The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation - Holocaust Handbooks

SANTIAGO ALVAREZ, THE GAS VANS 101
After the end of the disinfestation time, the shed is aired by opening
both doors, and it may be entered for emptying only after a quarter
hour.
The disinfested items keep being aired, and soot deposits are
beaten or brushed off where needed. This procedure may be applied
only in lack of other means, since it is very uneconomical.”
Although this service regulation talks about disinfestation sheds, it is
not inconceivable that a similar setup could have been used for mobile
units, that is: Diesel engine powered trucks using metal hoses to feed
their exhaust gases into a sealed cargo box holding goods to be disinfested.
Although such a setup would be most unsuited for mass murder,
it sure does the trick for hot air disinfestation.
A closer look into witness testimonies reveals that these disinfestation
vans were indeed known, albeit misunderstood. The Chemno survivor
Mieczysaw urawski stated in 1945, for example, that two gas
vans operated in this camp, plus a third vehicle which was a “disinfestation
truck” (Bednarz 1946c, p. 72; see chapter 3.6.2.6.).
In passing I would like to mention the arguably technologically most
advance special vehicles of the entire war: Starting in 1943 the SS deployed
mobile microwave delousing trucks in order to disinfest the
clothes of inmates in the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps
(Nowak/Rademacher, pp. 320-322). But since these were extremely expensive
and highly efficient devices to save the lives of inmates, orthodox
historiography never utters even one single word about their existence.
2.4. Producer Gas Vehicles
As mentioned in chapter 1.3.1., it would be irrational to try to commit
mass murder with Diesel engine exhaust gas, as it contains only low
concentrations of carbon monoxide. In contrast to this, gasoline engines
easily produce quickly lethal amounts of carbon monoxide, and this difference
was well-known among German engineers and toxicologists
since the 1930s, as Mattogno and Graf have shown (2005, pp. 123-125).
But not even gasoline engines would have been the choice of a potential
mass murder, since Germany had an even cheaper, less complicated,
and more efficient method readily at hand: wood gas or producer
gas generators.