after traversing eight or ten meters of chimney, no flame
could be visible outside. (The chimney length is determined by the
required draw, not the length of the flame.) Not even a reflection
would be visible because it would be lost in the flue. I always
wonder why the judges who believed such testimony never at least
asked a chimney sweep about this, even if they didn't consult an
expert. Only "contemporary historians" and a series of courts have
ever accepted these tales of "contemporary witnesses" about "flames
many meters high" shooting out of the crematoria chimneys.
On this subject as well, it might be noted that the objections of
"Revisionists" are far more in harmony with the laws of nature and
technology than the tales of the Holocaust writers.
5. Mass gassings in Mauthausen
Before dealing with the question of whether a [homicidal] gas chamber existed at Mauthausen at all, a few facts -- based on unimpeachable sources -- should first be noted. The following sources have been used:
- Hans Marsalek, Die Geschichte der Konzentrationslager Mauthausen ["The History of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp"] (Vienna: 1974 and 1980)
- Hans Marsalek, Giftgas in Mauthausen ["Poison Gas in Mauthausen"] (Vienna: 1988)
- Hans Marsalek, Mauthausen: Fuehrer durch die Gedenkstatte ["Mauthausen: Guide to the Memorial Site"] (Vienna)
- Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz und die Allierten (Munich: 1982) [English-language edition: Auschwitz and the Allies]
The following statements are taken from the above sources:
According to H. Marsalek, Giftgas in Mauthausen, p. 15:
On August 17, 1942, 56 Soviet citizens and five Poles were gassed.
According to H. Marsalek, Die Geschichte der Konzentrationslager Mauthausen, p. 227:
On August 17, 1942, 56 Soviet citizens and five Poles were shot.
According to H. Marsalek, Giftgas in Mauthausen, p. 15:
On November 19, 1943, 38 Soviet citizens were gassed.
According to H. Marsalek, Die Geschichte der Konzentrationslager Mauthausen, p. 227:
On November 19, 1943, 38 Soviet citizens were shot.
If those aren't contradictions, what are?
According to H. Marsalek, Giftgas in Mauthausen (1988), p. 15:
1. Gassing on May 9, 1942: 231 Soviet prisoners of war.
But according to H. Marsalek, Die Geschichte (1974/1980), it was only 208.
2. Gassing on October 24, 1942: 261 Czechs.
But according to H. Marsalek, Die Geschichte (1974/1980), it was only 128.
3. Gassing on January 26, 1943: 31 Czechs.
But according to H. Marsalek, Die Geschichte (1974/1980), it was only 15.
4. Gassing on April 17, 1943: 59 Soviet citizens and five Poles.
5. Gassing on September 25, 1944: 138 Soviet citizens and one Pole.
But according to H. Marsalek, Die Geschichte (1974/1980), it was
only 110 Soviet citizens.
And so forth.
To sum up here:
According to H. Marsalek, Giftgas in Mauthausen (1988), the sum
total, up to September 9, 1944, is 726 persons.
But, according to H. Marsalek, Die Geschichte der Konzentrationslager
Mauthausen (1974 and 1980), the sum total, up to September 9, 1944,
is 526 persons.
It is worth noting here that more than 17 months elapsed between the
fourth and fifth gassings.
We are further given to understand -- from H. Marsalek, Die
Geschichte der Konzentrationslager Mauthausen -- that Zyklon B was
already delivered on September 22, 1942, and was again delivered on
July 7, 1942, on April 28, 1943, July 1, 1943, and November 5, 1943,
in the amount of 240 kg of cyanide content for each delivery.
Zyklon B was therefore already being delivered long before the
[homicidal] "gas chamber" was [supposedly] put into
operation, and was thereafter delivered in quantities exceeding the
requirements for executions in a "gas chamber" by many thousands of
percent. This may be proven by the following calculations:
The fatal dose would amount to 180-270 ml/m3, or 220-330 mg/m3. (Source: Supplement [Beilage] ./D, Merkblatt M 002 der Berufgenossenschaft der chemischen Industrie, p. 9.)
