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AUSCHWITZ LIES - Holocaust Handbooks

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POLISH PSEUDO-SCIENTISTS 55<br />

cyanide per kg sample material, whereas the moist, cold, CO2-loaded alleged<br />

gas chambers of crematoria II and III, also newly put into operation, would<br />

show a level of 0.388 mg/kg, a figure greater than that of the delousing chambers<br />

by a factor of 16. With all other combinations of materials the factor is<br />

always greater than 1 as well (cement/cement: 2.2; cement/lime: 72;<br />

lime/lime: 533). If the Polish authors claim nevertheless that the alleged homicidal<br />

gas chambers did not have a higher reactivity to bind hydrogen cyanide<br />

than the delousing chambers, then they turn their own research results upside<br />

down!<br />

Facing the fact that the Poles’ maximum analytical values of their samples<br />

from delousing chambers are comparable to those from the underground morgue<br />

no. 1 of crematorium II – the alleged homicidal gas chamber – they force<br />

themselves to conclude that this is hardly surprising since large areas of this<br />

underground morgue are protected from environmental influence. Therefore<br />

the cyanide, once bound, would have as little reason to disappear from the<br />

morgue as from the delousing chambers. That we can agree upon. We can also<br />

agree on the implicit conclusion that the traces of cyanide remaining in the delousing<br />

chambers would be present in the same order of magnitude as in the<br />

alleged homicidal killing gas chambers, if the latter were used to kill hundreds<br />

of thousands of inmates with HCN. However, considering the amount of total<br />

cyanide, this is absolutely not the case. Rather there is a world of difference<br />

between the analytic values – a factor of 1,000 or more – and this in spite of<br />

the higher reactivity of the alleged homicidal gas chambers.<br />

Another point reflects even worse on the chemical competence of the three<br />

Polish authors: They say once more that they cannot explain how the brick on<br />

the outside of the delousing chambers in Birkenau came to have patchy blue<br />

discolorations. The Polish authors have confirmed the relative inertness of<br />

bricks to the formation of detectable cyanides in their own gassing experiments,<br />

which I had determined as well. But they do not seem to have read attentively<br />

my expert report or my book, which they cite. It should be clear that<br />

the high concentrations of soluble cyanide compounds on the inner side of the<br />

walls of the delousing chambers would slowly diffuse to the outer side of the<br />

wall, driven by moisture rising from the soil through the walls and evaporating<br />

preferably at the outside. Once deposited at the outside of the walls, soluble<br />

iron cyanide compounds would be quickly converted into long-term stable<br />

Iron Blue under environmental influences. Whoever inspects the surface of the<br />

bricks of this building would realize that they have been eroded on their surface,<br />

probably mostly because of acid rain, which occurs frequently in Upper<br />

Silesia, one of the dirtiest industrial regions of the world until the late<br />

1980s/early 1990s. In chemical terms, iron oxides in the brick, which had been<br />

physically fixed by the sintering process during production, were physicochemically<br />

activated by an acid medium and thus could more easily react with<br />

cyanide compounds migrating to the surface to form Iron Blue.

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