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The video questions the believability of the Auschwitz gas chambers, presenting evidence such as eyewitness testimonies, satellite photos, and blueprints. It argues that the design and operation of the gas chambers are not plausible, pointing out flaws in the layout, cremation process, and door strength. The video suggests that the gas chambers were actually used for storing dead bodies and that the high number of cremation ovens was due to a typhus epidemic. It concludes that the Auschwitz gas chambers are a myth and that the strategy is to suppress denial of the genocide.
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Speaker 0: Auschwitz, where the Germans sent the Jews to the gas chambers. Here's a movie depiction. It's considered the most evil thing that ever happened in Europe, but when you get into it, it's not believable. And I'll offer good reasons why using this 3 d model of an Auschwitz gas chamber, eyewitness testimony, satellite photos, and blueprints. But can you think objectively about something so socially unacceptable?
Consider this clip.
Speaker 1: We know that evil has yet to run its course on earth. We've seen it in this century, the mass graves and The ashes of villages burned to the ground and children used as soldiers and rape used as a weapon of war. To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened, who perpetrate every form of intolerance, Racism and antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, and more. Hatred that degrades its victim And diminishes us all.
Speaker 0: Is that logical? That if you don't believe in this, that you must be hateful with a lot of phobias and Isms. And can you think open mindedly about something so heaped with scorn? First, let me explain how it supposedly worked. This is crematorium 2, the main gas chamber facility at Auschwitz.
In the distance is chimney smoke from burning bodies. 2,000 Jews would gather here in the grass and be told they were going underground to undress and then take a shower. The undressing room and gas chamber are underground. So this is a stairway. This is grass.
This is an underground room that sticks out above the ground just a little where they got undressed. Jews forced to work in the gassing operation were called Sonderkommando. Dario Gabbay claimed to be a Sonderkommando. And
Speaker 2: putting their, you know, their undress going there. And the only one thing I remember that always the As as we're saying, is, take your shoes on, Susan and Majin. You know? Put them together as a pair And take it in your hand and walk in through the corridor, come into the before going into the gas chamber, you had to leave it. Somebody was taking them.
Speaker 0: So we go underground into the undressing room. Men, women, and children would get undressed in this elongated Room. Back then, lice carried a deadly disease called typhus, and taking a shower could help prevent the spread of lice. So there's a poster showing a skull and a louse because getting clean could mean not getting killed by typhus. However, it's a trick.
They're really going to the gas chamber. So 2,000 Jews would go through this corridor, where we make a right turn into the gas chamber. Here's the gas chamber. And we see a mesh column. Someone above ground would open a hatch and pour pellets into the room.
The pellets were soaked with deadly cyanide liquid and would land here on the floor. The gas would evaporate out of the pellets into the room and kill everybody. Here's a can of the pellets. A product called Zyklon B made by the Dagesh company.
Speaker 2: My my first observations of that is that I saw 25 to 3000 people going on the on the gas chamber, And they closed the doors and, you know, then I knew that the SS through the Cyclone b, you know, from, above 3, 4 openings.
Speaker 0: Everyone would be killed by gas, and the dead bodies were then dragged back into the corridor through the same door which everybody walked in, making a hard right turn into an elevator, back up to ground level where there were 15 cremation ovens on the left. 2000 Jews were gassed at one time in this building known as crematorium 2, The main gas chamber at Auschwitz. We use a 3 d model to describe it since the Psyllidi was destroyed at the end of the war, but the blueprints were in the Auschwitz archives. Here's a block of 3 out of the 15 ovens, and we see a pile of ash inside. This is Philip Mueller, a European Jew who claimed he was forced to work in the gassing operation.
Let's go over this once more with a physical model. The Jews went down a stairway here and were told to undress to get ready to take a shower. Here's the undressing room. Going this way, they went into a corridor, made a right turn, and went into the gas chamber. 2000 Jews made the chamber packed to capacity, as you can see in this tangle of dead bodies.