The volume of the "gas chamber" was approximately 35 cubic meters
(3.70 x 3.90 x 2.46). Subtracting a volume of approximately two cubic
meters for the people to be gassed, the chamber therefore contains a
volume of 33 cubic meters of air. Assuming a certain fatal dose of
one gram per cubic meter (or about 3 to 4.5 times as much as would
really be required to kill), per gassing 33 grams are required, or
1.1 grams of hydrocyanic acid per person. Assuming five grams per
person -- conservatively assuming a 22 percent degree of efficiency
of the cyanide content in Zyklon B for purposes of yielding cyanide
gas -- the 2,481 persons (according to H. Marsalek, Giftgas) could
have been killed 10 to 20 times over with 12 kilograms. So why did
they deliver more than one ton between September 22, 1941, and
November 11, 1943, even though only 526 persons could have been
gassed up to September 25, 1944, according to H. Marsalek, Die
Geschichte der Konzentrationslager Mauthausen? Or was the Zyklon B
used only for delousing and pest control? The actual requirement for
the certain killing of 526 persons is about one half kilogram.
According to H. Marsalek, Giftgas in Mauthausen, p. 233:
On August 19, 1944, 457 (or 456) Jewish prisoners were sent to Auschwitz. On August 28, 1944, 419 arrived [at the camp].
And according to M. Gilbert, Auschwitz und die Allierten, p. 362 [or, Auschwitz and the Allies, p. 308]:
A train with 417 [or 429] persons arrived at Auschwitz from Mauthausen on August 22, 1944. Of this number, 93 were transferred to the work camp, and 326 were gassed.
A close look at the above reveals something remarkable. The
question arises: Why did the Nazis, who possessed a properly
functioning gas chamber at Mauthausen (but one which, at this point
in time, apparently had not been used for 17 months), first transport
the 326 Jews for three (or nine) days to Auschwitz, and then
immediately gas them? Why didn't they gas them right away in
Mauthausen?
According to H. Marsalek, Giftgas in Mauthausen, p. 15: The gassing
operations in Mauthausen first really began in earnest on March 23
(or 27), 1945. Up until April 28, 1945, there were nine gassings, and
up to the period between May 9, 1942, and February 19, 1945, also
only nine.
According to H. Marsalek, Die Geschichte der Konzentrationslager
Mauthausen, gassings took place on just 18 days, with 1,980 victims.
But according to H. Marsalek (the same author), in Giftgas in
Mauthausen, there were 2,481 victims!
In H. Marsalek, Mauthausen: Fuehrer durch die Gedenkstatte, p. 12, a
document is cited. This is a communication from the SS Economic and
Administrative Main Office (WVHA), dated Nov. 10, 1943, to the
commandants of the concentration camps. Among other things, it
reads:
The bordello and the crematories are not to be shown during camp visits. These installations are not to be mentioned to persons visiting the camp . . .
Apparently, then, everything else could be shown and mentioned to
visitors. Logically, then, a gas chamber, if one existed, could be
shown and talked about; otherwise, it would have been included in the
prohibition.
Since we cannot assume that the SS ever showed a [homicidal]
gas chamber to the inspectors of the International Red Cross, it is
permissible to conclude that none existed.
Conclusions
Why was Zyklon B delivered for a year prior to the [alleged
homicidal] gassings? Obviously, for pest control and delousing!
Delousing chambers are in Mauthausen even today, but there is no
structure capable of being used as a [homicidal] gas
chamber.
Why was nobody gassed for 17 months even though there
[supposedly] was a working gas chamber? Why did they send
hundreds of people during this period to Auschwitz for gassing?
Obviously, in fact, because nobody was ever gassed in Mauthausen as
part of any "systematic genocide."
Why would a gas chamber be built if, during a period of more than
three and a half years, it was used on only 18 days, and if the
adjacent installation -- where people were shot in the back of the
neck (according to H. Marsalek in Giftgas in Mauthausen) -- worked
three times as efficiently?
The answer is that the room shown today as a gas chamber was never
used for that purpose, and -- for technical and physical reasons --
never could have been used for that purpose. It was very probably the
shower room for the crematory personnel, although its use as a morgue
cannot be excluded.
