The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation - Holocaust Handbooks

360 SANTIAGO ALVAREZ, THE GAS VANS
that stuff into the compartment in between those intended victims in the
first place? Moreover, how is he going to close the window, if the victims
start fighting for their lives? And finally, what if one of the victims
close to the window managed to carry some hard object with him, like a
stone, and uses it to break the window?
I think that this little excursion suffices to expose the utter absurdity
of this claim about Zyklon B gassings during transit, initiated from the
driver’s cabin. No sane person would ever have tried this. SA]
To top it off, we are also told that this vehicle, a so-called “grüne
Minna” (German prisoner transport vehicle) “was conducted by the
camp commander personally most of the time” (ibid.).
[Comments by the present author: Sure, the boss of a 50,000 person
enterprise personally drives a prison transport van remodeled to kill
people. If that doesn’t make the alert reader realize that we are dealing
with pure atrocity propaganda, what will? SA]
It goes without saying that the author doesn’t utter a word about the
security measures necessary when dealing with hydrogen cyanide –
ventilation, neutralizing of the gas, touching the victims etc. (The interested
reader may consult material about U.S. execution gas chambers in
order to find out, how difficult it is to gas one single person (Leuchter/Faurisson/Rudolf
2011). According to Choumoff the operation is
said to have been a cakewalk.
Hence this work does not improve our knowledge about the matter
at all. The boastful declamations with which the editor’s introduction is
riddled 130 – “collective work of truth,” “helping the truth about certain
points to prevail [...]. The goal is accomplished,” “The facts are recounted,
undeniable, definitive,” “These are not only veracious but also
true documents” (sic) – cannot placate my skepticism.
We know how these almost lyrical assertions are substantiated in the
case of the “gas vans.” Let me quote a last example of the method with
which the author wants to help the truth to prevail:
“The determined anomalies do indeed prove [...] that the eighty
cases of death, which are said to have been caused by ‘lung tuberculosis,’
in reality were probably murders in a gas van.”
Any comment is superfluous.
I had asked pastor Riquet to forward a request to the author of this
paper asking him to explain the operational mode of the “gas vans” al-
130 Roger Heim is the editor of this tome.