Speaker 2: You know, when after 15, 20 minutes, they open up The thing, the first thing I see, I saw the people I saw 15 minutes before alive. I So the mothers with the children standing up before because the gas chamber will will take maybe 500 people. It used to make 12 25100 people. Everybody's standing up. There was no room for anything else standing up.
Speaker 0: The bodies were then dragged on the floor out of the gas chamber Into an elevator, back up to ground level, and into a room where 15 cremation ovens were. And this whole facility was called crematorium 2 where half a 1000000 Jews were supposedly killed. That's a larger number than all American military who died in World War 2. This is what it would have looked like during the war. 2,000 Jews would assemble back over there, then they go into this underground undressing room with the gas chamber on the other side of the building.
Currently, it looks like this. There are the stairs leading into the undressing room. There's the undressing room with the stairway in the distance. And there's the gas chamber. The roof is partially caved in but can still be entered.
Here's what it looks like inside. Here's a blueprint of crematorium 2 from the Auschwitz archive. There's the undressing room. There's the passage. There's the gas chamber.
There's the elevator coming up to 5 blocks of 3 ovens each. There, the vents snaking up to the chimney, which you saw in the beginning. You can see the dressing room and gas chamber are fairly elongated and the gas chamber a little smaller. So the first thing to notice is incredibly bad design. 2,000 Jews go in here, go through this narrow passage into the gas chamber.
Why not have it be above ground? This is the undressing room and this is the gas chamber. And have 4 large doors between so that 500 people can go through each door, totaling 2,000. Then 4 large doors open up on the right side where there is a conveyor belt that Takes the bodies to a blast furnace. When the bodies here are removed, carts on wheels are then brought in for the heavy of moving the 1700 remaining bodies to the conveyor belt.
Carts on wheels because Even a smaller man of a £135 is equal to 3 plates in the gym, which is draggable but slow going, And one would get tired quickly. Of course, with wheels, it's much easier. So how did they do it in this 100 foot elongated room? If, say, they had 700 bodies left to haul out down at the end of the gas chamber and had to move them 70 feet to the door.
Speaker 3: So, when they would open the doors of the gas chamber, whose job was it to take the bodies out?
Speaker 2: Well, they they they give us some Canes. You reverse the can and you put it in in the and you Drag them out because when the gas, they get very, very tight and takes a long lot of, force to be able to drag the bodies from from the gas chambers, you know, to put it in the elevator going on the second floor.
Speaker 0: Dragging with canes instead of using wheels? Not believable. There's also the bad design of taking everyone underground just to have the problem of then taking all their bodies back up to ground level. But the worst design of all is individual ovens. Individual ovens are for saving individual ashes to give to relatives.
If that's not a requirement, Then you don't use individual ovens. The Germans would have used a large brick cylinder furnace where bodies and coal are thrown in at the top creating a pile inside with air being blown beneath through the pile. Elongated rooms perpendicular is pretty stupid design. Any thinking person would have elongated rooms side by side. This improved design has just 100 Jews going into an undressing room since 2,000 people is Too unwieldy and hard to control, particularly if there's a revolt.
They undress and go into a shower room, which in contrast to this It's actually convincing as a shower room where steel guillotine doors shut. In other words, doors that open toward the sky and shut toward the ground. The gas chamber fills with gas, and afterwards, still guillotine doors open at the conveyor belt to a continuously operating oven. The bodies are already a short distance to the conveyor belt. The floor slanted slightly toward it.
Conceptually, a little bit like this. A gassing could happen every hour and a half, and a strong point of this design is bodies are put into the oven steadily throughout the day and night Because cremating the bodies is the hardest part of the process, it could do 13 gassings a day, killing 1300 people. It is also small and easily duplicable.
Speaker 4: And when we were in the In the train, we were afraid. We never knew what will be our future.
Speaker 0: Among Jews, rumors of gas chambers abounded during the war as can be seen in this testimony.
Speaker 5: At Linz in Austria, The train stopped, and Jews on board were told to get out and take a shower.
