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44 Carlo Mattogno: The Bunkers of Birkenau
3.4.9. Gastight Doors
The modification of two Polish houses into homicidal gas chambers would
have required, first of all, the installation of gastight doors. It is well known
that documents for doors of this type exist in connection with the Birkenau
crematoria (and are considered by the official historiography to be ‘traces’ of
the existence of homicidal gas chambers in these structures). There are also
documents referring to 22 gastight doors of the Birkenau disinfestation plants
BW 5a and 5b, 114 but no document speaks of the production of a gastight door
for the Birkenau ‘Bunkers.’
3.5. The So-called “Code Language”
We have seen above that, according to bureaucratic practice at Auschwitz,
the ‘Bunkers,’ just like all other Bauwerke, needed a specific designation,
which would have shown up in the documents. As the existence of these installations
is, in fact, not shown by the documents, Polish investigators doing
research on Auschwitz invented the fiction of ‘code words’ as early as 1946,
that is, by claiming that the SS allegedly used innocent sounding terms in order
to camouflage the ‘real,’ but unspeakable designations. 115 Later Holocaust
scholars endorsed this expedient with great relief and embarked on a quest for
‘camouflaged’ designations for the ‘Bunkers.’ After nearly six decades of effort,
they have only been able to come up with three alleged designations,
which we will examine in the following sections.
3.5.1. “Baths for Special Actions”
This designation, which appears a single time in the existing documentation
– in a file memo by SS Untersturmführer Fritz Ertl of August 21, 1941 116
– has been interpreted by Jean-Claude Pressac as an ‘encryption’ referring to
the ‘Bunkers’; 117 in this, as for all the rest of Pressac’s arguments, he was slavishly
followed by Robert Jan van Pelt. 118 Such an interpretation is groundless,
as I have demonstrated with an abundance of evidence in a specific historical
analysis, to which I refer the reader. 119
114
Cf. in this regard my study Special Treatment…, op. cit. (note 9), pp. 46-50.
115
Ibidem, pp. 9f.
116
RGVA, 502-1-313, p. 159.
117
J.-C. Pressac, Die Krematorien…, op. cit. (note 5), p. 61.
118
R.J. van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz. Evidence from the Irving Trial, Indiana University Press,
Bloomington and Indianapolis 2002, pp. 297-299.
119
C. Mattogno, “The ‘Bathing Facilities for Special Actions’” in: op. cit. (note 9), pp. 66-71.