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306 GERMAR RUDOLF, CARLO MATTOGNO · AUSCHWITZ LIES
wire that went up to the ceiling and into the exterior. Inside [98] this part was
a second net with smaller mesh and holes, and in its interior a third [net]
was planted. In this third net a box was moved by means of which, using a
steel wire, the powder – from which the gas had by now evaporated – was
withdrawn.”
Consequently, compared with the testimony of Kula, the testimony of Karl
Schultze is totally insignificant, because – as we have seen above – he only
mentions the holes but not the columns and hence did not see the columns at a
time when they would necessarily have been present, or because he was a
chance witness. Additionally, his testimony was made while he was in Soviet
custody, where his two colleagues died, one of them during the interrogation!
99
In conclusion, if the columns measured 70 cm × 70 cm, the holes in the
ceiling of morgue 1 of crematorium II could not have measured 25 cm × 25
cm.
The second assumption, upon which Provan bases his conclusions, is the
“rule of architecture,” according to which
“when violent stress is put on a concrete structure, cracks show up
passing through holes made previous to the violent force, since the holes
makes the structure weaker in that location.” (p. 26)
Provan has distorted a “rule” mentioned and applied by Germar Rudolf in
his analysis of the openings in question: 100
“An opening pierced through the concrete in the roof of either morgue
1 (‘gas chamber’) in consideration at a later time would inevitably have
had the consequence, when the building was blown up, that the breaks and
fissures caused to the roof by the explosion would have run preferentially
through these holes.
The reason for this is that explosions exert extraordinarily great forces,
and that the formation of cracks is favored by any weakness in the structure,
since the tension peaks attain very high values in the vicinity of acute
angles (notch effect, see Fig. 48). Such holes, in particular, which would
already have damaged the structure of the concrete due to their incorporation
following completion of the structure, represent not only points of likely
fracture, but points of inevitable fracture.”
98 “Za,” literally “behind.”
99 Together with the Topf engineers Kurt Prüfer and Fritz Sander, Schultze had been abducted
by the Soviets and interrogated by the KGB. Sander died already at the beginning of the interrogation
following a heart attack, Prüfer died a few years later following a brain hemorrhage.
The value of confessions gained by the KGB with such interrogation methods is close
to zero. See Jürgen Graf, “Anatomie der sowjetischen Befragung der Topf-Ingenieure,”
Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung, 6(4) (2002), pp. 398-421. Editor’s remark.
100 R. Kammerer, A. Solms (ed.), op. cit. (note 2), pp. 27f.; G. Rudolf, op. cit. (note 71), p. 89
(German), op. cit. (note 2), p. 126f. (Engl.).