Speaker 4: I was standing naked before the doctor and Still looking very proud into his eyes and, thought he should see how a Jewish woman is going a proud Jewish woman is going to die Because most of us knew that in Auschwitz, from the taps, there didn't come any water but the gas. And, from the pipes came fine warm water. Afterwards, we dressed up and returned to our train. It was a very relieving experience after we were ready to die there.
Speaker 0: She solemnly accepted her fate, but that couldn't have been every person's reaction who didn't believe the shower story. Some would have become hysterical and done the proverbial yelling of fire in the crowded theater.
Speaker 4: Because most of us knew that In Auschwitz, and from the taps, there didn't come any water, but the gas.
Speaker 0: Her testimony shows us that gassing rumors existed among Jews. We thus expect some level of noncooperation from them. On a football field, the Auschwitz gas chamber would be this size with that little flashing white line being the door. To see how crowded it would be, we'll have this be a head and these be shoulders. We make one row of 14 people across 23 feet and bring it up into the gas chamber.
That would be how crowded the gas chamber would be.
Speaker 2: And after after that, You know, when after 15, 20 minutes, they open up the thing, the first thing I see, I saw the people I saw 15 minutes before alive, I saw the mothers with their children standing up For because the gas chamber will will take maybe 500 people. It used to meet 12 25100 people. Everybody standing up. There was no room for anything else They're standing up.
Speaker 0: This density implies no resistance at all. It implies total cooperation.
Speaker 3: Did you have any contact with the people being brought in? Were you able to talk to them? Did they talk
Speaker 6: to me?
Speaker 2: Time to time. From time to time, we will tell them, you know, just in in a very few words, you know, that they are going to die.
Speaker 0: It's hard to believe 2,000 people would go in there without resistance or outright rebellion because that's a little over 1 square foot per person, which would make them skeptical of the shower story, particularly with no soap dispensers anywhere.
Speaker 5: The Nazis had hugely increased the number of Jewish prisoners in the Sonderkommando, prisoners who were forced to work in the crematoria To deal with the massive numbers the Nazis planned to murder. So much so that a crematorium and gas chamber like this Was operated by around 100 Jews and just 4 Germans.
Speaker 0: It's not believable that Jewish men would do that, And not believable that the Germans would assign so few Germans.
Speaker 1: While you were doing this, who was overseeing all of this? Was there that was in
Speaker 2: charge? On the crematory.
Speaker 0: A kappa was a Jewish worker put in charge.
Speaker 1: While you were doing this, Who was overseeing all of this? Who was there that was in charge?
Speaker 2: Was on the crematorium. You know, we had only 1 or 2 guards. There wasn't too many, I say. They're always outside the crematorium. Every, 3, 4 hours is, you know, about half a dozen Well equipped, you know, SS just moving around.
But inside the crematorium were only a couple of SS, 2, 3 SS. The cops were doing the job. The the the job they had.
Speaker 0: And in a layout like this, It's hard to believe that they could get people to move all the way to the back, particularly when you find out that it was Jewish workers running the operation.
Speaker 2: Moving around. But inside the crematorium were only a couple of SS, 2 or 3 SS.
Speaker 0: This level of crowding would take military Total compliance and a lot of practice. And it's not believable that the Germans would have Jews, of all the ethnicities of Europe, Run the killing operation since they are the ethnicity most likely to foment a revolt and to mutiny. At some point in the gassing operation, people would panic and surge toward the door. How hard could they push? Consider the Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985 where 39 people were killed.
Speaker 7: Heysel Stadium, Brussels. Highly charged British soccer fans fly into a frenzy attacking rival Italian fans. In a panic, the Italians make a run for the exit. They suddenly They have nowhere to go. The enemy now, a concrete wall.
As the hysteria rises, Other fans attempt an escape over the wall, but it quickly collapses under the weight.
Speaker 0: They pushed over a concrete wall. So in the gas chamber, how hard could they push on this door? And what does the door look like? In the movie portrayal, it looks strong. If we have actual photos of the cremation ovens It's under construction and finished.
