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284 GERMAR RUDOLF, CARLO MATTOGNO · AUSCHWITZ LIES
1. Henryk Tauber for the arrangement and number of holes for the introduction
of Zyklon B (two on the east side and two on the west side of morgue
1).
2. Karl Schultze for the dimensions of the holes (cm 25 cm × 25 cm).
3. Konrad Morgen for the crudeness of the extermination facilities.
4. Rudolf Höss for the transformation of the crematoria into instruments of
mass extermination without the knowledge of the head of the Central Construction
Office.
The other testimonies served as confirmation of these four principal views.
Before examining in detail Provan’s arguments, let us verify the credibility
of the major witnesses cited by him.
2.2. The Major Witnesses Cited by Provan
2.2.1. Josef Erber
This testimony is cited by Provan and dealt with by Gerald Fleming in his
book Hitler and the Final Solution. 5 The text cited by Fleming is taken in turn
from a letter that Josef Erber wrote to him on September 14, 1981. 6 The declaration
of the witness is therefore already suspect on account of the late date. In
the first edition of the above book, which appeared in German with the title
Hitler und die Endlösung, Fleming quotes from the original text of Erber’s letter:
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“Two inpours [Einschütten] were in each of these gassing rooms (of
Krematorium one and two in Birkenau, G.F.): inside four iron pipes each
from the floor to the roof. These were surrounded by steel wire mesh, and
inside was a sheet metal with a low edge. To this a wire was attached, with
which the sheet metal could be pulled up to the roof. An iron lid was attached
to each inpour [Einschütte] at the roof. If the lid was raised, the tin
container could be pulled up and the gas could be poured in. Then the container
was lowered and the lid closed.”
What sort of thing is an “inpour” (Einschütte)? The verb “einschütten”
means “pour in(to)” as a technical term; “to feed,” “to charge” or “to load.” If,
as it seems, the “Einschütte” was a mechanism, it must concern a device for
pouring or feeding. Yet, according to the text, there were two “Einschütten” in
each “gas chamber” of crematoria II and III. These devices are clearly inconsistent
with those described by Henryk Tauber, and moreover it is difficult to
imagine how they were made. So difficult is it that Provan himself, in order to
make the text intelligible, wrote “rooms” (note 24 on p. 7) where Fleming,
5
University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles, 1994, pp. 187f.
6
Ibid., p. 188.
7
Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden/Munich 1982, p. 204.