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60 Carlo Mattogno: The Bunkers of Birkenau
4.3. The Reports from 1943
In a report dated April 1943 and written by a member of the secret resistance
movement at Auschwitz under the pseudonym “Tadeusz,” one can
read: 180
“In the crematorium, the walls are stained with blood – because the
people who were overcome by the gas regain consciousness in the oven
and scratch the cement with their fingers in defense before they die. The
same thing happens also with the open-air incinerations, where the poisoned
victims remain conscious for some time in the cremation trenches.
About these burning trenches there are legends – they are known as the
‘Eternal Fire’ because they burn day and night.”
With this report, the propaganda acquires an another literary motif standard
for the ‘horror’ genre: the incineration of semi-live, hence semi-conscious
people, which will later become, in an effort to make things even more horrific,
the incineration of living human beings and finally the burning of living
children.
The use of the word legend regarding the “Eternal Fire” of the burning
trenches is obviously a Freudian slip.
Annex I of Informacja Bie��ca no. 37 (110) of September 22, 1943, contains
a report dated June 10, 1943, which includes the following passage: 181
“Up to the month of September 1942, 468,000 non-registered Jews
were gassed at O�wi�cim. Between September [1942] and June 1943 arrived
some 60,000 Jews from Greece (Saloniki, Athens), 60,000 from Slovakia
and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, some 50,000 from
Holland, France and Belgium, 6000 from Chrzanów, and 5000 from K�t,
�ywiec, Sucha, Slemien and their environs. Of these persons, 2% are alive
today, the other 98% were sent into the gas, mostly young and very healthy
people, and were burnt semi-live. Each transport arriving at O�wi�cim is
unloaded, the men are separated from the women, then 98% (mostly
women and children) are loaded haphazardly onto trucks and taken to the
gas chambers at Brzezinka; after horrible tortures (suffocation), which last
10 to 15 minutes, the corpses are thrown out through an opening and
burned on a pyre. It should be stressed that before going into the gas
chamber the condemned must take a bath.
Because of a lack of toxic gas, people are also burned half-alive. At the
present time, there are three large crematoria at Birkenau, for 10,000 bodies
per day, which burn corpses all the time and are called ‘Eternal Fire’
by the local population.”
The figure of 468,000 Jews burned up to September 1942 is decidedly
mad: some 92,800 Jews had been deported to Auschwitz up to September 30,
1942, of whom some 43,200 were registered, that is: not gassed even accord-
180 K. Smole� (ed.), op. cit. (note 142), pp. 100f.
181 Ibidem, pp. 124f.