Might there be a photo of the gas chamber door somewhere? To find out, we go to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website And look up gassing operations. And scroll down to further reading to find the author Jean Claude Pressac. In his book, Auschwitz, Technique and operation of the gas chambers. We find numerous photos of the type of door used, though not the actual door.
Speaker 2: And, you know, it takes about 4, 5 minutes to die, except the people that are in front where the gas is coming, then it takes about a Couple of minutes.
Speaker 0: We see wood slats. This is taped to keep the gas from coming out through the cracks. This flimsy wrought iron band is what would hold 2,000 panicking people inside. It pivots there swinging this way. The doors were made by the inmates themselves.
On page 46, we read, this type of gas tight door with the same method of closing was to be used as it stood in the homicidal gas chambers. But up here, it says that this is the gas tight door of the A Canada 1 delousing gas chamber. In other words, behind this door would be a room full of blankets and clothes to be fumigated. But we're supposed to believe that the same door design with no added fortifications would be used to hold 2,000 panicking people in a gas chamber.
Speaker 2: They can address them right away. They were going direct to to the chambers. And Since it takes a few minutes to die, you know, then they realize that they were dying. You know? So you always will find when you open the doors a lot of Scratches in the walls of blood, you know, with their going with their fingers, you know, scratching the walls to be You can get saved someplace, but it was not
Speaker 0: If a surge of panicking people pushed on such a flimsy door, The people nearest the door would be crushed to death and then the latches would give and the door would burst open. And how believable is it that a door for 2,000 People to go through on a regular basis is the size of a household door. And these columns through which Zyklon B was poured, Pressek's book has a schematic diagram of it, which Pressek drew himself based on eyewitness claims. It looks like chicken wire. They would have been destroyed by the crowd also.
Jean Claude Pressac's book has a photo of the elevator too. It says a provisional 300 kilogram capacity goods hoist used in crematorium 2. So the bodies would go on here and this is a triangular bar with a stabilizing piece of wood here. How flimsy. Imagine you have 2,000 bodies in the basement, but maximum capacity, £661.
So with 7 bodies going up at a time, you'd have to make 285 trips. Why not just have a conveyor belt on an incline here like this. It says provisional as in temporary, but Carlo Matonio, in his book Auschwitz, The case for sanity makes a strong case that this was the elevator that remained for the entire war period. Germany is the country of BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Volkswagen, Kroups and Braun. Industrial design is part of their culture.
So much so that in North America, sometimes it's made into a parody.
Speaker 8: It's me, Norm Piel. We're in Berlin on the Alvestrasse, Where we're in the apartment of electro pop stars Dieter and Kurt from the German band League of Darwinists. Kurt Dieter, it's a pleasure to meet you. You know, it's ironic. You're huge here in Europe, but in North America, you're virtually unknown.
Speaker 0: Yet the design at Auschwitz is So poor
Speaker 2: They give us some, canes.
Speaker 0: That it can't be believed. Cremation. Most people don't know how long it takes. It's a key issue because While a wall of 15 ovens seems like a lot, it's not even close to being able to handle the 2,000 bodies downstairs. To illustrate, let's think of the process in terms of time.
Let's say everyone undressing and then going into the gas chamber takes a half hour. Now we jump to the gas chamber, and let's say the time it takes to kill everyone with poison gas also takes a half hour. So now we're 1 hour into the killing operation. In hour number 2, 15 bodies are taken upstairs as to the 15 ovens and cremated. Each body is put on a stretcher and placed in the oven.
On average, it takes an hour to cremate a body. So in hour number 1, 2,000 Jews are killed. In hour number 2, 15 Jews are cremated with 19 185 left to go. In hour number 3, 15 more are cremated with 1,970 left to go. And at this snail's pace, by hour number 133 or 6 days later, you cremate 15 bodies and only have 5 left to go.
You can't do another gassing until the 6th day because there's nowhere to put the bodies. The main point is that the Germans would have never had a system with a ratio like this where the cremation holds up the killing for almost a week. Another way to look at it. The 15 ovens take about a row of bodies in 1 hour. But look how many rows you have left.