Anyone familiar with the danger involved in handling hydrocyanic acid
gas (which is explosive and extremely toxic) must wonder why the SS
executioners didn't use carbon dioxide gas -- which is easy to handle
and completely harmless to the executioner -- to kill the prisoners
who were allegedly poisoned with Zyklon.
Any textbook on physiology confirms that in the event of anoxia
(oxygen deprivation), disturbances of brain functioning appear after
five seconds, followed by unconsciousness after 15 seconds, and brain
death after five minutes. This is how animals are put to sleep,
painlessly and surely. It also works with people.
But according to Marsalek (in Giftgas in Mauthausen, p. 10), instead
of blowing carbon dioxide (CO2) into the "gas chamber," the Nazis
sprinkled Zyklon B onto a brick heated on a shovel in the crematory
oven to generate cyanide gas!
6. Carbon Monoxide Gas In Flasks
The allegation is also found in Holocaust literature that gas
chamber victims were suffocated using carbon monoxide (CO).
In Hans Marsalek's work, Vergasungsaktionen im Konzentrationslager
Mauthausen: Die Gaskammer im Schloss Hartheim ["Gassings Actions
in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp: The Gas Chamber in the Hartheim
Castle"], pp. 21 ff., we read:
. . . People were apparently first gassed in Hartheim with carbon monoxide gas on June 6, 1940 . . . New supplies of steel flasks with poison gas . . . were provided . . . Poison gas streamed through this pipe, which was always blown in from a steel flask located in the next room . . .
This allegation can also be found in the indictment of the
Prosecuting Attorney of Linz, dated July 20, 1947 (3 St 466/46).
In Simon Wiesenthal's book, Doch die Moerder Leben (Droemer Knaur),
1967 [US edition: The Murderers Among Us], p. 385, on the
photo of the site diagram of Hartheim Castle, the gas flask storage
area [Gasflaschenlager] is marked, right next to the "gassing
area" [Vergasungsraum].
(Interestingly, Wiesenthal refers in this book to eleven million
people supposedly gassed [sic] by the Nazis. As part of the
downward trend, this figure has been reduced to six million. The
figure continues to fall, and because of the recent subtraction of
three recent million from the Auschwitz figure, the grand total must
now be three million.)
That this diagram is actually a forgery fits, of course, with the
general pattern. ([Specifically:] Captions and, there-fore,
room designations, were not made with a typewriter. Instead, the
diagram designations were made with standard script or with block
letters. And a "gas chamber" with a window is technical nonsense. The
handwritten word "crematory" has been added to the words "oven room,"
apparently to criminalize the heating system. Given the lack of
space, the question of precisely how the bodies were
[supposedly] brought into the ovens is a matter worthy of
some consideration. And the word "Sektierkammer" [dissection
chamber] was obviously added by someone who is not entirely
familiar with the German language.)
Gassing by means of carbon monoxide from flasks is technical
nonsense. Carbon monoxide (CO) could only have been filled and stored
in high pressure steel flasks, which would have been extremely
expensive to fill, and even more expensive to transport. Anyone
engaged in quasi-industrial mass killing could generate carbon
monoxide in large quantities by simply using a spark-ignition
(gasoline) engine, with a suitably "bad" (but for this purposes quite
logical) carburetor adjustment. With just one liter of gasoline, and
set at idle, such an engine can deliver many cubic meters of
[deadly] exhaust in a very short time. This exhaust would not
have any oxygen content, but would have eight, ten, 15 or even 20
percent carbon monoxide content. It would also be produced cheaply
and on the spot, and at a fraction of the cost of the fuel required
for the transport of any "gas flasks."
Once again, it must be stated that the Nazis may have been criminals,
but they certainly were not stupid enough to use approximately one
hundred liters of gasoline to produce a quantity of carbon monoxide
that they could easily have manufactured on the spot using a couple
of liters of gasoline.
In addition, carbon monoxide was produced in chemical plants and was
a basic element for [the production of] synthetic gasoline.
If for no other reason, the story of "carbon monoxide in flasks" for
mass killing appears improbable because of the energy required to
compress it, transport it in filled high pressure flasks, and then
release it later at atmospheric pressure during use.
