Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
crematories at Auschwitz. Each muffle was designed to take one body at a time,
as are all standard cremation muffles; there is no evidence for the installation of
any non-standard muffles, such as any designed to take more than one body at a
time. Topf had also supplied ovens to camps for which exterminations are not
claimed, such as Buchenwald. 223
The plans for the four buildings containing the crematories, numbered II, III,
IV and V (Crematory I seems to have been the ultimately dormant crematory at
Auschwitz I which contained four muffles 224 ), show that a large hall or room existed
in each. For II and III, these were below ground level and were designated
Leichenkeller (mortuary cellar – literally corpse cellar – a German word for mortuary
is Leichenhalle); their dimensions were height 2.4 meters and area 210
square meters and height 2.3 meters and area 400 square meters, respectively. The
halls in the building containing Crematories IV and V were at ground level and
were designated Badeanstalten (bath establishments); they were each of height
2.3 meters and area 580 square meters. According to the information generated at
the “Auschwitz trial” of 1963-1965, these four buildings were located as shown in
Fig. 29.
The Auschwitz construction department, in erecting the crematories, was assisted
not only by Topf but also by the SS company DAW (Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke,
German Equipment Factory), which helped with miscellaneous constructions.
The first ovens installed were in Crematory II and numbered, as we
have noted, fifteen muffles in five three-muffle units. The construction took considerable
time, although it was carried out with deliberate haste as shown by the
documents. The NMT volumes offer us the following English translation of
document NO-4473; if the reader thinks he sees something in the document that is
hostile to my thesis he should withhold judgment: 225
“January 29, 1943
To the Chief Amtsgruppe C, SS Brigadeführer and Brigadier General of the
Waffen SS.,
Dr. Ing. Kammler
Subject: Crematory II, condition of the building.
The Crematory II has been completed – save for some minor constructional
work – by the use of all the forces available, in spite of unspeakable difficulties,
the severe cold, and in 24-hour shifts. The fires were started in the ovens
in the presence of Senior Engineer Prüfer, representative of the contractors of
the firm of Topf and Söhne, Erfurt, and they are working most satisfactorily.
The planks from the concrete ceiling of the cellar used as a mortuary [Leichenkeller]
could not yet be removed on account of the frost. This is, however,
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225
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Reitlinger, 159; NO-4353, NO-4400 & NO-4401 in NMT, vol. 5, 353-356; NO-4445; NO-4448.
Photograph also in Schoenberner and in Nyiszli.
Friedman, 54; editor’s note: crematory I later received a third double-muffle oven, resulting in 6
muffles altogether. See Carlo Mattogno, “The Crematoria Ovens of Auschwitz and Birkenau,” in
G. Rudolf (ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust, pp. 373-412.
NMT, vol. 5, 619-620.