How does Dario Gebay make it work?
Speaker 2: And then we went upstairs on the 2nd floor and put them in stretchers and put them in the oven. And Just from the body fat, they didn't have to do anything. They started, but then after all, the the body fat of Of each person was given the flames.
Speaker 0: He makes it work by focusing on the fat content of a body, and ignoring the water content.
Speaker 2: And, actually, they had to take with the Outside the women and inside the men because the women have more fat that can could burn the the bodies.
Speaker 0: The bigger issue is that both bodies are around 60% water. Evaporating that water takes the first half of the cremation time. After that, the female body has more fat and will burn faster, but only 3% faster in total time, a negligible difference. How else does he make it work?
Speaker 3: So after taking the bodies out of the gas chamber and putting them on these elevators, then what would happen?
Speaker 2: You go to the just you put them in the ovens.
Speaker 3: Who would put them in the oven?
Speaker 2: There are 2 other people, you know, that put them in stretchers. 3, 4 of them in stretches and put them in the oven.
Speaker 0: He makes it work by putting 3 or 4 bodies in each opening.
Speaker 3: How many people were, were you able to actually put inside of each oven?
Speaker 2: You put about 4.
Speaker 0: How else does he make it work?
Speaker 3: And, how long again would it take to burn?
Speaker 2: 90 to 30 minutes.
Speaker 3: So after
Speaker 0: by having it not take very long.
Speaker 3: Did they give you any kind of an instruction as to how to do things or give you tools to work with.
Speaker 2: When you know, they give you all the tools. You know? And they had to all the tools to you know, every 20 minutes, you had to Turn them around, you know, whatever it was. Takes 30:30, 40 minutes to burn.
Speaker 0: He makes it work by having 3 to 4 bodies take 30 to 40 minutes, which averages out to 10 minutes a body, Whereas, we said the average is 1 hour for 1 body. With an average of 10 minutes of body, you could clear out the gas chamber a lot faster than 6 days. So what do the cremation experts say? Does it take an hour for 1 body, or could you put 3 to 4 bodies in an opening and have it take 30 to 40 minutes?
Speaker 9: Hi, Alisa. Could you please walk us through the funeral process?
Speaker 0: We look for cremation information on YouTube and find Alisa Krysilik. Alisa is a funeral director who works for the Cremation Society of Illinois as their vice president.
Speaker 9: And could you tell us about the cremation process itself?
Speaker 0: This video was never meant to support the Auschwitz gas chamber being a myth, but under fair use, we can use it as that. Because cremation of more than one body at the same time is illegal, we can think of 3 to 4 bodies as the equivalent to a 3 to 400 pound person.
Speaker 9: And could you tell us about the cremation process itself? Certainly. The cremation process on the airbrush Takes about 2 to 3 hours. There's a lot of variations that would, cause the cremation to take more time or less time. The size of an individual is a big factor in that.
Speaker 0: The number is high, but she's probably including heating the oven and cooling the remains, which aren't factors for us.
Speaker 9: So it does take time to cool the remains.
Speaker 0: Patrick O'Neil is a funeral director featured on a National Geographic TV program about cremation. Neither he nor National Geographic ever intended their information to be used in this context either.
Speaker 6: One of the unique features of this funeral home is the inclusion of a crematorium on-site.
Speaker 1: This is where I like to show off of what I do for a living. These machines actually are £38,000. They cost around $100,000 a
Speaker 6: piece. Process. He estimates that the time it takes to cremate a body is about 1 hour for every 45 kilograms.
Speaker 0: 45 kilograms is about a £100. So that's 1 hour for a 100 pound person, which is the number we used. The National Geographic video shows a cremation oven manufacturing plant.
Speaker 6: In Steve's Retorts, the monitoring of the combustion process is automated. Temperature sensors are installed in the chamber. These sensors are wired to the control panel, and they provide the data that will regulate the fuel and the airflow Oh, needed for the cremation.