Thus, the last remaining cornerstone of the mass gassing story is
relegated to the class of technical fairy tales rather than
scientifically proven fact. This applies to gassings whether by:
- hydrocyanic acid used in the manner described above (that is, by throwing in Zyklon B from above),
- exhaust gas from diesel engines, or
- carbon monoxide in flasks, whether in stationary "gas chambers" or in so-called "gas vans."
The mass gassing story is certainly not a "fact of common
knowledge"!
Had the Nazis really wished to "gas" (or, more accurately, to
"suffocate") people on a quasi-industrial basis ("systematic
genocide"), they certainly would have turned to carbon dioxide gas
(CO2), which would have been absolutely harmless to the executioners
and cheap to produce, instead of hydrocyanic acid (HCN) in Zyklon B
or carbon monoxide (CO).
Anyone who does not believe this should take care to read the
newspaper accounts of frequent accidents with fermentation gas which
occur every year in the springtime in Austrian wine cellars.
Carbon dioxide kills quickly, painlessly and surely.
7. The attempted refutation of the Leuchter Report
Leuchter states that "the gas chambers at Auschwitz were not used
to kill human beings with Zyklon B, because they could not be heated
and had insufficient ventilation installations."
In this regard, the author H. Auerbach, writing in a statement on
"The So-Called Leuchter Report," issued in November 1989 by the
[semi-official German] Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte
["Institute of Contemporary History"] in Munich, stated:
Leuchter fails to consider that even in a much larger room (Note: compared to a US execution gas chamber), this temperature (of evaporation of hydrogen cyanide) would be reached very quickly if it were packed full of people, and that therefore no heating at all is required.
Like so many Holocaust writers, Auerbach is mistaken.
An experiment was carried out by this writer to simulate the heating
of a chamber by human beings.
The dimensions of the chamber were as follows: Floor area: 5.43
square meters. Height: 2.45 meters. Volume: 13.30 cubic meters.
Surface area: 33.70 square meters. The chamber floor was tiled, as
were the walls up to a height of 1.50 meters. Above that height, the
walls were of wood section covering, with a wood section ceiling.
Because of the large wood surface, the chamber is far easier to heat
than the "gas chambers" shown as tourist attractions at Auschwitz.
The chamber took an hour to heat using an 1.8 Kw electric convection
heater, after which the room was "ventilated" for 30 minutes.
The nearly square chamber had one outside wall (outdoor air
temperature: 20 degrees Celsius), and three inside walls (inside air
temperature: 22 degrees Celsius).
The rise in temperature (Celsius) is shown in the following table
(with figures rounded off):
[table omitted]
Because, according to the laws of nature, warmth flows from areas
of higher temperature to cooler areas, and the standard "average body
temperature" is approximately 33-34 degrees Celsius (Physiologie des
Menschen, Schmidt/Thews, Springer, 1987, p. 655), the figures
measured in the simulation (at summer temperatures) are well above
those that could be attained in the middle of the year in an unheated
"gas chamber." Even [in a room] with people "tightly packed
crushed together," an air temperature in excess of 30-32 degrees
Celsius would not be attained. In addition, the gassings are supposed
to have taken place quickly and on a quasi-industrial basis.
Consequently, the wall temperatures would rise only slightly (hence
the possibility that the hydrocyanic acid would condense on the
walls), and the floor temperature would hardly rise at all. Nor would
the bare feet of the victims warm the floor to any appreciable
extent, because the temperature of the arch of the foot is only 27-28
degrees Celsius, and the temperature of the soles is practically
identical to the floor temperature. Therefore, rather than warming
the floor to any measurable extent, the victims would suffer from
cold feet.
According to the Holocaust literature, Zyklon B was normally thrown
in from above. This means, naturally, that it would land on the floor
(which even in summer was colder than 26 degrees Celsius). As a
result, the hydrocyanic acid contained in the Zyklon B would not
vaporize quickly, but would instead evaporate more or less slowly
(from six to 32 hours, at five to 30 degrees Celsius). This is
precisely the secret of the success of Zyklon B as a pest control
agent: a nearly even yield of the active ingredient over longer
periods of time depending on the temperature.