Speaker 0: Putting 4 bodies in an oven might be equivalent to 1 large body, and this company says that takes extra requirements.
Speaker 6: Currently, BNL makes 6 different types of cremation retorts. Some of these models are for Very large bodies of up to 385 kilos. It takes 5 months to make one of these size models and up to 18 workers can be involved in the process, 2 months longer than a regular model. A mammoth crane is needed to lift any one of these machines for transport. They weigh 18 tons.
Speaker 0: We go to their website and find the Phoenix 2 oven. It gives a cremation rate of £150 an hour. In our calculation, we use a £100 an hour for ovens built 70 years earlier with the average person weighing £100 based on data in the book, Auschwitz, the case for sanity.
Speaker 2: You put about 4. Takes 30:30, 40 minutes to burn.
Speaker 0: That would take more like 4 hours. He lies about the cremation to obscure the fact that 15 ovens isn't enough to handle 2,000 bodies. And when that's established, the overall number of half a 1000000 can't be true either. There. Because Holocaust historians tell us that crematorium 2 wasn't in operation until spring 1943 And ending in November 1944, it was only supposedly in operation for a year and a half.
They tell us that 500,000 people were killed in this building. But because of the slow cremation rate, that's not enough time to kill that many people. 15 ovens would not have been enough even if they had been these computerized ovens. This is Carlo Matonio. In his book, Auschwitz, A Case for Sanity, He shows that 4 bodies wouldn't even fit in that opening, and that the vaporizing water, 96 gallons for 12 bodies, would overwhelm the oven, bringing the temperature down too much for it to work properly.
A muffle is the opening in the oven. For instance, here the middle muffled opened faster than the left muffled. Now the right muffled is opening up. Matonio tells us that the bodies can't go in lengthwise because the depth of the muffle is only 6 feet 11 inches You can't do 2 stretcher loads either because here we look at the underside of the stretcher. There are the rollers.
Matonio tells us that if you drop 1 body in and then load the stretcher with 3 more, this part of the stretcher would hit the first body and block the stretcher. You thus have to pile 4 bodies here and use the stretcher to slide them into this opening, which wouldn't fit. At Malthausen, Carlo Mattono found the type of muffle they had at crematorium 2 at Auschwitz. There's the stretcher. Some flowers and a red candle have been placed in the back.
This candle is this candle right here. We look at this muffule. Someone has placed some flowers in green cellophane right there. If a body was put in and the stretcher was then pulled out, The body would come up to here. The second body would come up to here.
There's very little room after that. These ovens are at Buchenwald. There you see the rollers, but it's the same muffel that they had at Auschwitz. These are liberated prisoners in 1945 demonstrating for the Americans. Laurence Rees is the world's most well known Auschwitz historian.
The normal experience of going to this place was To die. He wrote and produced a 6 part series on Auschwitz for the BBC.
Speaker 5: This is the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world,
Speaker 3: Auschwitz.
Speaker 0: And he wrote this companion book to the BBC series, which won History Book of the Year in Britain in 2006. How would he solve the slow cremation rate problem? On the ground floor was a large crematorium with 3 mufflers capable of burning 5 corpses in each. Mufflers is a misprint for muffles, but the main point is he says they put 5 corpses says in each opening. Or on another page, the ovens, each capable of holding several bodies.
The reader getting the emotional impression of morbid barbarity, but never questioning whether it's even possible. And he devotes 4 pages to Dario Gebay. Gabbai had never told his story to anyone until the 19 nineties. What was he doing before that? He had a brief and minor stint as an actor in a Hollywood movie called The Glory Brigade.
He went from the worst profession in the world to the most glamorous one.
Speaker 2: Buddy.
Speaker 0: 8 years after his supposed job at Auschwitz. And we didn't even get into the crazier stuff he said.
Speaker 2: You know, when we came in in the crematorium, the all the the streets in the crematorium outside We're all from the bones.
Speaker 0: We say that 2,000 people wouldn't have gone into a room that size, And we say that 4 bodies wouldn't fit in that opening. Could it all be possible at Auschwitz because everyone was so thin? We go to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website and read, of the new arrivals at Auschwitz, The majority were sent immediately to the gas chambers. The point being, they wouldn't have had time to get thin. Now we learn where most came from.
Speaker 5: The vast majority of those who were murdered at Auschwitz in 1944 came from one place, Hungary. In March 1944, German troops entered Budapest. For the Nazis, Hungary was a rich country, ripe for plunder. And though already allied to the Nazis, The Hungarians had been unreliable partners as far as Hitler was concerned, not least in their refusal to deport The 760,000 Hungarian Jews.
Speaker 0: So they came from a rich country, and they've been free up till now. Lawrence Rees' BBC documentary shows pictures of Hungarian deportees, and they don't look thin. The starvation happened more in the last few months of the war, and Auschwitz was closed by then.
Speaker 5: On average, 75% of the people on each transport from Hungary were selected to be murdered immediately.
Speaker 0: In Hungary, Jews had been hearing Nazi extermination rumors for most of the war and yet would pack like this into an unfamiliar underground 2,000 person shower room when other Jews told them to. Not believable. And were they thin from hunger like many would assume? No. Here's crematorium 2 from the air.
So what was this building if it wasn't a gas chamber facility? The answer is on a blueprint from the Auschwitz archives. The text is small, but it says, lichenkeller 1. Keller means Cellar, as in wine cellar. Lichen means dead bodies.
A cold underground place for storing dead bodies. And the other side was never an undressing room. It's labeled like in Keller 2, corpse cellar number 2, cold to keep the bodies from spoiling until they can be cremated. Underground never made sense for a gas chamber. We find crematorium 2 in satellite view.
It's on the edge of this huge community because it's for cremating the bodies of those who die here. The community called Birkenau was the population center of Auschwitz. 100,000 people, mostly Jewish. One would assume that these are able-bodied men selected for labor. This building is the entrance building right here.
We see dismantled housing in the background, salvaged after the war for materials. The BBC documentary showing what it might have looked like before.
Speaker 3: When you arrived at Auschwitz after this 9 day journey. Can you describe for us the very first thing you remember when that door opened up to the wagon?
Speaker 2: The First thing that I remember is that the s s always is Snell, Snell, Snell. Right? You know, We got into line and there were Mengele was there making the selection, always with these two fingers. Most of the fingers went on the right and which is going direct to the crematorium. On the left was he was selecting 10% of the Young of the every transport, 10%, I would say, went to work.
The others were direct to the crematorium, and I knew that After a while.
Speaker 0: One would assume that these are barracks for able-bodied men selected for labor. So it's surprising to find out that the majority of the barracks are women and medical. These are women. These are medical. This is a family camp for Jewish families from the Czech Republic.
This is a gypsy camp. This is men's quarantine, and just this small section was the men's camp. The selection to live or die story doesn't fit with the division of the barracks in the population center of Auschwitz. We pull back from Birkenau to see the greater Auschwitz area and overlay with a map from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website. Those minority of inmates who did work at Birkenau walked a mile in the morning to the SS Workshops and Armament Industries here.
The whole Auschwitz area was around 22 square miles. Crematorium 2 had a mirror facility called crematorium 3. These two buildings are the same in mirror formation. That seems like way too many cremation ovens and body storage space, But Carlo Matonio explains, the increase in cremation units at Birkenau depended on 2 concomitant factors. The first was the order given by Himmler during his visit to Auschwitz on July 17 18, 1942, To bring the camp capacity up to 200,000 detainees.
We see plans to expand the camp that were never completed. Matonyo gives the second reason why there are so many ovens. The second was the mortality of the detainees. August 1942 was the month with the highest death rate in the history of the Auschwitz camp caused by a terrible typhus epidemic. Some 8,600 detainees died during that month, almost twice as many as had died the month before, about 4,400 deaths.