To achieve the rapid killing described in the Holocaust literature,
the SS therefore would have had to incorporate floor heating
installations into the "gas chambers" in order to be able to use them
as [homicidal] gas chambers.
And there is another detail: rapid and effective ventilation would
have required not just mechanical ventilation, but suitable air
intake channels. Without an air intake, using ventilators alone, the
deadly air-gas mixture could never have been exhausted from the gas
chamber. If this were attempted, the ventilator would reach a
"suction limit" and run empty. That is, it would deliver nothing, but
would instead simply maintain a certain partial vacuum
[Unterdruck] in the chamber. Deadly hydrogen cyanide (HCN)
would continue to evaporate for many hours, and the concentration in
the air of the chamber would thereby become more and more rapidly
fatal. How the room [removal] work team could work without
heavy breathing equipment and protective clothing, only a "witness"
can explain. Science can provide no answer.
Rather, science shows that:
- Leuchter is correct, even though he provided no detailed scientific proof in his report, and
- Holocaust writers are telling stories which cannot withstand scientific scrutiny.
8. Epilogue
Holocaust writers now face a dilemma.
The weapon for the "systematic genocidal extermination of millions of
people, especially Jews" must now be abandoned if one looks at the
facts instead of concentrating on belief.
No weapon, no crime. What now?
Mass murder with diesel exhaust gases (in 32 minutes, according to
Gerstein) is a sheer impossibility for reasons of time alone. This
can be proven experimentally, even today, with a couple of brave men.
Therefore, the [stories of] "gas chambers with diesel
engines" and "gas vans" ["gaswagen"] can only be
disinformation. The "witnesses" make objectively false statements,
and the "confessions" are clearly false. The laws of nature apply
both to Nazis and anti-fascists. Nobody can be killed with diesel
exhaust gas in the manner described.
Mass murder in the manner described, with Zyklon B and with carbon
monoxide, cannot have taken place, either, because it too would
violate the laws of nature, and because the necessary technical and
organizational prerequisites were lacking.
Experimental killings with Zyklon B may have taken place. After fifty
years, this cannot be ruled out with certainty. But such experiments
would have resulted in deaths among the executioners, and the
recognition that something like the [supposed] Mauthausen
shooting installation would be more logical and safer.
A similar recognition would have come very quickly in any experiment
using diesel exhaust gases ("get rid of that diesel and get us a
spark-ignition engine"), if there had ever been any "gas chambers
with diesel engines" or "gas vans" ("generator gas" from "wood gas"
trucks would have been more logical). The Nazis may have been
criminals, but they certainly were not stupid enough to use diesel
motors and Zyklon B in the manner described.
The crematories could never have disposed of the number of victims:
this may be considered proven by engineering science. Bodies are not
a combustible material. Their cremation requires a great deal of time
and energy.
In light of what is now known, there are no "facts of common
knowledge" [or "judicially noted" facts] with regard to the
Holocaust. The facts given above should be elaborated to a higher
degree of proof by specialists, and preferably by court-recognized
experts. Such a study will certainly produce amazing results, which
will radically alter the basic views of many people.
Objective proof will refute the testimony of perjured "witnesses" and
the "confessions" of "criminals."
Judges and historians must draw the appropriate conclusions, and a
whole generation of "contemporary historians" will sit on the ruins
of their worldview, much as the Marxists today sit on the ruins of
their Marxist ideology.
In court trials of "Revisionists," therefore, "contemporary
historians" should never be the only ones permitted to determine the
"facts" of the Holocaust. There must be interdisciplinary cooperation
with scientists and technicians.
Any legal provision that seeks to hinder or even penalize scientific
investigation of the Holocaust (such as section 283a of the Austrian
criminal code) would amount to a state-ordered reign of terror
against the human spirit.
Should actual investigation of the Holocaust prove the "deliberate
genocide" to be a fact, the discussion will then be at an end, among
the "Revisionists" as well. Who could wish to oppose discussion of
the Holocaust, on any grounds, let alone attempt to choke discussion
using criminal law?
Who is there who could abolish freedom of thought and the rule of
law, without opening himself to the suspicion of trying to exert
improper influence by suppressing discussion?
Is "1984" coming after all -- through the back door?
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