There were peaks of 500 deaths per day. The average strength of the camp at the time was a little more than 40,000 inmates. Just imagine what could have occurred with the strength of 200,000 detainees. The ovens would therefore have to be able to cope with any future emergencies. Here's crematorium 23.
Over here, we have a complex for killing lice, the small bugs that spread typhus. These two buildings are for giving people showers upon arriving and for fumigating clothes with cycloneb. Tour buses over here help us see how big this disinfestation facility is, but the Germans obviously They didn't do enough and are responsible for this typhus tragedy because they put the Jews here in the first place.
Speaker 2: They put the railroad cars on the steps of the of the where the chambers to Andresworth. You're just in the crematorium. It was not from direct. You know? Everybody was coming direct.
You know, and when I was there, you know, was the 600,000 people mostly from Hungary, From Budapest and, I remember was 70,000 from Lodz and Holland. You know, this whole and beautiful people, it's, it's undescribable, I tell you.
Speaker 0: According to the story, crematorium 2 is not related to Birkenau. Rather, it's for gassing Jews from all over Europe. But then why have it be so close to this primarily Jewish community? This is the women's food preparation building. One of the women looks out the window and sees a mysterious guy dumping something into an opening or looks past this underground room, to see 2,000 people congregating to go down the narrow stairway into the undressing room, never to emerge again.
These trees were not there during the war as an American air photo of August 25, 1944 shows us. Auschwitz had a recreational soccer field for the inmates, which is bad design to put next to a top secret genocide operation.
Speaker 10: Of course, what we did is for the weekends, we got together, we got a group of us together, and we made a soccer team, which was or a little later, where they
Speaker 11: played soccer. What's amazing that there would be a soccer team, that there'd be enough energy left to do something Like that?
Speaker 10: Well, I don't think we were quite as energetic as we were with the other, regular team, but we Did something to, you know it kept our mind off these, of the problems we had.
Speaker 0: So a Jewish man is playing soccer after work. He looks to see 2,000 people waiting to descend into the undressing room of crematorium 3. Here's another perspective. These are gypsy barracks. A gypsy looks out his window across the soccer field.
Here's the soccer field, and here's crematorium 2 and 3, with 22 square miles to work with. And so no one in Auschwitz Birkenau would find out, why not have crematorium 23 about a half mile away behind these trees? And then to transport Jews from all over Europe to get gassed, why not build the last part of the rail line coming from this side?
Speaker 5: Fueled partly by these prejudices, Hoss prepared for the arrival of the Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz Birkenau, 2 miles away from Auschwitz main camp. He oversaw the completion of a railway line, Allowing new arrivals to be brought directly into Birkenau.
Speaker 0: Right through the middle of the camp, Bad design heaped upon bad design. Understandable. But how many of the Birkenau inmates could have told the outside world? To answer that, we come to doctor Fransacek Pieper. He was the senior curator of the Auschwitz State Museum shown here in 1991.
David Cole asked him some interesting questions.
Speaker 7: Who initially came up with the Figure of 4,000,000 people dying in Auschwitz.
Speaker 2: This is, estimated
Speaker 0: But we're interested in a book Pieper wrote where he said that in 1943, 19,859 Auschwitz inmates were transferred to other camps, and a 139 escaped. And in 1944, a 163,000 inmates were transferred from Auschwitz. 500 were released, and 300 escaped. This large number is because people were constantly coming into Auschwitz and then leaving for other camps.
Speaker 5: Fueled partly by these prejudices, Hoss prepared for the arrival of the Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz Birkenau, 2 miles away from Auschwitz main camp. He oversaw the completion of a railway line, allowing new arrivals to be brought directly into Birkenau.
Speaker 0: So how many people could have told the outside world? A 183,000. From bad design, to how small it is, To how crowded it would be, to all the lies about cremation, it's clear the Auschwitz gas chambers are a myth. And the strategy to keep the myth in place?
Speaker 12: Ultimately, and with this, I conclude, our objective should be to create a society Where denial of the genocide is seen as so outrageous and so despicable that anyone who engages in it would be rendered a pariah. Thank you very much.
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